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The my_random_bytes implementation doesn't look good at all at first glance. Let's see: 1. I believe it errors out if the HWRNG returns the same value twice. That's actually a thin…

It appears to be real: https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/bc1pvqd6c5... Zero transactions so far.

In some ways, sure. The LACK ( https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/lack-side-table-white-30449908/ ) is probably one of the most optimized pieces of furniture you can buy. There's no hand…

I meant CD quality audio, as in 44.1 KHz/16 bit digital files, not specifically the CD physical medium. It's an old invention and still fulfills every playback need possible, let a…

It is bad by modern standards. Low capacity, high noise, imperfect stereo separation, pretty bad frequency response. CD quality audio solves every problem perfectly and it's old an…

You need to carve the master to have something to press from.

How does it buffer audio? One thing I didn't realize for a long time is that it turns out that a lot of these machines have a digital stage. To cut a disk you need to pack the groo…

Apparently it's sort of sensible, but weird. msoTriStateMixed applies to aggregates. Eg, text.isBold() can be true, false, or a mix. Partly bold, partly not bold. msoTriStateToggle…

I'm generally friends with good, sane, smart people. If they're all jumping from the bridge, there's almost certainly something to jump from, so yes I would. https://xkcd.com/1170/…

I'm referring to actual people I argued with in the past. People convinced that AI in a self-driving car would involve the car calculating whether to kill a pedestrian or the drive…

The critics didn't do themselves any favors. Part think the Terminator has something useful to say on the subject, part invent contrived scenarios like self-driving cars having to …

That's not shutting anything down, that's just being selective with what you accept, and everyone did that already to some extent. Even pre-AI it was obvious that contributions hav…

> The solution is exactly what the linked article says: shut it down. At this point it's impossible, so I concur with the parent: forget about the shutting it down and think of som…

My most blood boiling error message (long time ago, maybe they fixed it): "No headset audio" -- displayed by the Oculus desktop app, in regards to not having audio on the headset. …

I'd fall somewhere in the middle. I like coding, I just don't particularly enjoy figuring out the framework du jour. The task at hand is interesting, but the part where I need to f…

So get yourself a solder fume extractor? There's plenty cheap ones to pick from.

Buy a Framework Desktop with 128 GB instead. It's half the price, and though I bought it for even less before RAM prices went crazy.

I wonder why this is not more common. LVM is easy to set up, and it's already common to allocate volumes for things like disk images for VMs, so why not databases?

> This take is always bizarre to me. You're not talking about the internet, you're talking about the websites you choose to use. There are alternatives for every single website/ser…

I believe transactions are quite optional though? A miner could choose to mine empty blocks if they truly wanted, which transactions to include if any is up to them.

A transaction fee of what? To take a fee from a transaction there has to be a transaction to take a fee from, which needs some sort of "coin" that came from somewhere. Somebody has…

True, but that's the theory, and there's the practical reality that is messy. Where things like almost the entire team being on vacation for Christmas happens. Or where Bob, coming…

When I was doing the scrum master role I just did sprints flexibly. It's not a law of the universe that there's got to be a sprint every 2 weeks. For instance I'd schedule them aro…

I don't know, it seems popular to complain about Scrum on here, but I've never had that many problems with it. I've both been in the team, and acted as the manager. I think most of…

That's a different failure mode. Before Micro USB there was Mini USB, which was the same concept but I believe the fault was that the springy parts were inside the device. When tha…