CI = Continuous Integration
Readit NewsGnarfGnarf commented on Modern CI is too complex and misdirected (2021) gregoryszorc.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/thundergolfer
There are three things a nation needs to accept about universal health care:
(1) It’s expensive (2) Everybody has to pay (3) The government’s gotta run it
GnarfGnarf commented on Open Source Maintenance Fee github.com/wixtoolset/iss... · Posted by u/AndrewDucker
The WiX installer is a byzantine incomprehensible mess. Its only appeal was that it was free. If I have to pay, I'd rather have a commercial product that is supported and easier to use.
Rob Mensching was supposed to monetize WiX by offering $5,000/yr enterprise consulting & support services. I guess that's not enough.
GnarfGnarf commented on The librarian immediately attempts to sell you a vuvuzela kaveland.no/posts/2025-06... · Posted by u/rkaveland
What makes the author think we are entitled to free search? How much would you pay for ad-free search? The “golden era” of free search was just setting us up for the plucking.
GnarfGnarf commented on The Right to Repair Is Law in Washington State eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06... · Posted by u/doener
Would this also apply to a vendor’s encrypted file format?
GnarfGnarf commented on Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal bbc.com/news/live/c9wpq8x... · Posted by u/lleims
Carrington event?
There would be a broader area affected.
GnarfGnarf commented on Spammers are better at SPF, DKIM, and DMARC than everyone else toad.social/@grumpybozo/1... · Posted by u/pabs3
Yeah, SPF, DKIM and DMARC are incomprehensible. The only people with the time, motivation and expertise to understand and apply them, are professional spammers. Most of the legitimate email I get, fail one or more of these tests.
If I recall, SPF limits the number of domains you can enumerate in your DNS records.
GnarfGnarf commented on Recursion kills: The story behind CVE-2024-8176 in libexpat blog.hartwork.org/posts/e... · Posted by u/spyc
I don’t understand the obsession of people with recursion. Sure it’s a cute math trick, it makes you feel smart, but it is an undebuggable mess with a ton of gotchas that lead to stack overflows.
Let the math to the math guys who never ship a product.
I write a genealogy app (family history). Recursion is the foundation of the code, and permeates everywhere. The call stack can go 200 deep or more (~4,000 yrs). The code has been successfully running on millions of desktops for thirty years, and has never caused a crash or infinite loop because of recursion.
The secret is to check at every step that there is no "he's his own grandpa" loops in the user's tree, where (s)he inadvertently makes one of a person's descendants, also his ancestor. This happens sometimes because re-using the same names can cause confusion.
Recursion is like magic :o)
It is possible to store three decimal digits as three groups of four bits, in every 12-row column.
You can insert and delete when duplicating cards, by pressing with your fingers on the source or target card while typing on the keyboard.
GnarfGnarf commented on Goethe's "Sorcerer's Apprentice" – power over wisdom wilderutopia.com/performa... · Posted by u/andsoitis
This is about the root of humanity’s problem: the inability to avoid misusing knowledge and technology.
All our inventions are but improved means to an unimproved end (Thoreau)