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sk5t··on A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards
The Dunwich Building could use some fun business cards to lighten the mood.
sk5t··on I’ve banned query strings
204 might be acceptable if you aren’t returning an entity body to describe what is missing, but do wish to indicate the request was successful.
sk5t··on LotusNotes
Notes was simple enough to allow folks with no computer science background or even sympathy for the machine to build teetering, badly-performing things.

However, even with a mind towards efficiency and minimalism, performance at roughly hundreds of thousands of documents was extremely elusive.

sk5t··on OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)
Yes, it very closely parallels the “one weird trick” bait from a decade ago.
sk5t··on A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification
Simply require per-use parental consent for fopen.
sk5t··on Claude Cowork exfiltrates files
Is this a serious question? Whom do you imagine would offer such a guarantee?

Moreover, finding a more effective way to revoke a non-controlled key seems a tall order.

sk5t··on Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1
To the best of my knowledge, Redis has never blocked for replication, although you can configure healthy replication state as a prerequisite to accept writes.
sk5t··on Generative AI as Seniority-Biased Technological Change
How does one concretely prepare for socio-economic collapse, beyond taking a long position in canned goods?
sk5t··on Massive Attack turns concert into facial recognition surveillance experiment
New band albums are rumored and hinted-at, from time to time, by Geoff Barrow, though it seems hard to say if there will be another.

Bear in mind Beth made "Out of Season" apart from Portishead several years before the release of "Third." I wouldn't think her recent solo work indicates a split.

sk5t··on Massive Attack turns concert into facial recognition surveillance experiment
I'll put my hoping energy into a new Portishead album instead.
sk5t··on Don't use Redis as a rate limiter
Decent article, with some technical misunderstandings about MULTI/EXEC, perhaps unnecessary skepticism about Lua, though I certainly do wish Redis had richer built-in functions for CAS and the like.
sk5t··on If you're remote, ramble
Yes - not only is Slack search underpowered, but also records management folks are likely to configure pruning of Slack content older than a couple years or so. This is IME less likely to be a problem with wiki pages.
sk5t··on David Attenborough at 99: 'I will not see how the story ends'
Phoebe Bridgers also. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ9-xN6dCW4
sk5t··on Sea snail teeth top Kevlar, titanium as strongest material (2015)
Water being mostly incompressible is not the same as having high compressive strength. Liquid water makes for a poor tooth or structural column.
sk5t··on Why Lotus Domino? (2024)
> That's just adding a row into the 'Outbox' table

No tables and no rows in Notes. Composing an email would create a new document using the "Mail" form; clicking the "Send" button would run a shockingly confusing script that would cause the document to render in the style of a sent email; some awful LotusScript "Agent," the details of which I've long forgotten, would soon thereafter urge the Domino MTA to send mail based on its apprehension of the new document in your mailbox database.

sk5t··on MLB says Yankees’ new “torpedo bats” are legal and likely coming
Are those runners and bicyclists not confused? Taking a risk in golf could save a stroke or cost several; are runners making mistakes like "run harder for a bit but fall into a pond" or "run harder for a bit but exceed limits and take an injury"?
sk5t··on They're Close to My Body: A Hagiography of Nine Inch Nails and Robin Finck (2020)
Chase it with sudden repeated exposure to "hermeneutics"!
sk5t··on Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'
> very big, very blunt, rocket-powered sledgehammer to the budget

A simplistic approach--sounds nice to simpletons, won't have the effect they might desire.

sk5t··on A physicist's guide to ice cream
Costco’s “super premium vanilla” is quite nice—-better than any other mass market vanilla.
sk5t··on Climbers Using Xenon Gas, Which Is Banned in Sports, to Climb Everest
Visiting just one page on this wacky website absolutely trashed my browser's (Firefox) back-history.
sk5t··on Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past the Steam Deck
Agreed, it’s worth cleaning contacts and reseating the memory modules to start with.
sk5t··on Bill requiring US agencies to share source code with each other becomes law
> JVM exploits from the last years

Entirely user/library serialization or fine cryptographic issues, and not the VM, no?

sk5t··on Does Your Code Pass the Turkey Test? (2008)
OP’s backup choice is December 7, 1941.
sk5t··on The Simple Magic of Consistent Hashing (2011)
Odd, the article claims to be about consistent hashing, but spends all its words on plain-old hash quality topics.
sk5t··on Ruby-SAML pwned by XML signature wrapping attacks
> I'm optimistic SAML will be dead soon

Get used to disappointment.

sk5t··on Linux Pipes Are Slow
Have you accounted for the population of Australian kernel developers?
sk5t··on Postmortem of my 9 year journey at Google
It’s an appropriate dismissal as the article itself is surprisingly shallow.
sk5t··on Breakthrough a step toward revealing hidden structure of prime numbers
Don’t think this merits an “actually” - using a session key et al. is basic usage and does not bear on the strength of RSA itself.
sk5t··on Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?
> I'm not sure exactly what all it taught me

Make curly braces mandatory with a linter, of course!

Also, add tests before changing the thing.

sk5t··on True Name – Mastercard (2022)
Hmm. The only occasion in the past few years I can recall handing a card to any clerk for inspection or payment processing is host-stand restaurant pickup, and never gotten a second glance when presenting my partner's card.
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