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awithrow commented on Go Proposal: Secret Mode   antonz.org/accepted/runti... · Posted by u/enz
fastest963 · 12 days ago
I'm not sure there's a realistic alternative. If you need to generate a key then it has to happen somehow on unsupported platforms. You can check Enabled() if you need to know and intend to do something different but I assume most of the time you run the same function either way you'd just prefer to opt into secret mode if it's available.
awithrow · 12 days ago
Why not just panic and make it obvious?
awithrow commented on Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products   windowscentral.com/artifi... · Posted by u/mohi-kalantari
salt-thrower · 13 days ago
Another example: the complete surrender of the Xbox platform. They spent the last 10 years buying up game studios and then closing them, failing to develop any good exclusive titles, and letting Sony eat their lunch. Now they are officially giving up and will just let Sony own the console space altogether.

Xbox was THE gaming console 20 years ago. Playstation was always a contender but Xbox Live was synonymous with the online console gaming experience. Halo was an untouchable juggernaut of a series for the first 3 titles.

It's mind boggling that Microsoft just let all that die without a fight. Worse, they seem to have actively shot themselves in the foot and then given up.

awithrow · 13 days ago
Playstation/Sony always a contender? They were the clear leader. The PS2 is still the best selling console of all time. 160M units to Xbox's 24M. Xbox360 caught up but the PS3 still sold more units. PS4 sold twice as many as Xbox One. The console wars has been mostly Sony vs Nintendo for a long time.
awithrow commented on Trying two dozen different psychedelics   psychotechnology.substack... · Posted by u/eatitraw
throwawaypqpqp · a month ago
I’ve done ibogaine recreationally at lowish doses if anyone wants to ask me about it. I don’t think it gets enough attention. Maybe because there’s some danger.
awithrow · a month ago
I'm less familiar with it. All I really know is that it was on the list of natural medicines that was decriminalized in Colorado. What is the experience like?
awithrow commented on Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews   seangoedecke.com/good-cod... · Posted by u/zdw
awithrow · 2 months ago
I think a lot of this stems from the code review tools themselves. Especially the "Don't just review the diff" mistake. Especially with GitHub defaulting to just showing a list of diffs and changed files. I'd find it much more useful if a review tool started with a class hierarchy or similar high level view to get a sense of: 1. What/how many classes changed? 2. What/how many methods have been added/removed/modified 3. What method signatures have changed 4. What changes are covered by new tests

"Don't leave too many comments" i think can really be rethought of, don't review style and syntax. Leave that to the robots. If you're relying on other engineers to flag style problems and linting, you're just wasting everybody's time. Set up linting and style checkers and be done with it.

awithrow commented on Subway Builder: A realistic subway simulation game   subwaybuilder.com/... · Posted by u/0xbeefcab
awithrow · 2 months ago
Is there a demo I'm missing or is this just a link to buy the game site unseen?
awithrow commented on The Company Man   lesswrong.com/posts/JH6tJ... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
jamesrom · 3 months ago
If you need a case study on "kill your darlings", read this.
awithrow · 3 months ago
What didn't you like about it?
awithrow commented on Show HN: Autism Simulator   autism-simulator.vercel.a... · Posted by u/joshcsimmons
gtirloni · 3 months ago
I find it amazing how some people here lack the empathy to understand this is the author's personal experience and that they feel entitled to cosplay the confused person thinking all of this is absurd and makes no sense from their point of view.
awithrow · 3 months ago
How do you tell someone earnestly asking vs "cosplaying the confused person"?
awithrow commented on I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse   ryansouthgate.com/goodbye... · Posted by u/ry8806
redbell · 3 months ago
> With this post, I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse, and frankly, they were profiting off my work and my visitor’s data.

Ironically, if you look at the screenshot, just below the comments' section, you will read: 'Subscribe', 'Privacy' and 'Do Not Sell My Data'. Seriously?! You are already torturing my visitors by throwing many ads, at the same time, on their faces. How can I trust you?

Also, what drives me cra*y the most about online Ads is that they are random and have no relation with the content of the page I am looking at. Oftentimes, they went extremely far by showing what I consider near explicit content.

awithrow · 3 months ago
The 'Subscribe', 'Privacy' and 'Do Not Sell My Data' buttons are still part of the Disqus wodget
awithrow commented on Phrack 72   phrack.org/issues/72/1... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
jpfromlondon · 4 months ago
I can't help but see security professionals as fakers, they seem to mostly be box-tickers rather than the professionally curious, in school and college I was up to no good with tech, but now when my employer is recruiting to establish an in-house cyber team I know I'm not what they're looking for and never was.

I exclude the RE guys who are undoubtedly extraordinary.

awithrow · 4 months ago
I think like most things there is a power law distribution when it comes to these sort of roles. I've worked with a few really good security teams in my career. The good ones work with the teams, possibly embedded on improving security. The better ones also write tools and libraries for service teams to consume. The best ones act like internal white hats, constantly probe and assess, and submit patches as well.

Sadly the vast majority of sec teams are not this and exist solely to run some tool that spits out a list of dubious vulns and then dump said list as a pile of tickets into the dev backlog.

One place i worked, the CISO even came up with some slogan for the info-sec along the lines of "observe and report" after I kept trying to show the info-sec how to run, build, test, and patch our various packages and tools their scanners would complain about.

awithrow commented on Angle brackets in a Nix flake world   fzakaria.com/2025/08/10/a... · Posted by u/setheron
mschwaig · 4 months ago
I work with Nix a lot, and I had never seen `__findFile`.

It's kind of crazy how much there is to know about Nix. I wish there was a bit less surface area to the language. On the other hand it's really interesting how much specialized knowledge there is in the community around various topics. Some people package things, some people write library code, some write glue code that wraps other build tools, some write VM-based tests, some write generators that transform store paths into things like container images, some just manage their dot files, some are experts for how we deal with some specific proprietary ecosystem like cuda, some write infra code or tools around the Nix code, some work on one of the Nix implementations.

awithrow · 4 months ago
As someone who runs NixOS on my home machine, I feel this. I have an okay handle on day-to-day operations on my machine but a lot of it still feels like magic to me in both a good a scary sense. I'm still looking for great resources to go deep on Nix and really grok it.

u/awithrow

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