qotgalaxy's comments

On: I accidentally deleted a bad game revision from MAME

[qotgalaxy]

I expected to add a game to MAME but instead proved that it didn't exist

On: Applying Grease to TLS Extensibility (2016)

[qotgalaxy]

This was a lot easier before they removed the Zerk fitting from the Macbook.

[nkurz → qotgalaxy]

Yeah, like everything else the moved to selling it as a separate (overpriced) dongle. This wasn't that bad, but now that they've removed the ethernet connectors also, you need both dongles connected in series, and you need to remove the Zerk-RJ45 adapter every time you plug the Ethernet cable, and it still doesn't help with your TLS connections over Wifi! I'm probably not the first to say it, but Apple's "Pro" line is clearly no longer aimed at professionals.

On: We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it

[qotgalaxy]

> How do we know we’re not doing the same or similar in our brains?

How do we know that we're not made of magic?

On: Cinder: Instagram's performance-oriented fork of CPython

[qotgalaxy]

Instagram is prematurely releasing this only because they heard that Tinder was about to release their own CPython fork.

On: Removed gem breaks Rails ActiveStorage

[qotgalaxy]

Why would closed source software be safe? Say I copy shared-mime-info completely, compile it, sell it to you as MimeWizardPRO2000, you include it as part of your closed source web framework and sell that. You're still distributing GPL code without making your source available.

[rocqua → qotgalaxy]

I think it's different if you are re-using source (with GPL notices) or binaries (which don't have them)

On: NY launches live dashboard of each regions progress hitting 7 reopening criteria

[qotgalaxy]

Yes, it's more of an intrastate disagreement with this particular infectious disease.

On: NY launches live dashboard of each regions progress hitting 7 reopening criteria

[qotgalaxy]

But none of that matters. You have x number of people, you need y number of tests. Just because it's harder to do doesn't mean you need to do it any less.

[xienze → qotgalaxy]

> But none of that matters.

Yes it does, it’s proportionally more difficult. If you want a country of 300M to have as many tests per capita as a country of 30M, you need _ten times as many tests_.

[ceejayoz → xienze]

That's not what "proportionally" means.

On: Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County order

[qotgalaxy]

Yes, you do. It's honestly not that complicated.

On: Bitcoin Halving Just Occured

[qotgalaxy]

Are you arguing with yourself?

On: Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1

[qotgalaxy]

That's what they said when they introduced Hangouts.