Hacker News: deadletters

New comment by deadletters in "The Great AI Weirding"

deadletters — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 01:49:41 +0000

I thought this was going to be a biography of Weird Al

New comment by deadletters in "LinkedIn shelved plan to migrate to Microsoft Azure cloud"

deadletters — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 17:42:50 +0000

Me: I don't get how the GUI is confusing.

Seriously: don't use the GUI. Do you use the GUI for anything else?

Use Az pwsh or Az Cli.

New comment by deadletters in "Cooking and bird safety"

deadletters — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 19:45:57 +0000

Regular pans?

New comment by deadletters in "Good times create weak men (2019)"

deadletters — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 14:50:18 +0000

look at my strong fingers that type the good things

New comment by deadletters in "We have used too many levels of abstractions"

deadletters — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 15:24:39 +0000

Wow what a cool article I feel compelled to share my thoughts. > 338 comments.

Nvm all good.

New comment by deadletters in "A revelation about trees is messing with climate calculations"

deadletters — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 22:13:15 +0000

It is, in fact

New comment by deadletters in "Ship of Fools"

deadletters — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 14:43:47 +0000

It is legitimately unethical to spend money in Florida right now

New comment by deadletters in "Ship of Fools"

deadletters — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 14:37:31 +0000

Why would you go to Florida

New comment by deadletters in "Shit life syndrome"

deadletters — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 17:41:03 +0000

I also wish the world was fundamentally different.

New comment by deadletters in "C and C++ prioritize performance over correctness"

deadletters — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 18:58:40 +0000

There are a lot of warning and error options. Turn the guiderails and sanitizers on during development and testing. Turn the optimizations on when you ship.

Check out: -wall -werror https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Warning-Options.html

New comment by deadletters in "Man spends entire career mastering crappy codebase"

deadletters — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 16:18:14 +0000

That first place sounds awesome

New comment by deadletters in "X, the moonshot factory"

deadletters — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 17:04:41 +0000

Thank you

New comment by deadletters in "What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD (2021)"

deadletters — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 19:12:53 +0000

You're right! Moreover that's sort of how all exploits work if you really zoom out.

New comment by deadletters in "Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption"

deadletters — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 15:34:34 +0000

I'm jk sorry for confuse :P

New comment by deadletters in "CWE Top Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses"

deadletters — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 15:33:10 +0000

The compiler can't add checks into code it hasn't compiled. External modules, unless they are doing weird things which you do want to know about, should not generate ASan reports... on Linux.

New comment by deadletters in "Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption"

deadletters — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 15:06:30 +0000

Reported

New comment by deadletters in "Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption"

deadletters — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 15:05:46 +0000

Wait until you hear about search warrants

New comment by deadletters in "CWE Top Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses"

deadletters — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 13:24:17 +0000

ASan is better for finding memory corruption afaik

New comment by deadletters in "CWE Top Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses"

deadletters — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 13:16:56 +0000

And both have existing tools to find those bugs that people often just don't use.

New comment by deadletters in "The best place to drink is the emptiest bar in the city"

deadletters — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 17:04:07 +0000

A lot of the world has close cultural ties and a shared history with Britain for some reason.