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by mmastrac 2y ago
`||` is conventional in bash, but definitely not in JS. `x || value` is closer to conventional JS, but using it for control flow is certainly not common and a stylistic choice, for sure.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
It's been a while since my EE degree so I had to refresh my memory [2]. This is related to PID controllers ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%E2%80%93integral%... ). Type I is proportional only. Type II co
573.
by mmastrac 2y ago
I've been developing for a very long time and I'm neither on the side of "lots of comments" or "all code should speak for itself". My philosophy is that comments should be used for two things: 1) to explain cod
574.
by mmastrac 2y ago
As a library vying to replace OpenSSL, the same set of suites as OpenSSL. I'm no longer blocked on this particular issue that I filed on behalf of my work at Deno, but they aren't interested in adding less-secure suites that may b
575.
by mmastrac 2y ago
My one and only one beef with Rustls is the inability to support some legacy crypto standards that aren't web safe but necessary for replacing OpenSSL in some cases (ie: server to server, database SSL, etc). The project is the best one
576.
by mmastrac 2y ago
The greatest trick Bezos ever pulled was convincing us to use the cloud for strady-statw, predictable loads
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I finished a very rough, tesseract + LLM transcription, but it absolutely needs editing passes. I've done transcription in the past myself (did two books for standard ebooks with some from-scratch transcription and lots of editing) and
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I cropped the columns out into six files -- it might have an easier time with these: https://github.com/mmastrac/gibbet-hill/blob/main/col-1-a.pn...
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I started a quick transcription here -- not enough time to complete more than half the first column, but some scans and very rough OCR are here if anyone is interested in contributing: https://github.com/mmastrac/gibbet
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by mmastrac 2y ago
The 13th puzzle is probably the first decent one. I still can't quite put together how it's getting the clues in some cases (BMing = using pedals? noly = Just this, no other?) but it's certainly the first one that's with
581.
by mmastrac 2y ago
> This sounds quite a bit like what Steorm[sic] was doing years ago Steorn was a scam, and they never actually showed anything off. The only thing they did was rob some investors.
582.
by mmastrac 2y ago
Is this a continuation of the meme that GPT can't identify the number of "R"s in "strawberry"?
583.
by mmastrac 2y ago
It originally showed up in Linux, but it's pretty much universal except for MacOS. I mostly hope they start taking the "unix" part of the OS seriously again. It's been almost frozen in time.
584.
by mmastrac 2y ago
I'm hoping this pushes them to finally implement the glaring gaps in Unix compat: specifically pipe2.
585.
by mmastrac 2y ago
Please don't do this. These summaries literally add nothing to the discussion.
586.
by mmastrac 2y ago
Very cool. Does it require the "screen recording" indication to be up the entire time whether screen recording is happening or not? I don't see any info in the repo but I recall some previous solutions would effectively appea
587.
by mmastrac 2y ago
The classic No True Punksman fallacy.
588.
by mmastrac 2y ago
They were punk, just mainstream, pop punk. It was a common label for them in North America in the 90s.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon -- the US could easily break all of these up. There's a huge risk to stagnation and over-optimization once these companies get as big as they do.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
This trick has been floating around for about a week -- earliest ref I could find: https://x.com/fofrAI/status/1841854401717403944
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Do yourself a favour -- develop an intuition for this sort of code rather than reaching for GPT. It basically gave you what you should be able to read in a first pass, and a you can probably reduce the algorithm to some C-like code with a f
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Tiktok is the worst of the brain-rotting social media products our world has produced, and that's saying a lot. I spent many years in the early days of social media building: starting at StumbleUpon, working on early Facebook apps, bui
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by mmastrac 2y ago
At this point it looks like io_uring is really the new syscall interface of choice. Given that most (not all, but a significant proportion) syscalls are for I/O purposes, it makes sense to bake in the concept of async completion.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
The downside of the deal with the devil... https://old.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1b55686/maybe_possible...
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by mmastrac 2y ago
For those of us who don't know, LMDB is a DB, somewhat akin to sqlite or Berkeley DB. It took a bit of time to find the info by chasing links. Please add READMEs to your projects with appropriate links, folks. https://crates
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Who posted Number Station phone numbers to Craigslist in 2006? [video](youtube.com)
21 points by mmastrac 2y ago|12 comments
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I think that's a bit click-baity given that Ethernet appears to be a library of some sort here. Cool-looking language, but would be better to promote it based on its merits.
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I vaguely recall playing Fable on the Xbox and being satisfied, though not blown away by it. It was certainly one of the most fleshed-out house-buying/marriage-allowing games I recall playing (not the first, though) and probably paved
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by mmastrac 2y ago
I like the ideas behind Powershell, but the DX has always felt ugly and clunky compared to standard shell. Unix/Posix are full of great tools, but they are all extremely painful for newbies and take years to master. There's got to
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by mmastrac 2y ago
Given the videos showing explosions next to civilians (< 1m in one case) that walk away unharmed afterwards, I'd say that this is pretty surgical.

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