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New comment by dullcrisp in "Who's the smartest corvid?"

dullcrisp — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:06:01 +0000

I meant about being either evil or stupid. Never mind.

New comment by dullcrisp in "Who's the smartest corvid?"

dullcrisp — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:27:16 +0000

Speak for yourself.

New comment by dullcrisp in "A visual introduction to kernel functions"

dullcrisp — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 01:18:46 +0000

Sadly those of us hoping to learn about making popcorn are forced to look elsewhere.

New comment by dullcrisp in "Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion"

dullcrisp — Fri, 29 May 2026 09:31:31 +0000

Wouldn’t any Volkswagen keys need to cross the network to get into the Secure Enclave? Or couldn’t you exploit the Volkswagen app itself?

New comment by dullcrisp in "The Lone Lisp Heap"

dullcrisp — Fri, 29 May 2026 03:03:02 +0000

That’s the answer I found too. With pictures even https://stackoverflow.com/a/662285

New comment by dullcrisp in "The Lone Lisp Heap"

dullcrisp — Fri, 29 May 2026 01:19:55 +0000

Yeah upon looking it up it appears to have nothing to do with the data structure.

When they were doing a linear scan to find a large enough free block I was waiting for a heap to come into the picture, but apparently it’s not done that way.

New comment by dullcrisp in "The Lone Lisp Heap"

dullcrisp — Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:21 +0000

I don’t know too much about this, but strictly based on the name I assumed that you should use a heap. Is that not right?

New comment by dullcrisp in "What color is your function? (2015)"

dullcrisp — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:17:10 +0000

If you haven’t taken a lock, any other code can start executing at any time, so any invariant you might have established on one line may no longer be true on the next line.

If you don’t depend on anything mutable that anyone else can modify then this is mitigated, but that’s a very specific discipline you have to abide by.

New comment by dullcrisp in "Everyone Against Us (2023)"

dullcrisp — Mon, 25 May 2026 23:48:54 +0000

Because the police violated the constitution by breaking down his door without a warrant, and were apparently doing so as a matter of practice?

New comment by dullcrisp in "Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens"

dullcrisp — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:49:50 +0000

I agree we should focus more on reviving ancient horrors.

New comment by dullcrisp in "JWT is a scam and your app doesn't need it"

dullcrisp — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:52:48 +0000

Is revocation really such a hard problem? Seems you could store a set of revoked tokens in memory and have a background task update it every couple of seconds. I guess it’s a separate set of infrastructure to maintain but I don’t see why it’s always presented as the thing that undermines an entire authentication scheme.

I guess if you need your tokens revoked this millisecond it’ll require an extra synchronous call on every request but that seems like a unlikely requirement. And not that any of this matter for your 10 user app anyway I guess.

New comment by dullcrisp in "Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda"

dullcrisp — Fri, 22 May 2026 23:00:52 +0000

I’m glad it basically worked out but damn do we take free next-day delivery for granted.

New comment by dullcrisp in "Google changes its search box"

dullcrisp — Wed, 20 May 2026 02:02:29 +0000

I guess maybe after the thousandth time they had to type it out.

New comment by dullcrisp in "Dumb ways for an open source project to die"

dullcrisp — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:57:51 +0000

Do you all really have your random public git repos accidentally being used in production by Facebook? No one’s ever made one of my one-commit git repos a key component of corporate infrastructure.

Or do you mean that the meaning of what it is to “publish” something has shifted?

New comment by dullcrisp in "Google changes its search box"

dullcrisp — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:11:43 +0000

When did they change the "query" to q?

New comment by dullcrisp in "Colonization of Venus"

dullcrisp — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:37:48 +0000

We’d have a settlement in the Sahara desert if it took six months to get there and there were something interesting there. We have one in Antarctica.

New comment by dullcrisp in "Most Americans don't trust AI – or the people in charge of it (2025)"

dullcrisp — Mon, 18 May 2026 05:09:00 +0000

Stanley is a toponymic surname, a contraction of stan (a form of "stone") and leigh (meadow), later also being used as a masculine given name.

New comment by dullcrisp in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

dullcrisp — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:20:53 +0000

And the bots training the bots are just bots that were trained to train bots?

New comment by dullcrisp in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

dullcrisp — Fri, 15 May 2026 01:44:04 +0000

developéer

New comment by dullcrisp in "The Power of a Free Popsicle (2018)"

dullcrisp — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:36:43 +0000

Okay pretend I said baby carrots if you prefer.

I’m sure some companies do cynically provide perks to try to buy or dazzle people, but I don’t think that that’s the only reason that anyone does it.