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throwaway889900

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I'm at work and forgot the password to my usual account, but I can't get to my normal email from work to get my password reset so all bets are off and this is what you get.
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throwaway889900··on A squeaky nail, or the wheel that sticks out
The late bird gets the second mouse.
throwaway889900··on Giving C a superpower: custom header file (safe_c.h)
True, I guess I was expecting if you were reimplementing these with additional protections, why not add the protection using the custom pointer reimplementations to ensure no use after frees. Seems like a missed opportunity.
throwaway889900··on Giving C a superpower: custom header file (safe_c.h)
Does the StringView/Span implementation here seem lacking? If the underlying data goes away, wouldn't the pointer now point to an invalid freed location, because it doesn't track the underlying data in any way?
throwaway889900··on Grok: Thousands LOC a day in C is a big deal even if the "coder" uses LLM?
SLOC as a metric of productivity was always useless. AI only proves this more.
throwaway889900··on Lab-grown salmon hits the menu
Their advertising of it being like a sushi cut then makes this possibly dangerous marketing then, no?
throwaway889900··on Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?
Nope.
throwaway889900··on Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?
Got death threats because I wasn't prioritizing stuff people were requesting, said nah I'm done
throwaway889900··on Show HN: A GitHub Action that quizzes you on a pull request
Just submit a PR that removes the action so it doesn't run on the branch before the merge! If devs aren't reviewing the code anyways, will they even catch that kind of change?
throwaway889900··on Peacock feathers can be lasers
Combine them with a phalarope to make a fully functioning CD player?
throwaway889900··on Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage
Sometimes you have to keep repeating a packet, they're very good at it.
throwaway889900··on The ChompSaw: A benchtop power tool that's safe for kids to use
Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather teach how to use a knife safely? And a cut from a blade is a lesson to be learned, hopefully only once.

Edit: Oh and if anyone's looking for the tool name, it's called a nibbler. This one is just table-mounted, there are power tool and unpowered versions ofc.

throwaway889900··on Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions?
A keyword exclusively used for network calls, in particular microservices ahaahaha
throwaway889900··on Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions?
Shame we can't use `cast`, that's already being used for types. And `conjure` probably only works for object constructors.
throwaway889900··on Ask HN: How are you making money on the side?
I've thought about donating plasma. Might do it this Friday or something.
throwaway889900··on Howdy – Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux
Bored at work lol
throwaway889900··on Howdy – Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux
Right, Windows Hello requires it for facial auth, Windows itself does not. Hello still works, just you have to authenticate with a different method if the hardware isn't present.
throwaway889900··on Howdy – Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux
Windows is an operating system and does not have dependence on specific hardware being present.
throwaway889900··on Show HN: Scream to Unlock – Blocks social media until you scream “I'm a loser”
Blade Runner 2049 style interrogation to prove you're not in a bad state of mind huh?
throwaway889900··on Microsoft Office migration from Source Depot to Git
Thank goodness I don't have to use IBM's Rational Team Concert anymore. Even just thinking about it makes me shudder.
throwaway889900··on Bypassing GitHub Actions policies in the dumbest way possible
Not only can you yourself manually check out a specific repo, but if you have submodules and do a recursive checkout, it's also possible to pull in other security nightmares from places you never expected now. That would be one complicated attack to pull off though, chain of compromised workflows haha
throwaway889900··on Ask HN: Has Apple lost its way?
First iteration no, but after 5 or so iterations they'll get to it haha
throwaway889900··on Ask HN: What cool skill or project interests you, but feels out of reach?
You don't need to do a monolithic design, and kludging things together is just fine. Start with local playback from the server or something equivalently small and work from there. If you need to background play a youtube video and forward the audio stream elsewhere, so be it haha
throwaway889900··on Ask HN: What would you work on if you couldn't fail?
It's time for human-animal hybrids to become a real thing!
throwaway889900··on Ask HN: Has Apple lost its way?
Gotta wait for Apple VR 2, next year? maybe?
throwaway889900··on Run a C# file directly using dotnet run app.cs
Having the thing is better than not having the thing, even if it's not the best version of the thing.
throwaway889900··on What If Every Picture You've Ever Seen Already Exists?
The core assumption here that the color depth is fixed or that the frame size cannot grow is flawed. We can always increase both, creating infinite possibilities.

Also you'd have to generate these images for them to exist and not merely be probability.

throwaway889900··on Ask HN: Where to get used hardware cheap?
Liquidation auction sites, estate sales, the like. Govdeals or equivalent.
throwaway889900··on JSLinux
Sounds like you need an Alex Horne.
throwaway889900··on Ask HN: Why is uptalk intonation so prevalent in ChatGPT voices?
Just gotta pipe it through a granular synth afterwards
throwaway889900··on An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force
Sometimes a lambda is more readable. "lambda x : x if x else 1" is pretty understandable and doesn't need to be it's own separately defined function.

I should also note that development style also depends on tools, so if your IDE makes inline functions more readable in it's display, it's fine to use concisely defined lambdas.

Readablity is a personal preference thing at some point after all.

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