1. cbsks 4 days ago parent

   On Linux, if the blocks are page aligned, you could use mremap(2) to swap blocks very efficiently without using any additional physical memory.
2. cbsks 4 days ago parent

   What’s the maximum range to your phone to get notifications? I’ve been trying to cut back on my reflex to look at my phone every few minutes. It’d be great if I could keep my phone on a charging stand and be able to walk around my house and still get notifications.
3. cbsks Dec 27, 2025 parent

   Linux on top of a hypervisor. There are several companies providing hypervisors, including the one I work at, so my experience is biased.
4. cbsks Dec 27, 2025 parent

   It’s also running virtualized in a lot of cars! Although I’ve seen more and more US car companies switching from QNX to Linux. Chinese car companies I’ve worked with all use Linux instead of QNX, so perhaps that is the future.
5. cbsks Dec 16, 2025 parent

   I would open a new bug for each of those questions and say “we will evaluate this after the MVP is implemented”. Give the person credit in the bug description. That will usually satisfy their concerns. Set the priority on the bugs to low and I’ll never even have to look at them again, unless one of them actually becomes a problem.
6. cbsks Dec 16, 2025 parent

   It’s a 6 digit pin. Doesn’t seem worthwhile to hash. What are the best practices here? I’m not sure
7. cbsks Nov 27, 2025 parent

   The downside is that some services, such as video streaming, block access from VPNs.
8. cbsks Nov 24, 2025 parent

   Imagine an alternate universe where Amazon has a similar interface. It would be the most amazing tool.
9. cbsks Nov 23, 2025 parent

   Wow. SubC’s software engineering needs some work. They thought the camera’s file system was unencrypted, when it was encrypted. They didn’t know where the keys were to decrypt it. It turned out the key was written unencrypted to a UFS storage device. There was a file written to /mnt/nas/Stills, which indicates that the camera was to writing to a remote file system that wasn’t mounted.
10. cbsks Nov 16, 2025 parent

    That is such a typical bug report to a large company. A user who spent a lot of time debugging and finding the root cause of an issue, and a few faceless peons at the large company spending a few minutes on it, realizing it’s not a priority, and abandoning it.
11. cbsks Oct 28, 2025 parent

    As Asimov predicted, robopsychology is becoming an important skill.
12. cbsks Aug 12, 2025 parent

    The killer application for me is that my wired Ethernet security cameras are on a VLAN that I firewall from the internet.
13. cbsks Jul 22, 2025 parent

    It’d be funny if he bought it then returned it to Mars.
14. cbsks Jul 14, 2025 parent

    I’m surprised that a “tech company” provides a Chromebook instead of a laptop.
15. cbsks Jul 11, 2025 parent

    What’s up with wvdbozpfc.com?

    There’s a bunch of random looking domain names: cmidphnvq.com, rpqihexdb.com, facebook.com. I’d guess they for advertising?

16. cbsks Jun 25, 2025 parent

    The keyword is "mono-monostatic", and the Gömböc is an example of a non-polyhedra one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6mb%C3%B6c

    Here's a 21 sided mono-monostatic polyhedra: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.13727v2

17. cbsks Jun 22, 2025 parent

    > Weapons expert Ted Postol of MIT claims Israel's missile defense is only intercepting around 5%

    Do you have a link to this? I’m curious to read more.

18. cbsks Jun 17, 2025 parent

    If you can transfer to another team internally, do it. Otherwise start looking for another job. I’ve done both to escape bad managers. In my experience there is no way to “fix” a bad manager. The only solution is to leave.
19. cbsks May 12, 2025 parent

    I’m terribly sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but Fyre Festival 2 has been cancelled https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/music/new...
20. cbsks May 9, 2025 parent

    "REPENT, HARLEQUIN!" SAID THE TICKTOCKMAN

    Nebula Award, Best Short Story 1965

    https://files.libcom.org/files/Repent,%20Harlequin%20said%20...

21. cbsks Apr 29, 2025 parent

    > Why not require two or three reviews if they are so helpful at finding mistakes?

    For secure software, e.g. ASIL-D, you will absolutely have a minimum 2 reviewers. And that’s just for the development branch. Merging to a release branch requires additional sign offs from the release manager, safety manager, and QA.

    By design the process slows down “velocity”, but it definitely increases code quality and reduces bugs.

22. cbsks Mar 31, 2025 parent

    https://oka.wiki/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/OKA-2024-Annual-...

    Those are the 3 most viewed articles created by OKA editors in 2024

23. cbsks Mar 19, 2025 parent

    My deepest apologies.
24. cbsks Mar 19, 2025 parent

    Why not start now, Mr. INTPenis?
25. cbsks Mar 15, 2025 parent

    Skateboarding?
26. cbsks Mar 14, 2025 parent

    Have you talked to your manager about it? I’m at a large tech company and I know people who have requested to stay at their current level.
27. cbsks Mar 14, 2025 parent

    I interviewed at NUWC Keyport when I was in college. Seemed like an interesting place to work but they didn’t have any real programming roles at the time. My interviewer asked if I had experience with UML and talked about how he wanted someone to document and optimize their assembly line procedures. I’m not sure he knew exactly what he wanted.
28. cbsks Feb 17, 2025 parent

    You can also do the inverse and cook pasta like rice. Put pasta in a saucepan and just cover with water then bring to a boil until all the water has been absorbed, stirring occasionally. That has the advantage of keeping all the starch so you can get really creamy sauces. It’s great for mac and cheese.

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