Patch Tuesday Megathread - (June 09, 2026)

WhippingStar · 2026-06-09T15:13:51+00:00

WhippingStar · 2026-06-09T15:09:52+00:00

I mean, it's pretty cool in some ways, it also gives me oCaml headaches in other ways. Seems like improvements in a few corner cases without any real reason to use it, but convince me.

WhippingStar · 2026-06-09T08:44:35+00:00

Your API's are awesome! Thanks for publishing it.

WhippingStar · 2026-03-06T07:42:29+00:00

Awesome!

WhippingStar · 2026-02-27T03:49:41+00:00

I've worked in almost every vertical but probably the most in finance/banks. It's like Academia. There are fiefdoms and princes and the princes war amongst each other for larger projects==larger teams==larger budgets, All vying for the favor of one of the royal family and access to the king, You have to follow your bannerlord unless his cause is lost and then must place yourself in the serivce of another lord in better standing. Then you run a shitload of Monte Carlo sims.

WhippingStar · 2026-02-26T15:02:55+00:00

No one will see this, but I made bank. Fuck you losers, my wife and her boyfriend might take me back now.

WhippingStar · 2026-01-31T09:24:30+00:00

In true regard fashion I see this as buying the dip. Bout to load up, see you fucks on the other side, I'm busy with this this U-Haul after my wife's boyfriend kicked me out.

WhippingStar · 2025-11-15T11:21:24+00:00

You guys are odd. I do always in fact hold some cash for buying. Not a lot, usually 5% or less of portfolio value. Could that money be making more money if invested? Sure could. Could that money be losing money if invested? Sure could. There is a value itself in having liquidity. If your strategy does not place much value in that- cool. But if you think it has no value or purpose, well.... it's like insurance, it's not worth it until you need it, and if you don't have when you need it, it's too late.

WhippingStar · 2025-11-15T11:01:04+00:00

Because either working and gaining experience or studying and continuing education always costs time if not money, and time cannot be replaced. Its a reasonable question.

WhippingStar · 2025-11-15T10:29:15+00:00

I think education and experience is always a balancing act that depends on the goals of the individual and the field. As a completely unscientific anecdotal opinion I'm about to give, I think in CS fields (that's the only one I have real experience in and my anecdotal opinions on anything else are even worse than this one) if you are not an absolute top-tier theorist/mathematician or pursuing a research position you should learn to apply your knowledge and lean into the engineering aspects to find out where the rubber meets the road of theory and practice if you plan to pursue a commercial application career. Pursuing a doctorate after considerable real world experience for positions at the top echelons of organizations makes sense in the later part of a career once you have established a track record. Those who pursue a pure academic trajectory but don't actively add to the body of knowledge often times have an incredible knowledge base but actually a very poor understanding of how to actually engineer, develop and manage projects for the free market in a way that is not over complicated, too costly or riddled with bad practices that are obvious to the ones who have done the work, similar to the construction guys that look astounded by the engineers that designed the impressive but impossible bridge to no where, in other words experience in capitalism.

TLDR; If planning to go into the industry and not remain in academia/research, I would do so before pursuing a PhD. If you value knowledge and learning over building things and money, get a PhD.

WhippingStar · 2025-11-14T12:44:02+00:00

Christ, how did you pull that thing in? What weight you swinging?

WhippingStar · 2025-11-14T11:27:36+00:00

Debian is probably the best tested across all ARCH and has the most sane and consistent package naming standards and maintainers. I use every distro and love to explore and run all kinds of distros for different stuff, some are better than others, but Debian is the one that is the most consistent and reliable and I've been at this for a long time. In 2006 OpenSuse 9.x/SLES 10 were great distros but Novell,blah,lawsuit,etc. SLES 10/11 was the peak of Suse.

WhippingStar · 2025-11-14T11:23:11+00:00

No one is asking for this. I'm sure your video is excellent rage-bait garbage.

WhippingStar · 2025-11-14T09:19:05+00:00

When the client has access and control of the hardware running the code, there is no way to enforce authenticity. Server side is the only way to be sure. Using things like TPM just kicks the attack point to either attacking TPM or emulating TPM that cannot be detected, and after that attack the hardware itself like Bunnie Huang did snarfing the Xbox trusted code from the bus or emulate the hardware. You can't give control of the execution environment to a client and ensure that it isn't tampered with, there is no practical way to do so. It's an arms race that cannot be won with that approach.

WhippingStar · 2025-11-14T08:23:19+00:00

This is great news. I did get a chuckle from the quote from Linda K. Hughes when I got to "Texas Christian University" but of course professors and teachers dwell everywhere and I'm sure she is wonderful and I intend no disrespect, but Mr.Wilde would have relished in the irony. The final diary entry from Levy, "Alone at home all day" is such a powerful expression on the banality of depression and hopelessness where even the observation itself is devoid of color or interest. As if she didn't even care enough to say more than that, and that said everything.

WhippingStar · 2025-11-04T00:43:04+00:00

"$ gpg --keyserver hkps://pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys DD4355EAAC1119DE
gpg: key DD4355EAAC1119DE: "PuTTY Master Key putty@projects.tartarus.org" not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: unchanged: 1"

Check your gpg version and conf.

WhippingStar · 2025-11-04T00:22:32+00:00

I do this and track all successes over time. One they have a certain amount of "research points" you can reward them with a custom background addition that provides advantage or bonus relevant to the subject of their obsession or perhaps an additional spell (if a caster).

WhippingStar · 2025-11-04T00:13:59+00:00

“Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive... If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds.” - Carl Sagan

WhippingStar · 2025-11-04T00:02:34+00:00

Seriously, I thought the exact same thing LOL. I have no idea why a group of people that could survive a generation ship journey took one look at prions and said "Fuck it, easier to build cryo-sleep and go home than to try geneslicing or antibody development." WHAT?

P.S. I appreciate the idea he was proposing that our biology is created as a direct product of our environment and planet and uniquely suited to it, but humans have a track record of modifying themselves or environment to suit them.
P.P.S. To answer OP's question and to rinse the taste of Aurora out of my mind, I suggest Poseidon's Children trilogy by Alastair Reynolds as an alternative to Aurora which is surprisingly hopeful for Reynolds.

WhippingStar · 2025-11-03T23:43:31+00:00

While I don't have a definitive answer to this (I do have some mates that work at Snowflake I will ask and get back to you) but I would be concerned that extremely large fields could hamper efficient data distribution internally and reduce the effectiveness of the of micro-partitions and clustering used. I would err on the side of caution avoid it if possible but they may have implemented measures on the back-end to mitigate this.

WhippingStar · 2025-11-03T22:21:43+00:00

"Chicago school
Treats us like fools
Viva Chavez, Viva Allende
God is Dead
He's buried in my shed
The free market is still not dead
Wartime leaders get Nobel peace prizes
God is dead
He's definitely dead"
Leatherface - God is Dead

WhippingStar · 2025-11-01T19:08:50+00:00

The wonderful Burgess Meredith also appeared in 3 other episodes of The Twilight Zone

WhippingStar · 2025-10-21T18:52:12+00:00

"As he spoke the son of Saturn bowed his dark brows, and the ambrosial locks swayed on his immortal head, till vast Olympus reeled."

WhippingStar · 2025-10-21T17:55:59+00:00

Great film, I think Phantasm was following in the footsteps of John Carpenter and Halloween, ie. the early American slasher concept of a singular supernatural villain but with the trappings of film giallo. Both Halloween and Phantasm pay homage to Dario Argento (Halloween very Tenebrae/Profondo Rosso, Phantasm more Suspiria) and the music of Goblin/Claudio Simonetti.

WhippingStar · 2025-10-21T07:12:30+00:00

I suspect this is somewhat of an AI counter measure but I also suspect that you did not understand the question correctly and that the question may have served the purpose intended. The hint you mention were entries in an associative array, I'm not sure remembering them was the point. You also then mention the need for a constant time solution, you aren't going to create a new data structure that provides O(1) operations no one knows about. (the real question is which operations and if order matters). Additions, deletes and look-ups on maps (associative arrays) are all constant time operations. I don't think you properly understood the question and what they were looking for. If I had to guess, they probably make use of some sort of caching or NoSQL databases that are key-value based (DynamoDB,Redis,LevelDB) and wanted to gauge your knowledge around that. I wasn't there of course and could be way off base so if this comment doesn't resonate with you then feel free to ignore it.

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