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by zbentley 2mo ago
It is sometimes true that a large group of people hold a preference due to being misinformed, though. I don’t think a kneejerk assertion that GP is assuming their opinion is true and anyone who disagrees is an idiot is merited here. Meta ha
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by zbentley 2mo ago
Good point. Why don’t more people do that? Compression?
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by zbentley 2mo ago
I’ve worked with folks from The Citadel who had parts of their studies they were not allowed to talk about. When doing a hiring reference check that was confirmed by school staff. I don’t know if it was an NDA in the traditional sense; I wa
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by zbentley 2mo ago
> And then, slowly, people will learn I hope you're right, but I'm not sure they will. The less locked-down WinXP and early Android era was ... really really bad in terms of nontechnical people getting hacked/scammed. And
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by zbentley 2mo ago
No, even if Google search of old still existed, LLM Q&A would still be trouncing it. This is because people don’t like to click/follow links, they don’t like to read, and they don’t like to have to comparatively evaluate multiple p
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by zbentley 2mo ago
Update: I read DHH’s blog. I now have an opinion on DHH: not good.
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by zbentley 2mo ago
I used the terms from the grandparent post with tongue firmly in cheek. I didn’t intend to be sexist or ageist and agree with your criticism.
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by zbentley 2mo ago
There are two big problems with this (not that Apple’s caprice is the only alternative): 1. The vast majority of people are Grandma, and they do not have a Johnny available to administer their tech. Most people are not technical. 2. The vas
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by zbentley 2mo ago
FileUtils#sh doesn't exist: ruby --disable-gems -e 'require "FileUtils"; FileUtils::sh("ls")' -e:1:in `<main>': undefined method `sh' for FileUtils:Module (NoMethodError)
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by zbentley 2mo ago
Huh? The Python example does not use Bash or the shell in any way.
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by zbentley 2mo ago
That's all fair. I don't think we should abolish sh or anything; it's one of the only truly ubiquitous tools. And folks should know it, the same way they should know nano or ed or whatnot in case they ever get on a system w
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by zbentley 2mo ago
Fair, and thanks for explaining. Other than my original proposal of a simple webhook stream and a complicated offline backfill, all the good ways to do that with current tools probably involve building support for fine-grained read permissi
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by zbentley 2mo ago
> You're welcome to implement inotify for procfs right now. I more meant that if filesystem drivers had always been external to the kernel, then it would have been harder for so many syscalls to develop filesystem-specific behavior
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by zbentley 2mo ago
> > We have vastly better tools now in those niches. > But do we? I'll beg to differ. We do. I mentioned Fish and PowerShell for interactive scripting. Those definitely handle your rsync/zsh snapshot case. If you're
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by zbentley 2mo ago
> And what would you recommend for a system automation script 20 years ago, when I was 13 and discovered Linux for the first time? Like I said: > Maybe it had to be that way because we didn’t know any better … But that doesn’t make it
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by zbentley 2mo ago
No, it is terrible. The entire reason things like Fish annd PowerShell exist is because bash (and POSIX sh language broadly) are garbage even for their original purpose . Maybe it had to be that way because we didn’t know any better or nee
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by zbentley 2mo ago
Hot take: filesystem drivers. Final stage boot should load two images: a kernel which surfaces block devices via HAL, and a one or more filesystem drivers which function as external backends for the in-kernel vfs system. This would facilita
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by zbentley 2mo ago
I mean, that might not be the worst thing? Like, if you have something you regularly spend a lot of money on, it might be worth spending 2min on the Wikipedia article about it’s manufacturer to verify that it’s not made by child slaves or s
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by zbentley 2mo ago
Interesting. There’s probably a market for the consumer side of that, then: really easy-to-integrate-with-common-app-frameworks-and-hosting-platforms runtimes that provide a polling/socketful event consumer and sidestep all the concern
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by zbentley 2mo ago
> receivers as well prefer the simplicity of webhooks. Do you see receive-side customers as prepared to outright reject paying for vendors that only offer non-webhook event streams if there's a webhook-ful competitor available? Or
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by zbentley 2mo ago
Why is cryptographically verifying record sequentiality an important property here? If I offer my customers a source of ordered records, the "trust" in that system is the fact that they pay me to make sure records are ordered. If
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by zbentley 2mo ago
That requirement seems ... uncommon. How many systems/industries have a frequent notion of transient/sliced views of history for their customers? If that is a real requirement, it seems like it'd be easier to meet by giving c
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by zbentley 2mo ago
This article resonates with similar struggles I've had at multiple companies. Its content is valuable. I wish the writing and the article itself had less of a slop odor. That aside, what I don't understand (especially having worke
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The Bitter Lesson (2019)(incompleteideas.net)
1 points by zbentley 2mo ago|0 comments
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Curlbash_detect: Proof of concept to detect when a request is from curl – bash(github.com)
2 points by zbentley 2mo ago|0 comments
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by zbentley 2mo ago
You can review the contents of the git repo before building it. For curl | bash, you cannot. “But you can pipe to a fil—“ nope: https://tferdinand.net/en/why-curl-bash-is-a-dangerous-bad-h...
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by zbentley 2mo ago
I hope you’re right. Anecdotally based on the significant number of young, digital native people I know who are getting successfully scammed, I’m not sure.
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by zbentley 2mo ago
For voice scams this is critical. I set up duress codes with all of my non technical and elderly family and close friends last year. It should be a simple, pink-elephant-type nonsense question and answer that you rehearse a few times in per
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by zbentley 2mo ago
Maybe, but in this domain (compute-bound concurrency) there’s really no free lunch. The best languages in the space performance-wise are either full of sharp edges (C++, Go), or hard to use (Rust, Haskell). The friendliest languages require
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by zbentley 2mo ago
Thanks, I saw the pings on github! Definitely let me know if any of the additional things I mentioned are worth my doing some testing or filing issues/feature requests, always happy to help out. Re: the codec option, that's fair;

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