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Comment · 10 months ago
I once had a vexing problem with my old Intel MacBook — macOS failed to boot, but Windows seemed totally normal. Can't possibly be a hardware failure, right? The symptoms disappeared after replacing the SATA cable!
Comment · 10 months ago
I'm not sure how impressed I should feel about saving 45 MiB these days.
Comment · 10 months ago
Confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity :)
Comment · 10 months ago
I would log a warning when an attempt fails, and an error when the final attempt fails.
Comment · 11 months ago
I shudder to think what capability the execute bit would grant.
Comment · 1 year ago
It would be more plausibly practical if GHC could now target wasm, but this announcement is actually about being able to run the compiler itself in the browser.
Comment · 1 year ago
He gone doofed.
Comment · 1 year ago
I have burned git into my brain, so it's no longer hard to me. OTOH, I only pull out jq once every six months or so, and I just barely scrape by every time.
Comment · 1 year ago
> More energy from the digestive system to power a bigger GPU.

Is GPU already the metaphor du jour? I thought we were still aboard the steam engine ;)

Comment · 1 year ago
As demonstrated in the article, you can compute clamp(x, min, max) with straight-line code.
Comment · 1 year ago
I also do this sort of restless refactoring. I find interacting with a new codebase is a kind of brain hack that (subjectively) helps me get up to speed faster.
Comment · 1 year ago
Hmm, not on iOS Safari.
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Comment · 1 year ago
Do phones have trusted execution environments? I suppose you could require the recipient provide attestation that it's running the expected binary. Of course, this is pointless if the hardware manufacturer shares their root keys with the government.

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