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Ewen McNeill
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Freelance IT consultant in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa.

Chaotic Lawful. They/Them.

I'm mostly using this account for reading rather than posting; my short form posts are on Mastodon -- https://cloudisland.nz/@ewenmcneill/
That feels like an endian bug.

Since it seems to be 64-bit (8 bytes), I wonder if they're ntohll()ing it on the way in, but forgetting to htonll() it on the way out. (Which seems a weird choice, because it's a nonce, and the bit order doesn't matter if retained as is.)
December 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Producer is to feeling/riff pairings, as sommelier is to wine/food pairings 🤔
December 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The ditto mark exists if you're willing to use Unicode rather than just ASCII for your digitallly stored text ;-)

(I suspect the ditto mark was used rather more in handwriting than in computer systems where copy'n'paste existed.)

www.compart.com/en/unicode/U...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ditto_m...
Find all Unicode Characters from Hieroglyphs to Dingbats – Unicode Compart
U+3003 is the unicode hex value of the character Ditto Mark. Char U+3003, Encodings, HTML Entitys:〃,〃, UTF-8 (hex), UTF-16 (hex), UTF-32 (hex)
www.compart.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
It's even more delightful in the original French ("pomme de terre" is potato; "pomme" is apple"), as I'm sure you're aware! 😀
December 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Always reassuring when your therapist confirms they're observant ;-)
December 4, 2025 at 2:24 AM
And sadly the “clickbait” thumbnails and titles are probably putting off exactly the people they’re most hoping to attract 😢

(If you want to know how to use an ARP2600 in detail, it’s a pretty good course if you get a good “on sale” price; I bought it a year ago in the intro sale, partly as a tip.)
November 28, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I do entirely see where your “this is just marketing” vibe recently is coming from, and I’d agree this is an accurate read of recent videos.

My sense is they just haven’t figure out how to do the “here’s something useful, oh and BTW we have a Patreon / Course / etc” soft sell.
November 28, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Having watched Anthony’s channel from the beginning, my sense is that the videos last year were all aimed at teaching for free in snippets. Then people asked about a course, so they (Anthony and producers) made one.

In that order.
November 28, 2025 at 6:27 AM
FTR, macOS Intel targetting macOS 15 was GitHub's concession to keeping Intel runers going for now (they were originally removing Intel runners this year).

In the short term building Universal binaries on macOS 15 / M1 runners targetting M1+Intel is the next best option (maybe only ~10 months 🤔).
November 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
It totally works for platform games: run out of (time) budget, and you're reset to the start of the level, and your next attempt only needs a lower (time) budget!

Clearly this is a transferrable lesson into the real world ;-)

/s
November 20, 2025 at 1:47 AM
That does seem surprising!

I wonder if part of it is which part of the brain is sensitive to finding those ingredients (or their byproducts) crossing the blood-brain barrier? 🤔

(Which itself would seem surprising. But not much else is clearly "sided" in the body...)
November 20, 2025 at 1:28 AM
And "making a loss" is a good way to get on IRD's radar for Things We Should Look Into (tm)... especially if you seem to be making a habit of it ;-)
November 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Property (developers, corporate lease, etc) very commonly have one company per project/property, for business risk blast radius containment. And that seems okay to me.

But at 3+ companies they absolutely should have a qualified accountant do everything so they don't make IRD angry with them 😬
November 14, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Unfortunately the whole aphyr site is blocked as a precaution because other parts of the site touch on topics that some parts of the world consider "not for children". (Having followed aphyr for years, it's an understandable choice given the UK law.)

Fortunately the Internet Archive has a copy too.
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Yes, I agree, in practice foreign ships wouldn't plan a route that goes to Hawaii and then on to mainland USA without being able to pick up more cargo (triggering the Cabotage issues).

There's enough Asia -> mainland USA ships that it's unnecessarily expensive to sail a half empty ship onwards.
November 3, 2025 at 2:47 AM
AFAIK foreign ships could also *pick up* cargo in multiple USA ports in series, providing it's all destined for another country.

And at least USA East Coast I gather "pickup in Asia, drop parts of cargo off at each of 2-4 USA ports" is quite a common sailing route.
November 3, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I believe, from Sal (What's Going On With Shipping) and Wikipedia, that's a misunderstanding of the Jones Act.

AFAICT foreign ships can *drop off* cargo in multiple USA ports in series. They just can't pick up new cargo in the USA and carry it to another USA port.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchan...
November 3, 2025 at 2:38 AM