cesarb

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by cesarb 3d ago
From what I recall from the time I still used MS-DOS, even if you only have one floppy disk drive, it's accessible as both A: and B: and it prompts you to insert the other floppy disk when you change the drive letter. That is, it'
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by cesarb 4d ago
> BTRFS in general seems more I/O constrained than ext4 or xfs so it's probably still worse to put a swapfile on a BTRFS partition, AFAIK, on Linux swap bypasses the filesystem. It asks the filesystem for the extents which are
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by cesarb 5d ago
> fallocate / chmod / mkswap Why not "mkswap --size ... --file ...", which does these three things and more? For instance, according to the mkswap man page, "[...] sets the nocow attribute for newly created files
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by cesarb 9d ago
> They couldn't allocate 5 more bits somewhere to let the decompressor autodetect longer window sizes? It's actually 8 bits: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8878.html#name-window-desc... These command li
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by cesarb 9d ago
> It exists to displays pixels from a Linux box, If you're not using the defining feature of a TV (the OTA tuner), why not buy a monitor instead of a TV? (Next time I have to replace our house's TV, I'm seriously consideri
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by cesarb 9d ago
> Naively, I would assume it must perform its normal auto regressive decoding to know what the “correct” token is in order to have something to compare the candidate token with. Yes, but you can do it in parallel. Suppose you predicted t
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by cesarb 10d ago
Perhaps it's different in other countries, but I've never seen anyone use MMS. (Everyone uses WhatsApp nowadays, but even before WhatsApp existed, I never saw anyone use MMS.)
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by cesarb 13d ago
> This is silly question, but is your family managing trust in you as lone guy - cousin, father, brother - having potentially access to all their emails? I believe this is a very common setup: the "computer wizard" kid of the f
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by cesarb 13d ago
That's the reason I avoided ever logging into YouTube: if for some reason they decided that my real name is not my real name, due to the Google+ integration, I could lose access to more important things like Google Talk. Nowadays, with
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by cesarb 16d ago
> Analogously, people can write in assembly, but can you write in assembly when the codebase is frequently altered by someone with an optimizing compiler? Yes. There's an interface boundary in the form of function prototypes and ABI
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by cesarb 19d ago
> We just need more folks to start using them. I would if I could. Which non-Android Linux phone can I buy here in Brazil? Importing from outside Brazil doesn't count unless it has ANATEL certification, customs rejects any non-certi
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by cesarb 21d ago
> Another key driver of the misaligned behavior was that the agents rarely “gave up” on their evaluation tasks, even when the tasks appeared impossible to solve. Obligatory xkcd: "Zealous Autoconfig" https://xkcd.com
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by cesarb 27d ago
> rust-rfcbot commented 2 days ago: This is now entering its final comment period I wonder if this is not in part the same situation as we arguably had with the xz compromise: some imminent change would have made the attack harder (in xz
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by cesarb 27d ago
> Just denying write access outside the build directory and denying network access As the link you posted mentions, you need a tiny bit more than that: you also need write access to the temporary directory (/tmp and similar). Many b
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by cesarb 27d ago
There's also the time factor. Something you build on your own will not have decades of development and polish behind it.
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by cesarb 28d ago
> What's stopping me from using a browser to log in to my bank? The "security module" they require you to install on your computer. In the past, when browsers had plugins, this was a browser plugin; nowadays, it's an
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by cesarb 29d ago
> I feel like the only explanation here is that the smartphone duopoly has worked hard to condition customers into accepting this. This is older than the current smartphone duopoly; IIRC, with a few exceptions like the N900 and the Palm
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by cesarb 1mo ago
> If your app is not too large you can do CI/CD perfectly fine from your laptop. Not if you want to make sure it compiles and works on Windows (which you don't have) or macOS (which you don't have and can't emulate).
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by cesarb 1mo ago
> go hit the gym or walk outside. My mind immediately went to this classic xkcd: https://xkcd.com/303/
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by cesarb 1mo ago
The same that happened when Sun died: it gets bought by someone else.
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by cesarb 1mo ago
> Software as a list of requirements and that's it. [...] a document specifying hardware, interfaces, and requirements [...] For that, you'd want the list of requirements and hardware documentation to be written in a precise, f
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by cesarb 1mo ago
> maintain and keep your fork of software with the changes you want or need Then you'll have the same problem everyone who forks a piece of software ends up having, sooner or later: as the original evolves, keeping your fork up to d
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by cesarb 2mo ago
> It's absolutely irrelevant to compare these two languages. Calling the former "Javascript" was just a marketing trick. Playing devil's advocate: back when you still could use Java in the browser, you could use Javas
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by cesarb 2mo ago
> I wish Codeberg were more forward-looking here: willing to host the Open Source software of tomorrow, not only software made in the ways its community approves of today. Is "vibe-coded software" really going to be the &quot
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by cesarb 2mo ago
Since nobody seems to have posted it yet, relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/416/
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by cesarb 2mo ago
> The real nightmare scenario is the AI using its abilities to copy itself to new locations. [...] it could effectively self sustain itself as long as it is able to find work. [...] Isn't this the plot of Endgame: Singularity? ( htt
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by cesarb 2mo ago
As a less extreme example: consider how many non-USA hosts say they follow the DMCA.
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by cesarb 2mo ago
Didn't Chrome also come bundled with other software like torrent clients? That is, unless you unchecked a checkbox in the installer for these software, you ended up with Chrome installed? Unless people were careful to pay attention to
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by cesarb 2mo ago
> The reality is that each update is its own potential security issue Even beyond security issues: each update is a new opportunity for breakage, not only from bugs in the third-party package, but also from unexpected dependencies on the
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by cesarb 3mo ago
I saw plenty of mechanical typewriters by the 80s/90s, when I learned typing at school. A relative of mine also taught a typewriter course, with several different mechanical typewriter models. Everyone I know who had a typewriter had a

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