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deathanatos

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About deathanatos

I'm a Senior Software Engineer.

I long to work on a team who values shipping correct code over shipping anything until they're up to their eyeballs in technical debt and can't ship.

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    Comment #49204743

    Short term can, IME, be very short. I've seen people generate, say, a bash script with an LLM. It's generated: short term, the problem is "solved": we've generated a bash script. ……

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    Comment #49204603

    > Why would you take your phone with you when you run? Music, being able to tell what time it is, navigation¹, emergency calls², non-emergency calls/communication. Or, … the use ca…

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    Comment #49204554

    … between me & my partner, we own multiple pieces of exercise wear that has a dedicated pocket for a phone, because … you need somewhere to put your phone.

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    Comment #49171912

    No, it won't. ~/code » cd foo ~/code/foo » git init ± foo:main:/ » touch .env ± foo:main:/ » git add . ± foo:main:/ » g s On branch main No commits yet Changes to be committed: (us…

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    Comment #49171624

    > In essence, then, those ten days in 1582 never happened and simply do not exist within the Gregorian calendar system used almost universally in the West today. I find these thing…

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    Comment #49154809

    … I dunno. Bikes aren't just efficient, they're the most efficient form of human movement. 60 W gets you 3 mph walking or 9 mph biking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_perfor…

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    Comment #49154703

    > Chip manufacturing is so complicated that there's probably no single person who could understand the entire process, from end to end. There are YouTube videos of a guy doing chip…

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    Comment #49154650

    All I can say is you're lucky that your meat proxies are still identifying themselves as such. I've had people forward AI responses … sans "Claude said". I'm quite literally talkin…

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    Comment #49150474

    > eBay entered into a deferred prosecution agreement and admitted to a detailed recitation of all the relevant facts about its conduct and agreed to pay a criminal penalty of $3 mi…

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    Comment #49136771

    UTS #51 is your friend. There's not really a "standard" character set and an "emoji" one. There is an emoji block (U+1F600 to U+1F64F), and this heart (U+2665) is not in that. But …

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    Comment #49125864

    … and the elevator is still going the way it is going, and that way is still indicated by the illuminated arrow.

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    Comment #49062903

    Yet somehow print/TV worked for decades just fine without spying on their users. I do not want the gas station, or the airplane I'm on, spying on me to build relevant advertising. …

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    Comment #49042141

    > from someone (not necessarily the Rust stdlib) implementing a safe wrapper around a particular syscall? You might call that library "nix"[1]. Many, though not all, of the binding…

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    Comment #49032097

    I've never understood the thing about gas costs. It is oft complained about. And while it always seems to be a point of contention, a quick google search suggests the cost is ≈$200…

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    Comment #49032053

    Unless things have changed, when I looked a couple of years ago, I couldn't make the math math. The cost difference outweighed the savings, IIRC, even if we assumed electricity to …

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    Comment #49031047

    Excellent? No, > Remove the control when there is no way for users to enable it That guidance is unhinged, and is exactly the anti-pattern that upthread points to that needs to die…

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    Comment #49002810

    So, yes, some of this I'd've missed if I hadn't been combing over it quite as finely. But not all of it. But in particular, the cut of the bowl stack being spilled … that scene in …

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    Comment #49001466

    0:19 - the bowl has soup in it, despite coming from the middle of the stack. 0:19 - [same time] several bowls are just sloppified, e.g., having two bottoms 0:45 - last of the soup …

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    Comment #48987260

    From the linked spec, > The authenticator data is a CBOR structure defined in the WebAuthn Level 3 specification, is returned by the getAuthenticatorData() method of the Authentica…

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    Comment #48964598

    > The registry is spread out across a whole decentralized network of computers of which has another decentralized network of computers that proxy requests exists. Ultimately, someo…

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    Comment #48960976

    Gotta disagree. The encryption part needed to happen: without it, there's just too much opportunity for governments to intercept unencrypted traffic and abscond with it. We saw tha…

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    Comment #48960807

    They're not hard to read until you see the queries that coworkers at large companies tend to generate. If the query is a novella that joins half of humankind's know data sources, t…

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    Comment #48960276

    Malware like this will continue until there is privacy laws that make it illegal. The GN video focuses a lot on consent, and while maybe this is notionally currently illegal withou…

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    Comment #48884783

    That site seems to serve offensive images¹. (¹yes, it seems like you can work around it by going to the URL de novo, … but IDK, doesn't seem worth it.)

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    Comment #48874463

    > That said, this should just be a shell itself and not something that generates into other shell dialects. Otherwise, why not use Ruby or something like it that has actual express…