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cevn

1,254 karma · joined August 12, 2013

Working professional for 10+ years

Current favorite language is Rust.

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cevn··on String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof
Can't black holes explain Dark Energy? Supposedly there was an experiment showing Black Holes are growing faster than expected. If this is because they are tied to the expansion of the universe (univ. expands -> mass grows), and that tie goes both ways (mass grows -> universe expands), boom, dark energy. I also think that inside the black holes they have their own universes which are expanding (and that we're probably inside one too). If this expansion exerts a pressure on the event horizon which transfers out, it still lines up.
cevn··on Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation
I was ready to be mad in the comments, now I'm mad but in the other direction.
cevn··on Valorant's 128-Tick Servers (2020)
Apex being 20 explains so much about that game. Half the time I would be firing right on target and watch my shots go thru
cevn··on Claude Code 2.0
I had a lot of fun making 'tools' like this, but once I settled into a complicated problem (networking in a multiplayer game), it has become frustrating to watch Claude give back control to me without accomplishing anything, over and over again. I think I need to start using the SDK in order to force it to its job.
cevn··on US High school students' scores fall in reading and math
Wow, I spent 90% of my free time as a kid in the school library. Reading this hurts. At least they are protecting them from using their brain
cevn··on Knuth on ChatGPT (2023)
Try using it to do stuff with dnf (fedora). It makes hallucination after hallucination for one of most commonly used package managers. I would say for linux stuff I've asked 30 or so questions with 0% success rate.
cevn··on Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops
Lol. I'm unplugging and re plugging my HDMI display for like 3 years now. Thanks Apple for being so stupid that you can't even get external displays to work properly
cevn··on Speeding up my ZSH shell
Fish school represent
cevn··on A toy RTOS inside Super Mario Bros. using emulator save states
Umm, that's brilliant. Is this technique employed in all modern emulators or a recent thing?
cevn··on The cryptography behind passkeys
I switched last month and it is basically the exact same flow except.. you don't have to pay due to self hosting.
cevn··on What’s new in Swift 6.2
Lmao!! Thank you for that laugh.
cevn··on Failed Soviet Venus lander Kosmos 482 crashes to Earth after 53 years in orbit
I think Starcraft has it as Sunken Colony so..
cevn··on What’s new in Swift 6.2
I have a good bug right now. My wife bought a Macbook Air. I use High DPI and she does not. It is impossible to switch between users in this situation, one of the core functionalities of the computer is just broken. Makes me wonder if anyone at Apple uses these computers..
cevn··on Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no
Thank you, I was just wondering about this one.
cevn··on Uncovering the mechanics of The Games: Winter Challenge
I loaded this up recently on Genesis and it actually blew my mind how smooth the animations were for the 'parkour', to find out it was all mo-capped and faithfully recreated into pixels. I had no idea people were doing this in the 80's.
cevn··on A look at Firefox forks
Perfect.. the real hacks always in the comments!
cevn··on Tesla Recalls over 376K Vehicles
Did you read the second line? "Tesla put out an over-the-air software update for the issue"
cevn··on TikTok tells staff impacted by wildfires to use sick hours if they can't work
> Additionally, after the story was published, TikTok enabled a feature that now alerts everyone in a company-wide Lark channel — a Slack competitor from TikTok parent ByteDance — when a screenshot is taken.)

Luckily their employees don't have phones.

cevn··on Ghostty 1.0
It took me all of 30 seconds to get the Lua config to compile from copy pasting the documentation..
cevn··on Firenvim – Turn the browser into a Neovim client
Some website breaks the browser sandbox and gains access to your local neovim instance.. RCE
cevn··on 'I'm running a Mud so I can learn C programming ' (1993)
Is that a wheel of time MUD? I feel like I missed out on something amazing…
cevn··on Seer: A GUI front end to GDB for Linux
In Jetbrains you can also do a Conditional breakpoint to active only if i=100 or something.
cevn··on Apex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linux
Nice, another game I can uninstall..
cevn··on Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence
Same here. Crazy how common this is but maybe not because of the incentive structures.
cevn··on Electric vehicle battery prices are expected to fall almost 50% by 2026
This has been changing since Musk fired the supercharger team. I found one location where the entire set was nonfunctional and no indication in the car app.
cevn··on Determinism in League of Legends: Implementation (2017)
I guess I'm unintentionally supporting them, because Riot removed Arena last week. That was the only game type I had the stomach to play, I'm tired of whacking minions.
cevn··on Nova by Panic: Native Mac code editor
I use zed but I had to switch to the preview because the regular has an awful bug where the fuzzy file finder immediately crashes the app. I thought there would be less of this in Rust.
cevn··on Discord Reduced WebSocket Traffic by 40%
Using Vencord on Linux it opens practically instantly and has a superior feature set..
cevn··on Techniques I use to create a great user experience for shell scripts
In ruby you can just call out to the shell with backticks.

Like.

    myvar = `mycommand | sed 's/ugly/beautiful/g' | awk -F: '{print $2,$4}' 1> something.report 2> err.log`
That way, if something is easier in Ruby you do it in ruby, if something is easier in shell, you can just pull its output into a variable.. I avoid 99% of shell scripting this way.
cevn··on COSMIC Alpha Released
Ubuntu does not keep up, speaking from experience.
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