hackpelican

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by hackpelican 3mo ago
What you’ve hit is uneven extraction. Parts of the puck were over extracted and other parts under extracted. Usually the cause is channeling, where some pathways in the coffee puck are easier for water to get through, so they get eroded fir
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by hackpelican 3mo ago
Muslims don’t believe Arabic is the language of God. They believe that the Quran was revealed in Arabic (true). Thinking the creator of the heavens and earth only speaks one language is absurd. It also kind of implies that Muslims believe i
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by hackpelican 6mo ago
I hope you’re still joking. Data caps are to an extent “fake”, in that telcos’ costs aren’t measured in how many bytes their customers download/upload. Telcos’ costs come from renting bandwidth from tier 1 and tier 2 ISPs. This bandwid
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by hackpelican 7mo ago
They don’t treat Israeli* women like a second class citizen. They’re totally fine treating gentile women, men and children as cattle. Slaughtered and imprisoned at will.
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by hackpelican 7mo ago
Do you really believe this “altruistic” angle?
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by hackpelican 7mo ago
So when do we start adding a “(mis)” at the start of their name?
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by hackpelican 7mo ago
Doesn’t sound like a bad thing to evaluate the most obvious alternative to build confidence before officially pulling the plug.
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by hackpelican 8mo ago
I cannot tolerate children crying or being generally loud.. unless it’s my kid, then it barely registers at worst, enjoyable at best.
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by hackpelican 8mo ago
At one point it started spitting out its CoT in the comments of the code it’s supposed to be changing.
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by hackpelican 8mo ago
Yes over USB 2.0 until recently.
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by hackpelican 10mo ago
8x engineer
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by hackpelican 1y ago
How does routing work? How do I know that for device A to reach device B, I need to go through device C but not D? And if I try to go through device D but device C actually delivers the message, then does device D get paid? How would you va
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by hackpelican 1y ago
I’m glad you implicitly agree that blockchains have failed to find any use case other than cryptocurrencies.
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by hackpelican 1y ago
It was definitely a bad system that leads to wrong incentives. Due to this, a lot of the time, leaving a comment would lead to friction with the owner of the CR, thus disincentivizing leaving comments, which leads to worse code being merged
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by hackpelican 1y ago
In some companies, (ahem… Amazon), engineers are judged by their code review/comment ratio. Especially L4 engineers trying to make it to L5. So actually putting positive comments in the code review isn’t really much appreciated. I gain
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by hackpelican 1y ago
Is it a wash, though? From their perspective, they ended up getting a sale from you they weren’t getting otherwise.
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by hackpelican 1y ago
Does the OS that lies on top of this kernel need to be formally verified as well for the security guarantees to hold?
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by hackpelican 2y ago
In the places I’ve worked, a war room was always the place where we cut the bleeding and revert the system to a working state. Never was the RCA the intended outcome of a war room, though we’d often reach the RCA in the silence of the meeti
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by hackpelican 2y ago
I categorize myself as a “don’t care, would use whatever the codebase is using”. But I realize now that I rarely press tab or space when I indent. I find that most of the time, I am either leveraging auto indent, or using vim’s/IdeaVim
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by hackpelican 2y ago
Architects produce buildings. These buildings are useful and remain useful for decades. We build software that may be useful to the average joe at first, but it's only to acquire users. Then the enshittification cycle begins to extract
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by hackpelican 2y ago
I have long since disabused myself of the notion that programming is morally anything more than a job in finance, investment banking, or any other bullshit job. Bullshit jobs, as opposed to real jobs, don’t benefit the community the way a d
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by hackpelican 2y ago
I need to make sure that SerenityOS project owner Andreas Kling’s channel is mentioned: https://youtube.com/@awesomekling He hasn’t been uploading much recently but the backlog is full of OS development, applications ported
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by hackpelican 2y ago
Yeah probably not. Many established players in the game already and either way, adding fancy technology isn’t going to help the general public feel more trust in the system.
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by hackpelican 2y ago
My undergraduate thesis project attempted to use homomorphic encryption to create a voting system where any party could verify the final tally count while keeping ballot secrecy.
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by hackpelican 2y ago
This debacle smells of ill-preparation. Seems that none of the teams actually spent time or effort testing their systems in real life before the event.
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by hackpelican 3y ago
The reshuffling of windows in the option+tab UX is what drives me really crazy in MacOS. Used to use the Alt+Tab app which makes it more sane, but I eventually removed it to preserve bloat. Now I switch windows using Spotlight by typing the
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by hackpelican 3y ago
The 2017 MBP is indeed horrible hardware. You’ll find many testimonies of 2012-2015 MacBooks being incredibly resilient. The new 2019-2023 models are too recent to judge, but seem to be back on track resiliency wise.
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by hackpelican 3y ago
I like covering my phones with DBrand skins. Wonder how much that would affect the thermals.
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by hackpelican 3y ago
I used to host an instance of Firefly III, which has a perfectly usable mobile web interface. This way, I would log every transaction immediately rather than wait until I get home.
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by hackpelican 3y ago
I hope Apple never releases a touch screen MacBook. MacOS is the only operating system that still has UI elements appropriately sized for mouse use. Everything else uses huge buttons to account for touch use-cases.

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