Darkstryder

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by Darkstryder 1mo ago
Recently I’ve often wondered if LLM productivity gains (for coding) could end up mirroring the productivity gains of a good monitor setup. That is, table stake on the one hand (nobody likes to work for a company stingy enough to refuse to b
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I have never seen a game fail because the artists were too slow(productionalchemist.com)
2 points by Darkstryder 1mo ago|3 comments
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by Darkstryder 3mo ago
I’m posting this comment 8 hours after the post so I can be in the better half of the distribution.
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Halvar's Guide to Entrepreneurship(thomasdullien.github.io)
4 points by Darkstryder 3mo ago|0 comments
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by Darkstryder 6mo ago
Damn. I never knew that way to search things. I used to do « Share / Search on this page » which was already obnoxious, which has now become « … » / « Share » / « Search on this page ». Either I’m dumb or there is a discovera
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by Darkstryder 6mo ago
As a daily Safari on iOS user, I don’t care about any of this, but since iOS 26 basic Safari features such as bookmarks and text search have become so buried deep underneath, they are basically unusable at this point. It infuriates me a lot
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by Darkstryder 7mo ago
As a father of an 8 years old, this is very moving. While Terence is -without a doubt- born with prodigious abilities, I think credit should also be given to his parents Billy and Grace who seem to have managed to simultaneously nurture the
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Poll: Do you use RSS in 2026?
4 points by Darkstryder 8mo ago|3 comments
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by Darkstryder 8mo ago
Yes
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by Darkstryder 8mo ago
No
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by Darkstryder 1y ago
A dream of mine was that in order to get a PhD, you would not have to publish original research, but instead you would have to _reproduce existing research_. This would bring the PhD student to the state of the art in a different way, and i
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by Darkstryder 2y ago
I am not very familiar with Triplebyte but I really appreciated this (seemingly) candid yet lucid writeup about how it was all went down from the inside. These kind of insider perspectives, even if they come with their own biases, are very
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by Darkstryder 2y ago
To avoid something called the thundering herd problem: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundering_herd_problem For instance, a bunch of clients all make a request to a server at the same time, briefly saturating the se
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by Darkstryder 2y ago
LIFO queues with a timeout, and a retry after an exponential backoff with jitter is/was kind of standard for implementing queues at Google. More info in the Google SRE book: https://sre.google/sre-book/addressing-c
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by Darkstryder 2y ago
> Say you add a new source file. Wouldn’t it be great if your build system just picked it up? > Alas, it cannot; the list of stuff to build is passed from the meta build system to the build system, usually by fiat. It can, actually. A
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by Darkstryder 3y ago
To me, a good cover letter is about being actually motivated to apply to a specific job and then simply explaining why. AI doesn’t help because if you can articulate your genuine motivation as a prompt for an AI, you should just use the pro
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by Darkstryder 4y ago
> I’ve never heard of a family being divided because its members dance different styles, but I am in one divided by political and religious opinions. Being a dancer (lindy hop) with a large number of dancers in my social circle, dancing
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by Darkstryder 4y ago
To me, Internet's permanentness should be treated according to Murphy's law: you should plan for everything you wish would go down to stay up indefinitely and everything you wish would stay up to go down at some point.
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by Darkstryder 4y ago
Vim is available on a lot of Windows machines through WSL. I agree this would not be my go-to editor on Windows though.
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by Darkstryder 4y ago
Vim is basically the only editor you can safely assume to be available on any machine you’ll ever interact with. In my opinion, this fact makes it a requirement for virtually any developer to be able to confidently use vim during a producti
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by Darkstryder 4y ago
Back in 2014 I was doing music production semi-professionaly for almost a decade. I tried out a brand new pair of headphones, and after an evening of listening to loud music with them, I put them down and heard a continuous blip. I got (pro
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by Darkstryder 4y ago
One last comment though: I didn’t realize you were the author of the post (great work!!). This let me think you know your stuff, and you know something that I don’t and I need to think of all of that more carefully. So it is very probable y
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by Darkstryder 4y ago
Again, the idea is not to find a specific hash value, but any $hash for which the property md5($manifest_content, $hash, $random_bytes) = $hash is true. You don’t need to match a specific hash value. And you never answered how this manifest
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by Darkstryder 4y ago
This is indeed a preimage attack if the manifest content (besides its own self-referenced hash) is fixed. However this is not the case in practice: to pull off this trick you could just append some random bytes at the end of the manifest,
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by Darkstryder 4y ago
You do want to change the MD5 of the manifest. This is what makes it a collision attack instead of a preimage attack.
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by Darkstryder 4y ago
I don’t understand how this is a pre-image attack, as the manifest file only references itself (and not the zip file) and you can fiddle with the manifest file to your liking. To me this is the same theoretical problem as this self-referen
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by Darkstryder 4y ago
To me this can be done with a simple collision attack (assuming you can fiddle with some bytes inside the manifet file while freezing everything else in advance), which can be found under a second for MD5 with a laptop, and a few hundred th
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by Darkstryder 4y ago
I think our disagreement is that I vehemently consider global warming to be against my long-term financial interest, making it perfectly rational to invest in anything that has a serious shot at limiting it, while you consider this to be «
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by Darkstryder 4y ago
It does make sense if you accept two hypotheses: 1/ cryptocurrencies are here to stay, like it or not 2/ The environmental harm done by PoW is a much greater risk to oneself than losing some money on staking. Then staking becomes
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by Darkstryder 4y ago
Withdrawals haven’t been enabled _yet_. Per your own link it will be enabled in an upcoming upgrade. Of course you can argue this upcoming upgrade will never happen. But you could argue the same about the merge upgrade, and this one did hap

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