paulannesley

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by paulannesley 2mo ago
A (flaky test) exposed a (Redis client) use-after-free [bug]
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by paulannesley 4mo ago
Ah yeah, a colleague found these: CCR Copilot Code Review: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-06-copilot-usage-metri... CCA Copilot Cloud Agent: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-15-enable-c
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by paulannesley 4mo ago
Unclear what CCR and CCA are. Any (ex) Hubbers able to shed light?
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GitHub outage: CCR and CCA failing to start for PR comments(githubstatus.com)
7 points by paulannesley 4mo ago|10 comments
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by paulannesley 1y ago
> > I don’t game, I try but idk just feels like work. > > I'm surprised by this [...] for the most part, just works I read that as “playing computer games feels like work” rather than “getting games running feels like work
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by paulannesley 1y ago
Single-user, single-task, VGA text-mode operating system with a basic filesystem (fat12), I guess. Note the “guest” username in the prompt is a const, not multi-user: https://github.com/krustowski/rou2exOS/blob&#x2
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by paulannesley 1y ago
Yeah it looks like it needs to be assembled and written any time the kernel file's position on disk changes (`current_lba`), or different kernel cmdline is required. I seem to remember having to do something similar with lilo… not hand
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by paulannesley 1y ago
Yep: https://github.com/basecamp/gh-signoff/blob/0e402078ad1483cf... HTTP POST …/repos/:owner/:repo/statuses/${sha} state=success context=signoff description=${user} signed
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by paulannesley 2y ago
As other comments mentioned, the content is written in Markdown and rendered in the browser. So “blog with raw HTML” feels like a stretch... that said, View Source in the browser shows the exact HTML document that's presumably hand-wri
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by paulannesley 2y ago
There's a menubar UI that appears while the camera is in use, to control the digital zoom and pan/tilt; zooming all the way out to “0.5x” shows the extent that can be potentially in-frame. Anecdotally, the auto-tracking Center Sta
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by paulannesley 2y ago
What you're describing sounds like sandboxing, which Wikipedia vaguely suggests is an existing anti-cheat technique: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheating_in_online_games#Sandb...
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by paulannesley 2y ago
Sometimes the best answer really is a faster Corolla! https://www.toyota.com/grcorolla/ (These machines have amazing engineering and performance, and their entire existence is a hack to work around rules making it unvi
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by paulannesley 2y ago
> If novelty in music is actually important to you, this won't happen to you. Assuming what's "actually important to you" remains fixed as you age. The article suggests otherwise, with caveats: > At the same time,
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by paulannesley 3y ago
Under the "Recreational Fun" heading at the bottom: > Out shopping or sightseeing and need to leave Motocompacto outside? The steel welded lock loop on the kickstand is designed to be compatible with most bike locks.
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by paulannesley 3y ago
> what benefits that brings above and beyond iTerm for local shell sessions > For anyone else using tmux locally, I'd be interested as well. I run tmux in iTerm2 on macOS; tmux is my window-manager of choice for terminal applicat
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by paulannesley 4y ago
Probably means that you played and completed it some time ago, and the state is still in your browser's Local Storage. (Mine was too)
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by paulannesley 4y ago
Apple's Studio Display has a “nano‑texture glass” option, which is designed to reduce reflection/glare, but also subtly-but-noticeably blurs the image. Looking at them side by side, I somewhat preferred the blur/bloom of the
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by paulannesley 4y ago
Looks like that's a leading theory: > … may have come from an inexact contraction of SHArp bang or haSH bang, referring to the two typical Unix names for them. Another theory on the sh in shebang is that it is from the default shell
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by paulannesley 4y ago
Kindergarten is more than just US / American English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindergarten#By_country
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by paulannesley 4y ago
This might help: https://daringfireball.net/2022/03/the_apple_studio_display Sounds like it shipped with some last-minute firmware bug that degraded the image quality way below what it's capable of. Should be
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by paulannesley 5y ago
I was wondering the same thing. The closest I could find to answer is this: > The Long Now Foundation uses five-digit dates to guard against the deca-millennium bug (the “Y10K” problem) which will come into effect in about 8,000 years. A
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by paulannesley 5y ago
Art and cultural heritage may have worth outside that represented by short-term supply and demand?
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by paulannesley 5y ago
I'm on my first foray into FPGA development, using IceStorm as the toolchain for a Lattice iCE40 FPGA (iCE40HX4K) to implement a system controller for my homebrew 6502 single board computer. The FPGA is (work in progress) doing clock m
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by paulannesley 5y ago
I think you saw a "doesn't" that wasn't there in the opening line: "This person understands what actual burnout is." The Netflix reference was from the original post.
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by paulannesley 5y ago
> Even Unix follows this pattern for process creation! To create a new process, you clone an existing one (fork) and then delete everything inside it (exec). I love this observation.
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by paulannesley 6y ago
> carrier grade NAT (CGNAT), which is used by ISPs that have run out of IPv4 addresses … If you’re unlucky enough to be on one of thee ISPs there’s likely not much you can do. I had the same SSH dropout problem, asked my ISP[1] to switch
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by paulannesley 6y ago
> Who's out there that would exploit this because they thought $50,000 wasn't worth it, but would change their minds for $1,000,000? […] people who just like to cause chaos, and state-sponsored actors […]. Makes me think of the
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by paulannesley 6y ago
Looks like the metadata service uses HTTP long polling (“ This request also includes a timeout (timeout_sec=<TIME>)”), so I think they had a <TIME> second head-start in racing against the real metadata response.
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by paulannesley 6y ago
Yep! We've been doing this at Buildkite for six years now. We're lucky to have a lot of fantastic customers who have helped us learn over the years what makes a great hybrid SaaS/self-hosted CI solution.
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by paulannesley 6y ago
> instead of CS gas it would be great if there was some sort of sedative gas to just slow people down enough to sap their will to continue That is the most casually delivered fucked up dystopian line I've seen on HN.

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