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yencabulator··on Pi 1.0
Ehh it's Old Norse and tied to Norse mythology and its exact etymology is not clear, and Lucifer was the Roman name of the planet Venus. Christianity does not get to define the words it steals.
yencabulator··on SvelteKit 3
SvelteKit does server-side rendering just fine.
yencabulator··on Red Hat being phased out of existence?
VS Code is very much the old Microsoft gimmick of EEE.

https://underjord.io/the-best-parts-of-visual-studio-code-ar...

https://ghuntley.com/fracture/

yencabulator··on Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones
> And by that I mean, using the database itself is simple. But when it exists, then a list of targets for an attacker to emulate also exists.

Recognize USB devices by serial numbers, not the manufacturer ID. Even if they could get their hands on the serial number of my car stereo, that's going to be after the same warrant delay this thing protects against.

yencabulator··on Cloudflare OHTTP gateway
Banning a couple of faraway datacenters by ASN (and thus IP address) took out like >80% of the bot traffic to a site I help. They won't "just".
yencabulator··on 5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs
> In the past, requests went out to a hosted execution service. Today, they run on MicroVMs inside our own edge network — roughly 5x faster at the median.

So, the execution itself might now be slower as far as we know, they just eliminated some networking from the mix? Misleading.

yencabulator··on Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
It's pretty typical that physical-goods manufacturing "optimizes the process" to cut costs during years 1 & 2 of manufacturing.

Ikea is notorious for this: The early Billy bookcase had heavier veneer and sturdier construction early on, and was actually a really good purchase for the money. The later years replaced veneer with paper foil, used thinner shelves, frames, and backing panels, and was just significantly weaker.

yencabulator··on Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability
> No, the winning strategy was to release a conventional-looking truck, say something that very much looks like an F150 or a Silverado.

Turns out F150 Lightning was not the winning strategy.

yencabulator··on Systems that no one will test
Security is "expensive" in the sense that fossil fuels have been "cheap". If you account for the externalities, lack of security is expensive too.
yencabulator··on Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden
That's the whole point, it's not invading. In the nordics, land outside of your immediate yard is for everyone, and there aren't many exceptions to that. You get exclusive access to financial gain from it, that's it.
yencabulator··on Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
Chip manufacturer wants you to buy a chip for correctly configuring software?
yencabulator··on Have an LLC
They're orthogonal. LLC gives you some legal cover, and a personal EIN gives you privacy. You can use both.
yencabulator··on Have an LLC
(As far as I understand:)

1) Unless you only take card payments through e.g. Stripe, at which point your SSN information goes to Stripe not the client.

2) You can get a personal EIN, and then you don't need to share your SSN with your clients.

yencabulator··on What heraldry and Japanese mon can teach about visual-identity generators
Quick visual on some mon:

https://mon.xavid.us/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mon_(emblem)

yencabulator··on What even is an OS now?
People worry when very important things are done with Excel because it has practically no mechanisms guiding the user toward avoiding mistakes.

https://eusprig.org/research-info/horror-stories/

yencabulator··on What even is an OS now?
My most charitable reading of that is

https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotosxiii/mind-gap-reconne...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36myc8wQhLo

yencabulator··on Ten lines of code that changed my world
*Dear!!!

I knew my usual joke of "Dead Sir or Madam, [...] Retards, [...]" would come back to bite one day.

yencabulator··on What even is an OS now?
Surely you have legal access to your patient data? It's called HIPAA in the USA.
yencabulator··on Ten lines of code that changed my world

  #define false rand()==rand()
yencabulator··on Ten lines of code that changed my world
Dead youngling, the border property is older than Firefox or Chrome. Outline become useful somewhere around 2021-2023.
yencabulator··on Ten lines of code that changed my world
In C, the classic hello world example gets to demonstrate compilation and defining functions. In BASIC, `10 print "Hello, world"` does neither, so it's not a very interesting storytelling step. Hence, the introductory materials for the two end up chunked differently.
yencabulator··on In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life
In most places, you don't pay the day rate for long stays.
yencabulator··on Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS
It looks like they are using Claude to develop it, though..

> Things that cost somebody hours, written down so they cost the next person minutes. Each one is here because it actually happened, not because it might.

> Same commit, different answer, decided by the runner's store rather than by the code.

https://code.overheid.nl/MinBZK/DAWO-NixOS/src/branch/main/d...

> 10 dead inputs were pruned (audit); these 15 are load-bearing and next up for the mirror pass.

https://codeberg.org/DAWO/DAWO-Core/src/commit/4db976f05c508...

yencabulator··on The newest ESP32 can run Linux and it's getting close to a Raspberry Pi
The article literally has a section heading

> Espressif put a real MMU in the ESP32-S31

yencabulator··on Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust
> you can't 100% rely on the language to not leak memory

Start a thread with an infinite loop, you've just leaked some memory.

The language just can't prevent you.

yencabulator··on Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust
Honestly I was surprised Topcoat wasn't building on top of Axum's routing.
yencabulator··on Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space
There's an artist's impression of the frigging thing in the whitepaper! It's very obviously a single enormous thing!

> Figure 3. A data center in Sun Synchronous Orbit, showing a 4km x 4km deployed solar array and radiators.

yencabulator··on Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space
They don't expect to need the human element for very long:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3m4z9CoXEY

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pgIWMXxaT0

yencabulator··on Why building a Rust LSP is hard
I'll argue the default already is private.

  mod foo
  pub mod foo
  pub(crate) mod foo
clearly when you leave the visibility modifier out, the default is private.
yencabulator··on UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8
I can think of 3 things:

1. You can partition an input file at any offsets, parallelize, and adjust partition boundaries to a valid offset independently.

Without the property, parallelization is hard.

This is how mapreduce has been used to process large text files, except at line boundaries.

Now, for this that might not be a useful enough property, given that we already do similar things for newlines, and UTF-8 guarantees ASCII is always recognizable and hence newlines are always recognizable.

2. It might have been more useful in the era of dial-up where we still had occasional corrupted bytes in the transmission.

3. It helps regain sanity if e.g. a background process outputs bytes that get interleaved at the tty. For example, cat a large text file, the write boundaries won't always align at UTF-8 boundaries, then have a background process output get interleaved in an unfortunate way. If it self-synchronizes, it'll knock itself back into sync after a small amount of garbage.

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