As a C programmer, declarations in Go appeared "backwards" to me when I first saw them.
IMO the Go syntax is a vast improvement as it's much simpler and avoids the clockwise/spiral issue: https://appliedgo.com/blog/go-declaration-syntax
Readit NewsLysPJ commented on C "clockwise/spiral" rule to understand declarations c-faq.com/decl/spiral.and... · Posted by u/galkk
LysPJ commented on Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone ssoready.com/blog/enginee... · Posted by u/noleary
I think you misread that. America/Nuuk doesn't have reverse DST (which is easily solved by just switching DST and non-DST around). It starts DST at a negative offset because the offset is defined as relative to the previous day.
Yes, this is indeed a different situation and my comment doesn't make that clear. Thank for pointing that out. I've made an edit.
LysPJ commented on Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone ssoready.com/blog/enginee... · Posted by u/noleary
> America/Nuuk does daylight savings at -01:00 (yes, with a negative)
Somewhat related: Europe/Dublin has a negative DST offset. Irish DST runs through the European winter (i.e. the opposite of the other European timezones).
(More details here: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/56743#issuecomment-13157... )
Edit: To be clear: the quote is referring to a negative DST start, rather than a negative DST offset.
LysPJ commented on Apple's AirPods Pro hearing health features theverge.com/24275178/app... · Posted by u/elsewhen
This comment confuses me, but makes sense. Concerts are for consuming sound, people wear ear plugs??? Wouldn't that defeat the purpose? Like a blindfold in a theater?
The music at many concerts and nightclubs is unfortunately loud enough to cause permanent hearing loss.
Ear plugs reduce the volume to a level where you can still hear the music, but the risk of long term damage is reduced. (You can get "musician's ear plugs" which attenuate all frequencies equally, so they don't make the music sound weird.)
LysPJ commented on What the damaged Svalbard cable looked like nrk.no/tromsogfinnmark/th... · Posted by u/ingve
That's what trawling is . . . it is completely normally for a trawler to go back and forth like that.
But not over a cable.
Submarine cables are clearly marked on nautical charts, and even recreational boaters know not to anchor in those areas.
A professional trawler captain is not going to accidentally trawl over such an area.
If they have fixed costs, why is it a percentage based fee?
Why not just be upfront with a fixed dollar value per year of fees for that part?
Fees such as trading costs are a percentage of trading volume.
Therefore, the more money you are managing, the higher your trading costs. (i.e those costs are "fixed" but its a "fixed percentage" rather than a static number.)
LysPJ commented on Endlessh-go: a Golang SSH tarpit that traps bots/scanners github.com/shizunge/endle... · Posted by u/fastily
But the bots can easily detect these, cant they? As long as there is a timeout on socket read, this shouldn't waste that much of the scanners time.
Or am I misunderstanding this?
Endlessh periodically sends data so the read timeout won't trigger. Specifically, it draws out the crypto negotiation stage indefinitely by exploiting a feature of the SSH protocol.
(Of course, the bot author could detect that behaviour too.)
There's more info from the author of Endlessh: https://nullprogram.com/blog/2019/03/22/
For those wondering how they transfer the generated energy from the tidal kite to the shore:
> The turbine shaft turns the [onboard] generator which outputs electricity to the grid via a power cable in the tether and a seabed umbilical to the shore.
(It ran the very cool "BeOS" operating system[1], which was eventually ported to Mac, then x86.)
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeBox
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS