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by cbsks 1mo ago
Might be different for programmers… my experience is that—broadly speaking—programming ability is inversely proportional to how well dressed you are. I wonder if that is still true, or if I’m just old.
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by cbsks 2mo ago
I switched to a keyboard with a thumb cluster[0] a few years ago and have been loving it. [0]: https://dygma.com/pages/defy
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by cbsks 3mo ago
No way! That’s incredible! I’ve been follow the story for the last few days and assumed he was gone. How long until it’s a movie?
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by cbsks 4mo ago
Amazing! Tristan’s entire website is a treasure. It’s a throwback to when the web was great.
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by cbsks 4mo ago
I mean not really. There is a FUSE implementation, but you need an enterprise account https://docs.lakefs.io/v1.60/reference/mount/ I’m not seeing a kernel module anywhere..
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by cbsks 5mo ago
Offline PWA sites are very limited on iOS. If you force close Safari, look at your phone funny, or don’t visit the site regularly, the cache is cleared and you are stuck at a loading screen until you have internet again. That’s what forced
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by cbsks 5mo ago
The one takeaway I got from my engineering ethics class in college was that everyone has different morals. Debating if something is “moral” or not is useless. Education on a subject is useful, but once someone understands your point of view
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by cbsks 6mo ago
I have a laptop with a touchscreen that I regularly forget is a touchscreen until I accidentally touch it.
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by cbsks 6mo ago
Canonical source: https://bash-org-archive.com/?5775
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by cbsks 6mo ago
I really don’t want to work for the defense industry, but I have to admit that they do have very fun problems to solve. You know there are people at NRO who are dedicated to ship tracking via satellite. I assume they can easily track ships
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by cbsks 6mo ago
British Columbia, Canada
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by cbsks 7mo ago
I’ve been using the Dygma Defy daily for over 2 years. Highly recommend.
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by cbsks 7mo ago
That’s Simon’s goal. “All I’ve ever wanted from life is a genuinely great SVG vector illustration of a pelican riding a bicycle. My dastardly multi-year plan is to trick multiple AI labs into investing vast resources to cheat at my benchmar
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by cbsks 7mo ago
“Let’s spend thousands of dollars on lawyers to avoid donating to a good cause”. Large corporations can be so ridiculous.
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by cbsks 7mo ago
Wow. I had a visceral reaction to the “we’re being attacked!” clip. Haven’t heard that for a long time, but it still got my heart racing.
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by cbsks 7mo ago
Looks like Firefox is immune. This works by looking for web accessible resources that are provided by the extensions. For Chrome, these are are available in a webpage via the URL chrome-extension://[PACKAGE ID]/[PATH] https:
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by cbsks 8mo ago
Nothing drives more creativity from me than a tool in need of a project.
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by cbsks 8mo ago
Tesla’s “autosteer” is significantly more advanced than the “lane keeping” feature I’ve seen in rental cars, or my own 2023 Jeep. My understanding is that autosteer will actively keep the car centered in the middle of the lane, while the “l
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by cbsks 8mo ago
My company has a policy limiting the number of high level execs traveling on a plane at a time. I wonder if plane manufacturers have similar restrictions. It’d be an ironic to for them to simultaneously assert that their planes are safe for
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by cbsks 8mo ago
On Linux, if the blocks are page aligned, you could use mremap(2) to swap blocks very efficiently without using any additional physical memory.
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by cbsks 8mo ago
What’s the maximum range to your phone to get notifications? I’ve been trying to cut back on my reflex to look at my phone every few minutes. It’d be great if I could keep my phone on a charging stand and be able to walk around my house and
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by cbsks 9mo ago
Linux on top of a hypervisor. There are several companies providing hypervisors, including the one I work at, so my experience is biased.
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by cbsks 9mo ago
It’s also running virtualized in a lot of cars! Although I’ve seen more and more US car companies switching from QNX to Linux. Chinese car companies I’ve worked with all use Linux instead of QNX, so perhaps that is the future.
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by cbsks 9mo ago
I would open a new bug for each of those questions and say “we will evaluate this after the MVP is implemented”. Give the person credit in the bug description. That will usually satisfy their concerns. Set the priority on the bugs to low an
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by cbsks 9mo ago
It’s a 6 digit pin. Doesn’t seem worthwhile to hash. What are the best practices here? I’m not sure
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by cbsks 10mo ago
The downside is that some services, such as video streaming, block access from VPNs.
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by cbsks 10mo ago
Imagine an alternate universe where Amazon has a similar interface. It would be the most amazing tool.
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by cbsks 10mo ago
Wow. SubC’s software engineering needs some work. They thought the camera’s file system was unencrypted, when it was encrypted. They didn’t know where the keys were to decrypt it. It turned out the key was written unencrypted to a UFS stora
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by cbsks 10mo ago
That is such a typical bug report to a large company. A user who spent a lot of time debugging and finding the root cause of an issue, and a few faceless peons at the large company spending a few minutes on it, realizing it’s not a priority
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by cbsks 11mo ago
As Asimov predicted, robopsychology is becoming an important skill.

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