beejjorgensen

joined 2 years ago
[–] beejjorgensen 5 points 1 hour ago

Any old slashdotters remember tcwww, The Cursed www? Just me?

[–] beejjorgensen 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How much does Firefox development cost? The Mozilla Foundation itself has a dearth of friends even among hackers. But Firefox is worth preserving. Could we get enough paying supporters to continue development?

[–] beejjorgensen 12 points 3 days ago

It's been great watching it turn into a real powerhouse over the years.

[–] beejjorgensen 4 points 4 days ago

Are jackasses really a safe job? I know ChatGPT has been really happy and friendly recently, but it can still be a really effective jackass.

[–] beejjorgensen 0 points 4 days ago

I hope they're not lying with the denial. If he stays, it'll drive left wingers to other options, increasing competition. And it might even drive right wingers to start buying EVs in quantity. 😁

[–] beejjorgensen 2 points 4 days ago

Sorry to disappoint, but it was not. It was Double-Decker Pizza. Except this was a small local chain of two restaurants, not the one that you find on the internet today.

[–] beejjorgensen 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

The number of bugs we encountered the last overseas flight we took were astounding. Anything from printing errors to baggage checkin not working to the inflight entertainment system needing rebooting.

There are so many layers of dependencies on everything it's amazing it works at all.

[–] beejjorgensen 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The pizza place I worked at as a teen had this game and we had the key. So we'd pop it open and add tons of credits and play forever. This phrase is indelibly marked upon my brain.

[–] beejjorgensen 2 points 1 week ago

Unless they've received notification to that effect. "Hey, y'all, we're considering anti-trust so save that shit."

[–] beejjorgensen 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's illegal if antitrust action is anticipated, according to the article. That said, I know that most places I've worked have had a document retention policy that called for automatic deletion of most documents after some time period, like a year.

[–] beejjorgensen 10 points 1 week ago

Yes, it's a lot worse. The particular difference is that one of these organizations has the power to disappear you without consequence.

 

Neat article about avoiding a memcpy in a circular buffer.

 

I've never run a big system like this, but like the lead character in the story, I always figured exponential backoff would be enough. Turns out there's more.

 

This is a pretty cool analog arcade game. I never saw one when I was a kid... I'd have been hooked.

 

This is an ad for something CT-scan-related, but it contains a good breakdown of how an old car cigarette lighter works. And it has a couple interactive CT Scan explorers past the video.

 

Can be yours for a mere $155,000. (No, I'm not the seller, but I'm curious who is!)

 

This coder rigged up GPT to create IF games.

 

Have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes when you write a C program? How does your code transform from lines of text into a fully functional binary executable? If you’ve been curious about the intricacies of the C program compilation process, you’ve come to the right place.

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