Michał Kowalczyk

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reversing and low-level stuff at Dragon Sector / Invisible Things Lab
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I'm pleased to share with you the greatest advancement in bottom-sheet technology since the invention of elastic.
current status

“Register now” / “I’ll do this later”

where is the “I will never do this” button?

once you have mastery, you can half ass things correctly, because you know which half of the ass you need

Did you know that Unicode has a symbol for "really equals, but this time I mean it"? It could come in handy for JavaScript

U+003D = EQUALS SIGN
U+2261 ≡ IDENTICAL TO
U+2263 ≣ STRICTLY EQUIVALENT TO

Kevin Barreto, one of the first people to get a publicly available LLM (AI) to solve a relatively known open mathematical problem, gave a great talk yesterday, which I organised. The slides are available, with the detailed description of his workflow:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VQk1_Se74ffYrTs1u5dUXq9gnxuzkMFv/view

AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.
PR gets rejected.
AI agent *writes and publishes blog to shame the maintainer*.

What a time to be alive.

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132

Web design in the early 2000s: Every 100ms of latency on page load costs visitors.

Web design in the late 2020s: Let's add a 10-second delay while Cloudflare checks that you are capable of ticking a checkbox in front of every page load.

PSA: Did you know that it’s **unsafe** to put code diffs into your commit messages?

Like https://github.com/i3/i3/pull/6564 for example

Such diffs will be applied by patch(1) (also git-am(1)) as part of the code change!

This is how a sleep(1) made it into i3 4.25-2 in Debian unstable.