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capitol_··on Shells are two things
It's clear that I should write more complaints about the lack of algebraic datatypes in bash.
capitol_··on Ain't it funny how the knight moves?
That was a very good visualization of the problem/solutions, thanks :)
capitol_··on Drug-resistant cases of gonorrhea detected in the US
How sure are we really about that?

There is an large amount of history backwards in time, and not a large amount of reliable documentation regarding the amount of partners people had.

capitol_··on Large language models as simulated economic agents (2022) [pdf]
> GPT3 was able to change its answers in believable ways depending on what demographic I instructed it to be.

Doesn't this just mean that your own preconceptions about those demographics matches the language models preconceptions? How would we know that is matches reality when presented with novel ideas/concepts that we want to get feedback on?

capitol_··on Global warming has begun to make Norway warmer and wetter (2019)
It's not very strange that the Norwegian state sponsored news outlet picked Norway to make their case.
capitol_··on Linux /proc/pid/stat parsing bugs
I agree, not supporting NUL is really a historical c-ism that we should get rid of.

/s

capitol_··on Binance outflows hit $6B as Mazars halts ‘proof of reserves’ work
You are missing the fact that stocks pays dividends, because stocks represent a piece of ownership of companies that generate profits.
capitol_··on Valve is paying open-source developers to work on Proton, Mesa, and more
This is one of the main reason to why I buy all my games on steam.
capitol_··on We found critical vulnerabilities in Hive Social
No, but it did recently change.
capitol_··on Tesla has used space characters in internal emails to identify leaks
It's also possible that he calculated the number of bytes, searched the logs, didn't find anything and then tweaked his numbers until something matched. And then fired that random person to make a statement and lied about how he found out who to fire.
capitol_··on But, aren't you folks web2?
I work at one of those "big corporations" and we buy our scam domain takedowns from a firm that specialises in that. It costs us €200 per domain.
capitol_··on Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel (2021)
This is obviously true, as you are stating an axiom. But what I think the grand parent is trying to say is that databases with PII can often be deanonymized by looking at the other data that isn't obviously PII.

Take for example a database over all mobile phone positions over time, this can be 'anonymized' by removing all connections from the phones to information on who owns the phones.

But it can still be trivially deanonymized by analyzing where the phones are at night and during office hours, not very many persons work in the same building and sleep in the same house.

capitol_··on CppCon 2022
There have been some very decisions taken by the CppCon organizers that I feel that I can't fully support.

Here is a thread about it: https://twitter.com/pati_gallardo/status/1501211140310904841

capitol_··on A pair of Linux kernel modules using Rust
But they didn't tell them that its not allowed, they just encouraged people to subscribe to this excellent publication.
capitol_··on I ran the worlds largest DDoS-for-Hire empire and Cloudflare helped
Here is an overview of some of the terror that was organized from kiwifarms:

https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/15657972205318144...

capitol_··on Ideological Bias in the Psychology of Sex and Gender [pdf]
Maybe because those facts have been used as arguments of oppression.
capitol_··on Electric vehicles are way more energy-efficient than internal combustion
In Oslo where there is a significant number of EVs (30.64% of all cars) there is also a lot of charging stations on the sidewalks, you simply park your car, plug it in, and activate the charging with an app on your phone.

See https://chargemap.com/cities/oslo-NO

It's not that hard to build infrastructure to support EVs, since electricity already is everywhere in a city.

capitol_··on Reddit’s database has two tables (2012)
This reminds me of when the /r/counting subreddit broke reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/counting/comments/ww3vr/i_am_the_be...

Their data model was not designed for very deep comment chains.

capitol_··on Things I've learned building a modern TUI framework
More and more terminal apps come with a --json parameter, so that their output can be easily machine parseable.

Cramming output intended for humans, and output intended for data transfer between processes into the same format makes the lives of both groups of recipients worse.

capitol_··on Watching an acquirer ruin your company
Of course it doesn't happen by magic, it takes dedication and hard work.
capitol_··on Is IPv6 faster than IPv4?
That was badly worded by me, I was only talking about the USA numbers, not the global ones.
capitol_··on Is IPv6 faster than IPv4?
As of I'm writing this google sees 50.03% of its traffic on v6. According to https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

Maybe dominant is the wrong word, large might be better.

capitol_··on Mundane chores are all the rage in gaming
Maybe you like factorio? That is surprisingly similar to software dev IMHO.
capitol_··on YC W22 Stablegains is being sued for losing $42M in funds from 4878 customers
No, it's even worse, it went from one idiot to a scam artist that will use the money to build more scams.
capitol_··on GitHub incident 2022-03-23
I think we pay about $10 per developer per month for github, and with about 1000 developers I would love that hourly rate.
capitol_··on Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe's largest
It is a political move to appear that crazy.

Russia is desperate to deter EU/USA from involving itself more in the war, and the only way it can do that is by treating to escalate to nuclear war.

But that threat is only effective if people actually think that you will do it, so they must play this so that they seem crazy enough to start a nuclear war.

It's a bit like someone blackmailing you for money for something illegal you did together, only way to get you to pay is to show that they are really willing to expose your secrets, even if they might be exposed also. And once you believe them and start paying they will continue to demand money from you.

capitol_··on The vicious cycle of food and sleep
Or maybe: people who get enough rest have more energy that can be spent on eating healthy.
capitol_··on This Year in Embedded Rust
No, it's on stable rust, maybe you got confused by the bug report talking about the nixos-unstable channel, that has nothing to do with the rust nightly builds, it's the version of nixos that is currently under development.

You can reproduce this yourself with:

  git clone https://github.com/cortex/ripasso.git
  cd ripasso
  git checkout release-0.5.1
  cargo build --locked
On my arch system this fails to build with the same errors as the bug report i got, and my rustc version is:

  $ rustc --version --verbose
  rustc 1.57.0 (f1edd0429 2021-11-29)
  binary: rustc
  commit-hash: f1edd0429582dd29cccacaf50fd134b05593bd9c
  commit-date: 2021-11-29
  host: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
  release: 1.57.0
  LLVM version: 13.0.0
capitol_··on This Year in Embedded Rust
It happened in the lexical-core crate somewhere in 1.5X. Here is a bug report I got about it with compiler errors listed: https://github.com/cortex/ripasso/issues/219
capitol_··on Security issue related to the NPM registry
It's not two if you need curl. Curl have a large number of dependencies, only difference is that it's visible with npm.
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