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pwdisswordfishzon The War on the Walkman

> For less than the price of 1 CD per month (and I used to buy WAY more than 1 CD per month) I have access to a near-infinite amount of music.

> I've added 49 full or partial albums to my library since 1/1/2025 for $78.

Counterpoint: I haven't bought a record in over 10 years. That is, I have added exactly zero full or partial albums to my library since 1/1/2014. Even though I stopped spending money, I didn't have to stop (legally) listening.

If your numbers are correct, this (being able to play the music that I've listened to over the last 10 years) is something would have cost me over $1500.

pwdisswordfishzon Melbourne man discovers extensive model train network underneath house

And my favourite, "Men will literally [do anything creative] instead of going to therapy". Apparently the proper way to to deal with your feelings is consumerism.

pwdisswordfishzon When the CTO Asks You to Use Autocomplete

> But I learned something profound. Turning off all these visual aids helped me focus better on the code. I paid attention to what I was writing and kept a mental model of the available functions in my head. At some point, I could even debug errors without looking at the code.

Huh, I wonder what kind of superhuman thinking abili—

> I was lying in bed when I figured out a solution to [a trivial scope shadowing issue that IntelliJ would have highlighted in seconds].

Sigh.

pwdisswordfishzon Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features

I don't know how to tell you this, but Denmark is a sovereign state and does not derive its interpretation and objectives of copyright from the US constitution.

pwdisswordfishzon A new PNG spec

But can this lossless rotation process account for padding not being in the usual place (lower right corner presumably)?

pwdisswordfishzon Web Translator API

Why does it need to be a JavaScript API?

Why not just use the lang= attribute as it was intended, then let the user select text to translate as they wish?

pwdisswordfishzon A new PNG spec

Linguistic prescriptivism is wrong, and people who promote it are showing they have zero respect for others when they don't have to.

pwdisswordfishzon A new PNG spec

That doesn't seem to apply to images that aren't multiples of 8 in size, does it?

pwdisswordfishzon iPhone customers upset by Apple Wallet ad pushing F1 movie

This is just going to encourage advertisers to misuse the "urgent" channel you did not block to deliver advertisements you would rather block.

pwdisswordfishzon Airpass – Easily overcome WiFi time limits

It's hard work learning programming tools and optimizing, much easier to use a one-size-fits all framework that wastes the end-user's resources.

pwdisswordfishzon Airpass – Easily overcome WiFi time limits

By deleting the repo and banning the person from GitHub?

pwdisswordfishzon New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles

Sorry, that'll just get them flagged for mustard stains.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrQyMrmRBsk

pwdisswordfishzon New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles

But a national ID card is literally Satan?

pwdisswordfishzon Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code over time

Forget "fun". Profanity is a signal of honesty. Which I much prefer to hiding behind patronizing, obfuscatory euphemisms like "verifying the security of your connection" and processes that diffuse responsibility out of existence.

pwdisswordfishzon Φ^∞: A Recursive Identity Lock Without Collapse

> Recurχiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for scholarly articles in the fields of recursive mathematics, symbolic computation, and theoretical computer science. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by Recurχiv.

Um, okay? Now where is the article the title promised?

pwdisswordfishzon An origin trial for a new HTML <permission> element (2024)

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/permission-element-origin-...

In case you got a stupid-ass machine-translated version.

pwdisswordfishzon A Dark Adtech Empire Fed by Fake CAPTCHAs

Yes, you can. You would be wrong, though.

pwdisswordfishzon The curious case of shell commands, or how "this bug is required by POSIX" (2021)

> Tools do have rough edges, if you don't want to learn about them, you will get bitten.

I presume you consider INTERCAL to be a sanely designed programming language.

pwdisswordfishzon The curious case of shell commands, or how "this bug is required by POSIX" (2021)

    subprocess.run(["bash", "-c", "--", data_handler])

The very thing TFA complains about.

pwdisswordfishzon The curious case of shell commands, or how "this bug is required by POSIX" (2021)

No need for an absolute path, just a './' prefix.

pwdisswordfishzon AOSP project is coming to an end

Unfortunately the old.reddit.com frontend does not support /s/ links.

pwdisswordfishzon Binfmtc – binfmt_misc C scripting interface

Or even

    /*bin/true ; exec tcc -run "$0" "$@" # */

pwdisswordfishzon A masochist's guide to web development

> But also, there's a special place in hell for the people that decided to add […] top level await.

There is also a special place in extra-hell for those who export a function named 'then'.

pwdisswordfishzon Human coders are still better than LLMs

> If this happened every once in a while then it wouldn't be a big deal, but I'd guess that more than half of the answers and tutorials I've received through ChatGPT have ended up being plain wrong.

It would actually have been more pernicious that way, since it would lull people into a false sense of security.

pwdisswordfishzon Every wondered how Facebook spoofs Gmail message list snippet text?

Well, HTML e-mail arbitrarily stylable by the author was a mistake. This could have been avoided by a profile of HTML that removes presentation markup and CSS, leaving only pure semantic markup that a client can render in a "reader mode" equivalent.

pwdisswordfishzon Square Theory

Category theory has always been a wordcel concept.

pwdisswordfishzon There Is No Diffie-Hellman but Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman

It makes some sense in the category of rings, but basically only there.

pwdisswordfishzon Root for your friends

Friends don't let friends sudo

pwdisswordfishzon Root for your friends

I feel like if you don't get the password, you don't deserve access.

pwdisswordfishzon Root for your friends

sudo for your friends