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cjones26··on Generating music in the waveform domain (2020)
Absolutely incredible: https://app.suno.ai/song/62ebaa5c-1651-430a-a034-ae2c75e61c2...
cjones26··on Ask HN: Where can you apply for a programming job when you are a Class A asshole
So where do you work now?
cjones26··on HiveNightmare a.k.a. SeriousSAM – anybody can read the registry in Windows 10
Agreed. The article also does not seem to explain it. From what I understood the SAM only stores encrypted password hashes, nothing that could be readily exploited for local privilege escalation.
cjones26··on Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland
National Geographic has been driving me crazy with this email popup. I won't be giving them my email, so sadly I will not be reading any National Geographic articles.
cjones26··on Low Earth Orbit Visualization
I have also seen something similar at Surfside Beach, SC. I was in a hot tub, star gazing, and watched what I thought to be a satellite actually intersect another object and make a sharp 90 degree turn before disappearing. Still no idea what it was to this day!
cjones26··on NES.css – NES-Style CSS Framework
I was thinking SNES or GameBoy!
cjones26··on Airbnb to Block and Cancel D.C. Reservations During Inauguration
I'm not going to argue with you as you seem to have a completely fixed viewpoint, which I am assume no amount of evidence will shake. You can do the research yourself if you are so inclined. You reference the dismissed court cases, as if courts solely prove or disprove the validity of information--regardless, I'll leave you with this:

"Republicans argue that since their observers couldn’t watch the vote count, they can’t provide that evidence and have asked for discovery. Still, while the courts have agreed that irregularities have occurred, they weren’t willing to grant discovery unless Republicans first present enough evidence of fraud to overturn the election. Republicans thus faced a kind of Catch 22."

Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3756988

cjones26··on BioNTech CEO applies Covid-19 vaccine's mRNA tech to multiple sclerosis
I read somewhere recently that CRISPR was actually causing far more accidental mutations than anticipated. Apologies I do not have the source handy, though Google should turn up some information.
cjones26··on Is Stencil a Better React?
It's impossible to mock functions when testing class-based components if you utilize ES6 arrow functions.

"Jest can only mock the structure of objects that are present at require time. It does it by reflection (not by analysis), which means that properties that get added by the constructor cannot be mocked. It's important to understand though that a fat-arrow assignment in a class in JS is not a class method; it's a class property holding a reference to a function.

My suggestion to that would be that you change the fat arrow assignments to standard methods and bind them in the constructor. That way they will be Jest aware. Otherwise I'm afraid there's not much we can do here."

See: https://github.com/facebook/jest/issues/6065

cjones26··on Artist creates nanosculptures smaller than a human hair (2014)
This is incredibly cool!
cjones26··on EXoDOS: Collecting every game developed for DOS from original media
It's missing "Pickle Wars"!
cjones26··on Darling: macOS Translation Layer for Linux
That really depends on the distro. It sounds like you're also talking about how Linux was 10 years ago. I've run Mint for the past decade and I personally consider it a fully featured OS which does everything I need it to do. I admit there is some inconsistency in GUIs depending of the software which you use, though that is simply the nature of the beast. The reason Mac is so consistent is simply due to the fact that you're in a walled garden which Apple fully controls.
cjones26··on Windows XP source code has leaked
I wonder how this will affect other projects, such as ReactOS and Wine. Exciting.
cjones26··on Soviet Defector Yuri Bezmenov Explains Ideological Subversion
I think everyone should watch this as it really is reflected in what's occurring today.
cjones26··on 'Wild West' mentality lingers in modern populations of US mountain regions
I was wondering the same thing.
cjones26··on Why do U.S. coins seem to be in short supply?
Not anymore since many got sued a few years ago for being inaccurate or simply costing too much to maintain. Your bank should provide coin sleeves for free, though rolling them manually can be a hassle.

See here for more info: https://www.mybanktracker.com/news/coin-counting-machines-ba...

cjones26··on PurritoBin: Ultra fast, minimalistic, encrypted command line paste-bin
What's a good alternative?
cjones26··on Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse
When someone disagrees with you
cjones26··on Deep JavaScript: Theory and Techniques
Though I recommend to my team to avoid mutation if at all possible, there are times which I have found immer absolutely invaluable. Try spreading out an object 15 levels deep to replace a single property value and you'll catch my drift.
cjones26··on Diluting blood plasma rejuvenates tissue, reverses aging in mice
Make bloodletting trendy again!
cjones26··on Snow Crash: HBO Max adaptation of Neal Stephenson's 1992 cyberpunk novel
Now how about The Diamond Age!
cjones26··on Google interviewing process for software developer role in 2020
>some hazing interview process

I'm sorry, but this made me laugh quite a bit

cjones26··on Lime shuts in 12 markets, lays off around 100
I will no longer give Lime any business after I hopped on a scooter with 30% battery and it died within less than 5 minutes. I was late for work, and my only option was to unlock another Lime scooter after the first died, costing me extra $ for the unlock. I communicated this to their support team and they refused to give me a refund, telling me that I should check the battery life before getting on a scooter (shouldn't 30% enough to go 1.5 miles?)...I expressed my frustration to the survey following up the support and still no refund for the unlock fee. It may seem silly, but that was the straw that broke the camel's back and I uninstalled the app.
cjones26··on The Firefox UI Is Now Built with Web Components
Well I don't think that could technically be considered a race condition, as it's clearly a design problem in the code causing what would appear to be a "pseudo" race condition.
cjones26··on The Firefox UI Is Now Built with Web Components
What? JavaScript is a single threaded language...
cjones26··on Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator
When are we going to see unlimited command line buffers :)?
cjones26··on Serious Chrome zero-day
Which is a massive security issue in itself--Electron documentation even warns you about this.