cozzyd's comments

On: Flattening Rust’s learning curve

[cozzyd]

A steep line still has a flat derivative

On: Multiple security issues in GNU Screen

[cozzyd]

console=ttyS0,115200

On: Multiple security issues in GNU Screen

[cozzyd]

Screen is useful when you need to a nest multiplexing inside tmux.

And for serial ports

On: Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought

[cozzyd]

good news, we'll never need more than a 512 bit time_t

On: Screwworms have breached the U.S.-maintained barrier in Panama

[cozzyd]

They even ate RFK jr's brain!

On: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones

[cozzyd]

the "updates on priorities" page on NSF's web site is deeply dystopian: https://www.nsf.gov/updates-on-priorities

[sershe → cozzyd]

To be clear, I think what they are doing is dumb and malicious. Anti-DEI push is pretty much the only trump policy I agree with and I'm dismayed at its poor execution and massive unnecessary collateral damage.

However, I wonder, which parts of the statement do you consider "deeply dystopian"?

[cozzyd → sershe]

The lack of appeal possibility for people who get their grants rescinded (who in many cases may have hired students or postdocs based on having the grant approved).

On: Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to 85% domestic content rule

[cozzyd]

the trick is to make people too poor to afford drugs.

[sitkack → cozzyd]

Make crime unaffordable!

On: Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to 85% domestic content rule

[cozzyd]

Fentanyl is smuggled into the country with foreign auto parts, obviously.

On: Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks

[cozzyd]

vim + tmux + tig for me

On: Street address errors in Google Maps

[cozzyd]

I've noticed that Google maps now tries sometimes to incorporate building entrances into walking directions. I wonder if misplaced building entrances may be part of the explanation.

[brucedawson → cozzyd]

It drives me crazy that Google Maps sometimes asks me where the entrance to a building is but it never seems to be clear about what it is asking. Where a pedestrian would enter? Where a car would enter?

Driving directions are a wonderful thing but they need to account for whether you are arriving in a ride-share vehicle (please drop me at the front entrance) or in a car you need to park (the front entrance may be worthless) - lots of work yet to be done.

[Fogest → brucedawson]

I have the same dilemma, but it has even more factors to consider such as different staff entrances and parking lots.

For example, at my work I enter on a different side of the building with my vehicle as a staff. When on foot there is also a different staff entrance than the public entrance. I actually often don't put in my work for navigating, I instead put in a manually saved set of coordinates of where the parking lot entrance is. Because it can make a difference on which way it suggests for navigation.