Karellen

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by Karellen 7mo ago
Oh yeah, "nine blue fish" would make a lot more sense there.
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by Karellen 7mo ago
> if you fish in a pond known to have 50% blue fish, and pull out nine fish, you will appear to be a savant-like catcher of blue fish, I don't get this. What does the proportion of blue fish have to do with the total number of fish
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by Karellen 1y ago
Marty: Organised crime? Cosmo: Trust me, it ain't that organised!
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by Karellen 1y ago
Part of my headcanon for Sneakers is that Agent Abbot (Jones) is actually Admiral Greer (Jones' character from The Hunt for Red October / Patriot Games / Clear and Present Danger ), set a bit earlier in his career, and goi
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by Karellen 1y ago
Um, malloc() is not a system call?
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by Karellen 1y ago
But then strings with the hash code HASH_MAX would wrap to 0 instead.
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by Karellen 1y ago
Can't believe no-one else has made a comment about how great the form id "230" (tooth-hurty) is, yet. Bravo.
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by Karellen 2y ago
Is there a 2010-era feature you're relying on that LibreOffice doesn't have yet? When was the last security update for MS Office 2010? Wikipedia reckons sometime in late 2020. It might be worth looking at alternatives if you ever
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by Karellen 2y ago
> At a Morgan Stanley conference this month, Brian Robins, finance chief for San Francisco-based software maker GitLab, said GitLab is aligned with the goals of DOGE, because the company’s software tools aim to help people do more with l
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by Karellen 2y ago
I need to give a name to my theory which posits that horseshoe theory is a bullshit right-wing talking point, no different from the classic villain trope "We are not so different, you and I", where one side admits to being awful b
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by Karellen 2y ago
That takes a really long time though. Most domestic dogs can still breed with wild wolves after ~14,000 years of being pretty well separated by humans, and after some fairly substantial phenotypic shifts.
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by Karellen 2y ago
> During the discussion, Hu said that even if product builders rely heavily on AI, one skill they would have to be good at is reading the code and finding bugs. Naturally, that brings to mind the classic: > Everyone knows that debuggi
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by Karellen 2y ago
Yeah, these new-fangled "compilers" will never catch on. Programmers who rely on them will stop learning machine code, and won't know how their program really works. That's if the compiler actually compiles your code at
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by Karellen 2y ago
> On the minerals front, the US doesn't need anything from Ukraine. Need's got nothing to do with it. Bullies don't take what you have because they need it, they take it because that's what you have, and they want t
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by Karellen 2y ago
Yeah, thinking of the puzzle as a game , rather than a competition , allows for a different perspective. If I think of a competition , then I'd expect the rules to be determined ahead of time according to some pre-imagined criteria.
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by Karellen 2y ago
What if it turns out that the radical (square root) symbol is a letter from a language (if a little squished)? And we somehow figure out one day which letter it is, for sure? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_symbol
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by Karellen 2y ago
But also, if the criteria for allowed functions is that they are "reasonable, elemental" (as per the fine article), then I think it would be quite hard to come up with a set of rules to encode that in a way that includes log() a
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by Karellen 2y ago
So nice that the site still has an "email etiquette" page - so few of those still around these days! https://www.pmail.com/etqtte.htm
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by Karellen 2y ago
Well, the earliest version of the code that would morph first into a terminal emulator, and eventually become Linux "was written to use one thread to write the letter A to the screen. The other thread wrote the letter B."¹ Who kno
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by Karellen 2y ago
I think that's debatable. Many open source licenses have a definition of accessible source code that is similar to: > The "source code" for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. Cert
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by Karellen 2y ago
In a similar vein, there's Device Orchestra https://www.youtube.com/@DeviceOrchestra/videos
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by Karellen 2y ago
> Has its own JRE bundled, and uses that one if you don't have any JRE installed. > Starts in 5 seconds, uses ~600MB of RAM (less than VSCode!), and works very snappy. > The trick is, it didn't get bloated or heavier over
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by Karellen 2y ago
And a bowl of M&Ms, with all the brown ones taken out - to make sure they did read this far.
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by Karellen 2y ago
Don't focus on how naive you were then, think about how much you've grown since. Well done! Imagine if you don't learn anything new in the next 25 years, and all your opinions stay completely stagnant. What a waste of 25 year
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by Karellen 2y ago
Huh. In that case, the upthread commenter likening the new model to being more "linux-like" seems confusing. Given that they didn't mention which Linux security model the new system was like, I presumed they meant the most
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by Karellen 2y ago
> Our drive to capture efficiencies through economies of scale Is that what's happened here? It looks to me more like the billionaire/PE class's drive to capture rents through monopolies is a more accurate lens to view the
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by Karellen 2y ago
Sorry, I'm confused. I can't figure out from your explanation how the new adminless just-in-time elevation is supposed to be different from UAC's just-in-time elevation?
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by Karellen 2y ago
It's probably worth trying LibreOffice again if your last install was a couple of years ago. They take document compatibility bugs pretty seriously and fix a bunch with every release. That's probably the easiest step to take next,
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by Karellen 2y ago
> You write in one language Not quite. Web assembly isn't a source language, it's a compiler target. So you should be able to write in C, Rust, Fortran, or Lua and compile any of those to WebAssembly. Except that WebAssembly is
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by Karellen 2y ago
> to show that they were NOT simply regurgitating a cultural stereotype, but that it is in fact a real phenomenon. Right, but does anyone think that that's what people with NDEs are doing? I don't get what the poster was trying

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