in addition to frustration at the plastic gears, he also didn't like the holes in the gears, which is what inspired metal gear solid
cursed python experiment
oh no
alice@lappy ~ % python3
Python 3.8.5 (default, Jan 27 2021, 15:41:15)
[GCC 9.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> def evil():
... import inspect
... inspect.currentframe().f_back.f_locals["a"] = 2
...
>>> a=1
>>> evil()
>>> a
2
@SuricrasiaOnline cursed countermeasure: instead of ubuntu, linux entries are now placed in an entirely empty filesystem and run as PID1
@SuricrasiaOnline heh, reminds me of "golfing languages"
account wide CW, (reclaimed) homophobic slur
sometimes a call myself a fag or faggot. sometimes as part of working through my relationship with fisher society, sometimes just because it feels straightforwardly good to self-id that way. I feel weird CWing self-identifiers so this is my account-level warning on this.
re: piracy question
what the fuck even motivates someone to go to the work of making a high quality release, and then post it to a private tracker.
piracy question
private trackers go against the entire fucking spirit of piracy i hate them so much. anyone have any advice for reposting private torrents to thepiratebay without getting caught/banned?
go programming question, net/http
i have a very simple thing i wanna do: make an HTTP request and enforce a timeout from the start of the request to the first bit of response body coming in.
I can't do a timeout for the whole request because the response body is an endless stream, and I don't want to set separate dial, tls handshake, etc. timeouts because that looks like a huge mess and doesn't appear to actually cover all the states between request and the start of response.
I'm sure there's just something i'm not understanding about Contexts that would help a lot
PC hardware request
a while ago i saw a page about a Mini ITX motherboard that had a right angle PCIe slot on the "north" (like, the opposite edge of the board than usual) side of the board, so that you could slide a GPU into the connector and its fans would face upwards. anyone know what i'm talking about / have a model number / link / anything?
alice