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SteveBellovin

@SteveBellovin@mastodon.lawprofs.org

I'm a computer science professor and affiliate law prof at Columbia University. Author of "Thinking Security". Dinosaur photographer. Not ashamed to say that I’m still masking, because long Covid terrifies me.
https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

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SteveBellovin, to random
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This is one of (many) lessons I learned, way back when, from Brian Kernighan. His approach: first, get it right (my phrasing: there's no benefit to doing the wrong thing thing quickly); second, measure, because your guesses about bottlenecks are almost certainly wrong; third, optimize.
https://infosec.exchange/@larryosterman/112486986728658068

SteveBellovin,
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@Dianora Mmm—not sure I agree. There are often pretty solutions that are just plain wrong. Nor is the converse—ugly code is bad code—necessarily correct; reality is often ugly. Try writing pretty code to handle the US tax code…

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Well that’s a plot twist: I finally get UK citizenship and I get to vote in my first British general election on…the 4th of July.

SteveBellovin,
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@brianklaas I was wondering if that was coincidental or not…

cstross, (edited ) to random
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Can anyone recommend a decent iTerm2 replacement for macOS now that iTerm2 has jumped the shark and is pushing ChatGPT integration down my throat? (Preferably one that is (a) free and (b) doesn't require hand-editing JSON files to change the font size and typeface.)

EDIT: hint: point (b) is crucial—if I have to hand-edit a config file that's an automatic fail. Life is too short to be forced to futz around to configure a basic tool.

SteveBellovin,
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@enoclue @cstross My X apps move around overnight when the display sleeps.

SteveBellovin,
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@enoclue @cstross Maybe. Not really an option for me, with the external monitor and laptop I have. I haven't tried it in my office, where I have a Mac Studio with two monitors.

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