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New comment by cool_beanz in "Microsoft Edit"

cool_beanz — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 01:23:55 +0000

Nano gang

New comment by cool_beanz in "New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles"

cool_beanz — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 07:52:44 +0000

I think it's about tracking and profiling? Not wanting to be part of that is a valid choice and shouldn't be punished in any way. Forcing a certain behavior or else you're considered suspicious is pretty twisted and dystopian. Not my problem whoever is doing this can't find a better way of separating threats from certain privacy conscious mental profiles.

New comment by cool_beanz in "Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code over time"

cool_beanz — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 14:58:58 +0000

In a world where code is written more and more by LLMs, these random human generated comments might hold anthropological value in some future.

Think of it akin to us studying cave paintings, wondering what whoever left their handprint on the cave wall was thinking when they did it. So these ancient lines of code might be studied in some future by our descendants, or whatever form we'll take. Interesting to perceive the author's frustration with said bit of code.

By comparison LLM generated code is neat and tidy with clean and clear comments. Plenty of that to go around for the future. No need to suck the soul out of every bit of code we currently have.

New comment by cool_beanz in "Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code over time"

cool_beanz — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 14:43:09 +0000

Adds some humanity and soul to it.

New comment by cool_beanz in "[dead]"

cool_beanz — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:18:14 +0000

Punishment's main goal is to discourage the behavior. If old one doesn't cut it anymore they usually make it worse, no matter the times we live in, or subject. That's how it goes, anything to stop bad behavior. Saying this as an outsider, not even from the US.

New comment by cool_beanz in "[dead]"

cool_beanz — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:12:33 +0000

Have you tried not setting other people's property on fire? Seems to work fine for me and basically everyone I know.

New comment by cool_beanz in "No more boot loader: Please use the kernel instead"

cool_beanz — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 04:23:46 +0000

>I need the flexibity to boot different OS kernels. AFAIK, UEFI offers no such flexibility.

Yes it does, I use it with two kernels, just have different entry for each stub in UEFI. Whenever I want to boot the non-default kernel I just hit F11 (for BIOS boot menu, on my motherboard) and choose the boot option. You just need to add the boot options in UEFI, pointing to the corresponding EFI files. They also have the kernel command line parameters baked into them and you can set your desired ones (silent boot whatever).

New comment by cool_beanz in "No more boot loader: Please use the kernel instead"

cool_beanz — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 04:18:48 +0000

I just have two kernels with two boot options in BIOS. I just hit F11 at boot time and choose a BIOS boot option for either kernel. Of-course, you need to add the entries in UEFI, either from UEFI shell either with some tool (efibootmgr). This scheme also supports secure booting and silent booting. The stubs are signed after being generated.

New comment by cool_beanz in "No more boot loader: Please use the kernel instead"

cool_beanz — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 04:06:20 +0000

You can have command line parameters baked into the EFISTUB. I also have two kernels, so there's two UKIs on /efi, and I have both added as separate boot options in BIOS.

New comment by cool_beanz in "No more boot loader: Please use the kernel instead"

cool_beanz — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 04:03:35 +0000

There's kernel command line parameters that can clean it up without a bootloader.

New comment by cool_beanz in "Show HN: Psfiles – a CLI tool to monitor file system activity of a Linux process"

cool_beanz — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 09:54:54 +0000

...cough, ps aux, cough...

New comment by cool_beanz in "McDonald's Making Job Applicants Take Weird AI Personality Tests"

cool_beanz — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 00:08:36 +0000

It's like they are screening for people who are most likely to take abuse without pushback.

New comment by cool_beanz in "Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could possibly imagine’"

cool_beanz — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 03:32:48 +0000

The Anthropic Principle explains why you are asking the question, not why the proton has that charge. Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_natural_selection

New comment by cool_beanz in "USB memory sticks are getting worse"

cool_beanz — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 03:28:01 +0000

>If flash media is to be used to store anything for an extended period, use high-quality storage hardware, and keep it somewhere cool, as high temperatures may accelerate data loss.

Interesting, I never thought of that.