Instructor, author, developer. Creator of Beej's Guides.
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It's been great watching it turn into a real powerhouse over the years.
Are jackasses really a safe job? I know ChatGPT has been really happy and friendly recently, but it can still be a really effective jackass.
I hope they're not lying with the denial. If he stays, it'll drive left wingers to other options, increasing competition. And it might even drive right wingers to start buying EVs in quantity. 😁
Sorry to disappoint, but it was not. It was Double-Decker Pizza. Except this was a small local chain of two restaurants, not the one that you find on the internet today.
The number of bugs we encountered the last overseas flight we took were astounding. Anytime from printing errors to baggage checkin not working to the inflight entertainment system needing rebooting.
There are so many layers of dependencies on everything it's amazing it works at all.
The pizza place I worked at as a teen had this game and we had the key. So we'd pop it open and add tons of credits and play forever. This phrase is indelibly marked upon my brain.
Unless they've received notification to that effect. "Hey, y'all, we're considering anti-trust so save that shit."
It's illegal if antitrust action is anticipated, according to the article. That said, I know that most places I've worked have had a document retention policy that called for automatic deletion of most documents after some time period, like a year.
Yes, it's a lot worse. The particular difference is that one of these organizations has the power to disappear you without consequence.
I'll have to post it all somewhere sometime. None of my passwords are in there, but some of my account names are.
So close on mutt! :)
I have it set up so that it autoconverts all HTML messages to plain text as best as it can. If it's not good enough, I have a macro set up to launch the HTML version in Firefox so it's usable. (None of the images come through, which is potentially a feature.)
I did look into writing HTML mail with mutt, and it's even uglier than reading. The gist of it is to basically have a wrapper script that launches some kind of HTML editor, then builds the multipart message (maybe autoconverting HTML to text so you can have both) and headers, then launches mutt -H email.txt to prepare to send it. If it looks good, send it from Mutt as normal. I don't know how well this would work with attached inline images, but it sounds potentially quite painful.
But I don't regularly send HTML messages, so I haven't bothered with that route. I'd just bring up TB if I had to.
(I can say, for me, since I went back to mutt, I'm happier with email than I've been for decades. And my RAM is happier, too. But I probably spent 20 hours configuring it. And everyone probably hates my preformatted text. They get back at me by sending 30 MB HTML-only mails. 🤣)
I don't disagree about what most people want. Personally, I don't really care for the features, so I'm an outlier. The one thing I do miss on my 25-year-old Saturn is cruise control.
Plastic panels are awesome, BTW. 25 years and zero door dings.
I really like this concept. Definitely catches my attention. But I think minimalists are in the minority these days.
The absolute best thing about it was that after suffering under Microsoft's shitty operating systems for years, you were running a Unix-like on your own hardware. That part was amazing.
I built soooo many kernels. 😅
Another disinformation paradise. Go for it.
Trump blinks again.
Neat article about avoiding a memcpy in a circular buffer.
Sometimes, a seemingly simple and obvious solution can lead to a series of problems later on. This is especially true when adding retries.
I've never run a big system like this, but like the lead character in the story, I always figured exponential backoff would be enough. Turns out there's more.
Back in 1970, Sega introduced an arcade game that would pave the way for many of today's most popular video games. Known as Jet Rocket, the electromechanical marvel boasted several world-firsts – even though most people today don't know it ever existed.
This is a pretty cool analog arcade game. I never saw one when I was a kid... I'd have been hooked.
Explore the engineering of a car cigarette lighter through industrial CT scans, revealing an efficient analog design that operates without digital components.
This is an ad for something CT-scan-related, but it contains a good breakdown of how an old car cigarette lighter works. And it has a couple interactive CT Scan explorers past the video.
Vintage Infocom collection on eBay
Can be yours for a mere $155,000. (No, I'm not the seller, but I'm curious who is!)
GPT adventure game generator
A customizable interactive fiction novel that utilizes GPT. Playable straight from your terminal! - that-one-arab/gpt-interactive-novel
This coder rigged up GPT to create IF games.
Decoding C Compilation Process: From Source Code to Binary
Have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes when you write a C program? How does your code transform from lines of text into a fully functional binary executable? If you’ve been curious about the intricacies of the C program compilation process, you’ve come to the right place.