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A (flaky test) exposed a (Redis client) use-after-free [bug]

Ah yeah, a colleague found these: CCR Copilot Code Review: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-06-copilot-usage-metri... CCA Copilot Cloud Agent: https://github.blog/changelog/20…

Unclear what CCR and CCA are. Any (ex) Hubbers able to shed light?

> > I don’t game, I try but idk just feels like work. > > I'm surprised by this [...] for the most part, just works I read that as “playing computer games feels like work” rather t…

Single-user, single-task, VGA text-mode operating system with a basic filesystem (fat12), I guess. Note the “guest” username in the prompt is a const, not multi-user: https://githu…

Yeah it looks like it needs to be assembled and written any time the kernel file's position on disk changes (`current_lba`), or different kernel cmdline is required. I seem to reme…

Yep: https://github.com/basecamp/gh-signoff/blob/0e402078ad1483cf... HTTP POST …/repos/:owner/:repo/statuses/${sha} state=success context=signoff description=${user} signed off

As other comments mentioned, the content is written in Markdown and rendered in the browser. So “blog with raw HTML” feels like a stretch... that said, View Source in the browser s…

There's a menubar UI that appears while the camera is in use, to control the digital zoom and pan/tilt; zooming all the way out to “0.5x” shows the extent that can be potentially i…

What you're describing sounds like sandboxing, which Wikipedia vaguely suggests is an existing anti-cheat technique: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheating_in_online_games#Sandb...…

Sometimes the best answer really is a faster Corolla! https://www.toyota.com/grcorolla/ (These machines have amazing engineering and performance, and their entire existence is a ha…

> If novelty in music is actually important to you, this won't happen to you. Assuming what's "actually important to you" remains fixed as you age. The article suggests otherwise, …

Under the "Recreational Fun" heading at the bottom: > Out shopping or sightseeing and need to leave Motocompacto outside? The steel welded lock loop on the kickstand is designed to…

> what benefits that brings above and beyond iTerm for local shell sessions > For anyone else using tmux locally, I'd be interested as well. I run tmux in iTerm2 on macOS; tmux is …

Probably means that you played and completed it some time ago, and the state is still in your browser's Local Storage. (Mine was too)

Apple's Studio Display has a “nano‑texture glass” option, which is designed to reduce reflection/glare, but also subtly-but-noticeably blurs the image. Looking at them side by side…

Looks like that's a leading theory: > … may have come from an inexact contraction of SHArp bang or haSH bang, referring to the two typical Unix names for them. Another theory on th…

Kindergarten is more than just US / American English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindergarten#By_country

This might help: https://daringfireball.net/2022/03/the_apple_studio_display Sounds like it shipped with some last-minute firmware bug that degraded the image quality way below wha…

I was wondering the same thing. The closest I could find to answer is this: > The Long Now Foundation uses five-digit dates to guard against the deca-millennium bug (the “Y10K” pro…

Art and cultural heritage may have worth outside that represented by short-term supply and demand?

I'm on my first foray into FPGA development, using IceStorm as the toolchain for a Lattice iCE40 FPGA (iCE40HX4K) to implement a system controller for my homebrew 6502 single board…

I think you saw a "doesn't" that wasn't there in the opening line: "This person understands what actual burnout is." The Netflix reference was from the original post.

> Even Unix follows this pattern for process creation! To create a new process, you clone an existing one (fork) and then delete everything inside it (exec). I love this observatio…