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New comment by eequah9L in "What happened to nerds?"

eequah9L — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:23:33 +0000

Hm, on each interview since ever, every time the inevitable "where do you see yourself in X years" question popped up, I was like, I have no ambition of getting promoted to managers, if that's what you mean. I like coding. I want to keep coding. I can advise juniors if _that's_ what you mean. But I want to code.

And here I am. Coding is becoming management in front of my eyes.

Meh :-|

New comment by eequah9L in "FSFE supporters affected: Payment provider Nexi cancelled us"

eequah9L — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 08:31:23 +0000

> Over the past few months, our former payment provider Nexi S.p.A. (“Nexi”) requested access to private data, which we understood to be specifically the usernames and passwords of our supporters.

I must be missing something, but why is there an expectation that clear text passwords would even be known?

New comment by eequah9L in "Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content"

eequah9L — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 11:34:26 +0000

E.g. https://alfy.blog/2024/10/19/linking-directly-to-web-page-co...

New comment by eequah9L in "Jd – JSON Diff and Patch"

eequah9L — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 14:35:23 +0000

I'm probably missing something obvious, but diff seems to be handling this just fine?

    # diff -u <(echo '[{"a": "b"}, {"c": "d"}, {"e": "f"}]' | jq) <(echo '[{"a": "b"}, {"e": "f"}]' | jq)
    --- /dev/fd/63 2024-09-09 16:31:23.376841575 +0200
    +++ /dev/fd/62 2024-09-09 16:31:23.376841575 +0200
    @@ -3,9 +3,6 @@
       "a": "b"
       },
       {
    -    "c": "d"
    -  },
    -  {
         "e": "f"
       }
     ]

New comment by eequah9L in "What's the point of std:monostate? You can't do anything with it"

eequah9L — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 09:19:48 +0000

Yeah. The design pattern sounds like there is one state, and it is shared. What STL has looks like, all instances look the same, hence only one state is possible. They are homonyms with slightly different etymologies.

New comment by eequah9L in "Entering text in the terminal is complicated"

eequah9L — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 19:00:27 +0000

Yeah, I have my doubts about the claim. I forgot what I read way back when as an intro book, but I suspect it was more like a month in my case, if that. But I remember having been surprised at various points that there was an undo (C-_), and a clipboard (C-y to paste) including a history (M-y). So yeah, I guess it depends on the scope.

Maybe it's a hyperbole? Dunno, doesn't really read that way.

New comment by eequah9L in "Will we have a negative leap second? [pdf] (2022)"

eequah9L — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 10:16:16 +0000

An option if it gets way off would be to just express it as TZ shift. Current rate seems to be about a second every two years, so we have some hundreds of years before we need to even shift by 15 minutes. An amount of divergence that I suspect would not really be even noticeable, especially as it develops over hundreds of years. The TZ code is used widely and regularly and systems tend to know how to handle it. Leap seconds are always a bit of an adventure from what I understand. (I'm not a sysadmin, so I don't know the details.)

Like -- I don't know, but is it actually important that the solar day is tied to "wall clock day" so snugly? So what if it's a couple minutes off...?

New comment by eequah9L in "AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd by looking at them"

eequah9L — Wed, 29 May 2024 09:43:27 +0000

I think you meant "I don't doubt"? Because none of what you said sounds like a counterargument to what the parent said.

New comment by eequah9L in "Bossware is a big legal risk"

eequah9L — Wed, 15 May 2024 22:14:05 +0000

Plug in a second mouse then?

The trick that I heard is to just place the mouse on a clock. The second hand jiggles the mouse every minute. Can be stashed away in a drawer or something. Never tried this though.

New comment by eequah9L in "Digital forgeries are hard"

eequah9L — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 09:58:16 +0000

OK, I suppose this could be arranged. The seal has to be over the whole of the "back side" of the envelope, where the flap is. Then put the address and the postage over that, and the post office stamps it.

What confused me was how you would achieve post office stamping over a seal that's on the wrong side of the envelope, where the flap is.

New comment by eequah9L in "Digital forgeries are hard"

eequah9L — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 12:31:24 +0000

You send the envelope unsealed, then seal & stamp it later.

New comment by eequah9L in "Python 3.13 Gets a JIT"

eequah9L — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 16:22:09 +0000

I think they mean that a lot of runtime of any benchmark is going to be spent in the C bits of the standard library, and therefore not subject to the JIT. Only the glue code and the bookkeeping or whatnot that the benchmark introduces would be improved by the JIT. This reduces the impact that the JIT can make.

New comment by eequah9L in "Cog: Use Python in your source files to generate pieces of code (2021)"

eequah9L — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 11:20:35 +0000

I used m4 to that effect to generate some set-like and map-like strongly-typed classes for a j2me project. Must have been 15 years ago.

For C and C++ in particular, X macros are another technique that can be used to generate boilerplate nicely. I use that quite a bit to this day, even in C++, where it's not needed as much due to templates.

New comment by eequah9L in "XCurl"

eequah9L — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 09:39:39 +0000

I think it is. The capitalization is like that because the project name is xCurl, with x. Maybe they should have called it eCurl?

New comment by eequah9L in "Psytrance Guide"

eequah9L — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 14:16:16 +0000

FWIW even in my metal days I recognized that the kind of (mostly black) metal that I enjoyed was fairly close to some of my brother's techno that I happened liking. All those droning guitars, layers of synth and screeching vocals are, experience-wise, quite similar to a deep techno DJ set. A music to work to, rather than to analyze -- I guess that's the value I find in it.

Also, I don't listen to hardcore / horror core techno much, but I find it striking how the artists adopt the imagery and themes that I would traditionally associate with metal: horrors, monsters, final battles for future of humanity, etc.

New comment by eequah9L in "The Awk book’s 60-line version of Make"

eequah9L — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 09:26:31 +0000

I'm with you on this, but is there a way to force input file to read in AWK? That would be a reason to choose the while loop over AWK's implicit iteration. In particular, overriding FILENAME in BEGIN does not do anything.

New comment by eequah9L in "Get a cable modem, go to jail (1999)"

eequah9L — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 13:36:56 +0000

I think it's playing a similar argument as the GP with US-guns-per-Czech-person. OK, Czechia is a bigger part of Europe than Montana is of US, but it looks as if Montana was picked to show how the original argument is invalid.

New comment by eequah9L in "Why write?"

eequah9L — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 14:35:34 +0000

I like how this applies to commit messages and patchset cover letters as well. You write the whys and wherefores to both explain to others what's going on, as well as to make sure you understand yourself. For sure that increases your audience, nobody cared about your fix before! And you need to narrate all this -- a patch that fixes an issue should read a little bit like a whodunnit. What the issue is, how to trigger it, what the impact is, how the patch fixes it.

New comment by eequah9L in "Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British accents?"

eequah9L — Mon, 15 May 2023 14:21:47 +0000

I don't think it's anything "reasonable". Like, OK, there might be objective reasons why you need to clarify which technical term you mean by a word that has multiple meanings in your native language, and use (typically) English to clear it up.

But I think most of the time it's just seen as hip, interesting, an extra flavor (flavour?). I do this occasionally -- sprinkle a foreign phrase here and there in my native Czech when I see that it fits and the other party might get it. More if I'm drunk. Some of my friends do it as well, in some social settings a number of jokes could be foreign language references. On the other hand, some people find it infuriating, as you note.

New comment by eequah9L in "Donkey Kong Recreated Using 6,400 Post-it Notes (2007)"

eequah9L — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 08:26:51 +0000

For me, all the image URL's end up in a slash. Open in new tab, cut the slash, the image loads.