Roguelazer

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by Roguelazer 2mo ago
Got really excited for a minute that the long-standing [Hy]( https://hylang.org ) project had had a release, but it's just some confusingly-named LLM. Shame.
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by Roguelazer 6mo ago
modelines allow you to put a special comment in your file (typically on the first or last line of the file, and [for vim] of the format `# vim: set ts=2:`) to configure a subset of editor settings automatically whenever that file is opened
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by Roguelazer 6mo ago
The important thing to remember is that for a large number of people (in the US), "work" is a place where they do things that they hate for eight hours a day, for people they hate (surveys routinely show between 40% and 60% of peo
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by Roguelazer 6mo ago
That's absolutely not true. The places that have embraced "agentic engineering" are mostly garbage factories, and lots of places, including plenty of startups and fast-moving companies are staying off of this trend. I recogni
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by Roguelazer 9mo ago
So what's going to happen in 3 years after these startup bros have left government, none of the frameworks they're using are supported any more, and nobody in the office that they parachuted into is trained to maintain whatever sp
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by Roguelazer 10mo ago
DCR is cool, but I haven't seen anyone roll it out. I know it has to be enabled per-tenant in Okta and Azure (which nobody does), and I don't think Google Workspace supports it at all yet. It's a shame that OIDC spent so lo
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by Roguelazer 1y ago
Some API questions/observations - I don't see an idempotency key in the request to authorize a charge; that might be something nice for people looking to build reliable systems on this. - How long are accessTokens valid? Forever?
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by Roguelazer 1y ago
I think this is ignoring a lot of prior art. Our deploys at Yelp in roughly 2010 worked this way -- you flagged a branch as ready to land, a system (`pushmaster` aka `pushhamster`) verified that it passed tests and then did an octopus mer
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by Roguelazer 1y ago
For most users, that'll just result in them going to Google, searching for the name of your business, and then clicking the first link blindly. At that point you're trusting that there's no malicious actors squatting on your
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by Roguelazer 1y ago
It's really "cool" when you get vendors like 6sense that combine browser fingerprinting with semi-licit data brokers to do full deanonymization of visitor traffic. Why bother doing marketing when you can just get a report of
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by Roguelazer 1y ago
It does seem like there's something wrong with that data; I find it somewhat implausible that the average parent was only caring for their child for 1.7 hours a day in 1985; even if you assume that all of the tween and teens were free-
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by Roguelazer 1y ago
I mean, ~90M people live in one of the top 10 metro areas, which is about ¼ of the country. Not sure that I'd necessarily call that an "exception".
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by Roguelazer 1y ago
> *Up to 15–50% slower decision-making in offices with high flicker (and high CO₂) just throws me right off the argument in an article when the fine print notes that a cited study is confounding the thing the author cares about ("se
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by Roguelazer 1y ago
Running a parser for a network protocol as root seems like a pretty unnecessarily dumb thing to do. I can't really imagine why any part of airplay would need to run as root; maybe something to do with DRM? Although the DRM daemon `fair
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by Roguelazer 1y ago
It's been a bit more than that; about four years ago they started using machine-analyzed satellite photos to override street geometry in my neighborhood and decided that a parking lot is a through street; since then, nobody who uses Go
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by Roguelazer 2y ago
As I understand it, no. Most counties require that you have an EMT license to be a firefighter, and many people with conviction histories are barred from getting EMT licenses (Title 22 § 100214.3(c)). There was a bill a few years ago that a
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by Roguelazer 2y ago
I'm optimistic SAML will be dead soon. ActiveDirectory/EntraID/whatever Microsoft wants to call it now supports OpenID Connect. Okta, OneLogin, Google, and all the other post-turn-of-the-millenium IdPs support OIDC. Shibbolet
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by Roguelazer 2y ago
This is the same problem as `malloc`, right? I imagine the answer depends on exactly what queries you need. If you have a bunch of different standard event sizes, then managing multiple different sorted freelists for the next open 1 hour sl
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by Roguelazer 2y ago
Missing one of the key reasons: most SMBs are sharing seats (usually in violation of the license terms for the products they're using), which is rather harder with good SSO products. Per seat licensing for b2b products is lucrative, bu
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by Roguelazer 3y ago
I love that they named the cloud document sync daemon `bird`; people who've been using Apple's cloud services for a while may remember that MobileMe had a "Back to my Mac" feature which worked by creating a 6to4 tunnel a
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by Roguelazer 3y ago
The usual solution is to just do a stored value system; give people a wallet in your system that they can top off in $20 increments, then the actual microtransactions are just a database write.
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by Roguelazer 3y ago
"Our work leads to a disruptive technology that can accelerate the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) with HADAR-based autonomous navigation and human–robot social interactions." Really, though?
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by Roguelazer 16y ago
fake!