/tech/ - Technology

to add to the RSS thing, there should be appropriate <meta> tags to allow RSS readers to automagically find the feeds. this is perhaps more an issue to bring up upstream. also an RSS icon somewhere would be nice, but again this also probably belongs upstream

>>19510
finally, I see that the feeds list threads in the order they were created rather than bump order. it might be nice if there were feeds for the latter, so that threads with new posts are shown as new

>>19140
Absolutely, if you don't you're out.

>>19140
wait until you hear about Alunya cosplay sundays

>>19432
fwiw I found this answer about unacademy, which uses the same method for serving the files. there MUST be a way to avoid losing access.
help me bros

I want to contribute more to reversing but it is so fucking boring like goddamn

>>19517
How does one contribute to it?

>>19432
>>19439
bumping

>>19517
looking at the rockbox project you really need to be into it

>>18636
saved
>>19173
>Twilight was captured
I'm curious how they would accomplish this given that she is Ms. Teleport Spam

I'm so tired of my normie friends sending me shit like "wow look what AI did this time" but whenever I try to send them something that actually explains the functioning behind it, the drawbacks, societal costs, exploitation or whatever the only reaction is "well we can't stop technology"

I hate AI so much now, it is literally cryptoscam 2.0, tell me about it when it actually does something useful (without exporting intellectual labor to underpaid workers and calling it "ai")

Dear colleagues,

I would like to share with you a short example of Common Lisp code that I think demonstrates some of the elegant, efficient, clever and impressive features of this language. The code is a function that computes the factorial of a non-negative integer using tail recursion and a helper function.

(defun factorial (n)
  (labels ((fact (n acc)
             (if (zerop n)
                 acc
                 (fact (1- n) (* n acc)))))
    (fact n 1)))

The function factorial takes a parameter n and calls a local function fact with n and 1 as arguments. The local function fact is defined using labels, which allows it to refer to itself recursively. The function fact takes two parameters: n and acc. The parameter acc is an accumulator that keeps track of the product of the numbers from n down to 1. The function fact checks if n is zero, in which case it returns the accumulator as the final result. Otherwise, it calls itself recursively with n-1 and n*acc as the new arguments. This way, the function fact does not need to use the call stack to store intermediate results, and can avoid stack overflow errors. This technique is called tail recursion, and it is supported by Common Lisp compilers as an optimization.

The function factorial is an example of how Common Lisp allows us to write concise, expressive and powerful code using features such as local functions, recursion, labels and arithmetic operations. I hope you find this example interesting and inspiring.

Sincerely,
Your name

Hokaaay

>>19735
Literally hundreds of people have written blog articles about this exact function.
You shoud ask it when call stack recursion is faster than tail call recursion. A quick search doesn't turn up anything, but i remember reading about it on comp.lang.lisp.

Okay anon, I'll help you out. Bisq is great but its probably one of the more confusing ways to trade at times due to its privacy. The simplest thing for you to do is to go to any of the big exchanges like Coinbase, Binance or Kraken or whatnot that basically just let you (usually after some small amount of verification) let you use fiat currency - USD, EUR etc. - and just buy crypto, including BTC. Also note the way you pay - bank card, credit card, PayPal etc.. may have different fees. Be wary of this when buying fiat for crypto! Couple of things to keep in mind

DO NOT KEEP YOUR CRYPTO IN THE EXCHANGE"S ACCOUNT PERMANENTLY. This is how people have gotten fucked over. Its okay to keep it there when you're trading or will be, but don't just let it sit in exchanges forever. Its good to keep it in a wallet only YOU control - it doesn't have to be a "full" wallet (aka with a full copy of the blockchain it downloads), it can be a "lite" wallet, so long as you have full control of your keys, account etc.

Next, note that EVERY CRYPTO TRANSMISSION BETWEEN ONE ADDRESS AND ANOTHER RECORDED ON THE BLOCKCHAIN HAS A NETWORK FEE. Some coins will call it something different (ie Etherium call it "gas" ) and when these cryptos started out it was nothing, a tenth of a thousandth of a BTC or whatever. However, as the value of the coins have gone up , proportionally this often gets a little more expensive. Its still not always horrible today and depending on what currency it will vary, but just know that it will cost a small amount of something for the network to process it even if say.. you're sending it from one wallet address you control (or your address at an exchange) to another of "yourself", the "network" fee still needs to be paid. Most clients will tell you this and what the minimum is for "standard" transmission (there's a faster more confirmations thing but don't worry about that) but just keep it in mind.

Anyway, I'll try to help you out. There's a lot of crypto bullshit out there but, if you use it smartly and know what each asset is and can do its not by nature evil or anything. Note that Monero is privacy friendly and one of the better coins (its actually one of the most equitable too updating its algo to keep ASICs from fucking with everyone attempting to mine etc), but isn't held as commonly on major exchanges because of the privacy element. Also be very careful for anything related to "DeFi", "dPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>but you won't find any clear web crypto exchanges selling it anymore.
Waht? Yes there are, loads even

>>19724
This was in Reference to XMR/Monero not Bitcoin, as I was suggesting it as a privacy coin that the OP might been interested in. They nuked Monero off the Majority of the Clear web crypto exchanges to where you can't even buy or trade in it from what I have seen.

>>19713
Well Monero Mining is the one that uses the CPU and the different threads on the CPU, but not worth mining with just one CPU, but I get what you are saying ASICS with Solar Panels or clean energy alternatives will the way to go for Mining Bitcoin.

hahahahahahahahahaha
hell yeah dude

my man's going fin-goth mode

First of all, you should want to avoid bitcoin as it is horrible wen it comes to privacy. Every transaction is public and viewable by everyone, see if you can buy a privacy coin, such as monero instead.

If you want a different way to buy either of them, be it bitcoin or monero, check out localbitcoin and localmonero. You can use many different ways of making transacting with individuals (even cash by mail) and it's even accessible through the darknet.

>>19260
no because they already have their established process that they need you to fit into like any other cog. so what you buot doesn't matter, what matters is if you can clear their standardized interview, work with their standardized tools, and follow a standardized workflow of accept ticket, tag git branches in your fix, change labels on your PR, clock-in some time so they can gauge your factory worker output of no of tickets per sprint to measure your velocity and plot a graph about how much value you are providing over time.

>>19243
No.
>t. Successful senior engineer that has done plenty of interviews.

>>19728
How do I become a successful senior engineer?

>>19729
do plenty of interviews

>>19729
Hmm well, you do work to obtain promotions. You need to hustle a bit I guess. What is your situation right now?

>>19662
>"People choose to get evicted by their actions," Melody McClurg, the executive director at the Steubenville housing authority, told WaPo.
xd

>>19655
A good chunk of Active Worlds and Worlds.com are still up, though this is mostly due to their tiny file sizes so they basically have been forgotten on servers.

>>19667
I tried setting up an account but they kept rejecting my email

>>19662
It's pure projection.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/19/fbi-digital-surveillance-misuse-jan6-blm/

>>19628
>trusting proprietary scum with your data
deserved outcome desu
the internet was decentralized for a reason
but people couldn't resist willingly centralizing under the likes of corporate shit like google and here we are.
even other programmers used to roll their eyes when they learned that I host my own email, git, etc. instead of using centralized trash like shithub.

>>19718
>or LFS if you're genius
all you have to do is to follow the damn instructions uygha

>>19719
it's like saying all you have to do to build a motorcycle is to also follow the instructions

I mean, it's a notable achievement

>>19720
>typing ./configure && make && make install is an achievement
The only complicated pieces are kernel and bootloader. You can get by with the debian kernelconfig and the archwiki page about bootloaders should explain everything well enough.

>>19720
It's cool but I find it very weird how people mythologize GNU/Linux as some dark art that can only be learned by the chosen ones and even they have to study it for decades before becoming comfortable with it.

>>19683
KDE Spin of Fedora, Kubuntu, or KDE Neon.
Linux mint if you want a stable system.
If you don't like the Windows GUI and you have 0iq then you will like GNOME.
I use OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE btw.

I tried to become a programmer a decade ago when I was in my late teens/early 20s but a large number of factors caused it to not work out. Looking at things like this I'm glad I ended up in some shitty engineering gig even though the money isn't nearly as good.

>>19688
>but for programming it's gonna give you code that was already written and can be found on the internet, code copied from stackoverflow is gonna work 100% of the time so chatgpt still can't compete.

Okay, but that is already what happens on a large scale tbh

>>19710
But programmers understand code, if you ask ChatGPT to make firmware for hardware that only exist in prototype it will only give you garbage as ChatGPT has no understand of coding, hardware or even you are asking of it. All GPT knows is statically is the correct response for a give input.

>>19715
How can we help these poor people
Should we set up a chatline?

>waaah devs won't support my pet calendar
write it yourself anon. patch welcome and all that
<Today is Pungenday, the 70th day of fbi.gov in the YOLD 3189

>>19677
>the wordfilter changed the month name
how deliciously dlscordant. hail Eris!

Date should be written year-month-day. The month should be spelled out to avoid confusion about the order. The year should be Juche, the months should be based on the French revolutionary calendar, the finer distinctions should be Swatch Beats.

Shouldn't use an inferior western softaware