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by omoikane 3y ago
Related, list of filesystems and their rollover dates: https://github.com/y2038/y2038-list?tab=readme-ov-file#file-... Note that the earliest date on the list is 2028 with isofs (used on CDs).
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by omoikane 3y ago
> Users dislike animated ads This section cites a few sources from ~10 years ago, but we still see those annoying video ads pop up in random places in 2024. I wonder if those ads were actually bought by competing companies with the inte
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by omoikane 3y ago
It looks like an earlier commit with a binary blob "test data" contained the bulk of the backdoor, then the configure script enabled it, and then later commits patched up valgrind errors caused by the backdoor. See the commit lin
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by omoikane 3y ago
I was expecting a reference to "The Truth" by Stanisław Lem. https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-truth-by-stanislaw-le...
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by omoikane 3y ago
I have examples in my logs of GPTBot fetching only /robots.txt, and nothing from the same /24 block fetched anything else after that, so it seems at least that bot respects robots.txt. Maybe your question is "how do we know i
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by omoikane 3y ago
The first thought that came to my mind were actually the Future Crew, and one of their members were also named Sami (but seems unrelated to this author).
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by omoikane 3y ago
https://xkcd.com/2608/
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by omoikane 3y ago
If it had been "we're sadden by his sudden passion [sic] ", it might have been some curious circumstances that led to their demise, we can only imagine. Also, find meteorites seem to be approaching the "so bad it&#x27
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by omoikane 3y ago
It's actually useful in a code golf context, because "x * -~y" is two characters shorter than "x * (y + 1)".
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by omoikane 3y ago
Maybe the image would look just as random if a space filling curve were used, but I was hoping it would resemble the XKCD image somewhat. I have tried to rearrange the pixels to see if there is any resemblance, here: https://gist
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by omoikane 3y ago
This reminds me of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29657343 - Street Fighter II paper trails – allocating sprite space by hand (2021)
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by omoikane 3y ago
On this slide: https://presentations.clickhouse.com/meetup85/app/#32 It says the the intent was to make it similar to https://xkcd.com/195/ , i.e. with a space filling curve that preserves gr
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by omoikane 3y ago
I wonder how they came up with this. I thought it was unique to FIPS 201 but looks like ICAO has it too. Is there like a lorem ipsum generator but for text that looks like names?
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by omoikane 3y ago
> unless you are a drug dealer or similar IRS might not know about those activities, but that income is supposed to be reported. Illegal activities. Income from illegal activities, such as money from dealing illegal drugs, must be
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by omoikane 3y ago
Current best answer seem to be Mastodon and Bluesky. If we are going by the number of users, Facebook has more users than Twitter and Threads has about the same order of magnitude, but we still see a lot more Twitter submissions to HN compa
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by omoikane 3y ago
"goto" is the only way in Lua to skip to the end of the loop without nesting conditionals, because they still don't have "continue".
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by omoikane 3y ago
> Do you know that in MSVC uint16_t(50000) + uin16_t(50000) == -1794967296? There are two typos in this statement, one is "uin16_t" should have been "uint16_t", the other is that the "+" should have been &qu
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by omoikane 3y ago
Was it one of these? https://www.ioccc.org/years.html#1995_heathbar https://www.ioccc.org/years.html#2014_endoh1 https://www.ioccc.org/years.html#2006_sloane May be related, I have an index
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by omoikane 3y ago
It might have been better if Paul Graham used one of the companies founded by YCombinator instead, but that would be less impressive to 14 to 15 year olds since those 4000 or so startups are not quite Google-scale yet.
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by omoikane 3y ago
> Creators must disclose content that [...] Generates a realistic-looking scene that didn't actually occur This may spoil the fun in some 3D rendered scenes. For example, I remember there was much discussion on whether a robot thro
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by omoikane 3y ago
> Couldn't this be handled in robots.txt? That would require knowing all the user agents that would scrape content, assuming that you want to only exclude AI scrapers and not search engines in general. OpenAI's user agent is GP
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by omoikane 3y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30189780 - Accidentally Turing-Complete (2022-02-05)
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by omoikane 3y ago
Also, an interesting visualization of Bach's Cancrizans: https://twitter.com/PeRossello/status/1763909652025078009
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by omoikane 3y ago
Access control appears to be a paid feature: https://www.stashpad.com/pricing Using the free version for anything sensitive might not be a good idea, especially since I can't find anything about their retention policy
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by omoikane 3y ago
Is this what you are looking for? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36431917 - Video Chess disassembled and commented (2023-06-22) https://nanochess.org/video_chess.html Video Chess for Atari 2600 worked
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by omoikane 3y ago
I wonder if there are reputation protection companies that try a different strategy: for every user that requests their service, prop up thousands of fake identities with the user's name, but each with some inconsistent profile that ar
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by omoikane 3y ago
I am not sure why the advice starts with "ctrl+q". In insert mode, "ctrl+q" followed by "ctrl+c" will cause the literal ctrl+c character to be inserted, and ":q!" after that won't have the desir
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by omoikane 3y ago
If you are interested in less conventional implementations of Lisp, Shinichiro Hamaji has done a few: sed: https://github.com/shinh/sedlisp make: https://github.com/shinh/makelisp befunge: https:
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by omoikane 3y ago
Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/209/ "So the kayak travels through time?" "Sure! Just like everything else!"
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by omoikane 3y ago
RDF is listed on the linked page ("known XML languages"): https://xml.coverpages.org/xmlApplications.html SVG and MathML are also listed there, both of which seemed to be used a fair bit.

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