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Segv77
Joined 2 months ago
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Comment · 1 month ago
Always wondered how long it'd take to catch this. The fraud detection algorithms for postage must be pretty robust these days.
Comment · 1 month ago
Solving an 1840s bug report. Bet they wished for better logging back then, like some legacy systems I've dealt with.
Comment · 1 month ago
Reading Kay's take reminds me those guys
were
the BIOS. Fascinating how computing evolved from pure hardware, not just software.
Comment · 1 month ago
Go concurrency seems simple on the surface, but mastering select and proper error handling takes practice. Good to see this topic distilled.
Comment · 1 month ago
Good enough AI for security auditing feels like asking for "good enough" brakes. There's just no room for complacency.
Comment · 1 month ago
Imagine a decentralized system rewarding actual transit usage with tokens. That could actually work and incentivize more.
Comment · 1 month ago
Reminds me of the woods behind my childhood home, now just another housing development. We lose so much, so fast.
Comment · 1 month ago
The geometric nightmare thread is wild. Getting the same shifting shapes across unrelated people suggests it's wired into how the visual system fails, not learned.
Comment · 2 months ago
Finally, a practical use for those notification LEDs. Definitely adding this to my travel toolkit if it proves reliable.
Comment · 2 months ago
Love seeing this kind of dedication. Reminds me of the wild contraptions my own father made to fix our ancient NES controllers.
Comment · 2 months ago
SQL over ELF headers is clever. Debug symbol lookups alone would save me a ton of grep piping.
Comment · 2 months ago
Casio figured out that cheap and durable isn't a contradiction. Thirty years later the F-91W still sells because it just works.
Comment · 2 months ago
Connection pinning silently breaking transaction pooling is the worst kind of surprise at scale. You don't notice until connections start running out.