jclulow

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by jclulow 2mo ago
Literally all of software is artificial? Being explicit and reasoned about how you choose to allow or deny a particular computation is, surely, at the heart of a lot of computer security?
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by jclulow 2mo ago
I mean, says you? We live in a society and to some extent we decide what that means. I believe many countries outside the US have heavily subsidised loans or cost deferment mechanisms, or just outright government funding for school. Cert
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by jclulow 5mo ago
No piece of compute capacity (in the form of equipment) I have bought this year has been in any way cheaper than last year.
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by jclulow 5mo ago
I believe there were even more substantial issues in some terminal emulators, where escape sequences could write to arbitrary files or even execute programs. I think it's still very reasonable advice to avoid dumping arbitrary bytes i
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by jclulow 6mo ago
I had some serious struggles with the delinquent landlord and property owners, and the dangerously incompetent builders that plagued our building in Alameda for years. While they were not always legally empowered to come and stop the skuld
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by jclulow 7mo ago
You can absolutely start regulating behaviour after the fact. Australia famously bought a bunch of guns back from people who had previously legally bought and owned them, and melted them down. There's no reason you couldn't offe
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by jclulow 7mo ago
Yeah, it really sucks when people have hobbies!
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by jclulow 7mo ago
This is not an accurate assessment in the StarCraft II case. It was released in 2010, and LAN play was definitely still popular. I remember because I was part of a University club/society that was running ~200 person ~3 day LAN parti
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by jclulow 7mo ago
One thing I internalised when speaking with a physiotherapist is that part of avoiding serious issues is making sure you don't stay in the _same_ position for too long. One good ergonomic position is an excellent start, but changing y
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by jclulow 7mo ago
It does actually wrap up well enough I reckon. It's not really a cliffhanger or whatever.
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by jclulow 7mo ago
> I don't want to have to ask AI to rewrite my train handling config files just to get some little motor to spin. I reckon you could probably still figure out how to just edit the text file. And if it's not fun to do that, the
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by jclulow 8mo ago
Yeah that's just flat out not correct. If you're writing through a file system or the buffer cache and you don't fsync, there is no guarantee your data will still be there after, say, a power loss or a system panic. There&#
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by jclulow 9mo ago
This is what I do! The API itself is not particularly amazing (the way it handles batch requests as a MIME multipart formatted POST body where each part is itself a HTTP request is particularly obscene). The underlying data model is kind o
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by jclulow 9mo ago
> Car usage is going to 2-10x. What a bleak vision of the future.
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by jclulow 9mo ago
Actually, you don't need to do anything of the sort! Nobody is owed an easy ride to other people's stuff. Plus, if the magic technology is indeed so incredible, why would we need to do anything differently? Surely it will just
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by jclulow 9mo ago
> No non-embedded libc will actually return NULL This is just a Linux ecosystem thing. Other full size operating systems do memory accounting differently, and are able to correctly communicate when more memory is not available.
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by jclulow 9mo ago
I recently replaced my aging X1C7 with a T14s AMD and it has been quite nice!
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by jclulow 10mo ago
As opposed to all the regular kinds of shitty behaviour landlords inflict on their tenants already? I feel like "because the money people will continue to misbehave" is absolutely not a reason to avoid doing something.
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by jclulow 10mo ago
FWIW, some of us still do this in C programs today. Having a relatively unique prefix for struct members makes it extremely easy to find uses of those members with relatively simple tools like cscope.
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by jclulow 11mo ago
If we assume this model is accurate, I sound to Americans like I'm South African!
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by jclulow 1y ago
I think basically everyone with ADHD discovers this eventually; e.g., > Sympathetic Procrastination Rotor: a technique for Time and Task Management. > To aid in the fight against procrastination, arrange all of your tasks in a cycl
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by jclulow 1y ago
DNS & DHCP are generally short lived transactions that are very easy to restart and retry, so as long as it restarts very quickly that seems like a reasonable trade off in implementation complexity to be honest.
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by jclulow 1y ago
How is firing a bunch of people because you made a machine that you believe can do their jobs not textbook corporate greed? It seems like the worst impulses of Taylorism made manifest?
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by jclulow 1y ago
Where can I sign up for the post scarcity society? Asking for my artist friends.
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by jclulow 1y ago
"horny"
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by jclulow 1y ago
Certainly if they're like us, and travelling to new worlds, they'll be imperialistic and colonial. They'll plant a flag, because we obviously weren't really making use of the planet, not _really_, and attempt to civilis
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by jclulow 1y ago
I would turn this on its head: it's not clear what the value in it being closed would be. AMD make CPUs (and other silicon products). The more people who can take the software required to initialise those CPUs and put it to new and no
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by jclulow 1y ago
Surely you can put your own dotfiles into your own account on that machine, though, without impacting other people?
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by jclulow 1y ago
This isn't an inherent property of ZFS at all. I have made heavy use of SQLite for years (on illumos systems) without ever hitting this, and I would never counsel anybody to disable sync writes: it absolutely can lead to data loss und
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by jclulow 1y ago
I wouldn't expect ethics to emerge as a feature any time soon. If anything, it will be easier to have the machine do the wrong thing as the machine does not get squeamish.

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