Posts made by bb36e
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RE: WTF Bites
Dr. Regex: Unique, esoteric insight into the world of regular expressions
How to Match "A B C" where A+B=C
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RE: Feature request: notifications for downvotes
There's a forum I visit (it's kind of like reddit) where you have to choose from a pre-filled list of reasons (off topic, spam, troll, me-too, etc) when you want to downvote something. Everyone can see how many people downvoted for each reason. This reduces accidental votes and makes people think about why they don't like a specific post.
I agree with blakey that voting sshould be removed, as it will lower the quality of discussion as this forum grows. but the thing I mentioned above can help reduce bad blood in the meantime.
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RE: Go 1.11: run Go in your web browser without compiling it to JavaScript
Something something js type system generics
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RE: "I used to work for Tesla…"
Note that these posts are coming from something awful's tech shitposting forum, so take it with a grain of salt.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Idea: language with float-indexed arrays. Whole number indices work nomally, you can just interpolate between values
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RE: New Intel microcode license disallows benchmarking
@SlackerD interestingly enough, the latest version of the actual file at the Intel download center site still seems to be using the old license. Hopefully they update it…
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New Intel microcode license disallows benchmarking
New timing/side-channel resistant microcode patches have a license with a small change attached:
You will not, and will not allow any third party to (i) use, copy, distribute, sell or offer to sell the Software or associated documentation; (ii) modify, adapt, enhance, disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer, change or create derivative works from the Software except and only to the extent as specifically required by mandatory applicable laws or any applicable third party license terms accompanying the Software; (iii) use or make the Software available for the use or benefit of third parties; or (iv) use the Software on Your products other than those that include the Intel hardware product(s), platform(s), or software identified in the Software; or (v) publish or provide any Software benchmark or comparison test results.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Tsaukpaetra get something to eat. Sometimes I just put off eating for long enough that I start feeling all cold and shaky
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Statistics: fuck me why did I agree to do this presentation
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@mott555 speaking of annoying bullshit, my bank keeps telling me that I'll get back $500 when I sign a mortgage with them, despite the fact that I live in an area where the average house price is $1M+. Yeah thanks, that $500 will really put a dent in the $150,000 down payment
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Holy shit every insurance site I've gotten quotes from today has either
- taken me to an error page on login
- shown me an error page as I'm entering my info
- shown me a 403 or just plain text 'forbidden' page when I click their CTA, i.e. the most important thing on their website
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RE: When being configurable is more important than being useful
@blakeyrat so no explanation as to why you were lying in the quoted post? Do you just come here to stir up shit?
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RE: When being configurable is more important than being useful
@blakeyrat said in When being configurable is more important than being useful:
Tying software versions to OS versions is the dumbest idea of all the dumb ideas in the Linux ecosystem.
Arch linux uses fresh versions of packages. You can even install packages that are tied to the upstream authors' git repos
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RE: Internet speeds
@swayde said in Internet speeds:
I'm thinking having that many dimensions/values in a bar graph should be a crime.
additionally, for ISPs, a download speed distribution graph across their subscriber base as well as a time series chart of average internet speed over a single day should be required
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RE: When being configurable is more important than being useful
@topspin I think that configurability can add unneeded complexity, forcing all users to suffer from any resulting bugs.
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RE: When being configurable is more important than being useful
@Gąska does your machine stutter and lag when there's animations on-screen? if so, you're probably using gnome shell.
I say this as someone who just tried the latest Ubuntu LTS using intel graphics on an i5-5xxx machine, and whose desktop suffered from frequent stutter and lag when doing the simplest things. ugh.
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RE: WTF Bites
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Still not sure why this has to be so mysterious that Microsoft can't write up a function to "Move $mft closer plz" to invoke during such operations, but whatever.
or hell, maybe not let the user attempt a partition resize. it looks like the partition tool does some sort of preliminary check to see the last immovable file anyways...
either way, on my machine it was a Windows Defender report. exciting!
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RE: Quotes Out of Context
@da-doctah said:
No, the rest of the world was invented by a drunk mathematician
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RE: IPhone makers love lolcats
Ladies and gentlemen, here we have an unearthed reference to what many archaeologists call the 'first meme'. As we can see, even back then, the internet's fascination with running jokes into the ground drew the ire of many ancient forum denizens.
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RE: WTF Bites
@anotherusername more just the idea that YouTube is pouring money into a 'TV' show based on tinder
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RE: Only 193 more days!
@Lorne-Kates binary search would be more efficient, try again in 10y
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RE: Paging
I believe I read paper on arxiv about this, MIT are working on blockchain system to allow split list of items into sublists
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
Sophisticated attackers find bugs in software, evaluate their exploitability, and then create and launch exploits for bugs found to be exploitable. Most efforts to secure software attempt either to eliminate bugs or to add mitigations that make exploitation more difficult. In this paper, we introduce a new defensive technique called chaff bugs, which instead target the bug discovery and exploit creation stages of this process. Rather than eliminating bugs, we instead add large numbers of bugs that are provably (but not obviously) non-exploitable. Attackers who attempt to find and exploit bugs in software will, with high probability, find an intentionally placed non-exploitable bug and waste precious resources in trying to build a working exploit.
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RE: A critical reflection on GDPR
@Gribnit aww hunnie, sounds like someone's annoyed?
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RE: Telcos can disable mobile tethering in the USA
@Lorne-Kates said in Telcos can disable mobile tethering in the USA:
I can't think of a single thing any stock, non-rooted Android I've ever used does better than the stock iPhones I've used.
Notifications
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RE: Telcos can disable mobile tethering in the USA
@blakeyrat xaade? Is that you??
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@HardwareGeek by the way I saw this at the Safeway, is there any explanation