yencabulator

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by yencabulator 5d ago
I can think of 3 things: 1. You can partition an input file at any offsets, parallelize, and adjust partition boundaries to a valid offset independently. Without the property, parallelization is hard. This is how mapreduce has been used to
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by yencabulator 5d ago
If it's just a general Transformation Format and Unicode will never assign those code points, it'd be just TF-8. I can think of a second way to expand that abbreviation.
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by yencabulator 6d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warnin... I kinda wish they had used > This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here. > What is
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by yencabulator 7d ago
Wildcard imports are a horrible idea. (And anyone pushing to have a "prelude" for their library is making it worse. Please don't.) Clippy `wildcard_imports = "warn"` is your friend.
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by yencabulator 7d ago
Of course it could just default to private, and if you wanted something you'd have to specify that.
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by yencabulator 7d ago
"Undo" a "destroy" is just a bad metaphor okay?
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by yencabulator 8d ago
Lots of humans have no inner monologue. I think mostly in abstract shapes, spatial relations, and interactions. If anything I find the idea of thinking in linear sentences limiting.
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by yencabulator 8d ago
I've had a two different dogs do this independently by now: They'll be laying down happily napping. Then they get up, walk to a different room, and some seconds later come back carrying a toy. They return to where they used to lay
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by yencabulator 8d ago
Meanwhile, the AI labs are saying with the models getting smarter skills etc should be less verbose and just let the model do the thinking.
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by yencabulator 8d ago
And then the agentic loop over the reviews will rewrite them into less obvious exploits.
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by yencabulator 8d ago
I have slept in a tent in -31 F, what is this "peak winter chills" you claim to speak of?
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by yencabulator 8d ago
Phone calls are not the same communication mechanism as instant messaging. Look at the timestamps in the mock screenshots and think about holding the other person on the phone for that long before you say your second line.
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by yencabulator 8d ago
Ah yes complex global rollout being forced to production on an arbitrary rapid deadline is exactly the time when more code of unknown quality should be added to the system at the last minute.
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by yencabulator 8d ago
I hope you never handle other people's data.
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by yencabulator 8d ago
Better than calling encryption "scrambling".
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by yencabulator 9d ago
The forgery path is downloading the leaked database of 153 million driver's license images, picking one with the right gender, rough age, weight and height, and printing a card with that text+barcode and your photo.
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by yencabulator 9d ago
The mental model is that encryption is a locked box you can only open with the key.
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by yencabulator 9d ago
> how to use the DMV's public key to check whether a California ID is real. That's not what the signature guarantees, though. It says the combination of textual information on the card is *someone's* valid driver's li
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by yencabulator 9d ago
If you watch the Doom demo video, pay attention to the bars on the side. For every possible action, that's the likelihood it should take that action, for that iteration. They all update all the time. I thought that was a good visualiza
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by yencabulator 9d ago
Here's the previous generation, two years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42415754 And here's more technical information about this generation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=494430
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by yencabulator 10d ago
Disclaiming its your site matters not on the site, but when you post on HN. Disclosing your bias is good manners here. And using HN for promotion is bad manners, your submissions are almost nothing but your own site, once per week.
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by yencabulator 10d ago
All of those things are regulated too, at least in the US. No open fires on red flag days. Furnaces have product certification requirements.
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by yencabulator 10d ago
They're literally selling advertising space, though. And you run the site, without disclosing that. https://building.bookdna.com/author-membership/
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by yencabulator 10d ago
> almost MIT license No it isn't, it's just another source-available license, this time vibecoded so glhf. https://github.com/panphora/htmlclay/blob/6f211a2fa1b7b0598d...
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by yencabulator 10d ago
Generally IP does not make that assumption. If I remember right (it's too early), having to go through neighbor discovery combined with a switch doing some special processing on ARP/ND packets protects against identity hijacking i
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by yencabulator 10d ago
Source criticism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_criticism
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by yencabulator 10d ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20260915141712/https://www.heise... the whole relevant section is > In Germany, France, and Italy, Firefox 156 displays localized Wikipedia suggestions and occasional spons
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by yencabulator 10d ago
Large windows are part of the modern aesthetic.
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by yencabulator 10d ago
Oodi is very much modern architecture. Nordics are full of pretty modern architecture. The article reads like the author picked a conclusion and made things fit his opinion.
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by yencabulator 11d ago
As far as I've kept track, a good-enough-for-reading headset doesn't exist yet. So it's not like Frame bad, it's whole industry still bad.

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