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New comment by __s in "Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]"

__s — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:40:40 +0000

http://www.geekytattoos.com/illegal-tattoos-rsa-tattoos

tattoo yourself with crypto code to become munitions

New comment by __s in "PostgreSQL and the OOM Killer: Why We Use Strict Memory Overcommit"

__s — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:31:36 +0000

we recently ran into trouble where PGroonga on the other hand needs overcommit enabled, in direct opposition to postgres preferences: https://pgroonga.github.io/how-to/tuning.html

New comment by __s in "PostgreSQL and the OOM Killer: Why We Use Strict Memory Overcommit"

__s — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:29:47 +0000

"it's always something stupid" has been my approach to bugs for a long time. hindsight 20/20

New comment by __s in "Redis 8.8: New array data structure, rate limiter, performance improvements"

__s — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:33:26 +0000

Years ago I enabled durability on redis & used it as database for an online card game

New comment by __s in "New Beam Spring Keyboards"

__s — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:32:15 +0000

You get used to it quickly. Low force useful for combos

New comment by __s in "Shift from a leader-follower to a leader-leader approach"

__s — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:34:08 +0000

I worked in an office last year. We had these “Wacky Shirt Wednesdays.” On the first Wednesday I was able to participate, I decided to wear the shirt my mom was wearing when I was born. Now there’s some leftover placenta and uterine lining, so it isn’t the cleanest shirt. BUT it’s the thought that counts. That what momma says.

This f’n Karen decides to come over to my desk and tell me it’s “inappropriate” and “gross” and “ur mom’s placenta will get in my salmon salad”.

Win for me: keep wearing the shirt Win for Karen: stop having me wear the shirt Win Win Win: frame the shirt on my office wall so there’s never a chance of getting placenta in Karen’s salad.

Win Win Win!!

New comment by __s in "New Beam Spring Keyboards"

__s — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:29:56 +0000

I had to switch to low force choc couple years ago over tendon pain. Ended up on totem for day to day & bad wings for travel. 20g silent nocturnal switches. Silencing mechanism also gives bottom out a rubber feel, worth it just for that

New comment by __s in "The four programming questions from my 1994 Microsoft internship interview (2023)"

__s — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:54:31 +0000

The circle one is fishing for sonething clever. 90s without floats means no trig

New comment by __s in "The four programming questions from my 1994 Microsoft internship interview (2023)"

__s — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:52:23 +0000

Spoiler: https://gist.github.com/denkspuren/df24bf57ae3a44310631

New comment by __s in "Perry Compiles TypeScript directly to executables using SWC and LLVM"

__s — Sat, 30 May 2026 03:52:04 +0000

tbf Rust also can spit out pretty big binaries for small programs

New comment by __s in "Perry Compiles TypeScript directly to executables using SWC and LLVM"

__s — Sat, 30 May 2026 03:50:30 +0000

Curious where on spectrum compiling to wasm falls between art project & optimization potential. Should be able to make some nice interfaces between TS-wasm & TS-web

New comment by __s in "Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled"

__s — Sat, 30 May 2026 03:37:11 +0000

https://blog.chrislewis.au/the-long-tail-of-llm-assisted-dec... same author wrote about their process

Useful, but complements existing tooling & falls short on the hard part

I work on Ship of Harkinian. We're sering more vibed libultraship ports. Yet to see a real success

New comment by __s in "Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding"

__s — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:32:45 +0000

I've often done same thing with encoding msgpack maps while streaming in key/value pairs

New comment by __s in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

__s — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:39:35 +0000

but I can't run Arch on the neo. literally unplayable

I have a fw13, best Linux laptop I've ever had, & I've bought System76 in the past

New comment by __s in "SF startup is testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims"

__s — Fri, 29 May 2026 03:04:39 +0000

> refrigerator shelf was cracked ... broken glass or dish ... wooden nightstand drawer was chipped

New comment by __s in "Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation"

__s — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:33:04 +0000

They know that "claude's the good one"

New comment by __s in "Claude Opus 4.8"

__s — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:06:06 +0000

"personality issues" I was able to tell that Opus 4.7 would take instructions more literally, which I appreciated once I calibrated my phrasing to be more precise (often asking to investigate issues, pre-4.7 it'd start making code changes instead of just giving write up). But I can see contexts where handling vague prompts would've just been worse

New comment by __s in "Claude Opus 4.8"

__s — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:59:27 +0000

> Indeed, current AI systems are more “cultivated” than “built,” for developers do not directly design every detail, but instead create a framework within which the intelligence “grows.”

New comment by __s in "Ferrari shares fall after launch of first EV as Jony Ive design proves divisive"

__s — Wed, 27 May 2026 04:50:02 +0000

stock has been going down all year, drop was just bump coming back down

markets are volatile, 6% on one ticker is noise

New comment by __s in "Canada losing top talent as workers head to the U.S."

__s — Tue, 26 May 2026 22:00:30 +0000

I'm pretty introverted & this was years ago. But I didn't run into other Canadians & overheard chatter being in open office layout