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by vorgol 1y ago
"Get your head examined. And get the fuck out of here with this shit." -- Kent Overstreet, bcachefs maintainer: https://lore.kernel.org/all/citv2v6f33hoidq75xd2spaqxf7nl5wb...
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by vorgol 1y ago
When I was learning Linux back in the day, one of the most beneficial thing I did was to go though the VIM tutorial and learn to use it properly. I'm no master at it but oh boy that time spent has paid dividends down the line.
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by vorgol 1y ago
OSs need to stop letting applications have a free reign of all the files on the file system by default. Some apps come with apparmor/selinux profiles and firejail is also a solution. But the UX needs to change.
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by vorgol 1y ago
I was going to recommend that exact podcast episode but you beat me to it. Totally worth listening, especially if you're interested in software bugs. Another interesting fact mentioned in the podcast is that the earlier (manually opera
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by vorgol 1y ago
All scandinavic countries have stopped shipment to USA due to this (except gifts valued < $100)
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by vorgol 1y ago
I've acquired so many tools like this, and I don't think I've ever looked at them at though I regretted the purchase. Many have enabled me to fix and make stuff down the line.
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by vorgol 1y ago
A bit like "There used to be a lot of corruption is politics. There still is, but there also used to be."
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by vorgol 1y ago
For me it's a combination of the nature of task, where I'm at and the nature and duration of the interruption. But usually an interruption causes a large amount of penalty points.
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by vorgol 1y ago
I apologize for the side question, but what are people using for Golang SQlite cipher/encryption combination?
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by vorgol 1y ago
We can argue if it's a feature feature creep and if it's the right choice of formatter. But let's appreciate that this will increase the use of formatters astronomically (or part thereof), which is an excellent thing.
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by vorgol 1y ago
It's very tempting to assume what people will or are doing, and it's so, so easy to get it so wrong. Picture this. Guy comes home late at night. Outdoor light is on. He goes in and presses he light switch. No lights come on but th
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by vorgol 1y ago
Very interesting article from the same guy where he reverse engineers the randomness of a flicker LED. https://cpldcpu.com/2013/12/08/hacking-a-candleflicker-led/
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by vorgol 1y ago
> pressured Maybe incentivized? $1000? $10000? Would be interesting to hear from the developer himself.
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by vorgol 1y ago
Have you heard results from it? How does it know for example, when there is a romantic scene in the book, which voice to read out as? It's definitely an exited voice, but is it read out as in a battle or as in a romantic scene?
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by vorgol 1y ago
The youtube link is suddenly not available any more (at least in the UK)
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by vorgol 1y ago
I wonder if it's going to have the same training data as the ordinary version?
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by vorgol 1y ago
Sounds very interesting but could we have examples please? All the examples are either not working on missing. It would also be good to have a link to examples very high up on the front page.
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by vorgol 1y ago
Can you meaningfully study advanced math without understanding algebra?
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by vorgol 1y ago
I have hitherto not timestamped or cryptographically signed my light sources, but that's something I'll be looking into.
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by vorgol 1y ago
Exactly. The enormously forceful craving you get for soda/beer/whatever drink will be wiped out 90%-100% by a quick chug of water. Your brain will tell you "no that won't work", but after the water your body will ap
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by vorgol 1y ago
The first athlete to be sanctioned for mechanical doping did exactly that. Inspectors found a bicycle in her pit with a hidden motor. Her excuse was "the bicycle was owned by a friend and was taken to the pit in error". The bike
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by vorgol 1y ago
> into a file server This is underselling it by at least three orders of magnitude. This is astonishing tool, you have to watch the demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15_-hgsX2V0
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by vorgol 1y ago
I remember when I discovered MDN. It was like sneaking into a wizard's sanctum and reading all the secret scrolls. Stellar work Mozilla!
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by vorgol 1y ago
Tim Harford mentions in his podcast "Cautionary Tales – A Fascination with Failure / Death on the Dance Floor" that checklists might have prevented the 1981 skywalk collapse in Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel (killing 114 peo
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by vorgol 1y ago
That's just like saying that if no tests are failing then we don't have any bugs.
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by vorgol 1y ago
Project 2025 is 46% completed: https://www.project2025.observer/
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by vorgol 1y ago
Confirmed. Massive annoyance with youtube on mobile.
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by vorgol 1y ago
> I'm relatively new to working on this type of system. > In the end, what's the difference between a log and a metric? Don't let me put you down, but writing a logging advisory blog post when you don't know the di
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by vorgol 1y ago
Excellent news. I think Ryanair was a trend setter back in the day for charging for absolutely everything. So much that that a song was written about it (published 14 years ago): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAg0lUYHHFc
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by vorgol 1y ago
Calibre has improved a lot recently. If you haven't used it for a few years, it's worth taking a fresh look.

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