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BeefySwain··on SpaceX Astronauts Begin Spacewalk, Putting New Spacesuits to Test
Please explain what you mean by this.
BeefySwain··on Htmx, Raku and Pico CSS
Check these out and see if they provide any insight for your specific issues :)

- https://htmx.org/essays/template-fragments/

- https://htmx.org/essays/10-tips-for-ssr-hda-apps/

BeefySwain··on Moral implications of being moderately successful computer scientist and a woman
When I read things like this it feels like reading fiction. Not because I don't believe it (I do), but because it is so far from my lived experience or anything I have perceived.

It makes me wonder if I just so happen to run in circles that are ostensibly devoid of misogyny or if I am blind to it.

BeefySwain··on I was asked to leave an event for female founders because I had my baby with me
> being a mother is literally the highest calling a woman can have

I'm assuming good faith, but this is a very problematic perspective.

* It's reductive, as not all women want to have children.

* It's exclusionary, as not all women can have children.

* It reinforces gender stereotypes.

* It's extremely commonly used to justify systemic discrimination.

BeefySwain··on Firewall rules: not as secure as you think
You mention a couple times that you can't give more details. Can you say why? NDA?
BeefySwain··on I lost my Google Play dev account
No problem! I wasn't sure if you had an account on here and wanted to spread the word. Hope this helps get you a resolution!
BeefySwain··on GitHub was down
Interesting that CoPilot is down as well. I would have assumed it was really only part of GitHub as a branding/marketing thing.
BeefySwain··on There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)
We never do learn what "Clay" actually was do we?
BeefySwain··on There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)
For those confused about SCP-4987, it refers to https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/where-have-you-been-all-my-life... and not https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4987

Not sure if there was (is?) ever a true SCP article for it.

BeefySwain··on How to Get or Create in PostgreSQL
What transaction mode would you need to make this safe? Can you explain further?
BeefySwain··on Show HN: Create diagrams of complex data flows in software systems
I'd love to see more demos
BeefySwain··on Ubuntu Security Updates Are a Confusing Mess
> ...what are my options? > ...Maybe it is time to go back to Debian, as they seem to release these fixes to their users?

Curious if this would actually be a solution. They state that fixes in Debian are down-streamed regardless of support, so if this fix wasn't down-streamed, then why would it be in Debian ?

BeefySwain··on Bytecode Breakdown: Unraveling Factorio's Lua Security Flaws
Unless I missed it (I admit I skimmed towards the end) The author does not discuss at all the actual remediation that was taken. I would love to hear more about that.
BeefySwain··on Show HN: I built a JavaScript-powered flipdisc display
How exactly did the author get the panels? I've looked into stuff like this before and it's basically impossible to source outside of things like eBay. Unless you're willing to buy industrial quantities at industrial prices.

How did they buy them, and for how much?

BeefySwain··on The Linux Kernel, CDDL and Related Issues (2016)
It's been almost a decade since Ubuntu started shipping ZFS. I recall at the time that there was much speculation about what the legal implications of this would be. I never really heard much more than that though. Curious if anyone is aware of anything?
BeefySwain··on NLRB judge declares non-compete clause is an unfair labor practice
> Salting is protected activity, lying about your employment history to salt is also protected activity, and firing someone for salting is an unfair labor practice.

Huh... TIL

BeefySwain··on Syzygy: An open standard for low cost, compact and high-performance peripherals
I may be way off here, but doesn't USB do what you want? Like if I have a Teensy and I want to plug a USB device into it, isn't that relatively simple? And fast?
BeefySwain··on Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it
Return it to an Apple store? Apple knows who to contact.
BeefySwain··on What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs
You find Mistral to be the best "open"/local model? Or you find it to be the best model period?
BeefySwain··on Reclaiming IPv4 Class E's 240.0.0.0/4
I am trying to parse what this means, can someone ELI5?
BeefySwain··on Self-hosted offline transcription and diarization service with LLM summary
I was able to build something that does all this, more or less, in a couple weeks. It works really well.

I wanted to be able to transcribe and diarize in realtime though, which is much harder. Didn't manage to make that happen.

BeefySwain··on More Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time (2012)
I really wish that these lists included explanations for why they are incorrect, or at least links to resources accordingly.
BeefySwain··on After you die, your Steam games will be stuck in legal limbo
The lack of consumer awareness around the fact that there is nothing akin to the first sale doctrine for "digital media" (licensing sans physical media) is honestly surprising to me. I guess it's only been a decade or two of exposure for most people, but still.

Even physical media/first sale doesn't really protect all that much anymore, now that license keys tend to be single use and you have to pay to get another one. If you don't know what I'm talking about, try to buy a used CoD game and play it online. You will likely have to pay Activision more than twice what you payed GameStop.

The irony is that all this means "buying" ≠ "owning", yet:

- piracy is widely considered "theft"

- "buying" confers almost no rights. If I pay today, and they shut down the servers tomorrow, that's too bad. Get banned? No due process or refund; should have read the eula. Sony pulls the movie's license from the platform? Here is a $1 credit, you are welcome.

Not sure if this is a boiling frog scenario, a consumer ignorance issue, or if if most people just have bigger concerns than what happens to their movies when a licensing deal ends or they die.

BeefySwain··on Tmux is worse-is-better
Anyone know of a terminal for Linux with this feature?
BeefySwain··on SpaceX has grown to 87% of the tonnage to orbit
I understand your sentiment, but honestly at this point probably you should hope that Elon stays focused on culture wars, Xitter, and Tesla and leaves SpaceX alone.
BeefySwain··on The notifier pattern for applications that use Postgres
I was actually asking about the automatic timed re-license to Apache :)
BeefySwain··on The notifier pattern for applications that use Postgres
I love this concept. Did you all come up with this or is there prior art? Is there a name for this concept?
BeefySwain··on Bollards: Why and What
Only the sidewalks next to roads.
BeefySwain··on Building a full Django project, starting with a single file
Is this something you think you would ever come back to?
BeefySwain··on Building a full Django project, starting with a single file
I would be interested to hear your thoughts on why this never ended up going anywhere? (Or did it go somewhere ?)

As a Django user that shares your frustrations with settings.py, I wish this had panned out.

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