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bean-weevil··on A cross-platform multi-target dotfiles manager written in Rust
Start with ls -a -w1 > .gitignore, then edit it and delete everything you want to track.
bean-weevil··on The Pentium contains a complicated circuit to multiply by three
This is covered in the article. See the section "Implementing a fast ×3 circuit with carry lookahead"
bean-weevil··on When Professor Bryant Lin got cancer, he taught a class about it
I'm starting to understand why people are willing to pay for the new york times.
bean-weevil··on LeetCode but You Can Force People to Code in Light Mode
Lmao. They need to call that out so the users know not to believe it
bean-weevil··on Pee If You Want to Go Deeper (2021)
> PEE SLOWLY

Ok, this has got me curious - is this an anatomical difference? I'm male and I find it very, very uncomfortable to pee slowly. Almost painful.

bean-weevil··on Making my debug build run 100x faster so that it is finally usable
Why not just compile that particular object with optimizations on and the rest of the file with optimizations off?
bean-weevil··on Amazon's killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
I recommend complaining to support if this ends up affecting you. It wouldn't surprise me if they can turn it back on for you (idk if it's likely, but I feel like it's worth a try.)
bean-weevil··on Reassessing Wayland
I also use sway. I'm considering switching to hyprland because it supports this.
bean-weevil··on I tasted Honda’s spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)
I can't believe you just called a blogpost about eating rodent repellent "nonfiction reading"!
bean-weevil··on Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster
Specifically, (log x)^2
bean-weevil··on Hytradboi 2025 Program
I can't take that logo seriously with that unholy union of a hard drive and a floppy
bean-weevil··on Waydroid – Android in a Linux container
Waydroid uses the host kernel.
bean-weevil··on [dead]
This is very, very bad, but not armaggeddon (probably) for most people. It does decrease our preparedness for armageddon-like disasters - imagine a more aggressive HIV-like disease, for example. If you're an academic or a federal employee, it might be the end of your career which is like a little mini apocalypse targeted only at specific walks of life.
bean-weevil··on Fossilised fish vomit found in Denmark from sixty-six million years ago
I'm guessing it's gonna be 4000
bean-weevil··on Analyzing the codebase of Caffeine, a high performance caching library
I went through some of the issues to see how aggressively they close them and found this gem: https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine/issues/1824#issuecomme...
bean-weevil··on Reverse-engineering and analysis of SanDisk High Endurance microSDXC card (2020)
As someone who's been in a position like this before, I suspect the author is angry at the manufacturers and feels they're not being honest by not providing proper specs. It's hard to spec out a project when no one will tell you exactly what their parts can do. It's like if you were trying to buy a light truck for work and intsead of telling you how much weight it could pull or how often maintenance would be needed, the manufacturer refused to say anything more than "it can tow a speedboat" and "it requires infrequent maintenance."
bean-weevil··on New California bill might block the "AI did it" defense in civil cases
I agree. If you hire someone, and they aggrieve someone in the course of their duties, your contractor is your agent and you're responsible for what they did. It makes no sense to treat AI any differently.
bean-weevil··on Island residents are still dealing with the fallout of exploded Starship
That last quote is saying that if tank hits the ground but it's not compromised enough for pressure to escape, disturbing it could cause it to release all that pressurized fuel at once ("explode"). Hopefully in the original context they explained that this is not very likely.
bean-weevil··on Show HN: Uscope, a new Linux debugger written from scratch
You probably need the fix from this page: https://github.com/rr-debugger/rr/wiki/Zen
bean-weevil··on We're bringing Pebble back
I interpreted it as an intentional insult :)
bean-weevil··on We're bringing Pebble back
My Garmin watch will only allow me to add emv cards.
bean-weevil··on Only person with functioning pig organ passes record 2 months
The article mentions in passing that the doctors were able to detect and avert an impending rejection. That's fascinating! I didn't know we could do that, and I wish they went more into detail about that.
bean-weevil··on McLarens and CarPlay
That specific problem sounds like you just have bad software in your car. My car takes a second for the infotainment system to boot, but it doesn't start blaring anything until it's ready to process input.
bean-weevil··on Susctl CVE-2024-54507: A particularly 'sus' sysctl in the XNU kernel
Yeah, you could probably contrive a situation where you get more interesting information (page numbers maybe?), but it definitely doesn't seem likely to me-
bean-weevil··on Every HTML Element
Looks to me like it's intended as a link with preview, and part of the idea is that user agents could do a sort of animated transition morphing the preview into the content of the destination page.
bean-weevil··on Susctl CVE-2024-54507: A particularly 'sus' sysctl in the XNU kernel
If the linker puts a pointer there, this would let you leak part of the pointer which could let you bypass kaslr. Not too likely for that to occur. If I were submitting this bug I would feel complete if they bought me a sandwich.
bean-weevil··on Hacking Subaru: Tracking and controlling cars via the admin panel
It may well be over the line, but it sounds like subaru is grateful for the report, so nothing will come of it. Definitely not a risk I would take.
bean-weevil··on Bunkers in Albania
I thought the article was entertaining because of how absurd and obviously bad the idea of constructing the bunkers was.
bean-weevil··on Nation-scale Matrix deployments will fail using the community version of Synapse
It continues to be developed by matrix https://github.com/element-hq/dendrite
bean-weevil··on Higher potassium intake at dinner linked to fewer sleep disturbances – study
I'm having trouble understanding point 2. What does it mean for one to lay on their belly while sitting? That doesn't seem possible.
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