Posts by hyc@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #B0CpZb389Oet5RlVwW by hyc@mastodon.social
2025-11-13T11:48:14Z
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@nikitonsky maybe. The majority of code I've seen shows that not everybody is capable of writing a properly functioning cache, and most programmers shouldn't bother with it.
(DIR) Post #B0CpZdEY1uynrR7f16 by hyc@mastodon.social
2025-11-13T12:48:39Z
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@bayindirh @nikitonsky I suppose so. If you're writing code purely as an artistic/creative exercise, sure. Much like an unlimited number of artists can paint a given landscape. That's great when creating art for art's sake.But we usually don't write code just for the sake of writing it. Usually there's a utilitarian goal, and there are better ways of achieving those goals than writing everything from scratch.
(DIR) Post #B0IheuCYWTCMw2Ficq by hyc@mastodon.social
2025-11-16T10:24:24Z
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One of the best things about #StarTrek was its idealism and optimism for the future. More recent fiction seems obsessed with telling grungy hyper-realistic stories. I think that's garbage.Stories are for entertainment. We don't need to be reminded how cruel, vicious, and inhuman real world evil can be. We see it every day, that's not entertaining.Writing "realistic" stories with deeply flawed heroes to show their humanity does no one any favors.
(DIR) Post #B0IheyodMq2BFI6BX6 by hyc@mastodon.social
2025-11-16T10:25:42Z
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It's limiting your storytelling. Stick with 2 dimensional heroes and villains. The point of storytelling isn't to be another news broadcast. It's to imagine something better than what everyone knows in everyday life.Stop shaping your imagination to match reality. Start shaping reality to match your dreams.
(DIR) Post #B0IhkgTcSpZ66czOvQ by hyc@mastodon.social
2025-11-16T10:48:03Z
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@fox that too. Some eye candy is nice, but going overboard doesn't advance the story, it just drives up the cost of production.
(DIR) Post #B0IiFcHC8BGi3VvYqO by hyc@mastodon.social
2025-11-16T10:53:39Z
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@fox good question, I haven't really ranked them in my mind. TOS, TNG, SNW are all up there.
(DIR) Post #B0IkAxQwF2Q28MOJlo by hyc@mastodon.social
2025-11-16T11:15:11Z
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@fox Lower Decks was funny and fun, definitely. Not sure what message to take away from it.I rewatched DS9 recently. Binge watching definitely gets you into the characters more. But they were obviously aiming for gritty reality with war, political intrigue, espionage, etc. running rampant. The stories could have been set anywhere on 20th century Earth and they would've been the same, no need for a space station or a wormhole.
(DIR) Post #B0Qe2BinLWAAbkiYL2 by hyc@mastodon.social
2025-11-20T06:25:01Z
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@Archivist of course you can do anything. But IMO if you're delving deep into the dark and not focusing on light, you're actively harming your audience.
(DIR) Post #B0Qemxkr5kwMtvz9Ae by hyc@mastodon.social
2025-11-20T06:52:31Z
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@Archivist I personally don't need authors to show me how horrific the world is. I can see that very clearly already. So can anyone who has any contact with daily news around the world.
(DIR) Post #B0QqbY6xICO5dLe8Ui by hyc@mastodon.social
2025-11-20T09:03:16Z
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@stefano I've always been disgusted with the proliferation of docker and containerization. Just insane.At this point, application vendors should be shipping monolithic apps with statically linked libraries. No need for any further isolation from system dependencies.
(DIR) Post #B0dmNPNIOOfVoUeEXg by hyc@mastodon.social
2025-11-26T14:48:43Z
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@futurebird been researched, yes https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692324000267
(DIR) Post #B0dp8ZDHpY7vqVa5Fw by hyc@mastodon.social
2025-11-26T15:18:57Z
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@aral even worse - Ireland has plentiful wind power but even before all the data centers, the power didn't drive down local electricity prices. All that power was exported, because that was more profitable for the power companies. Privatization is theft. All of those utility companies should be fully nationalized.
(DIR) Post #B0m0OSw1avDDldyCUS by hyc@mastodon.social
2025-11-30T08:51:47Z
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Hm, this comment from 88 days ago is showing in my google alert as 2 days old. Google is srsly messed up.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45101592But as to the question: #LMDB doesn't store counts of child nodes in each parent page. Doing so would certainly allow for setting a cursor directly to an Nth record, and redhat even submitted a ticket requesting this feature but it didn't seem important enough at the time, and seemed like too much storage cost for a rarely used function.
(DIR) Post #B0yDIaPUWFJoVznZjc by hyc@mastodon.social
2025-12-05T14:34:38Z
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was just watching a scifi flick involving a black hole.If you were building a probe to send in, knowing it'd get spaghettified, how would you build it?Me, I'd use elastic materials for all the circuits, parts, everything. Make each unit as tiny as possible, to minimize the potential shear forces. And use a swarm of them, with mesh radios, so they can relay signals and continue transmitting as they descend.I bet they'd work better than these movie designs...
(DIR) Post #B0yvAag42NVp0iY2fQ by hyc@mastodon.social
2025-12-06T19:21:42Z
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So, LLMs are a type of GenAI, Generative AI. What other types are there? Are computer chess opponents AI? Was Deep Blue an AI? What makes them "intelligent"? Just the fact that they can win at a particular task?I wrote a computerized Starfleet Battles player on an Apple ][ back in the 1980s. It had the data tables for a handful of ships and their weapon specs, so for a given pair of opposing ships, it could always move to optimal firing range to do more damage than the opponent.
(DIR) Post #B0yvAc3qtQ8PImgYNs by hyc@mastodon.social
2025-12-06T19:24:02Z
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But that made its moves 100% repeatable, predictable. So I added "fuzzy logic" to randomize its moves, giving a percent chance on each turn that it would choose less optimal moves. Making it unpredictable, and more human like, actually made it harder to beat. Was that AI?
(DIR) Post #B12sE6RUryaTAOYc40 by hyc@mastodon.social
2025-12-08T11:47:17Z
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@alarig @job y'know, you could have just stored the names in forward order, and set the MDB_REVERSEKEY option...
(DIR) Post #B1eAgpxkTV9UwelYi8 by hyc@mastodon.social
2025-12-26T17:07:31Z
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@gsuberland the actual bug report was made public a week ago. https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-115508The bug was reported a week before that. So is this really a 0day?
(DIR) Post #B2hjm7hUCHvlBMDsga by hyc@mastodon.social
2026-01-26T16:04:01Z
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Dear bug hunters / fuzz testers: a one-shot command line tool is not a service. As such, feeding an invalid input to such a tool does not trigger a "denial of service". It simply causes a program to exit, that was already going to exit anyway. Categorizing such error-triggered exits as DoS is incorrect and any bug reports you submit to the #OpenLDAP Project categorized as such will be immediately closed as Invalid.Stop wasting our time, thanks.
(DIR) Post #B2hjmCeplZmQYa1KkK by hyc@mastodon.social
2026-01-26T16:11:21Z
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If anybody out there is doing the equivalent of`curl http://example.com/malicious.ldif | ldapmodify`WTH are you thinking... The right way to disseminate public LDAP info across a network is to load it into slapd and let others ldapsearch against it directly. Not take a roundtrip thru HTTP or other irrelevant protocols.