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Re:How to Quit Cars on Thursday May 18, 2023 @12:20PM (#35990264)
My car was $1,500 and my insurance is ~$35. I'm lucky enough to be able to bother mechanics to teach me repairs though.
Re:Are We Sixel Yet on Sunday May 14, 2023 @12:28PM (#35939132)
how many cat pictures do you have for this to work?
Re:Game to make an LLM reveal a secret password on Friday May 12, 2023 @06:08PM (#35923110)
Vous avez trahi ses instructions...
In causal speech confidence in an answer is communicated; though it might be just as a pause, or even through tone.

Not the sort of data we'll have crop up in CommonCrawl.

Re:Cantonese Font with Pronunciation on Monday May 08, 2023 @11:29PM (#35869861)
Japanese has two tones, which is something I didn't know until recently.
Re:Hacker News Highlights on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @10:26PM (#35810549)
Huh, what's the difference between /{top,best}comments?
It could be that they didn't observe it long enough to get enough data to do the checks tho, no?
Re:JavaScript private class fields considered harmful on Saturday April 29, 2023 @10:45PM (#35759293)

  let m = obj.method
  let res = m(arg)
How much does that metric matter? Especially in the context of hybrids with regenerative braking.

For comparison a Model S weighs over 4,500 lbs.

Re:Why I'm no longer writing stories with AI on Friday April 28, 2023 @06:41PM (#35748044)
Mobile Garage Band is actually pretty good from what I can tell, for an example.
Is it not "be privileged" or to "have privileges"? It's not as though it were quantifiable—"privilege checks" (the decade old boogeymeme) notwithstanding.
Re:Inkscape is hiring: Accelerating the GTK4 migration on Friday April 21, 2023 @05:18AM (#35651409)
Still has the referrer troll.
Re:The Soul of an Old Machine on Monday April 17, 2023 @12:24AM (#35596836)
I'm curious why you specified IRL.
The Yukon recently moved to MST without DST (to ditch DST)
The one time I read the article before the comments...
That's Newphie exclusive innit?
There seems to be a typo on the landing screenshot: lunettee instead of lunette.

Looks neat tho.

Re:ChatGPT Plugins on Friday March 24, 2023 @04:48PM (#35295238)
Except the one that killed Nujabes.
Re:Spelunking Apple’s Open Source on Friday March 17, 2023 @07:35PM (#35204334)
My '08 MacBook has calculations via Spotlight.

Not to mention the screenshot tool (including Command-Shift-4, Spacebar) which works immediately upon keypress unlike the new Windows built-in screenshotter. Which also doesn't hide its UI properly and may leave a small 1-pixel bar at the top of your screenshot! It's insane how poorly crafted Windows is, and yet it flourishes.

Re:Gut microbes could drive brain disorders on Saturday February 25, 2023 @11:57PM (#34943179)
Read that as "Eat, Pray similarly."
Re:Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone on Saturday February 25, 2023 @10:19PM (#34942725)
You're mistaken; the iPhone 5s--10 years old come Autumn--received a security update on January 23rd (iOS 12.5.7).

As the first 64-bit phone and the first phone with a proper Secure Enclave (TPM+biometric auth) it's received a lot of love from Apple.

Re:In Praise of Alpine and APK on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @09:54AM (#34881843)
Here you're electing to remain on the happy but bloated path.

However sometimes it may be worth to venture out a bit in exchange for reducing code, or for using code that aligns more with your philosophies.

Re:My favourite 3 lines of CSS on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @07:42AM (#34880455)
43ms is quite a slowdown isn't it? Handful of joules at least.
Re:The Philosophy of Computer Science on Monday February 20, 2023 @11:28PM (#34876590)
FWIW, Peter Naur (N of BNF) said CS ought have been named Datalogy.
Re:Password protect a static HTML page on Saturday February 18, 2023 @04:12PM (#34851141)
Sounds above my (current) head.

Here I thought GCM was some modern foolproof/footgunless design.

Re:Password protect a static HTML page on Saturday February 18, 2023 @03:51PM (#34850955)
From what I shallowly researched; GCM's nonce seems limited to 12 bytes by convention only. That nonce reuse is so fatal seems absurd to me.

Would "salting" the key safely tackle the problem?

Put explicitly;

  send <- nonce || salt || ciphertext
  recv -> decrypt(ciphertext, nonce, pbkdf(pass) || salt)
[edit: apply salt outside of the kdf]
Re:Why is Rosetta 2 fast? on Thursday November 10, 2022 @03:34AM (#33543773)
The transparent APFS migration was one heck of a feat.
Re:You Might Also Like on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @08:50AM (#33518883)
Consider using ifuse from https://libimobiledevice.org/ to access the SQLite database with all your Photos metadata.

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