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rzzzt··on It's Not Just X. It's Y
Also cycles between resolutions on X servers where enabled.
rzzzt··on Coreutils for Windows
One possible alternative is cipher.exe: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-serve...
rzzzt··on Coreutils for Windows
Cygwin executables need cygwin1.dll to run while MSYS-based distributions are using Windows APIs directly. One major difference is around process management: in Cygwin fork() is implemented* while MSYS2 packages will need to use whatever the NT kernel provides (i.e. also need to modify the source to build for this target): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/985281/what-is-the-close...
rzzzt··on It's Not Just X. It's Y
There's something similar in Microsoft Word, Ctrl-Alt-Minus on the numpad.
rzzzt··on It's Not Just X. It's Y
Wait, there could be more things to consider.
rzzzt··on Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave
Most of the sets I've seen have a HÖR BERLIN logo on them: https://www.youtube.com/@hoer.berlin/videos

These "we lock the DJ in a restroom" videos where everywhere around 2020.

rzzzt··on Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave
Black Shades has the guns (although people are prism-headed there): https://www.wolfire.com/black-shades/
rzzzt··on Thornton Wilder's Last Play Vanished into Thin Air. Or Did It?
Or Did It? https://youtu.be/uakS1jPO1KA
rzzzt··on Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later (2015)
Rick is struck by a satellite falling out of the sky, no action?!
rzzzt··on Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueCrypt#End_of_life_announce... - they are referring to this event, and the SourceForge page is still displaying the message along with a guide on how to enable BitLocker.
rzzzt··on Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol
Greatly off topic, but does anyone else read these service names in their head as Slavic last names?
rzzzt··on The Third Hard Problem
The tree node on the UI should not only expand downwards but sideways and in-out of the screen.
rzzzt··on The Third Hard Problem
Off-by-two is a subset of all possible off-by-one errors.
rzzzt··on Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer
The nub around the G-B-H keys that doesn't really move but responds to pressure and lets you fly the mouse cursor around the screen with various speeds. Lenovo, Dell, HP, Fujitsu and many others equipped their business laptops with such a pointing device.
rzzzt··on How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?
Static RAM needs 6 transistors per cell, an M2 Ultra has 134 billion transistors, do the division and you get... "it doesn't work that way".
rzzzt··on Eight More '8-Bit Era' Microprocessors
With the layout fitting entirely on a large sheet of paper: https://archive.archaeology.org/1107/features/mos_technology...
rzzzt··on OpenClaw had a rough week
Em-dashes are too wide! I frequently forget what I've just read before I reach its other end. "--" in ASCII or en-dash + whitespace are superior separator symbols.
rzzzt··on Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server
Arglebargle, glop-glyf!?!
rzzzt··on Welcome to Gas City
The Acting Ambassador will telegraph the Nurse to summon a Pharaoh to the Barracks if it finds the Smoke Stack empty.
rzzzt··on Welcome to Gas City
Jank is the third derivative of bloat.
rzzzt··on Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML
Indeed, I came across this not as a contractor but in my university textbook :) I wanted to collect the document list that forms the "thousands of pages" mentioned above in the waterfall model.
rzzzt··on Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML
The DoD's 2167 standard from the late '80s mentions the following documentation that should be produced as part of the development process (section 6.2 and Appendix D):

- System/Segment Specification

- Software Development Plan

- Software Configuration Management Plan

- Software Quality Evaluation Plan

- Software Requirements Specification

- Interface Requirements Specification

- Software Standards and Procedures Manual

- Software Top Level Design Document

- Software Detailed Design Document

- Interface Design Document

- Data Base Design Document

- Software Product Specification

- Version Description Document

- Software Test Plan

- Software Test Description

- Software Test Procedure

- Software Test Report

- Computer Sytem Operator's Manual

- Software User's Manual

- Computer System Diagnostic Manual

- Software Programmer's Manual

- Firmware Support Manual

- Operational Concept Document

- Computer Resources Integrated Support Document

- Configuration Management Plan

- Engineering Change Proposal

- Specification Change Notice

rzzzt··on DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier
Counting turtles on the way down?
rzzzt··on Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML
There are also diagram notation languages and LLMs are happy to both consume and produce e.g. Mermaid.
rzzzt··on Maladaptive Frugality
The "provided" part is the reason I'm staying away from credit cards.
rzzzt··on If I could make my own GitHub
Pre-commit hook running remotely on the forge "before they push" sounds like an oxymoron. How does the code get to the forge for feedback? That's a post-push hook!
rzzzt··on HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing
Right, wrapping the response in blockquote and one extra sentence providing context would have helped there. Other people on the issue got confused by this as well (same for me but it got clearer when I read further on).
rzzzt··on Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub Copilot?
Here is the announcement: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-copilo...
rzzzt··on A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp
The moat!
rzzzt··on 10 years ago, someone wrote a test for Servo that included an expiry in 2026
Java has an interface named InstantSource for this purpose: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base...
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