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New comment by sk5t in "LotusNotes"

sk5t — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:11:11 +0000

Notes was simple enough to allow folks with no computer science background or even sympathy for the machine to build teetering, badly-performing things.

However, even with a mind towards efficiency and minimalism, performance at roughly hundreds of thousands of documents was extremely elusive.

New comment by sk5t in "OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)"

sk5t — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:36:05 +0000

Yes, it very closely parallels the “one weird trick” bait from a decade ago.

New comment by sk5t in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

sk5t — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:02:27 +0000

Simply require per-use parental consent for fopen.

New comment by sk5t in "Claude Cowork exfiltrates files"

sk5t — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 23:44:27 +0000

Is this a serious question? Whom do you imagine would offer such a guarantee?

Moreover, finding a more effective way to revoke a non-controlled key seems a tall order.

New comment by sk5t in "Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1"

sk5t — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 01:35:29 +0000

To the best of my knowledge, Redis has never blocked for replication, although you can configure healthy replication state as a prerequisite to accept writes.

New comment by sk5t in "Generative AI as Seniority-Biased Technological Change"

sk5t — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:33:24 +0000

How does one concretely prepare for socio-economic collapse, beyond taking a long position in canned goods?

New comment by sk5t in "Massive Attack turns concert into facial recognition surveillance experiment"

sk5t — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 02:58:41 +0000

New band albums are rumored and hinted-at, from time to time, by Geoff Barrow, though it seems hard to say if there will be another.

Bear in mind Beth made "Out of Season" apart from Portishead several years before the release of "Third." I wouldn't think her recent solo work indicates a split.

New comment by sk5t in "Massive Attack turns concert into facial recognition surveillance experiment"

sk5t — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:19:59 +0000

I'll put my hoping energy into a new Portishead album instead.

New comment by sk5t in "Don't use Redis as a rate limiter"

sk5t — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 02:19:42 +0000

Decent article, with some technical misunderstandings about MULTI/EXEC, perhaps unnecessary skepticism about Lua, though I certainly do wish Redis had richer built-in functions for CAS and the like.

New comment by sk5t in "If you're remote, ramble"

sk5t — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 23:15:15 +0000

Yes - not only is Slack search underpowered, but also records management folks are likely to configure pruning of Slack content older than a couple years or so. This is IME less likely to be a problem with wiki pages.

New comment by sk5t in "David Attenborough at 99: 'I will not see how the story ends'"

sk5t — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:15:27 +0000

Phoebe Bridgers also. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ9-xN6dCW4

New comment by sk5t in "Sea snail teeth top Kevlar, titanium as strongest material (2015)"

sk5t — Tue, 06 May 2025 12:03:12 +0000

Water being mostly incompressible is not the same as having high compressive strength. Liquid water makes for a poor tooth or structural column.

New comment by sk5t in "Why Lotus Domino? (2024)"

sk5t — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 04:03:22 +0000

> That's just adding a row into the 'Outbox' table

No tables and no rows in Notes. Composing an email would create a new document using the "Mail" form; clicking the "Send" button would run a shockingly confusing script that would cause the document to render in the style of a sent email; some awful LotusScript "Agent," the details of which I've long forgotten, would soon thereafter urge the Domino MTA to send mail based on its apprehension of the new document in your mailbox database.

New comment by sk5t in "MLB says Yankees’ new “torpedo bats” are legal and likely coming"

sk5t — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 01:17:51 +0000

Are those runners and bicyclists not confused? Taking a risk in golf could save a stroke or cost several; are runners making mistakes like "run harder for a bit but fall into a pond" or "run harder for a bit but exceed limits and take an injury"?

New comment by sk5t in "They're Close to My Body: A Hagiography of Nine Inch Nails and Robin Finck (2020)"

sk5t — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 00:35:57 +0000

Chase it with sudden repeated exposure to "hermeneutics"!

New comment by sk5t in "Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'"

sk5t — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 03:52:13 +0000

> very big, very blunt, rocket-powered sledgehammer to the budget

A simplistic approach--sounds nice to simpletons, won't have the effect they might desire.

New comment by sk5t in "A physicist's guide to ice cream"

sk5t — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 15:35:53 +0000

Costco’s “super premium vanilla” is quite nice—-better than any other mass market vanilla.

New comment by sk5t in "Climbers Using Xenon Gas, Which Is Banned in Sports, to Climb Everest"

sk5t — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 23:52:52 +0000

Visiting just one page on this wacky website absolutely trashed my browser's (Firefox) back-history.

New comment by sk5t in "Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past the Steam Deck"

sk5t — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 13:40:13 +0000

Agreed, it’s worth cleaning contacts and reseating the memory modules to start with.

New comment by sk5t in "Bill requiring US agencies to share source code with each other becomes law"

sk5t — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 16:47:07 +0000

> JVM exploits from the last years

Entirely user/library serialization or fine cryptographic issues, and not the VM, no?