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badc0ffee··on Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless
But those have been around forever. The newer ones (.shop, .wiki, etc.) are >3 and it makes more sense to me they wouldn't be handled correctly.
badc0ffee··on Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless
Do you mean it was failing with a >3 character TLD?
badc0ffee··on The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation
I think this was true for MDA (text only), but the Hercules had 64k of video memory at B0000, the latter half of which would overlap with the CGA card, and also VGA's text mode.
badc0ffee··on A calculator that doesn't round
That looks like a link right back to this thread?
badc0ffee··on "Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?"
Perfectly formed fingers.
badc0ffee··on How we made hit video game Prince of Persia
The 8088 had an 8-bit data bus, but I don't think I would call it (or the XT) "8-bit" overall. By the same logic, a 386SX or 486SLC is "16-bit".
badc0ffee··on Petition to Withdraw Canada's Bill C-22
PEI gets 4 seats in the House of Commons.
badc0ffee··on Klondike Solitaire game for curses in 5k of C
Wouldn't XOR or something be much quicker than all the steps involved in subtraction?
badc0ffee··on Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
Ain't no way.
badc0ffee··on AI Subscriptions Are Dead
> 3. This is the beginning of the wealth gap expansion. Those that can afford to spend $10,000 a month on Fable 5 will build incredible products that eat up more and more of the economy. Those that can’t afford Fable 5 will have an insane disadvantage

Jensen Huang, is that you?

> 4. The government will need to step in eventually. There will be too much civil unrest. I hope the answer isn’t free money. That won’t do anything. I hope the answer is education/access to AI resources for ALL. Universal Basic Opportunity

> 5. You need to seriously reconsider where your money goes every month. If you are complaining about AI prices and in the back of your mind you know your skill set is becoming quickly irrelevant, all while spending money every month on Netflix, Xbox Live, Paramount +, drugs, DoorDash, Uber, and other things that bring nothing positive to your life, you are simply doing it wrong. AI is an investment in yourself. It’s an investment in your relevance to the global economy. You need to make sure you make that investment

Transportation? Entertainment? Waste of money. Buy some tokens.

badc0ffee··on Apple WWDC 2026 Livestream
Not every year, but yes.
badc0ffee··on Apple WWDC 2026
It's the retro Apple logo rainbow they've had since they opened Apple Park. It could be interpreted as a pride rainbow, but the colours are different and in a different order.
badc0ffee··on Apple WWDC 2026
IMO it's not fine on iOS. It has the same visual busyness as on macOS.
badc0ffee··on Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering
The cryptonomics con
badc0ffee··on Hacker News, Sans AI
The rsync thread has the requisite comment saying a Rust rewrite would fix everything.
badc0ffee··on Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe
The (misguided IMO) idea was that buying their gas and integrating them into world markets would strengthen ties and liberalize them in the medium term.

Nobody believes that anymore, post-2022.

badc0ffee··on GoPro warned it may not survive
Did more or less this with my mother-in-law and her Echo Dot.
badc0ffee··on Coreutils for Windows
At which layer? dir /w, for example, is never going to list the contents of \w.
badc0ffee··on It's Not Just X. It's Y
I've seen AI-generated API documentation do this: "Good for X and Y. Do NOT use for Z - use foo instead."

A human writer would add that sparingly, for cases where there might be some ambiguity. But the bot added that to basically every single API endpoint.

badc0ffee··on It's Not Just X. It's Y
I remember that being how you shut off turbo mode on your XT clone in DOS.
badc0ffee··on It's Not Just X. It's Y
Patrick Wardle, the guy behind Objective-See, had that style in the 2010s when I first started following his work. I actually liked it at the time.
badc0ffee··on Social Animus
Reading this feels like stepping into two different conversations already in progress.
badc0ffee··on DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode
Evidently you're not familiar with Swedish Lemon Angels.
badc0ffee··on Ferrari shares fall after launch of first EV as Jony Ive design proves divisive
I had some Skullcandy bluetooth headphones I liked, and when the foam started to go, I bought the new model of the same product. The new ones instantly disconnect when charging, so you can't listen with them wired to a charger/power bank. Why???
badc0ffee··on The worst job interview I ever had
> Even if you hire a cracked engineer, it’s probably not gonna be a good experience all-around if you can’t make a human connection.

"Cracked engineer" is throwing me, but maybe I've just never seen the word cracked used this way before. Should it be "crack", like "crack team"?

badc0ffee··on Ferrari Luce
> Just being a legendary brand like Ferrari doesn't mean that 100% of us understand 100% about 100% of your products.

This attitude probably alienates the next generation of potential Ferrari buyers, too.

badc0ffee··on Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore
You can't just buy a horse and park it in a garage. You need to exercise it, give it vet care, shoes, feed it, deal with poop, etc. Or, pay someone to do that.

Unless you live in a place with dirt roads, or really love horses, I think a beater Toyota would win in terms of time and cost.

badc0ffee··on Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore
I used to read a book or two when diving into a new language. But I think the last time I did that was in 2017 when I learned Swift. That was supplemented with a lot of Stackoverflow.

I think the next deep dive was in 2022, when I learned Go. But that was completely from online sources.

badc0ffee··on Show HN: Write your BPF programs in Go, not C
In eBPF-land you're going to be calling C functions in the kernel, and using (generally) C data types like structs and null-terminated strings. You can't do loops (loops are unrolled by the compiler), you can't do variadic functions, and you definitely can't take advantage of all the cool Go stuff like goroutines, select, context, etc.

I'm not really sure why you'd want to use this. If you're writing eBPF, you already need to know how to read C kernel source.

badc0ffee··on 1940 Air Terminal Museum Begins Liquidation
Usagi Electric is in Texas. He could make use of that thing.
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