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majou··on How to quit cars
My car was $1,500 and my insurance is ~$35. I'm lucky enough to be able to bother mechanics to teach me repairs though.
majou··on Are We Sixel Yet
how many cat pictures do you have for this to work?
majou··on Gandalf – Game to make an LLM reveal a secret password
Vous avez trahi ses instructions...
majou··on Don't believe the hype: why ChatGPT is not the “holy grail” of AI research
In causal speech confidence in an answer is communicated; though maybe just as a pause, or even through tone.

Not the sort of data we'll have crop up in CommonCrawl.

majou··on Cantonese Font with Pronunciation
Japanese has two tones, which is something I didn't know until recently.
majou··on Hacker News Highlights
Huh, what's the difference between /{top,best}comments?
majou··on James Webb Space Telescope detects water vapor around alien planet
It could be that they didn't observe it long enough to get enough data to do the checks tho, no?
majou··on JavaScript private class fields considered harmful

  let m = obj.method
  let res = m(arg)
majou··on XTS-210 25hp rotary engine; 1/5th size/weight of diesel piston engines
How much does that metric matter? Especially in the context of hybrids with regenerative braking.

For comparison a Model S weighs over 4,500 lbs.

majou··on Why I'm no longer writing stories with AI
Mobile Garage Band is actually pretty good from what I can tell, for an example.
majou··on As I am currently in a war zone, I don't have many options for cabling
Is it not "be privileged" or to "have privileges"? It's not as though it were quantifiable—"privilege checks" (the decade old boogeymeme) notwithstanding.
majou··on Inkscape is hiring: Accelerating the GTK4 migration
Still has the referrer troll.
majou··on The Soul of an Old Machine
I'm curious why you specified IRL.
majou··on This website is solar powered and running on a Raspberry Pi-like computer
The Yukon recently moved to MST without DST (to ditch DST)
majou··on A number system invented by Inuit schoolchildren
The one time I read the article before the comments...
majou··on Regional Sayings: Say These 9 Words and We'll Tell You Where You Grew Up
That's Newphie exclusive innit?
majou··on Ask HN: Science Fiction books that predict where ChatGPT might lead us?
Chobits.
majou··on Show HN: Lunette – A word processor designed around writing, not formatting
There seems to be a typo on the landing screenshot: lunettee instead of lunette.

Looks neat tho.

majou··on ChatGPT Plugins
Except the one that killed Nujabes.
majou··on Spelunking Apple’s Open Source
My '08 MacBook has calculations via Spotlight.

Not to mention the screenshot tool (including Command-Shift-4, Spacebar) that works immediately upon keypress unlike the new Windows built-in screenshotter. Of which it doesn't hide its own UI properly and may leave a small 1-pixel bar at the top of your screenshot! It's insane how poorly crafted Windows is, and yet it flourishes.

majou··on OpenAI is now everything it promised not to be: closed-source and for-profit
The CEO declared sleep their competitor.
majou··on Gut microbes could drive brain disorders
Read that as "Eat, Pray similarly."
majou··on Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone
You're mistaken; the iPhone 5s--10 years old come Autumn--received a security update on January 23rd (iOS 12.5.7).

As the first 64-bit phone and the first phone with a proper Secure Enclave (TPM+biometric auth) it's received a lot of love from Apple.

majou··on In Praise of Alpine and APK
Here you're electing to remain on the happy but bloated path.

However sometimes it may be worth to venture out a bit in exchange for reducing code, or for using code that aligns more with your philosophies.

majou··on My favourite 3 lines of CSS
43ms is quite a slowdown isn't it? Handful of joules at least.
majou··on The Philosophy of Computer Science
FWIW, Peter Naur (N of BNF) said CS ought have been named Datalogy.
majou··on Password protect a static HTML page
Sounds above my (current) head.

Here I thought GCM was some modern foolproof/footgunless design.

majou··on Password protect a static HTML page
From what I shallowly researched; GCM's nonce seems limited to 12 bytes by convention only. That nonce reuse is so fatal seems absurd to me.

Would "salting" the key safely tackle the problem?

Put explicitly;

  send <- nonce || salt || ciphertext
  recv -> decrypt(ciphertext, nonce, pbkdf(pass) || salt)
[edit: apply salt outside of the kdf]
majou··on Why is Rosetta 2 fast?
The transparent APFS migration was one heck of a feat.
majou··on You Might Also Like
Consider using ifuse from https://libimobiledevice.org/ to access the SQLite database with all your Photos metadata.
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