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chris_wot

15,229 karma · joined April 11, 2012

Just your garden variety geek.
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chris_wot··on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
Yeah, by basically ignoring regulation. That's going to be a lot tougher since the midterm results. The government will no longer be giving him any easy passes.
chris_wot··on sshole
wtf did I just read?
chris_wot··on sshole
To be honest, I love this sort of vibe-coding. Explains it really well, in an interesting way. If this is vibe-coding, then the AI has done a great job.
chris_wot··on Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue declines
Try this instead:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufactu...

chris_wot··on Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code
Is this really the case?
chris_wot··on Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you
Why would I contribute? is the data open source?
chris_wot··on Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you
You will find it hard to get articles into Wikipedia. It will likely be deleted as non-notable unless you can find lots of external sources.

You are better off taking photos of those areas and uploading them to Wikimedia Commons. I did this with the Australian City of Liverpool. I would show you with wiki-shootme but it seems to be down...

chris_wot··on Everything is going wrong for Muhammad bin Salman
A king? My man, you can just get a President who does the same thing.
chris_wot··on The history of development of Norton Commander (2011)
Does anyone remember their disk deframenter?

I had Gemini implement a simulation:

https://chrissherlock.github.io/operating-system/week10-file...

chris_wot··on Show HN: The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read
Brilliant, thank you so much!
chris_wot··on Show HN: The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read
The one on Word was very, very interesting. Seems like there were a lot of jerks running the Opus project! I checked them out, and at least on of them died in a plane crash, and now has a foundation.
chris_wot··on “The Secret Life of Circuits” is here
Already purchased, looking forward to getting it!!!
chris_wot··on Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard
Isn’t this one of the reasons Wayland is often recommended? Forgive me if I’m getting confused on this point.
chris_wot··on Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence
If Mullenweg attempts to fire the board that just suspended him, he would be weaponizing proxy votes against the very investors who originally granted them. While founder proxies are often structured to be irrevocable, using them to purge the board would almost certainly trigger a massive legal battle, attempts by investors to breach or revoke the proxy agreements, and severe financial instability for the company.

While he technically holds the votes required to disband the board, executing that move would ignite a corporate civil war rather than a clean transition of power.

chris_wot··on Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence
Any reason needed?!? We can all see what he’s done!
chris_wot··on Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence
This is likely how they pull out of the disasterous legal actions Mullenweg has taken.
chris_wot··on We have a year to fix security everywhere
RAII definitely removes whole classes of errors.
chris_wot··on Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
Only because of his stupidity:

https://www.axios.com/2017/12/15/trumps-north-korean-armada-...

“ As President Trump publicly declared last week that he was "sending an armada" to the Sea of Japan in an attempt to send a message to North Korea, the carrier group was actually sailing thousands of miles in the other direction to war game with the Australian Navy, per the NYT, which reported that the mixup was due to "a glitch-ridden sequence of events."”

What’s funny is he started an UNE essay war with Iran, strengthened the Iranian regime and gave them a guaranteed income source from a toll Trump can’t get rid of. And this is your argument? You’re funny.

chris_wot··on We have a year to fix security everywhere
More tired “don’t use C or C++” advise.
chris_wot··on Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
I’m not an American. Those not American are frankly gobsmacked that U.S. citizens voted the current President in a second time. You all literally saw what he did in his first term!
chris_wot··on Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s after ban: data
So basically, you say it's all ineffective and can't be policed.
chris_wot··on Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s after ban: data
LOL - I remember saying this would not be something that could be policed, and a bunch of my fellow countrymen tut-tutting at me saying things like “it’s the thought that counts”, etc.

Now it’s gone underground and it’s worse than ever. Meantime, there are kids in high schools across the nation who can’t watch World War II documentaries on Youtube because that’s considered “restricted content”.

You can’t make this shit up.

chris_wot··on Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]
You are a wonderful, wonderful person. Your book is one of my favourite books I've read, ever. Thank you so much for writing it!
chris_wot··on Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money
Funny, new hires are similarly worried the Anthropic CEO only cares about money, so they have something in common!
chris_wot··on Logic for Programmers
I'd like to buy this, but when I try to add it to the Leanpub cart, it won't add it.
chris_wot··on Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming
Except that didn’t stop others from being banned. But hey, admins could never be damned with accusations of consistency (or basic fairness).
chris_wot··on Resetting Xbox
The hardware, software maturity (I’m looking at Gnome here), and lack of wanting tinker with the core OS and wanting to use an M5.

FWIW, in terms of software maturity - I think some might find that funny as I contribute to LibreOffice code :-)

chris_wot··on Resetting Xbox
My son setup Gamepass a few years ago. It was the biggest rip off I've ever seen. So many things about Microsoft are out of kilter. I'm about to migrate my daughter away from a 3 year old Lenovo Yoga to a Macbook Air M5 - it's just too hard to administer, its now sluggish and the AI is completely in the way. She doesn't need it, and despite a few business practices of Apple I don't really like if I have to choose between them and Microsoft, then I choose Apple.

I was not like this as a teenager. I went through DOS, Windows 3.1x, Window 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000/XP and then all the way to Windows 7. I have completely changed my mind now, it's really only Apple I want to use. Everything about Apple is easier.

chris_wot··on Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming
Even more incredible that someone who represents an organisation is allowed to edit the English Wikipedia under that username! Anyone else would have their account banned.

But hey, don't expect consistency or fairness from the ones on the English Wikipedia.

chris_wot··on Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming
If you quote the dictionary to win an argument, quote it in full. There are two definitions of obscure in the Cambridge dictionary. The other is:

obscure (adjective)

not clear and difficult to understand or see:

- Official policy has changed, for reasons that remain obscure.

- His answers were obscure and confusing.

- "the syntax itself is obscure"

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