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plugin-baby··on Roman Tyrian purple snail dye found in UK for first time
> It is uncertain when it went from purple to red, but it's likely a practical reason: when going outside you don't wear slippers but leather boots, which were very easy to get in a red color, purple? Not really. You can easily find purple used anywhere in clothing, but not shoes.

Wasn't the point of regal colours that they were scarce/expensive?

plugin-baby··on The most backdoor-looking bug I've ever seen (2021)
There are a few mentioned in the footnotes.
plugin-baby··on The most backdoor-looking bug I've ever seen (2021)
> In text I can't do justice to the facial expressions of cryptographers when you mention Telegram's protocol, so just believe me that it's weird.

Seems like a red flag.

plugin-baby··on Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software
> Is someone actually mad prettier is changing their single quotes to double quotes? Are they mad some line is breaking at some word?

Yes, both of these.

Obviously there are huge benefits to auto-formatting in large teams and popular open source projects, but some people also find benefit in having control of alignment, line breaks, indentation etc.

plugin-baby··on Rabbit R1 source code [part 1]
This isn’t likely though, is it? The device is unlikely to be running NodeJS and playwright.
plugin-baby··on Rabbit R1 source code [part 1]
Based on how hackable their infra is?
plugin-baby··on Inside the Super Nintendo cartridges
> The author of DOOM for SNES, Randy Linden, did not have access to any documentation about the GSU chip or even DOOM source code. He reverse engineered all of it

Technically this is impressive, but why was it necessary?

plugin-baby··on Git Bisect-Find
> Git is not your backup solution.

Yes it is. What am I doing wrong?

plugin-baby··on The FCC needs to stop 5G fast lanes
Spanish: jodido
plugin-baby··on Htmx and the Rule of Least Power
I haven’t had similar issues with React, and I been using it much longer - Next.js is a special case.
plugin-baby··on Htmx and the Rule of Least Power
Are you recommending Next.js for its longevity? My experience over the last 18 months is that every new version introduces breaking changes. I wouldn’t want to come back to a Next.js project in 5 years and have to deal with migrating to Node.js v32 and whatever Next.js has broken in the meantime.
plugin-baby··on Code search is hard
Apart from speed, what advantages does ripgrep offer over git grep when searching git repos?
plugin-baby··on Meta used monolithic architecture to ship Threads in only five months
+ https://boringtechnology.club/
plugin-baby··on Meta used monolithic architecture to ship Threads in only five months
> what I call HN driven development: k8s, microservices, cloud

I’ll give you cloud, but my takeaways from HN in the last few years have been things like:

* Postgres is a reasonable choice for a job queue * SQLite is a valid choice for server db at quite large scale * k8s makes sense once you have 50+ devs * microservices address issues of team scale, not traffic scale

plugin-baby··on GenZ software engineers, according to older colleagues
Thanks for writing this - I guessed from the headline these would be in the conclusions, and agree it’s a general trait of less experienced developers.
plugin-baby··on Harvard University removes human skin binding from book
> This is similar to the recent case of a surgeon who branded a transplanted liver with his initials.

It’s not that similar, is it? Most people would object to the doctor flaying grandma, but there are interviews with that surgeon’s former transplant patients who don’t seem too bothered they may have been branded.

plugin-baby··on Harvard University removes human skin binding from book
You could do both!
plugin-baby··on Backpressure explained – the resisted flow of data through software (2019)
Please share.
plugin-baby··on Zoom added a mail feature. Tell me why?
Zawinski’s Law in action?
plugin-baby··on Why choose async/await over threads?
> or reading files, as filesystem api are not async

This is interesting - all nodejs file system APIs are async by default.

plugin-baby··on Why choose async/await over threads?
is the difference between threads and async/await more than syntax? or language-specific?
plugin-baby··on Why are most sofas so bad?
Where is hardwood inappropriate? Genuinely curious to know
plugin-baby··on Perf Is Not Enough
Postgres:

> Major versions usually change the internal format of system tables and data files. These changes are often complex, so we do not maintain backward compatibility of all stored data.

https://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning/

plugin-baby··on SpaceX just achieved speed of 17Mb/s from satellite to stock Android phone
Thanks, this article pointed me in the right direction. Coordinates were missing for me because locations services were disabled for the Compass app.
plugin-baby··on SpaceX just achieved speed of 17Mb/s from satellite to stock Android phone
Where? Mine has zero options now - just displays the compass, with the level in the middle.
plugin-baby··on I applied for a software role at FedEx and was asked to take a personality test
The previous comment doesn’t show that - it just shows that there are companies without arduous interview processes.
plugin-baby··on BitLocker encryption broken in 43 seconds with sub-$10 Raspberry Pi Pico
That’s not good.
plugin-baby··on BitLocker encryption broken in 43 seconds with sub-$10 Raspberry Pi Pico
I’m also confused. If a laptop is stolen while off, can this attack still be applied?
plugin-baby··on Rook to XSS: How I hacked chess.com with a rookie exploit
Great write-up!

Why isn’t the PHPSESSID cookie HttpOnly?

And why if the XSS was already known had they not fixed it?!

plugin-baby··on Ruby on Rails load testing habits
> founder - artillery.io
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