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Comment #46584574
I once had a vexing problem with my old Intel MacBook — macOS failed to boot, but Windows seemed totally normal. Can't possibly be a hardware failure, right? The symptoms disappear…
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Comment #46505033
I'm not sure how impressed I should feel about saving 45 MiB these days.
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Comment #46471731
Confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity :)
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Comment #46337952
I would log a warning when an attempt fails, and an error when the final attempt fails.
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Comment #46018747
I shudder to think what capability the execute bit would grant.
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Comment #45783495
It would be more plausibly practical if GHC could now target wasm, but this announcement is actually about being able to run the compiler itself in the browser.
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Comment #45766801
He gone doofed.
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Comment #45765468
I have burned git into my brain, so it's no longer hard to me. OTOH, I only pull out jq once every six months or so, and I just barely scrape by every time.
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Comment #45511568
> More energy from the digestive system to power a bigger GPU. Is GPU already the metaphor du jour? I thought we were still aboard the steam engine ;)
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Comment #45407482
As demonstrated in the article, you can compute clamp(x, min, max) with straight-line code.
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Comment #45197340
I also do this sort of restless refactoring. I find interacting with a new codebase is a kind of brain hack that (subjectively) helps me get up to speed faster.
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Comment #45087335
Hmm, not on iOS Safari.
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Comment #45008119
You nerd sniped me :) In this context, I believe it is a kilo-Jansky, not a kilo-Joule * year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jansky
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Comment #44857904
Well... "TM Signal" was just in the news. It's close enough I bet it could fool some percentage of otherwise security-conscious users. https://www.wired.com/story/tm-signal-telemes…
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Comment #44857893
Do phones have trusted execution environments? I suppose you could require the recipient provide attestation that it's running the expected binary. Of course, this is pointless if …
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Comment #44504720
I am familiar.
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Comment #44500998
Oh, I know it's explained in the man page. I read it every time and promptly forget because I can't internalize the choice of notation.
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Comment #44500625
I always want to reach for `units`, but I'm perennially baffled by the output! What's up with the * and /?
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Comment #44475660
Oh, I guess you were just sharing and this wasn't advice: > I just landed a mid 6-figures job _without_ grinding leetcode. They’re out there. This game everyone plays is an abomina…
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Comment #44475615
I agree the law should attempt to be specific, but I have to point out that this is still quite ambiguous! Is it permissible to dictate/listen to text messages on my handheld smart…
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Comment #44472538
Surely you don't believe that there's a significant fraction of tech jobs that pay $500k?
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Comment #44360493
I thought TRAMP overrides that setting in your SSH config. > TRAMP uses the ControlMaster=auto OpenSSH option by default, if possible. However, it overwrites ControlPath settings w…
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Comment #44337407
> I’ve used bad redaction to my advantage at work to make money You've certainly piqued my curiosity. Can you say any more?
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Comment #44283651
Here's a more informative doc about sandboxing in Chromium https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:san...