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by mmastrac 2y ago
An old friend use to say that Perl is line noise that was given sentience.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I've studied the Burrows-Wheeler Transform, I understand the transformation, I've re-implemented it countless times for kicks, I see how it improves compressability, but for the life of me the intuition of _why_ it works has never
483.
by mmastrac 2y ago
I saw an interesting post of the timeline over the last weeks of politicization of federal agencies and firings at the top level happened just two weeks before the worst fatality air disaster in the US in more than a decade. It will take so
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I trained myself to wiggle one ear as a kid and it's exactly like this. The muscle is much stronger in that ear and there's a weird reflex that when something startles me from behind, the same muscle that makes the ear wiggle trig
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Probably more once https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/std/mem/union.MaybeUninit.htm... is no longer nightly-only.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
This API has basically been adopted from Tokio. Like most of Rust buffer types, it's "not bad" to use as a caller and "awkward" to use as a consumer. The pain of paying for buffer init is real, however. The last two
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by mmastrac 2y ago
"Emotional support networks among men shrink by 50% between the ages of 30 and 90, reflecting an average decrease from two to one emotional support providers" Or, to rephrase, "Men grow up with an average of two emotional sup
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I think glibc made the same trade-off. It makes sense for most types of programs, but there's certainly a lot of classes of programs that wouldn't take it.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
This isn't _really_ a Rust problem. Rust is a victim of POSIX. If you have 1) C FFI interop in Yao, there's still a chance you might have two C libraries cause a crash without your code even being involved.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Yup, it's mostly just the story and tools we used to get ourselves out of a mess that was made harder by some decisions made earlier -- the tests were running in a container with stripped symbols (we're going to ship symbols after
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by mmastrac 2y ago
The major takeaway from this is that Rust will be making environment setters unsafe in the next edition. With luck, this will filter down into crates that trigger these crashes ( https://github.com/alexcrichton/openssl-p
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I'd be interested as well.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I prefer when governments at least pretend to be serious. Glad I'm not American, so sorry for you guys for the next four years.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I wrote a small library called keepcalm ( https://crates.io/crates/keepcalm ) to assist with shared and shared mutable data, which both tend to take a decent amount of effort to get right the first time through. It turns
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Email is in my profile -- happy to clarify/share some very rough details if you'd like.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I'm not sure what you mean but I was a security researcher for a large company for a bit and required none of that. I was required to work airgapped at home, however.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Will this work for IPv6?
498.
by mmastrac 2y ago
I wasn't able to locate a previous scrape of it on archive.org.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
This licensing page appears to be a new addition to TfL, which probably suggests some bureaucrat negotiated a deal with a creative agency to license the tube map for pennies on the dollar, resulting in them sending out these notices. https
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by mmastrac 2y ago
No, but it's far more likely that fair use applies to something that is more _useful_ than _creative_, ie: maps and dictionaries. Regardless of how much effort a copyrighted work to produce, most Western countries have a fair-use equiv
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Nope, I'd say it's the best :)
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Why would ultrasound removal of amyloid-B be effective while other chemical/medical treatments offering the same would not?
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by mmastrac 2y ago
It's finicky and picky, very dependent on the tree sitter grammar but when it works, it's magical.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Is Common Core really that bad? It seems to be yet another globalist boogeyman for the online ultra-independent-personality types like "15 minute cities" and similar quips.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I assume this is because of the recent talk "Self Moderls of Loving Grace", which is a fun mashup of cutting edge AI models and philosophy: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/en/event/
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Guilty as charged.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
This is kind of unsurprising, but still new to me even as someone who did Windows development (and some Wine API hacking) for a decade around when this W/A mess came about. Windows is like the card game Munchkin, where a whole bunch of
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Satisfactory's scale is so massive for building that it was a shock coming from Factorio. I started a project over the holidays and I'm pretty sure it's going to end up at nearly 200x50. I am not sure it'll fit in a scre
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Breaking a key isn't criminal. It's just math. Sending emails that would constitute fraud or a violation of another jurisdictional law, relying on that math, is illegal. But again -- it's not the math, it's the action an
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Yeah. I got to see Andy Wingo's work on a V8 feature and it was an impressive piece of work.

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