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mrunkel

1,374 karma · joined April 4, 2017

just some guy with some weird opinions

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mrunkel··on As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program
It’s in TFA, but the post title is without the “very”
mrunkel··on Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters
Sure, so now because kids are dicks, I shouldn't be able to tell what's a iMessage and what is an SMS?
mrunkel··on California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy
What is dark about the best time to get high?
mrunkel··on Git commands I run before reading any code
Code merges are made by reviewers in my org, not by the author.

Spend time educating your team about `git commit --amend` and `git push --force` on their own branches and you don't have to see any of that ugliness.

mrunkel··on Am I German or Autistic?
So, why no German language version?

I am convinced that the majority of Germans are on the spectrum. What other country builds viewing platforms for construction sites?

mrunkel··on Introduction to reverse-engineering vintage synth firmware
I just wanted to say thank you. This is a great read.
mrunkel··on Cinematography of “Andor”
Check out the Kingdom Come Deliverance series.

Sure, you'll be a badass at the end, but you're going to earn it. :)

mrunkel··on How a single line of code could brick your iPhone
> Requiring a device erase isn't a full brick, no, but it's still pretty serious.

He totally murdered that guy!

What? Why would you say murdered, he only gave him a black eye?

I know, but that's still pretty serious.

mrunkel··on The order of files in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/ matters
RTFM

No tool can protect you from your own assumptions about how said tool works.

mrunkel··on When your last name is Null, nothing works
I tested "all supported" but this is explicitly for 5:

https://3v4l.org/cFc5I#v5.4.45

mrunkel··on When your last name is Null, nothing works
I can confirm that PHP doesn't have this problem.

<?php

if ("null" == null) { echo "true"; } else { echo "false"; }

prints "false"

mrunkel··on It's not a crime if we do it with an app
No, the article says that the suppliers send data to a central service, which then tells them the optimal price, this service bases this price based on data sent by all other suppliers, and presumably gives all suppliers the same price.
mrunkel··on The Influence of Bell Labs
As far as I know, Mr. Zuckerberg still owns a controlling interest in Meta Platforms.

Since he has 57% of the votes, he can tell everyone to pound sand.

mrunkel··on California's most neglected group of students: the gifted ones
Don't bother Mark, he's working on chewing crayons.
mrunkel··on DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing
What exactly do you mean by "can't do HD?"

I can set my display to 1728x1080. That's HD.

I can also output my Mac to an HD TV, Projector, etc. And I have the notch on my MacBook Pro.

Do you have some other definition of HD that I'm not understanding?

mrunkel··on Fixing a bug in Google Chrome as a first-time contributor
I think they mean that the change is at the end of the first word in the Variable. i.e, Worker vs. Worklet instead of Worker vs. TinyWorker?

Doesn't make too much sense to me, but I think that's what they are saying.

mrunkel··on Apple delays highly anticipated device due to 'technical challenges'
Is this the best headline for this? Seems a little clickbaity
mrunkel··on Ryanair – when every page is a dark pattern
The point still stands. A bus is pretty much a FILO queue, so the order inverts when they climb in the Bus.
mrunkel··on Refined GitHub: GitHub a lot and notice many annoyances we'd like to fix
Maybe add a “We use” to the title?
mrunkel··on TinyLetter shut down by Mailchimp, so I built the letterdrop
That doesn't say what you think it does.

Quoting the judgement: "only works created by a human can be copyrighted under United States law, which excludes photographs and artwork created by animals or by machines without human intervention"

Clearly, the machine in question is responding to human prompts. The LLM didn't create this program on its own.

So I think these are still open issues.

mrunkel··on Why does current flow the opposite way from the electrons?
In German we use “Akku” which is short for “Akkumulator” for rechargeable batteries.
mrunkel··on How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop
DB9 serial to USB Null modem cable + some simple file transfer software would have solved this in minutes.

Since the mac had a built-in modem, you could have used that software to transfer the file via xmodem or ymodem protocol.

I guess this isn't common knowledge any more.

mrunkel··on Don't fuck with paste
Well, this is for firefox, and the other is for Chrome, so maybe that's a significant upgrade?
mrunkel··on Ceph: A Journey to 1 TiB/s
> This is an insanely expensive cluster built to show a benchmark. 68 node cluster serving only 15TB storage in total.

This reads to me (and the OP) that you are saying the purpose of this "insanely expensive cluster" was to "show a benchmark."

That's what OP is addressing in his response. No where do you mention anything about performance.

mrunkel··on OpenBao – FOSS Fork of HashiCorp Vault
It's an anthropomorphized bao bun. How much variance can you expect?

https://imgur.com/a/tNRuEpb

mrunkel··on OpenBao – FOSS Fork of HashiCorp Vault
They aren't. https://imgur.com/a/tNRuEpb

But how much variance can you reasonably expect from a logo based on an anthropomorphized bao bun?

mrunkel··on iCloud Drive silently deletes your content
But what is the fifth problem?
mrunkel··on After ruling, Kansas HP argues against rules to prevent rights violations
While parts of the objection might be legitimate for logistical reasons (ie, requiring the same supervisor for every shift), the unmitigated gall of the prosecutor is telling.

I know that the US judicial system is adversarial where winning is the only thing that matters, somehow we should see the prosecuting (who represents the people in their jurisdiction) standing up for justice.

mrunkel··on Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands
You buy a house with the cash (private transaction) and then sell the house in a year.
mrunkel··on Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands
> Germany

You broke the law if you were a resident of Germany and didn't register yourself.

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