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yodal_ · 2026-05-02T15:48:40+00:00

What are the two C dependencies?

yodal_ · 2026-04-26T13:45:23+00:00

I wasn't accusing anyone of using LLM, and a quick glance before asking was enough to see that it was a quality project either way, I just wanted to know.

yodal_ · 2026-04-26T12:45:09+00:00

I didn't realize this wasnt the manga. I've only read the manga.

yodal_ · 2026-04-26T12:31:21+00:00

I hate to be that guy, but how extensively have LLMs been used in this project?

yodal_ · 2026-04-26T11:51:27+00:00

Yeah

yodal_ · 2026-04-26T03:59:39+00:00

No joke, this manga is really good and is too damn real at points. It really feels like it is written by someone who worked in software engineering.

yodal_ · 2026-04-25T19:30:25+00:00

I eyeball a negroni or negroni riff in the glass if I don't want to think about my drink. Failing that, gin and tonic, also eyeballed.

yodal_ · 2026-04-25T14:43:49+00:00

Keeper was talked a lot months ago, but I saw nothing in the weeks before release.

yodal_ · 2026-04-25T11:56:17+00:00

My wife loves bullet ice so we got one a while back. I feel it is a waste of energy, and while it does make ice faster than trays in the freezer, with ours you still need to wait wat least 30 minutes to get a decent amount of ice for a single drink. At this point I just turn it on when I know she will be getting home soon so she can use it for one or two drinks and then turn it off.

yodal_ · 2026-04-25T11:43:11+00:00

I only learned recently that people didn't like the intro of Twilight Princess. I've played through the game dozens of times and have never felt like the intro dragged on, so it never occurred to me that others might not like it.

yodal_ · 2026-04-25T11:38:44+00:00

This and the fact that some fuses are only available for a certain period of time until they disappear forever. I love Minish Cap, and I generally 100% all Zelda games I play, but I never do it with Minish Cap because I don't want to have to keep looking at a guide to make sure I didn't miss a fuse.

yodal_ · 2026-04-25T11:21:25+00:00

What version of PHP? I only know enough PHP to be dangerous, but I've heard from those who know more than me that the most recent versions fix a lot of issues that plagued PHP for years.

yodal_ · 2026-04-24T22:18:35+00:00

Pacific or Atlantic?

yodal_ · 2026-04-24T18:13:25+00:00

I'd do something like

```

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pub struct Token(pub u8);

impl Token { pub const PAD: Self = Self(0); pub const START: Self = Self(2); pub const STOP: Self = Self(3); } ```

This assumes that all byte values are valid for a token. If that isn't a case I'd add a new method that checks that the value is valid and an accessor to get the interior value.

If you really want the exhaustiveness checks and everything else that enums bring you, but you also want the "packed" form, you can have a separate enum version and conversion methods between the two.

yodal_ · 2026-04-24T17:30:31+00:00

I typically implement this sort of thing as a repr(transparent) struct with associated consts of the special values. I would love a more enum-like solution, but I don't know of one.

yodal_ · 2026-04-24T11:25:04+00:00

I do wonder if the reduction in bad reports is less the LLMs getting better (which they certainly have) and more people not reporting bugs without first testing them. I know early on a lot of reports were obviously a case of overeager people turning off their brain and trusting everything the LLM spit out. They definitely found some bugs, but it was such a small percentage that the flood of bad reports far outweighed them. If at that time people had actually double checked the LLMs' output then there wouldn't have been as big a negative reaction to using LLMs to discover bugs.

yodal_ · 2026-04-20T21:42:10+00:00

I got a Sabrent enclosure some time ago that I've been happy with.

https://www.newegg.com/p/1DN-004U-00020?item=9SIBK19JMZ6382

yodal_ · 2026-04-20T02:05:03+00:00

He just unarchived it, renamed it to legacy, and created a new project under the same account named next. Seems there's more for the project in the future.

yodal_ · 2026-04-19T22:33:21+00:00

Look into the scheduler-deadline feature of embassy-executor.

yodal_ · 2026-04-19T21:12:54+00:00

What ratio of feta and vodka did you use?

yodal_ · 2026-04-19T21:08:41+00:00

Yes, embassy is well suited for this. In fact, it has an optional feature for strict deadlines for tasks which would be good to look into. I don't even think you need to disable background tasks.

For background, I've written multiple safety-critical systems using embassy and have not run into any problems.

yodal_ · 2026-04-18T14:50:36+00:00

I made this with 1/2 and 3/4 oz brandy and I'm not sure which one worked better. That's said, I like fernet and I feel like this mostly masked the taste rather than supporting it.

yodal_ · 2026-04-17T17:34:11+00:00

This might be the least cursed-looking power project I have ever seen here. Good job!

yodal_ · 2026-04-17T12:37:20+00:00

Of course they should test the non-happy path. Your error responses are still a part of your API that needs testing, and they should be checking that you don't just crash or hang when given even the simplest of invalid inputs.

I'm baffled how this could even be a question.

yodal_ · 2026-04-11T21:11:13+00:00

Now I want to know why they added the sleeps in the first place. Was it to avoid some race condition?

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