andrybak's comments

On: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a ...

[andrybak]

> One thing that put me off is how so much of what I saw was just talking about Bluesky vs Twitter. I hope they can move past that.

Judiciously using the muting features is required to have a good time in social media. Add "Twitter" to muted words to move past that on your own.

On: The Podcast Index

[andrybak]

Also no search by episode titles.

On: How I won $2,750 using JavaScript, AI, and a can o...

[andrybak]

It's covered a bit at the bottom of the article.

  Where do you find these exceedingly winnable contests?
  
  Sorry, that’s a trade secret — but it’s not any of the standard various contest aggregators out there.

On: London Tube map redesigned by Essex lecturer goes ...

[andrybak]

> I remember watching a design documentary years ago

Was it Map Men? They mention not forcing the London tube map onto the geographical map. It has two parts:

1. "The Tube Map nearly looked very different" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTLCfl01zuE

2. "What went wrong with the Tube Map?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaEhvWXmLyk

[latexr → andrybak]

> Was it Map Men?

It was not. I saw it maybe a decade ago and those are a year old. It was also not a YouTube documentary. I might give that one a watch, though.

On: Interval parsing grammars for file format parsing ...

[andrybak]

> We have used IPGs to specify a number of file formats including ZIP, ELF, GIF, PE, and part of PDF

For PDF, that's fair. Video "Types of PDF - Computerphile" covers this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7oxZCgO1dY

[jgalt212 → andrybak]

I"ll watch any and all Professor Brailsford videos.

On: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Lo...

[andrybak]

> Their "Statement" is remarkably aloof for having brought down flights, hospitals, and 911 services.

Their lawyers certainly won't allow mentioning such dramatic (is "dramatic" appropriate here?) consequences.

On: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Lo...

[andrybak]

One of the problems possibly preventing this is that budgets for buying software aren't controlled by people administering the software. Definitely not by people using it.

On: Anonymous Source Shared Leaked Google Search API D...

[andrybak]

> unchecking “Make searches and browsing better”

Before that, you can make it audible: <https://github.com/berthubert/googerteller>

On: Steamboat Willie [video]

[andrybak]

The version that was put on the Main Page of English Wikipedia today also has the accordion part: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:POTD/2024-01-01

[throwup238 → andrybak]

That’s one sadistic cartoon…

[maximus-decimus → throwup238]

I just love those old pre-hays-code movies. The Hay's code brought censorship from the movie industry in 1934 because they were afraid the government would step in otherwise.

The fact there's no censorship just makes them so raw.

On: Bourbaki dangerous bend symbol

[andrybak]

I put the symbol on my shell prompt line, when there's a readme file found in the current directory. Just a reminder, especially for directories, in which I'd put the readme file myself, but then forgot about it.

https://github.com/rybak/scripts/blob/master/config/ps1_noti...

It works together with very dumb script in $PATH, which prints a readme file if one is found in the current directory.

https://github.com/rybak/scripts/blob/master/commands/readme

[IgorPartola → andrybak]

That is pretty brilliant. Nicely done.