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Some friendly tips from post-silicon validation: sudo systemctl reboot --firmware shutdown /r /t 0 /fw These reboot directly into BIOS. For Windows CMD+R menu, run it by pressing C…

What non-malicious use case is there for this?

> The only sane way to manage "your config files" is to put them in a git managed folder and use a symlink farm program. Another option is to ignore all files and selectively allow…

Are those real numbers? Also, do you mean additive or multiplicative (i.e.: 20 + 20 + 15 vs. 20 * 20 * 15).

Is there a market for publishing the retrospective of the process which resulted in a "late found flaw"? I would expect uninteresting data would still be published if only to preve…

> Zig also doesn't have dynamic dispatch It doesn't have it as a language feature, but it does have VTables just like C would. The `std.mem.Allocator` is an example of this.

I think they're discussing the lifetime of that heap data, not whether the data is heap allocated.

I don't understand. Isn't this already the case in America with Section 230? (The original post is about the Netherlands, so this is now tangenting.) It's just that no one actually…

There's a dead comment sibling to this one talking about how group admins can see through the anominity. I don't understand why it is dead. It wasn't even rudely stated. Is it just…

A quirk in my config that I haven't bothered to fix makes it so my formatter runs post write. I've unfortunately picked up the habit of :w :w in rapid succession.

> Having bad leaders in an authoritarian system (there are many in the military) effectively amplifies the problem they create which is likely where this bias comes into play. Addi…

I used to work on datacenter NVMe products. I wrote the tests which validated them (mostly functional not performance). I left that company before things got hot with fabrics, but …

Is no one going to talk about their capabilities system? That shit looks cool. A compile time permissions system for which resources can be used. I wonder how fool proof that can b…

I usually do. I have a 2 liter water bottle that I fill up at least twice a day. Though ironically with the heat this summer, I've been exercising and drinking less.

Looks at dmesg ... "Heh, how is this thing still running?"

Wasn't there active attempts to hide the extent of the issue with Chernobyl which significantly worsened the damage? If so, that seems like saying there were cascading human errors…

I, for one, quite enjoyed the novelization of it. Especially the part about the space-irony continuum. My sleeping wife did not appreciate being woken up by laughter though.

I'm fascinated by the woman who seems to be pacing back and forth rather than do anything productive to help people or get to safety. I wonder if I would have the clarity of mind i…

I can't imagine someone named their language "of", "programming", or "in". So, I guess 3. Joy and Odin are obvious since they have shown up here recently. Totally tangential, but a…

Good read. Thank you. This just worsens my fear of changing "unnecessary" code when I don't know the original motivation for it.

> 100% OSS Tell that to your BIOS or the firmware that runs on your WLAN or NVMe. Hell, tell that to the CPU itself[^1]. [^1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engi…

That's the user and/or user agent inserting those. You can have streamlined email threads without those issues. You just don't top post. Now, try to do encourage that behavior in a…

Which one are you referring to? A lot happened last week in the SCOTUS, and I haven't heard of this specific concern.

This is one of those times where I look at what someone says, and think, "Aren't you the same people who thought X about Y, and now, you think something that seems totally contradi…

> - you can’t download while it’s asleep or in the background. Are you saying this is something unique to the Steam Deck? If my Linux desktop is anything to judge by, you should be…