Posts by zwol@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #A4gRw2KBepiTT1oRtY by zwol@mastodon.social
2021-02-27T00:12:17Z
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@louispearson @PINE64 I Did Not Know That™. In fact, I thought the whole problem here was that they had exactly the same form factor and pinout, but the firmware could only handle the SIM card being in slot 0 for some reason.If they're not physically compatible, then it ought to be impossible to make the mistake OP is warning about, so I don't understand what's going on.
(DIR) Post #A4gaNcseePdiINbLTU by zwol@mastodon.social
2021-02-27T02:56:39Z
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@PINE64 @louispearson I see. It's unfortunate that the connector isn't (can't be?) designed to prevent people making this mistake.
(DIR) Post #A4yPVuiMcuI9GyoeGG by zwol@mastodon.social
2021-03-07T14:52:30Z
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I am so tired of cleaning up after old-school C programmers.
(DIR) Post #A4ysVUAsCR8rdAIbCK by zwol@mastodon.social
2021-03-07T22:45:32Z
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@veer66 Oh, just the usual thing, low level trickery that someone thought was clever, but it’s just bad
(DIR) Post #A4ysXagaxblCPC8lgu by zwol@mastodon.social
2021-03-07T22:45:56Z
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@veer66 Oh, the usual thing, low level trickery that someone thought was clever, but it’s just bad
(DIR) Post #A5JE9xrP0nDNBPNFfU by zwol@mastodon.social
2021-03-17T16:57:29Z
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@fribbledom ugh, I don’t want to vote for an arrow language and I don’t want to vote for anything built on the Java VM either :-(
(DIR) Post #A5JjUCsPzJtE7syu6C by zwol@mastodon.social
2021-03-18T00:06:24Z
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@shibayashi @fribbledom Any language where function signatures look like A -> B -> C -> D. ML and Haskell are the most popular examples. I don’t like them. I think they’re unreadable and also it’s a design error to rely so heavily on currying and argument order.
(DIR) Post #A5Ngs4Y94oG81K1joO by zwol@mastodon.social
2021-03-19T22:02:58Z
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@ManjaroARM Neither. F2FS or XFS, depending on what the device will be used for.
(DIR) Post #A5iHOfWNh3eg4Trrvs by zwol@mastodon.social
2021-03-29T18:16:12Z
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@djsundog @rob I gotchu https://research.owlfolio.org/scratchpad/flying-grandma.pdf
(DIR) Post #A6VMVZFCBBFSXL8Og4 by zwol@mastodon.social
2021-04-21T18:02:57Z
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@zacchiro @VickyRampin I've been an academic social science researcher. It's essential to understand that the core competence of a university IRB is the ethics of _medical_ research. That's what they were created to handle.The kinds of unethical research they understand, therefore, are the kind where the experiment directly causes bodily harm to participants, and the kind where the researchers' files contain embarrassing secrets about the participants (think "Patient J has syphilis").
(DIR) Post #A6VMVZg8Z0nbstjufg by zwol@mastodon.social
2021-04-21T18:06:54Z
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@zacchiro @VickyRampin I can very easily see how the UMN IRB didn't think this was human subjects research. The _kernel_ is harmed if the bad patches are applied, but that's not harm to a person.Making Greg K-H do a bunch of extra work to weed the bad patches back out of the kernel _is_, I would argue, harm to a person, but not the kind of harm they're institutionally set up to recognize.
(DIR) Post #A6VMVdvWljUF3myGDQ by zwol@mastodon.social
2021-04-21T18:09:32Z
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@zacchiro @VickyRampin The other angle the IRB ought to have picked up on, though, is the deception. I think there's a strong case that this is isomorphic to a psychology experiment involving lying to participants, which you're only supposed to do if there's no other way to get the data you need, and you're expected to tell people the truth after the experiment.
(DIR) Post #A6dmAuuiZJuHjg37Vw by zwol@mastodon.social
2021-04-26T14:10:23Z
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@Shamar @galaxis @zacchiro @VickyRampin The experiment may have been worth doing, but the execution was botched. They've both invalidated their own results, and poisoned the well for anyone wanting to do similar research in the future. This in turn means that genuinely malicious actors will probably find it *easier* to get their changes into Linux now.
(DIR) Post #A89OsRvN7UHCTFJzmq by zwol@mastodon.social
2021-06-10T18:09:30Z
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you know the game where someone starts it off like "what's a clock" and then someone else gives an obvious wrong answer like "a loose cloth garment worn over everything else to protect you from the weather" and then person 3 says "no, that's a cloak, a clock is a fictional semaphore system used to send messages long distances on the Discworld" and after that everyone corrects the previous person and gives another wrong punny answerwhat is the name of that game
(DIR) Post #A9efKG3wZVZWjzjlzs by zwol@mastodon.social
2021-07-25T15:21:33Z
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Does anyone know where I can order replacement "scissor" hinges for a PinebookPro keyboard? Got no help on their forums, and ordering an entire second keyboard to cannibalize, when all I need is four tiny pieces of plastic, seems unacceptably wasteful.
(DIR) Post #A9rD6KCfqsF49Hcpf6 by zwol@mastodon.social
2021-07-30T22:07:35Z
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You know what, I’m gonna do this too.
(DIR) Post #A9rD6Km7j4b9vED8uu by zwol@mastodon.social
2021-07-31T02:45:55Z
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1. UFOsThe universe is way too big for us to be the only intelligent life form out there. There are 10**21 stars in the observable universe. More than one of them has a planet whose inhabitants have built a radio telescope.However, I don't think it's plausible at all that extraterrestrial aliens have come to visit us *here*. The rocket equation is a harsh mistress.So what *are* those unidentified flying objects? I'm betting on experimental military aircraft, me. We know that does happen.
(DIR) Post #A9rD6OumKptklEI6xk by zwol@mastodon.social
2021-07-31T02:46:39Z
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2. HentaiNot my kink, but you do you.
(DIR) Post #A9rD6QS8cIB1WyuGbA by zwol@mastodon.social
2021-07-31T03:18:32Z
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3. Michel FoucaultI've never actually read any of his writing. Having skimmed his Wikipedia article, I can see why a lot of extremely online people have strong opinions about him, and I do not think I will join them.
(DIR) Post #A9rD6RsPK6mfwkClBQ by zwol@mastodon.social
2021-07-31T03:18:52Z
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If I keep getting likes I'm going to keep going through these in order, but please feel free to reply and ask for a specific one.