daeken

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by daeken 2mo ago
I just ask our fleet maintenance agent to configure the variants of the new model and then run the bakeoff. In a few hours, I get a doc containing exactly how it performed on my real tasks, against the other models we've benchmarked. W
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by daeken 6mo ago
> I certainly do find new slang introduced by gen Z like "he got the riz!" to be quite cringey This is interesting to me, if only because it's such a natural bit of slang. Given that it's a shortened form of "cha
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by daeken 8mo ago
This sort of mistake is easy to make when you're mixing up your units; if they kept to one system of measure, it would've been trivial to catch, before or after release.
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by daeken 8mo ago
Some people just prefer to listen. I read well and I read quite quickly -- I don't know how many books I've physically read, but it's gotta be in the high hundreds at least -- but over the past ~10 years I've switched pr
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by daeken 8mo ago
The astronaut in question may choose to disclose that they had the medical emergency and possibly its nature, but it seems wholly reasonable to not single them out (when it affects the whole mission) or disclose their medical status.
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by daeken 9mo ago
I've been working in security for more than 20 years and have seen the deleterious effects of security through obscurity first-hand. Why does "adversarial engineering" rely on obscurity?
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by daeken 9mo ago
> Real security systems don't publicize how they work. 175 years of history would disagree with you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity
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by daeken 9mo ago
Yeah, I went with that approach for most of the code generation in the emulator I'm currently working on. Source generators handle a few core things, but more advanced compilation tasks went to just ahead of time generation; couldn&#x2
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by daeken 9mo ago
I love (and heavily use) source generators, but the development experience is godawful. Working with the raw Roslyn types is painful at best and this is compounded by them having to be written against .NET Standard, severely limiting the us
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by daeken 9mo ago
Boo and Nemerle both were really showing what was possible in .NET back in the early days. I still miss the metaprogramming they had, not to mention their pattern matching (which C# has closed the gap on, but is still way, way short.)
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by daeken 10mo ago
Back in 2005 or 2006, I was working at a little startup with "DVD Jon" Johansen and we'd have Quake 3 tournaments to break up the monotony of reverse-engineering and juggling storage infrastructure. His name was always "
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by daeken 10mo ago
The vast majority of non-text editing in game development isn't done in modeling or image manipulation apps, it's done via the game engine's editor. That's true whether you're using Unity, Unreal, Godot, or a homebr
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by daeken 10mo ago
So, it is possible to use the machine consumable forms of the ISA, but realistically you'll spend way longer fighting it than finding other strategies. Years ago, I ended up creating my own aarch64 definition, which I use to generate
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by daeken 10mo ago
> A qualifying mini app within the Mini Apps Partner Program is one that’s put out by a person or entity that’s not directly or indirectly controlled by you, nor under common control with you. I don't understand; if it's put ou
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by daeken 11mo ago
Ventoy is a lifesaver. I dropped a 2TB NVMe drive into a USB-C enclosure and put it on there, along with all the OS installers, distros, and test utilities I commonly use. Probably used it a few dozen times since then and it's well and
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by daeken 11mo ago
I've become an unironic proponent of HE, the Human Era. For CE dates, we just add 10000 (I'm writing this from 12025). But for BCE dates, they're subtracted and it makes things so much clearer when it comes to telling how lon
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by daeken 11mo ago
Bolos are used for spin gravity in the first part, but that's very different from the rotovators used in the second part. Both in concept and design. The key point with the rotovator is that the tip is moving at ~0m/s relative to
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by daeken 11mo ago
Back in ~2004, I worked on a project to define a codec virtual machine, with the goal of each file being able to reference the standard it was encoded against, along with a link to a reference decoder built for that VM. My thought was that
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by daeken 11mo ago
I mean, that seems ugly to me, but... Makes intuitive sense and is fine actually? Is HTML a rich language in which to embed stuff like this? No. Does this clearly get the point across? Yes. [Edit: this should've actually been attached
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by daeken 1y ago
According to this, 16.5% of Ohio residents used a marijuana product in the last year in 2023: https://www.statista.com/statistics/723822/cannabis-use-with... Hard to argue that's a small percentage.
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by daeken 1y ago
Not quite a cassette anymore, but in 2013 I was in the studio with some friends and we'd do initial downmixes to MP3 and bring them to the car. World of difference, just getting the less-ideal and more realistic listening experience.
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by daeken 1y ago
Wow. This may be one of the most intense reverse-engineering (and honestly, engineering) efforts I've ever seen for an emulator project before. Capturing the raw LD image to this degree, being able to play it in reverse, etc -- absolut
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by daeken 1y ago
Oh wow, I need to dig way deeper into this but wonderful resource - thanks!
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by daeken 1y ago
There's no AArch32 or Thumb support (A32/T32) on M-series chips. AArch64 (technically A64) is the only supported instruction set. Fun fact: this makes it impossible to run Mario Kart 8 via virtualization on Macs without software t
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by daeken 1y ago
(B2-ish Spanish learner here but) "ll" is pronounced in at least three variants that I know of: "y", "j", and something between "sh" and "ch". E.g. "llama" might be pronounced like
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by daeken 1y ago
There's a musician named Richie Truxillo who made so many comedy songs about EQ back in the day, but your comment just reminded me of "Has Anybody Seen My Corpse." I haven't thought about corpse runs and dragging folks&#
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by daeken 1y ago
I can nearly single-handedly credit EverQuest with my career. I got my start in the ShowEQ and eqemu sphere, first building little PHP apps to manage servers and such, then reverse-engineering -- I learned x86 and then C++ all to get the li
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by daeken 1y ago
I mean ... You're not completely wrong, but you're not completely right either. For context: I've been working full-time in security for 15 years and on the fringes (reversing) for many more. WAFs in and of themselves provide
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by daeken 1y ago
Huh, that business model honestly makes a lot of sense and -- ignoring the time component -- could be helpful for accessibility. My doctor has flat pricing for all members (he makes it public on the site, and included advance notice of an i
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by daeken 1y ago
He was recommended by my therapist. Essentially runs an all-inclusive, boutique medical service; expensive, but actually turned out to be cheaper than all the services I'd previously had to use, for the best care of my life. That said,

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