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Mustachioon Onlookers freak out as 25-year-old set loose on Treasury computer system

PR submitted, comments by concerned coders with years experience in the system overruled and force merged with message "wcgw".

Mustachioon FTC bans Genshin Impact dev from selling lootboxes to under-16s, fines them $20M

This is the real killer. Gambling in the CS scene is absolutely rampant, you will only find a handful of CS influencers that do no accept gambling sponsors (As they offer much more than other companies).

I was happy when Belgium banned loot boxes, but it was not nearly enough.

Mustachioon Map of GitHub

docker-minecraft is under Adulttopia. I wonder what made it make that connection

Mustachioon Show HN: Lfi – a lazy functional sync, async, and concurrent iteration library

Having had a quick read of the concept, I believe it's concurrent in the sense that Promise.all() is compared to awaiting in a for loop?

In other words, put on the stack at the same time but not a different thread.

Do correct me if I misunderstood though.

Mustachioon New Mac Mini with M4

Vanguard AC is indeed incompatible with linux, but maybe that's for the better...

Mustachioon Should Sports Betting Be Banned?

What's the deal with trying so hard to defend the advertising of an objectively harmful industry?

I think a good parallel here is Tobacco advertising. Smoking is harmful in every way, therefore I don't see any reason why advertising it to a broad audience (which will inadvertently also include children) is something we should allow.

What's the net benefit of allowing such advertising? I don't see it. Yo could argue something about rights to free speech or some variation, but societies still have a responsibility to look out for the health of their people, no?

Mustachioon The many faces of undefined in JavaScript

I've seen it being used before to call async operations within a class constructor. Hated it though.

Mustachioon Sandy Hook families want to seize Alex Jones' social media accounts

So, because another party is disproportionately punished for their crimes, we must punish others disproportionately as well? We should be raising the bar, not giving it a funeral.

Mustachioon Microsoft's official Minesweeper app has ads, pay-to-win, and is hundreds of MBs

This is the same for Microsofts Solitaire. Shameless, really.

Mustachioon macOS 14.4 causes JVM crashes

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JBR-6802

The JetBrains team has already figured it out as well.

Mustachioon Grats: A More Pleasant Way to Build TypeScript GraphQL Servers

I'm honestly not sold on using comment blocks as a way of adding such annotations. IMO the use of decorators is more pleasant and flexible.

Mustachioon Setting up a secondary Pi-Hole on my home network

But what if AWS has an outage as well?

Mustachioon Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find

I don't think that's a good way of thinking about it. Just because programmers might have better job security doesn't mean other motivators for not wanting to get fired exist.

Mustachioon YouTube is crippling Firefox on Asahi Linux?

Maybe using a user agent spoofing plugin can circumvent this? Just a guess though.

Mustachioon Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and the open-source community

As someone who played a lot of CSGO as a 15-16 year old back in 2015, it's all psychological. Why does anyone become addicted to gambling? The thrill releases enormous amounts of dopamine. Satisfy this over and over, and the threshold for the same euphoria becomes higher and higher. That's how yo end up with people, and particularly teens and young adults spending massive amounts of money for 'some pixels'. I think I sank about 1.5k into it in total over the years. When Belgium decided to ban such loot boxes I was happy to see the addiction forcibly ended. They just need to repeat it for predatory battlepasses and the likes.

Mustachioon How to generate SQL statements with ChatGPT

Imo it depends on what you're prompting. If you yourself do not fully understand what you want and/or which information you have to provide for the model to 'understand' enough context, prompts will not give good results.

I usually find ChatGPT very good for converting conceptual ideas to a concrete piece of 'boilerplate' to work off of. It can help you jump gaps in your proces, but in the end you still have to make the jumps yourself.

Mustachioon Creating a search engine with PostgreSQL

We do natural language processing with some custom tokenisation, the data it uses at runtime is put into an sqlite db at build-time. Works fine for our usecase.