emmelaich

8,284 karma · joined September 10, 2009

I'm a beardless unix greybeard who loves dabbling in new computer languages.

I'm also fascinated in the psychology of belief.

Philosophically a skeptic, but I don't attend their services :-)

email is my hn username at <popularprivatemailservice>.me

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emmelaichon Programming Still Sucks

And yet I'm sure that greed is pretty much a constant. The opportunities to exploit that greed may change.

emmelaichon Programming Still Sucks

That's disputed. Progress was uneven and lagged a little, but by many standards (height, mortality) quality of life increased for many from the start of the industrial revolution.

emmelaichon ShinyHunters claims data theft from 8,800 schools (Instructure/Canvas)

Also discussions between students and teaching staff.

emmelaichon Clarification on the Notepad++ Trademark Issue

The difference is intent. It will deceive people whether or not the author's intent is deception.

emmelaichon Let's Buy Spirit Air

"Perfect efficiency comes at the point of collapse"

Don't know where I read that, but it seems apropos.

emmelaichon Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024)

Tar on linux will. e.g. selinux attrs and other xattrs.

Open question, is it worth attempting to main these semantics between mac and linux.

emmelaichon Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024)

OTOH, If you want the information contained in those files, where else would you save it?

emmelaichon How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?

Nah, just locally on my macair.

TBF, I only got to the point that using device=mps_device didn't fail. I used Sonoma at the time and the image for the vm was ghcr.io/cirruslabs/macos-sequoia-xcode:16.2-beta-3. Python 3.12, as well, because torch didn't work with later versions.

   import torch
   mps_device = torch.device("mps")
   print('device is', mps_device)
   x = torch.ones(1, device=mps_device)
   print(x)

emmelaichon How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?

I got torch to run in a Cirruslabs Tart instance.

emmelaichon Recovering files from beyond the grave using PhotoRec

Photorec is great and has improved over the years; it did way better in 2010s than it had done in the early 2000s. (I have a dd image of a corrupt disk of baby photos.)

This reminds me to try it again.

emmelaichon I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their fake honeypot

Is a fake honeypot ... real?

Is een nep-honeypot ... echt?

Forgive my pedantry.

emmelaichon How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis [video]

emmelaichon Bugs Rust won't catch

Rather, I think that using a functional safe language tricks people into thinking that the data it deals with is stateless. Whereas many many things change in operating systems all the time.

Until we have a filesystem that can present a snapshot, everything has to checked all the time.

i.e. we need an API which gives input -> good result or failure. Not input -> good result or failure or error.

emmelaichon Quirks of Human Anatomy

Let me defend ear twitching. It's a subtle way of communication for those of us so blessed with the ability.

emmelaichon MoQ Boy

I was taught it's an alternative "spelling" of cat.

   M
   O
   Q

emmelaichon America's Geothermal Breakthrough

But the energy in boiling isopentane would be less right?

emmelaichon Why I Write (1946)

About the "worst" thing I've read about Orwell was that he was a relentless moralist and didn't know how to have fun. Sorta the opposite of P.G.Wodehouse.

Which ... I'm OK with. I've read most of his work too. Of course 1984 and Animal Farm are the best but Road to Wigan Pier and Down and Out in Paris and London are good too.

(I also love Wodehouse)

emmelaichon Fundamental Theorem of Calculus

Inspection suggests "https://online-fonts.com/fonts/alegreya"

emmelaichon Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players

More details and videos at https://ace.ai.sony/

emmelaichon Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux

You could also use the inbuilt substitution mechanism:

    $ parameter='fisholdbits'
    $ echo ${parameter/old/new}
    fishnewbits

emmelaichon Laws of Software Engineering

Not sure that Linus would actually agree with Linus' law. So it's a bad name. Call it the ESR observation or something else.

Separately, I'd add Rust's API design principles, though it's more of a adjunct with things in common. https://gist.github.com/mjball/9cd028ac793ae8b351df1379f1e72...

emmelaichon A. J. Ayer – ‘What I Saw When I Was Dead’ (1988)

Do you frequently experience and remember dreams?

emmelaichon Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert

Or jungle ants...

"Commissioner: Leiningen, you're up against a monster twenty miles long and two miles wide... forty square miles of agonizing death! You can't stop it!"

-- quote from The Naked Jungle.

Trivia - I believe this is from where Clojure got their build tool name.

emmelaichon Everything we like is a psyop?

https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

emmelaichon Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data

> "the right of the people peaceably to assemble"

"Peaceably" is important. If you think the pro-Palestinian protests on campus are peaceful, try wearing a yarmulke and walking anywhere near them. Or anywhere on many campuses, on any day, protest on-going or not.

emmelaichon Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data

I suspect Proton are subject to the same laws as Google.

emmelaichon Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data

Depends what the consequences are, obviously.

emmelaichon Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data

He was banned from the Cornell campus. His identity is far from a secret.

emmelaichon Pijul a FOSS distributed version control system

> Git can checkout only a set of files or directories

How do you do this? With submodules / subtrees?

emmelaichon LittleSnitch for Linux

Thanks very much for your reply.