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  • It must be a silent R

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  • many words should run into the same issue, since LLMs generally use less tokens per word than there are letters in the word. So they don't have direct access to the letters composing the word, and have to go off indirect associations between "strawberry" and the letter "R"

    duckassist seems to get most right but it claimed "ouroboros" contains 3 o's and "phrasebook" contains one c.

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    Hey it's free, so I'm not complaining

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  • are you sure there isn't small print somewhere saying you forfeit your eternal soul to larry ellison?

  • TIL Only about 9% of plastic ever produced has been recycled.

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  • Most microplastics come from car tires and washing of clothing with plastic in them. (both abrade the plastic causing uncountable tiny pieces of microplastics to enter the water or the air)

    Then there are a lot of places that dump plastic into rivers or the ocean instead of into landfills.

  • Core Python developer suspended for three months

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  • The same comment touches on several topics, replying to 2 different people. These two statements being in the same comment is not evidence of them being about the same thing, and if the author expected readers to get that from it, it is absolutely the author's fault if their words got misinterpreted.

    And in the next paragraph:

    We importantly chose not to call anyone out by name in the there because our expectations aren’t about one person. All of us need to be aware of what is and isn’t okay and a lot of people were involved in the problematic threads, even if Tim, as self-identified here, was one big part

    Again referring to multiple people.

  • Core Python developer suspended for three months

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  • It's clearly referring to people in the plural. If the person on the council most vocally defending the council's decision to suspend can't say it in a reasonably straightforward manner, the simpler explanation is that that is not what they are talking about.

  • Core Python developer suspended for three months

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  • If you read it carefully, Smith doesn't make any claim that anyone complained about Peter's conduct. It's speaking in general terms about the behavior of unnamed persons.

  • Core Python developer suspended for three months

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  • "Troglodyte reprobates" was a term that Tim seemed to bring up himself from what seems to be pretty much out of the blue, so it's a bit questionable

  • Core Python developer suspended for three months

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  • half of them just from the description are very obvious "we couldn't get enough examples of bad behavior on him so we had a brainstorming session of imaginary slights"

  • Popular Programming Book "Clean Code" is being rewritten

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  • Rules of thumb can be very useful for a relatively inexperienced programmer, and once you understand why they exist you can choose to ignore them when they would get in the way. Clean Code is totally unhinged though

  • Real examples here?

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  • Actually I think he has already had an adequate amount of recognition:

    • "In 1999, Red Hat and VA Linux, both leading developers of Linux-based software, presented Torvalds with stock options in gratitude for his creation.[29] That year both companies went public and Torvalds's share value briefly shot up to about US$20 million"

    • his autobiography is in several hundred library collections worldwide

    Awards he's received:

    • 2 honorary doctorates

    • 2 celestial objects named after him

    • Lovelace Medal

    • IEEE Computer Pioneer Award

    • EFF Pioneer Award

    • Vollum Award

    • Hall of Fellows of the Computer History Museum

    • C&C prize

    • Millenium Technology Prize

    • Internet Hall of Fame

    • IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award

    • Great Immigrants Award

  • average day in NPM land

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  • is-number is a one-line function. (though it's debatable if a function that complex should be compressed to one line)

    You may have heard of a similar if more extreme "microdependency" called is-even. When you use an NPM package, you also need all the dependencies of that package, and the dependencies of those dependencies recursively. Each package has some overhead, eventually leading to this moment in time.

  • average day in NPM land

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  • -----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----

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  • the direct chain I can see is

    "can you string words to form a valid RSA key"

    "I would hope so, [xkcd about password strength]"

    "words are the least secure way to generate random bytes"

    "Good luck remembering random bytes. That infographic is about memorable passwords."

    "You memorize your RSA keys?"

    so between comments 2 and 3 and 4 I'd say it soundly went past the handcrafted RSA key stuff.

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  • I think this specific chain of replies is talking about that actually.. though it is a pretty big tangent from the original post

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  • if you know there are exactly two additional characters

    this is pretty much irrelevant, as the amount of passwords with n+1 random characters is going to be exponentially higher than ones with n random characters. Any decent password cracker is going to try the 30x smaller set before doing the bigger set

    and you know they are at the end of the string

    that knowledge is worth like 2 bits at most, unless the characters are in the middle of a word which is probably even harder to remember

    if you know there are exactly two additional characters and you know they are at the end of the string, the first number is really slightly bigger (like 11 times)

    even if you assume the random characters are chosen from a large set, say 256 characters, you'd still get the 4-word one as over 50 times more. Far more likely is that it's a regular human following one of those "you must have x numbers and y special characters" rules which would reduce it to something like 1234567890!?<^>@$%&+-() which is going to be less than 30 characters

    and even if they end up roughly equal in quessing difficulty, it is still far easier to remember the 4 random words

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  • you memorize the password required to decrypt whatever container your RSA key is in. Hopefully.

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  • and some people will try to just hold a key down until it reaches the length limit.. which is an even worse way to generate a password of that length

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  • this assumes a dictionary is used. Otherwise the entropy would be 117 bits or more. The only problem is some people may fail to use actually uniformly random words drawn from a large enough set of words (okay, and you should also use a password manager for the most part)

  • weird looking gear

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  • step 1. Try presets that have already been calibrated to some target for those specific headphones. There are hundreds to thousands of headphones included in the bigger preset collections.

    step 2. tweak the EQ values by yourself by ear if you want to. There is no objectively best sound, so it comes down to your personal preference anyways, and you can't measure that in any practical way (and I'd say neither can the companies making expensive headphones, which is why there are hundreds of different headphones both cheap and expensive with different frequency responses and more getting made all the time)