GrumpySloth

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by GrumpySloth 2y ago
Except the plane is going to survive. Only the passengers aren’t going to. On the other hand, there are going to be new passengers. Assuming we don’t blow up the plane with nukes.
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by GrumpySloth 2y ago
I suspected Frege, which is why I went looking for a source, but found Peirce instead. Good catch.
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by GrumpySloth 2y ago
> That you would deride Wittgenstein on a math/CS forum, when he is literally the person who thought up the concept of truth tables, seems quite egregious. That would be Charles Peirce, in the XIXth century, not Wittgenstein.
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by GrumpySloth 2y ago
Yeah, thanks for the save, Russia: > The Uprising started when the Red Army appeared on the city's doorstep, and the Poles in Warsaw were counting on Soviet front capturing or forwarding beyond the city in a matter of days. This ba
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by GrumpySloth 2y ago
This should be fixed, not embraced.
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by GrumpySloth 2y ago
Around 2012 XFCE would use around 448MB. That's more than a decade ago.
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by GrumpySloth 2y ago
Fun fact: , in C is what ; is in ML.
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by GrumpySloth 2y ago
>> - F ing templates - for those who like them, did you ever see a C++ core file? Or tried to understand a single symbol?* > I have 20+ years of experience writing C++. > Yes, I've looked at "core" C++ headers
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by GrumpySloth 2y ago
> I’m not sure how often it’s posted here but Benno Rice formerly of FreeBSD Core Team has an excellent and amusing discussion of systemd’s technical merits. IMO he makes a couple good points (and a couple poor ones), but it’s about ev
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by GrumpySloth 2y ago
Although true, in most cases when people talk about dead code elimination, they refer to eliminating code inside a function, whereas tree-shaking unambiguously refers to inter-procedural dead code elimination.
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by GrumpySloth 2y ago
If you regularly switch languages or, even worse, use multiple languages in the same messages, autocorrect gets in the way more than it helps. In monolingual contexts it’s almost always set to the wrong language (based on the one used previ
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by GrumpySloth 2y ago
I’ve been suspicious of and disconcerted by the amount of AI-related news coming out of Kagi. I unapologetically hate the current AI craze and am turned off whenever I see it appear in one of the products I use. I’ve also already stopped us
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by GrumpySloth 2y ago
As a native Polish speaker I prefer English in many ways. One of the complaints about English listed in TFA is that the words are shorter than in Slavic languages. That’s actually one of my favourite things about English: words evolve to be
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by GrumpySloth 2y ago
It omits some characters from its output. It also mangles some others through octal escape codes or other such stuff. Depending on flags it will also not handle filenames with spaces or newlines properly. ls output is meant for human consum
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by GrumpySloth 2y ago
Shouldn’t deflation cause people to want to spend less? Spending deflating money is throwing out an appreciating asset. Japan used to suffer from long-term deflation and I’ve heard people there were generally frugal in reaction to that. Vic
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by GrumpySloth 2y ago
In the case of Poland though only a tiny fraction of it was captured by the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The largest portion was captured by Russia. Second largest by German Empire. I have great-grandparents from each of those. Moreover prior t
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by GrumpySloth 2y ago
The popularisation of the concept of Central Europe stems from some people being ashamed of being from Eastern Europe and feeling inferior to Western Europe. Eastern Europe is defined by the Iron Curtain whose effects are still visible toda
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by GrumpySloth 2y ago
A subset of Northern Europe is in Eastern Europe. They’re not disjoint. In particular all Baltic countries are in Eastern Europe (as is visible on the map in the article you linked to (CIA World Factbook)) Eastern Europe has been historical
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by GrumpySloth 2y ago
What do you mean by that? Did Finland change location over time? Also, two Eastern European countries that I have first-hand knowledge of: Poland and Estonia are much more digitised and efficient at those things than Germany (and, from what
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by GrumpySloth 2y ago
Honestly I blame Ohmyzsh for zsh's reputation of having inscrutable configuration and being bloated or sometimes slow. Those configuration frameworks make people helpless when they need to debug their config or make it do something new
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by GrumpySloth 2y ago
I’m talking about C++. You wrote that Clang already had friendly error messages. While they were less unfriendly than GCC, calling them friendly is a stretch. Rust having traits instead of templates is a big ergonomic improvement in that ar
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by GrumpySloth 2y ago
Not when you called templated functions and were greeted with compile-time template stack traces. Or you called overloaded functions and were presented with 50 alternatives you might have meant. The language is inherently unfriendly to user
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by GrumpySloth 2y ago
> As far as we're concerned, not being copyleft was a bug that was exploited by Redis Ltd Disclaimer: I don’t have anything against the relicensing to LGPL. I think it’s your right and I root for you. That said, correct me if I’m
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by GrumpySloth 2y ago
Why would the nationality be important?
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by GrumpySloth 2y ago
If you use a good tool like Gerrit, then you can see a diff of changes made in a review since an arbitrary previous version of the change.
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by GrumpySloth 2y ago
They’re also too bright for pedestrians. When a car like that passes me by I can’t see anything for a while. Then there are also the cars standing on the pavement with those headlights on blinding the pedestrians going in the opposite direc
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by GrumpySloth 2y ago
No. VM snapshots include RAM as well, so the decryption key can be copied from there. The decrypted data can also be intercepted when you decrypt it. Without the pipe dream of efficient homomorphic encryption you can’t protect your data fro
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by GrumpySloth 2y ago
How does it apply to VPS instances? Do they snapshot them and scan the filesystem for content? I’ll be migrating to Hetzner in any case.
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by GrumpySloth 2y ago
My bad. I got some numbers in the article mixed up.
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by GrumpySloth 2y ago
This is very sad. I’ve been an Affinity customer since V1. What I expect to happen now is in some future a move to a subscription-based model and more focus on nonsense AI features and some useless cloud integration. Also: since when a comp

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