gedhrel

@gedhrel@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dozens from UK take up Putin’s offer to ditch ‘woke’ West and move to Russia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s around one in a million.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most Brits would vote to rejoin EU – poll⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There were a bunch of contributory factors to that outcome, but frankly the demographic skew was such that about half the change in opinion is down to more Brexit voters being dead than their opposites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infamous $30 Logitech F710 called out in $50M lawsuit over Titan sub implosion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you seen pictures of the sub? What makes you think the wiring was all hidden?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infamous $30 Logitech F710 called out in $50M lawsuit over Titan sub implosion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You joke, but watch this:

  archive.org/details/take-me-to-titanic

  from 29 minutes in. A last-minute adjustment before launch plugged in a thruster backwards; no protocol to check the behaviour prelaunch. They doscovered it when they got to the bottom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What knot(s) should I use to secure this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Figure eight on a bight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If anything happen to Linux today, like what happened to Windows, most of the internet would be dead.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  …unless it’s running software that uses signed 32-bit timestamps, or stores data using that format.

  The point about the “millennium bug” was that it was a category of problems that required (hundreds of) thousands of fixes. It didn’t matter if your OS was immune, because the OS isn’t where the value is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Git is hard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s all the files. Content-addreasable storage means that they might not take up any more space. Smart checkout means they might not require disk operations. But it’s the whole tree.