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syockit··on Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the roots of Frank Herbert's Dune (2021)
But definitely not in the parlance of late 70s when Star Wars premiered.
syockit··on Google does not want rights to things you do using Chrome (2008)
I tried viewing Notion and self-hosted Mattermost using SeaMonkey last week. Nothing was displayed at all. Trac pages still worked though. So yeah, a web browser needs more than security fixes.
syockit··on Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig
It's in the FAQ. Someone else posted a link to it in the comments, check it out. And yes, it is about tacit programming.
syockit··on Ruby 3.4.0
Because Node.js is the most bad ass rock star tech to come out, since Ruby on Rails.
syockit··on We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour
I keep seeing this kind of comment with regards to LLM applications. Why is it so? Isn't input sanitization or sandboxing a thing?
syockit··on Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court
There has been a little bit of furor in some circles in Japan, regarding the status of Yasuke, who was a favorite of Oda Nobunaga, whether he was a samurai or not. Around September of 2015, a user by the name tottoritom made numerous edits to the Yasuke article, citing to yet-to-be-published papers by Thomas Lockley. Coincidentally, tottoritom's user page introduces himself as Thomas Lockley too, and Lockley happened to also have lived in Tottori. After some time, the citations were changed to refer to a book that Lockley published in Japan (in Japanese). (Now, if the two are indeed one and same person, he has broken a Wikipedia rule on not publishing original research.)

The book become a basis for a romanticized novel he published for western audiences, which I believe inspired the production of Netflix animation for the same character. From then on, the view that Yasuke was a samurai gained foothold, which caught some Japanese historians off-guard.

He's also had his hand on the Britannica article of the same title, and now Wikipedia cites the Britannica article too, thus completing the cycle.

syockit··on Linux removed 11 maintainers from Russia
Maybe Greenland?
syockit··on TSMC cuts off client after discovering chips sent to Huawei
It's also why the reference didn't land right, because the original dialogue was such a dad joke material, whilst "AGI gap" doesn't have the same punch.
syockit··on Show HN: Floating point arithmetic types in C++ for any size and any base
It's copyrighted, but nothing stops you from looking at it. It's akin to looking a t a mural painted at someone's house. You can also comment as long as you don't post snippets of the code (except for when fair use is applicable).
syockit··on TypedDicts are better than you think
Better punctuated:

> Here we have a problem: for subscription, does None mean don't change or remove subscription?

syockit··on Scaling up linear programming with PDLP
I'd say to be wary of sharing links to full textbooks unless you are really sure it's posted by the copyright owner. The authors could be best friends with the webmaster and allowed them to post it on their website, but the problem is with the publisher who may not have given consent.
syockit··on Please stop inventing new software licences (2020)
I checked the Wayback Machine to see how the about page for cyph looked like [1], and it said "open source", not "Open Source". So, I don't get what the beef is about.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200517031524/https://www.cyph....

syockit··on Porting systemd to musl Libc-powered Linux
With the loss of S3 suspend, fast boot time is important again for laptop users.
syockit··on A wonderful coincidence or an expected connection: why π² ≈ g
I use w for the complex roots of 1 though, when rewriting FFT notes.
syockit··on Porting my JavaScript game engine to C for no reason
> The name high_impact is a nod to a time when C was considered a high level language.

Weird, considering that JS is an even higher level language.

syockit··on Unconditional Cash Study: first findings available
Telemarketers are not subsidized. If there is no return on investment for employing them, companies won't employ them at all.
syockit··on Linus Torvalds says RISC-V will make the same mistakes as Arm and x86
Yeah, definitely this. We think that the specs are pretty much baked after a year or two of shipping, so the focus is now on making things faster, which requires very complex algorithms, but don't worry, once we get it done, it won't have to change anymore! Right? ... then new use cases come in. New feature requests come in. We want to adapt the current code to the new cases while still covering the existing ones and also maintaining all the performance boost we gained along the way. But the code is such a mess that it is just not feasible to do so without starting from scratch.
syockit··on Daylight eInk Computer
If it doesn't have retention, then it's not. Otherwise, Gameboy's display also qualifies as e-paper.
syockit··on Using copper to convert CO₂ to methane
tl;dr: Methane conversion could be a candidate for excess energy storage technology in solar/hydro/wind power genaration.
syockit··on Show HN: I made a programmable computer from NAND gates
I wonder if any of his machines ever caught fire, causing an localized out-of-season aurora borealis. On the other hand, Cray machines are never mentioned in the "Halt and Catch Fire" machine code instruction humor.
syockit··on The Making of Dune II
The first installment in Westwood's "Command and Conquer" product line, but I remember someone mentioning that Command and Conquer was also the name of the game engine. The second installment was supposed to be a fantasy-themed, but idea was somehow scrapped and turned into modern warfare.

Nevermind, found it: https://www.filfre.net/2023/06/a-dialog-in-real-time-strateg...

syockit··on AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License
Sounds like a skit from Bourniston.
syockit··on Show HN: A user-friendly UI for viewing and editing Markdown files
I've tested so many Markdown editors with WYSIWYG or instant preview, but this is the first one with only 4MB download size! Is using Tauri the secret sauce to this magic?

Too bad it doesn't have built-in math editor.

syockit··on Proof of the Singular Value Decomposition
Something like this?

    \underset{m,r}{U}\underset{r,r}{\Sigma} = \underset{m,n}{A}\underset{n,r}{V}
I guess it's helpful when first introducing the variables, but end up being visual clutter as you try to follow the equations later on.
syockit··on C++ Safety, in Context
Funny, Matz mentioned about it in RubyKaigi 2023 keynote, that it was made with the hope that it gets wider adoption in the industry, maybe even used in technical exams. It didn't get the expected result and he felt like it was a waste of time and effort.
syockit··on Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu
It would be harder for big corpo to sue laypeople, but at the same time harder for laypeople to sue corpo.
syockit··on Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and Unity happened (2022)
KDE4 was latter half of 00's. Oh, the bitter memories of having your CPU and memory getting hogged by the mysterious daemon called Akonadi. Or was it Nepomuk? At that time, many waved away concerns that Linux was simply using the unused memory for caching stuff, which is why the resource usage viewer displayed very small free memory amount, so they say. Well, that didn't explain the excessive swap thrashing that was occurring in the background.

Hunted for workarounds only to find out that disabling the above services also disables some essential desktop features, and made me rethink whether the switch from GNOME 3 was worth it. Sure, GNOME 3 had horrible UX, but at least my PC still had resources to do other stuffs then. But I sure missed GNOME 2 at that time.

syockit··on IBM Diversity Efforts Targeted by Stephen Miller's Legal Group
Yes on the first question, no on the second question.
syockit··on The Windows installer of ImageMagick will no longer be signed
To explain it succinctly, I shall refer you to XKCD #2347 https://xkcd.com/2347/
syockit··on C uses "&" for the address-operator because 'ampersand sounds like "address"'
As for me, I was taught it meant "alias", used when introducing nickname together with real name.
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