drannex

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"Be excellent to each other, and party on dudes"

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Comment · 3 days ago
Oh. This is going to affect me more than or nearly as hard as George Carlin passing back in '08 did. This is a horrible year.
Comment · 10 days ago
It's a padlock with a code. The manufacturer makes the padlock with a specially made pin, so you can lock your front gate, and feel secure.

eMudhra sent you a padlock that had the code "4815" promising no one has ever used it or would be able to guess it, but all anyone really needed to try to get in is set the first number to "4" and ignore the rest.

It's not entirely accurate, but its accurate enough for them to get.

Comment · 13 days ago
Oh this is incredible.. HaLow has been one of my favorite new wireless tech implementations, and I feel almost like a preacher with how much I have been pushing the gospel to the people around me for the last ~2 years. being introduced into the kernel should really help integration and usage. I am just hoping chips start being produced by more than one (?) company eventually for more market capture. Any thoughts on that front?
Comment · 1 month ago
Using a competitors hammer to make your own hammer is a very valid approach. That's just "free-market" capitalism for you.
Comment · 1 month ago
Screen size would have always been big, absent production costs and marketing price. Over time display tech just got better and cheaper to finally do it.
Comment · 1 month ago
Echo chamber strikes again, because I see none of that, just love for knowledge, history, and science.
Comment · 2 months ago
Kind of shocked there's not any mention about tumblr in the article, there is an entire community of people who adore powerlines, get tattoos, talk about their aesthetic values, it's an entire subculture that I love following.
Comment · 2 months ago
To be fair, Alibaba IS a tech giant, one of the biggest in fact.

They are just giving sleepless nights to the western tech giants.

Comment · 2 months ago
Interesting, I found the Rust code _far_ more readable.
Comment · 2 months ago
I don't really get an AI smell on this, in fact I see multiple parts that an AI would have corrected - grammatical issues, personal writing quirks, etc.

Writing similar to this: is quite a normal way of writing for technical articles - especially when you are trying to make the point clear and well organized.

Comment · 2 months ago
Really looking forward to that new Async system, especially when reading/querying against thousands of parquet files. This is going to monumentally affect me and my work - I have to query against millions of massive parquet files and the speed has already been rather wonderful, but if those metrics are to be even 100% in range, this is going to make life so much better.

DuckDB is seriously an incredible utility.

Comment · 2 months ago
Racket may be significant faster than many, esp since transitioning to Chez, but its still very hard/problematic to compile to a binary, and if wrapped into a binary still very bloated in size.

FWIW: I enjoy working with Gambit, especially since it can compile to C and standalone binaries and also scores even higher than Racket.

Comment · 3 months ago
I read through the page, and thought it was precisely what it needed. It very adequately described its usage, differences, and it's key points.

This isn't a blog post, this is a homepage, and as a homepage it is selling its idea to its specific audience, which is developers who use WordPress as a CMS and deplore the rest of the tedious stack. Even if it's AI generated, its obviously been human-edited rather well.

OP, I thought it was well-done, great work, makes sense, I'll have to dig through the changes to see if its worthwhile, but I love the concept and limited attack vector size (a lot of WP security bugs are from their parsers and server-side rendering).

Comment · 3 months ago
This is wonderful - might even be exactly what one of my projects needs to use as a dependency.

In the README it mentions that it puts the dev environment in a filesystem jail, but how are you able to use your hosts bins without leaking access to the rest of the system? Or is that just an assumed liability?

Comment · 3 months ago
> I think the issue here is that you might be confusing people who can stand up for themselves, don’t bullshit, and don’t like to put up with bullshit with assholes.

You are correct - looks like we had two alternative definitions, we agree with each other here! I categorize your definition of assholes as 'dicks', that makes sense.

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