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by scottlamb 4mo ago
That makes sense. Although I have to pick on your example a bit: wouldn't they still need a concrete foundation for all that weight and thus still need bulldozers? Still unsure how much of the work they're actually avoiding.
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by scottlamb 4mo ago
Meta's first five buildings took between two and three years to build, but Williams is almost done building out 200 MW (additional) off-grid power plants in a year, and to match that they're putting their equipment in tents. That
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by scottlamb 4mo ago
I'm typing on a SoflePLUS2 right now. It's based on the Sofle v2 design, which is described as having a 5-key thumb arc per side. But I try to limit thumb use to the innermost 2 or 3 keys per side after experiencing fatigue. I use
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by scottlamb 4mo ago
Totally agree. They even vibe-wrote the paragraph I quoted. I'd go so far as to say people who prompt AI to do something they can't do themselves are essentially non-technical management. I'm not a fan of non-technical manage
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by scottlamb 4mo ago
I think the distinction __s is making is between layer toggles (layer is active between layer key presses, described as stateful) vs layer modifiers (layer is active while layer key is held). And there are definitely reasons to minimize key
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by scottlamb 4mo ago
In an earlier thread, I wondered [1] if "concentrating around AI-native talent" in a round of layoffs was code for "we're firing all the old people", if "AI-native talent" meant people who had never learne
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by scottlamb 4mo ago
Hmm. I don't do game development myself, so take this with a healthy dose of salt. But...not necessarily. I think game development might be one of the more varied of the domains I mentioned. If you want to actually focus on the game, r
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by scottlamb 4mo ago
Is there a particular domain you'd like to get into? It sounds like you're wanting to build expertise in something other than CRUD app assembly, but my language recommendations might change based on whether that's embedded, g
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by scottlamb 4mo ago
There are folks who have added them to external keyboard builds: https://kbd.news/How-to-integrate-a-trackpoint-into-your-key...
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by scottlamb 4mo ago
> the original commit being 4-5 lines long (what did claude do then?) I've said "rebase onto <newbase>" and let it handle all the merge conflicts. I wouldn't expect this particular commit to conflict with anythi
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by scottlamb 4mo ago
> This is a good example of what slips through LLM attention. It forces all allocations to be calloc as if it is a strict upgrade. I wouldn't assume Claude made that decision; it's not as if that was some incidental thing that
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by scottlamb 4mo ago
Ugh, yeah, gross for `thunderbolt-net` only support one link in total, though presumably fixable. > - Intuition on why- I can't point you to the line number, but I think it has to do with a fixed 4kb page size when communicating wit
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by scottlamb 4mo ago
> https://github.com/y3owk1n/neru ...which supports Vimium-style hints mode as well as the grid-based approach shown in this "Mouseless (app) explained in 80 seconds" video. It also has a very responsive m
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by scottlamb 4mo ago
When I get that, I just repeat the question "where did you look in the docs?", or just "go look at the docs now" if they're really dense. I can't help them until they have a better answer. It takes a few tries
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by scottlamb 4mo ago
When someone asks me a question that is or should be documented, I like to ask where they looked for it (link or search query). * Sometimes, this prompt is enough for them to find the answer. * Sometimes, they tell me a spot that makes sens
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by scottlamb 4mo ago
> now you've re-introduced out-of-order delivery which complicates re-assembly of large packets, retries, handling loss etc. Still confused though. For a standard TCP/IP networking stack, that support is all there anyway, as it
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by scottlamb 4mo ago
> traditional Thunderbolt networking protocol ... performance may be as low as that of a 10 Gb/s Ethernet interface. Ouch. Why so much lower than the physical bandwidth (or what they've achieved here)?
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by scottlamb 4mo ago
I admit I might roll my eyes a bit if the first thing I ever learned about KDE were its mascot's pronouns. But... * That's not what's happening. The pronouns are mentioned in a social media post (presumably targeted at people
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by scottlamb 4mo ago
I can think of two reasons. The first is what they describe here: as an attack. It's like why would anyone ever overflow a buffer with shellcode. The second is that they are implementing a spec that requires appending a varint length-p
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by scottlamb 4mo ago
Oh, no, I remembered the actual exploits because they were comically trivial. I searched for them and found the ids to paste here. I don't in general follow security vulnerabilities closely enough to be the one to ask about CVE visuali
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by scottlamb 4mo ago
$ login -n root Login incorrect login: backdoor No home directory specified in password file! Logging in with home=/ # I think this is supposed to be something like CVE-1999-0113 (or its very recently disc
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by scottlamb 4mo ago
> I think [`git log -n1 -- <path>`] is the fastest way to get the most recent commit time on a single file? In terms of machine time? I'd guess so, but I'd also guess calling it for each of `git ls-files` is not the faste
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by scottlamb 4mo ago
On the other hand, the RP2350 actually is a microcontroller, and IMO a nice one for many purposes. PIO, high-quality datasheet, nice ecosystem, etc. And the Pi Zero 2(W) can do most things the Pi/Pi 2 could, with a smaller footprint an
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by scottlamb 4mo ago
> It is missing the Italian, Japanese, Greek and Mexican cooking - that are incredibly popular worldwide and it is incomplete without them, and nothing from Africa at all or Middle East. That's overstating it. There are certainly En
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by scottlamb 5mo ago
But I'm talking about general day-to-day security as well as off-boarding. What stops a single disgruntled employee from doing this before being fired? And if you have a good story there, why do you need the most extreme approach to
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by scottlamb 5mo ago
> Too complicated and subjective, stinks of more risk. I actually think there's less risk, because it's not as narrowly focused on what a just-fired employee can do. That's not the only scenario of concern. > Also, I do
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by scottlamb 5mo ago
You always have to be careful about overfitting to a specific scenario like "this but if they had also forgotten to lock out the other evil twin". I'd prefer a system that is robust to a malicious employee (more likely: compr
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by scottlamb 5mo ago
> Just think of all the info you have in your inbox. Meh? Sure, stuff that would help assemble a credible phishing attack, but not customer SPII or huge amounts of intellectual property or anything. If the assumption is that employees&#x
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by scottlamb 5mo ago
> When you are talking about access like they had "make firings as abrupt as possible including terminating all access immediately" not doing this is incompetence. You're proving my point—employers take the most extreme le
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by scottlamb 5mo ago
> [Opexus] said that “the individuals responsible for hiring the twins are no longer employed by Opexus.” Getting close to the classic Monty Python line: "Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been

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