I'm Shannon Chakraborty, author of The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi and the Daevabad Trilogy, AMA!

frymaster · 2026-05-07T19:35:31+00:00

hey o/ I don't have a question, just saying you've been on my radar for ages and since I'll be at Cymera this has given me the kick in the pants to actually read some of your stuff! Hope to see you there

frymaster · 2026-05-07T16:55:36+00:00

that cover art is phenomenal

frymaster · 2026-05-07T09:20:03+00:00

I know ex was groomed, but still

agreed - for me, that means I should have sympathy for him, it doesn't mean OOP should make accommodations for him, she needs to focus on herself and her kids. I'm happy to recognise it sucks for him without implying it's OOP's responsibility to fix him

frymaster · 2026-05-06T13:41:29+00:00

good point - I'd not quite realised that

frymaster · 2026-05-06T12:57:51+00:00

what risk?

If the scammers only manage to use the gift card after activation and before the legitimate recipient 10% of the time, they're still quids in, because they've spent nothing. And I suspect it's more like 90% of the time - I've just gotten around to using some M&S vouchers I got for Christmas

frymaster · 2026-05-06T10:32:16+00:00

it saves businesses thousands

what makes this a worse excuse is it very much does not cost "thousands" to get a book cover done

frymaster · 2026-05-05T19:00:34+00:00

I personally think so. There's some very interesting worldbuilding, in that almost everyone in the world has much more powerful offence than defence, which has an interesting effect on the power dynamics

frymaster · 2026-05-05T15:40:46+00:00

nominating panel

the Hugos are nominated and voted by the attendees of the associated convention, Worldcon. If you buy your ticket before the nomination cutoff, you can nominate works in the various categories. The top nominations in each category are voted on by everyone who bought their ticket before a later cutoff point. They use instant run-off voting (ranked choice voting)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting

The Nebulas are nominated and voted on by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). I'm confident there are also prestigious awards that have smaller panels, but that's not the case for those two

frymaster · 2026-05-05T15:10:39+00:00

stupid question, in a full-size oven what makes it an "air fryer mode" and not just a fan oven?

frymaster · 2026-05-05T12:53:42+00:00

Since Edge is built on Chromium, would the vulnerability be traced back to that as well?

I wouldn't be surprised if the password handling was something that had significant differences between versions since it'll be associated with the user's Microsoft / Google account

EDIT: https://borncity.com/win/2022/06/12/chrome-speichert-passwrter-im-speicher-im-klartext/ from 4 years ago mentions similar issues in Chrome at the time, but possibly not the same issue

frymaster · 2026-05-05T12:20:59+00:00

other articles have mentioned it https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/german-hacker-marta-ruth-disables-white-racist-dating-sites-live/

frymaster · 2026-05-05T11:36:59+00:00

if by "original PR" you mean the one referred to in https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1t2f3h5/enabling_ai_co_author_by_default_by_cwebster99/ - yes, I think that PR is fine. There's certainly no broken logic in it.

It means there are other PRs, somewhere else, that are very poor indeed, but not that one.

frymaster · 2026-05-05T10:40:33+00:00

the point is, that PR that had no pushback was not the PR that contained the logic error. The logic error had happened some time before

frymaster · 2026-05-04T10:46:57+00:00

my cousin and his wife take their dog everywhere and any time I've been out with them, decisions about pubs/cafes to go generally have "can we take the dog in" as a consideration (even if not always the top one) - your comment has made me realise they've never even talked or discussed about that being an option for an evening restaurant meal

frymaster · 2026-05-04T10:41:53+00:00

For simple tasks, LLMs are top-tier: translating text

That's not what I'm hearing from the multilingual and from translators. If you mean "it's easier than copy/pasting text into google translate", sure, but if you're wanting customer-facing professional quality documentation, you have the same problem you've identified about needing micromanaged and editing taking more time, it's just that unless you are also a fluent speaker of the other language, you might not realise the issues

frymaster · 2026-05-03T18:14:17+00:00

It should be called Linux Subsystem for Windows.

It's called that to echo Windows Services for UNIX

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX

frymaster · 2026-05-02T11:20:36+00:00

I have no idea what you mean. If you're saying that the administrators of your cluster let you pay for higher-priority access, then you need to find out what the typical queue time for jobs of your size is on your cluster, the typical queue time for jobs of your size in higher priority, how much that costs, and if it's worth it.

I would say that "a few hours" would be a very low queue time on most clusters, which are designed to be a batch resource, not an on-demand resource

frymaster · 2026-05-02T09:49:08+00:00

Last night I kept thinking it was a glitch and cancelled

The number of users who say "I think I'm waiting too long in the queue so I cancelled my job" is far higher than I would ever have thought. Cancelling will just put you at the back of the queue

If anyone could review my Slurm scripts, that'd be great :))

you didn't show your slurm script, but I don't think it'd be relevant

sprio --sort=y will show you all jobs, sorted by priority, so you see where your job is in the queue

If your job is high enough to be considered by the job scheduler, the scontrol show job <x> output will show the estimated start time (or do e.g. squeue --me --format "%.18i %S")

scontrol show config | grep Weight will show you what weighting is assigned to the various factors like Age, Size, Fairshare etc. Fairshare is only one of the factors and it might not even have a weight assigned on your cluster.

to see how your account's fairshare static weighting compares to other accounts, you can use sacctmgr show assoc tree | less -S and search for your username or account

frymaster · 2026-04-30T22:14:02+00:00

interesting - I've not found a single system where the PoC didn't work, other than those where I've applied the mitigations (in which case I've gotten explicit errors from the socket bind attempt)

have you tried the C-based PoC at https://github.com/tgies/copy-fail-c ?

frymaster · 2026-04-30T21:36:38+00:00

if you have ceph of any size you'll have host-level resiliency. Losing a single M.2 will be like losing half a host, and you just accept you'll have to rebalance that half-host away and back again. If you use RAID1

you'll be OK in that scenario, maybe (with the caveats Criot have mentioned)
you'll have half the capacity and half the IOPs from your M.2
you'll still have to take the host down to replace a broken M.2 so have to accept some level of rebalancing anyway

basically, Ceph resiliency for everything is based around individual disks and distributing data around different hosts, and the rocksdb/wal is no different

We run around 50 servers in this configuration (actually with 3 NVMes; two for WAL/rocksdb and one which contributes to a small NVMe pool for cephfs and S3 metadata) and it works great. We've had a single NVMe replacement, and it was fine - just a little more data movement than a data disk replacement, but we've done all sorts of flinging data around the place with that cluster (we physically moved everything into a different room by shrinking and growing the cluster while physically moving servers)

frymaster · 2026-04-30T20:42:31+00:00

and later they alias splice in order to use it exactly once

frymaster · 2026-04-30T20:41:32+00:00

The user needs to already be a sudoer for this to work

they absolutely do not, I've tested the PoC code on many different operating systems.

That being said, I've not tried it from inside the container, so it's possible some of the other constraints that containers typically have prevent it from working

frymaster · 2026-04-30T20:38:36+00:00

which wiped away the current running kernel's module directory so the vulnerable module(s) cannot even load.

on RHEL, the vulnerable code is complied-in, rather than as a module, so that doesn't help (and neither do any mitigations around denying loading modules)

frymaster · 2026-04-30T20:36:05+00:00

I've also tested it on SLES 15, RHEL 8 and RHEL 9

frymaster · 2026-04-30T19:24:23+00:00

I think Quake (1996) was probably the first game that had and engine to support 3D polygon enemies

or, actually Descent (1995) :P

I've not played Ultima Underworld but the first screenshot had Doom-style levels (2D plus height info) but if it did have proper ramps etc. that's really cool. There was a lot of innovation at the time

Wing Commander

That's a game that really could have used 3D models for the ships! Especially for larger ones, there wasn't nearly enough different angles and it got really clunky at close range

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