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How do you extract the last (largest) entry for each normalized key from the sorted list? What is the command line function?

What’s the word for when snark backfires?

Actually early genx. I don’t think most millennials were old enough for a lot of the jokes in 90’s simpsons as they were young teens. But glad you got it!

Go try your method and spot the bug. If you can’t, then respond and I’ll tell you. hint: you need one more manipulation to find the answer before or after the sort, there’s a command line version of it but it uses .. a hash.

I know. I’m talking about Perl. Try to keep up.

What’s nostalgic to me is that this is such a classic Perl pattern: hashing manipulated strings to find relationships. Prior to Perl doing this was painful. Boost wasn’t a thing. Python was in its cradle and Java was still struggling with beans. Perl removed the barriers between complex coding ideas and an implementation that C wasn’t ready for. The time from thought to prototype was near instant compared to current compiled languages.

Jeremy’s Iron

What a painfully simple oversight that I’m sure the vast majority of programmers would overlook because the most popular languages are interpreted ones that natively support arbitrary precision bigints.

1Password literally asks you to print out your private key. Yet their hygiene is lauded.

I thought this was a real paper at first.

An easier and more reliable way to make money is to sell it to neighboring countries that need energy. Like they had been doing. Seems to me a little corrupt birdie told them about BTC and their ruling class wanted in on another way to hide wealth. Like every other use of BTC

The EFF has had privacy guidelines for decades that cover this. Click on the menu for a list of sites and videos to help improve your privacy hygiene: https://www.eff.org/

Brands that never die are called necrobrands? Necro means of death. More like immortal brands.

How would I find the CVE's on sudo/su? I opened up mitre.org and cve.org, but searches for sudo/su brought up hundreds of issues (or more), and most of them were not about sudo/su. (It's a bit like searching for "The The"'s music on early Google.)

Because then you end up with multiple versions of a critical tool, which drift out of sync, and create more vulnerabilities.

(e.g., look at the bluetooth/hci interface on linux.)

Not all of them. Depends on the remote that comes with it though. Some remotes don’t have a screen to save money and you need a phone for that style.

I built a home security system using PoE CCTV cameras, a small linux box, and copious use of GStreamer. Yes I know there are hundreds of these on GitHub, but I looked at dozens that were awful (sorry, Motion).

At first I tried all kinds of methods to turn it on only when there was something interesting to avoid drowning in terabytes of data, detecting things like: cars, people, animals. I tried classical image processing methods, and tools like Motion, then tried similar image compression algs to find significant macroblocks; then I tried all types of methods in OpenCV; next came several neural nets with off-the-shelf YOLO/SSD object detection (using Google TFUs, Nvidia Jetsons), I even tried retraining the networks with my own tiny dataset.

In the end, everything sucked with too many false positives blowing up my cloud alert SMS traffic to myself. So now I just record 6 cameras nonstop to files. I don't get the benefit alerts, but nothing much happens, and if it does, I have history recorded.

It was a fun project, I tried all kinds of codecs, cameras, languages, frameworks, hardware, etc. I even started out trying to do custom battery-powered wireless device using a raw Chinese MIPI CCDs and building my own WiFI station. I spent over 3 years on it, just to end up with your basic CCTV box. But it was fun!

One of the claims about attention disorders IIRC is that it only affects thing people having to do things they don’t like. Which seems a bit sketchy to me so I probably am misunderstanding but the idea is even kids with adhd can play Minecraft for a day straight because they like it but can’t do math.

Are they really that noisy? I fly 10" drones and once they are about 30 ft away you can't really hear them. 3" and 5" drones are silent at 30ft on a calm day.

Simple: don't use your phone. They make remotes that have screens built in.

No way I give them access. I even have them connect to a locked down SSID in my house LAN.

I've always been baffled how the standards for what is INSIDE and ECU is far more strict than outside.

Functional Safety

ASIL

MISRA

ASPICE

ISO 21434

ISO 26262

Yet ... touchscreens.

I don't know why marijuana gets a pass. Anyone in my age group >50 who knows lifelong heavy marijuana users sees the same thing: they're sort of middle-of-the-road schlubs or schlubettes who believe the craziest theories, don't quite have their shit together, and are largely intolerable for more than a few hours a month. They are very nice people (to those who don't question them), but just... damaged. Damaged from decades of weed.

Of course the whattaboutists are correct: alcohol has the same impact, but for some reason the myth persists that heavy weed use isn't dangerous.

You don't use your real name, you go by SoftTalker.

I run stylometrics on your HN posts, then on every document archived by a data broker, including highschool/college papers. I identify you. I can then use that information to extort, harass, or rob you. At scale, anyone who buys this data can do this to tens of thousands of people with scripting. DefCon has had some nice presentations in the past about software that takes this data as input, and generates harassment scripts -- practically as SCRUM tickets -- to do this at scale.

Still think privacy / private data doesn't matter?

I think the word you are looking for is "osmosis".

People learn faster when they have someone to teach them in a multi-modal environment. Videoconferencing is only a shadow of this, and everything is scheduled. There is zero chance for spontaneity with such a sterile structure.

I'm nearing the end of my career, but I certainly would not have learned as fast as I did without many, many mentors. Just reading the internet, especially when the technology is cutting edge and not even ON the internet, would have left me far behind. And if everyone falls behind, the company falls behind.

I think companies that mandate some amount of in-person time will have less risk of falling behind than those that are 100% remote.

I don't see how all of those junior 100% remote engineers will keep up. Maybe they are all just very very very smart.

I consider 100k USD for a few months of work sending out emails just to coordinate a three day conference to be “bank”.

That’s a great apnote (app report?) and I agree with you I just think LDO is a confusing term.

For presenters to pad their CV. Source: that’s literally why I do it. Plus nothing like getting a LinkedIn-ready picture of yourself on stage in front of a ginormous screen with a headset looking all TED.

Edit: Or if you create a conference that will largely be attended by tech employees you can make bank with a few months of after-work grinding. (Also odd how the op slips in shibari reference in a tech paper.)

I know you’re trolling, but it’s funny that the CLI is the most productive UI and it is literally ancient/obsolete in computer time yet it persists. New != better.

The first half of that (alignment) already exists.

I like how deceptively complicated this problem is. It rapidly goes from “oh this is obvious” to “oh I see it now” to “I need multiple cross disciplinary PhDs to understand the answer and it’s proof.”