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by rincebrain 7mo ago
I would imagine it's the GDPR "ACCEPT ALL COOKIES" in big font and then in very small low contrast text "select some cookies" or "reject cookies" that they were describing.
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by rincebrain 8mo ago
At the moment, I think a lot of Best Buy's survival is that Microcenter has very limited store count, and every other store that was primarily electronics has eaten shit and gone by the wayside, meaning it's effectively got a mono
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by rincebrain 8mo ago
I suspect the wildly differing experiences for this depend on the number of bad actors doing this in the pools feeding into whatever warehouses, versus total churn. For me, living first in Baltimore then NYC, places where there's quite
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by rincebrain 8mo ago
I think GP's point is that "just do it" shows a lack of understanding that an inability to "just do X" is often a symptom of depression that leads to people not talking about it, because people who haven't expe
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by rincebrain 8mo ago
I would assume the amount they paid is "valuable, but not 'disabled by worm for the prize' valuable", or it's just that hard to find the larvae now. There's also probably a part where if someone was caught havi
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by rincebrain 9mo ago
It's possible to do both, you just need to be cognizant of what you're doing in both positions. A tricky part becomes when you don't have both roles for something, like SRE-developed tools that are maintained by the ones writ
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by rincebrain 9mo ago
Something that should also be factored in, IMO, is the gap between "on paper" and "reality", and how it varies by area. That is, my friends in rural areas report a lot more cases of hostile workers in medicaid/etc p
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by rincebrain 9mo ago
The problem with that premise is that often, projects can be having trouble with sustainability already, so even if you're getting 90% of the people in your fork, that might still be too few. If 90% of the contributions are by 10 peopl
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by rincebrain 9mo ago
That's not using zdb to change anything - it's readonly, all the time. The person reached out and used dd on the disk to corrupt the copies of the uberblock with bad data so that ZFS would be forced to use the older ones (what zpo
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by rincebrain 9mo ago
A fsck could pretty readily notice and repair the spacemap inconsistencies - zdb already generates its own spacemaps and compares to reality on import. If you have the keys, technically nothing stops a fsck from noticing the encryption prob
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by rincebrain 9mo ago
The two obvious examples that come to mind are native encryption bugs and spacemap issues. Nothing about walking the entire tree of blocks and checking hashes validates the spacemaps - they only come up when you're dealing with allocat
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by rincebrain 9mo ago
"They're working on it." [1] It sounds like they put this mechanism into place that stops regenerating large torrents incrementally when it caused massive slowdowns for them, and haven't finished building something to au
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by rincebrain 9mo ago
If someone punches you, and you punch them back, you're being hostile, but so are they, and a lot of people would say that was reasonable. If you deliberately go find someone's secret that they hid after you think they hurt you, a
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by rincebrain 9mo ago
I don't have a bone in this race, but if someone has deliberately hidden their identity online, knowingly disclosing that is malicious, regardless of any other morality involved. Consider people who have their public persona very delib
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by rincebrain 9mo ago
The two main frustrations that I've seen encountered are: 1) Microsoft aggressively attempting to convince you to use OneDrive, no matter how many times you turn it off. I've had a Dropbox subscription since before OneDrive became
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by rincebrain 9mo ago
I assumed it was a combination of a relic of the plans to have unified Phone/Desktop back in Win8 days and part of a goal of eventually locking things down as much as Apple has. Unfortunately, there's a lot more random apps on Win
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by rincebrain 9mo ago
A lot of places in the US are not, in my experience, that intelligent about hiring people. Or, say rather, the externalities of the cost of hiring are not imposed on the people choosing to fire, directly, so they can say they "improved
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by rincebrain 10mo ago
It's going to be more interesting, I think, to see what the campaign says if asked about this, than the actual policy itself.
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by rincebrain 10mo ago
A sibling comment [1] remarks that they play games with raw pointers that are incompatible with the newer GC, so it's not "just" an older runtime that's biting them in the ass. [1] - https://news.ycombinator.c
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by rincebrain 10mo ago
The article touches on it - assuming it's correct, it's because they did a bunch of proprietary modifying on Mono, so it's not "just" Mono any more, it's Mono and a decade or more of the most exciting layer vio
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by rincebrain 10mo ago
It's not. The key thing is, one of the things most tumors need to do to get past a certain point is avoid getting caught being tumors. If you can very selectively cause precise tissue death, from any method, then your body will suddenl
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by rincebrain 10mo ago
There were reports that if you inject the goo from melting the tumor into another mouse, that mouse became much more resistant to that class of tumor[1], so... [1] - https://news.engin.umich.edu/2023/10/these-bubbl
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by rincebrain 10mo ago
This makes sense to me. Having spent a bunch of time with people who have had persistent issues with stable income, a lot of them internalize it at various levels as them personally not being worth anything, because so many systems involved
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by rincebrain 10mo ago
It's not a negative, at all. I just shared it because it's sort of like learning Slack started life as the internal communication tooling for the online game glitch, or that a lot of the "weird Twitter" folks started lif
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by rincebrain 10mo ago
Oh, it's not bad or janky (...okay, no, it was in some ways janky, but on purpose), I loved that game. But the sense of humor/tone between the two games is very visibly the same thing.
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by rincebrain 10mo ago
A lot of things suddenly made sense when I learned their prior work was Magicka.
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by rincebrain 10mo ago
Seeing neurons fire in recognizing the homage in the site appearance that haven't fired in 20 years was wild. Thanks for that.
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by rincebrain 10mo ago
I would be surprised if they moved to ARM any time soon, because even if the CPUs can punch that hard, they're definitely not competing on the GPU front, from what I understand of the state of the art outside of Apple, so they're
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by rincebrain 10mo ago
I would assume Steam Deck 2 isn't dropping before at least H2 2026, if not later, if they didn't bring it out with the announcement of the other devices.
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by rincebrain 10mo ago
I've been really curious precisely what changed, and what sort of optimization might have been involved here. Because offhand, I know you could do things like cute optimizations of redundant data to minimize seek time on optical media,

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