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cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid

"A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin."

✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support […]

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whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
guess the website
December 11, 2025 at 9:51 AM
whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
you ever wonder how the nato reporting names are written
December 11, 2025 at 8:04 AM
whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
"... and here's where we optimize our LEDs for something that definitely isn't growing weed..."
December 9, 2025 at 8:23 AM
whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
why... is jlcpcb expecting to fuck up _exactly half_ of the SMD crystals?!
December 9, 2025 at 5:07 AM
whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
"adiabatic assist" is a term for a type of cooling equipment that evaporates water to improve efficiency
December 9, 2025 at 4:03 AM
whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
huh, the cloud really did eat everything
December 9, 2025 at 3:57 AM
whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
#gitpages now has a _redirects file linter that warns you if your redirect accidentally ends up "dead" (never triggered because you have a file with the same name)
console output demonstrating how the linter works on someone's site
December 7, 2025 at 4:28 AM
whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
material for mkdocs is very very good overall but this option feels like a fever dream

> alternate style
> the only supported style
> defaults to not using it

???
December 7, 2025 at 2:56 AM
whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
the team behind material for mkdocs have built a new static site generator

i open their webpage and it lags my entire pc with, i think, this background animation of "moving lines". taking a screenshot took several seconds and chromium stopped rendering the […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
December 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
this is the most "questions already answered by my shirt" that i've seen in a while
December 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
hey remember this slide
December 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
#gitpages now supports incremental site updates when uploading an archive!

pictured are logs for two individual uploads:
1a. PUT probe (says blobs are missing)
1b. PUT upload (uploads all the blobs)
2. PUT probe (says all the blobs are already there)
December 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
i agree that this is depressing, but i don't think AI is the _cause_. this problem started when we collectively decided to gatekeep social and physical mobility with higher education

i went to university ~15 years ago. a naive idiot, i thought that i'm there […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
December 5, 2025 at 8:45 AM
whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
#gitpages now implements an audit system that allows on-line, background processing of uploaded content to e.g. scan it for viruses, phishing, and other abusive material

I consider this table stakes for any service with open registration, so now I can […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
December 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
[github]

github rot status: they added a way to anonymously request copilot business support in an organization

"people want copilot"
"who?"
"... people"
"which people?"
"One of them"
December 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
#gitpages now supports atomic partial updates using the PATCH method: give it a subdirectory and it will update its contents without touching anything else

you can use it to e.g. upload previews of built documentation without having to maintain giant git […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
With feature patch: In response to a PATCH request, the server partially updates a site with new content. The URL of the request must be the root URL of the site that is being published. The request must have a application/x-tar, application/x-tar+gzip, or application/x-tar+zstd body, whose contents is merged with the existing site contents as follows: A character device entry with major 0 and minor 0 is treated as a "whiteout marker" (following unionfs): it causes any existing file or directory with the same name to be deleted. A directory entry replaces any existing file or directory with the same name (if any), recursively removing the old contents. A file or symlink entry replaces any existing file or directory with the same name (if any). In any case, the parent of an entry must exist and be a directory. The request must have a Race-Free: yes or Race-Free: no header. Not every backend configuration makes it possible to perform atomic compare-and-swap operations; on backends without atomic CAS support, Race-Free: yes requests will fail, while Race-Free: no requests will provide a best-effort approximation. If a PATCH request loses a race against another content update request, it may return 409 Conflict. This is true regardless of the Race-Free: header value. Whenever this happens, resubmit the request as-is. If the site has no contents after the update is applied, performs the same action as DELETE.
December 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
is this FUD?
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December 4, 2025 at 1:38 AM
whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
do you know whether this "may" is actually a "shall" or not? does this differ per-OS?
If a process uses open(2) (or similar) to obtain more than one file descriptor for the same file, these file descriptors are treated independently by flock(). An attempt to lock the file using one of these file descriptors may be denied by a lock that the calling process has already placed via another file descriptor.
December 4, 2025 at 1:07 AM
whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
this is the most executive-brained thing i've seen this month

(to the S3 object) "hello, computer?"
The promptObject API enables users to “talk” to unstructured objects in the same way one would engage an LLM moving the storage world from a PUT and GET paradigm to a PUT and PROMPT paradigm. Applications can use promptObject through function calling with additional logic. This can be combined with chained functions with multiple objects addressed at the same time. This means that application developers can exponentially expand the capabilities of their applications without requiring domain-specific knowledge of RAG models or vector databases. This will dramatically simplify AI application development while simultaneously making it more powerful.
December 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
new early exit pattern dropped
December 3, 2025 at 12:18 AM
whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
my solution to the nightmare that is "SPI modes"
class Mode(enum.IntEnum, shape=2): IdleLow_SampleRising = 0 # CPOL=0, CPHA=0 IdleLow_SampleFalling = 1 # CPOL=0, CPHA=1 IdleHigh_SampleFalling = 2 # CPOL=1, CPHA=0 IdleHigh_SampleRising = 3 # CPOL=1, CPHA=1 @classmethod def from_cpol_cpha(cls, cpol: Literal[0, 1], cpha: Literal[0, 1]): return cls(cpol << 1 | cpha)
December 2, 2025 at 1:57 AM
whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
thinking about how much of bad cat behavior is just "the cat probably grew up alone _and_ nobody had the knowledge and wisdom to tell it off in a way it can understand"

housecats are fully capable of understanding that their claws hurt you, and equally […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
@angelmartin7310 They aren't domesticated yet, they can be tamed like these we see, but they take special handling because they are still dangerous. I got a chance to pet some cubs once, one 4 months old and the other was 7 months old. They are amazingly powerful animals. The 7 months old came up behind my boyfriend, 6' and very muscular. It wanted to play, grabbed him by the back of the neck and shoulders. He instinctively flipped the cat and punched him as the handlers had said. The cougar just looked at him like, oh, did I upset you? Sorry. And it bounded off.
December 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
also none of this is "much" anyway. you literally can't see the HN traffic in git-pages %cpu
December 1, 2025 at 10:41 AM
whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
"a page on grebedoc got featured on hn" (i think it's @issotm's recent blog post)
December 1, 2025 at 10:18 AM
whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
this is an incredibly funny sentence

"the thin films are fairly thin"

well what else would they be, robert? thick? if they were thick they'd be called thick films!!
November 30, 2025 at 7:31 AM