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by elehack 1mo ago
If you want (4) and don't care about a web interface for managing repos, but do want Git-LFS, Soft Serve ( https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve/ ) works pretty well. I used it for self-hosted stuff until
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by elehack 2mo ago
Kraid is the shader compiler for Panfrost, the Mesa driver for Arm Mali GPUs: https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/panfrost.html
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by elehack 7mo ago
Yes. In little-endian, the difference between short and long at a specific address is how many bytes you read from that address. In big-endian, to cast a long to a short, you have to jump forward 6 bytes to get to the 2 least-significant by
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by elehack 8mo ago
Mamba is fast, and Pixi is also fast + sands a lot of the rough edges off the Conda experience (with project/environment binding and native lock files). Not perfect, but pretty good when uv isn't enough for a project or deployment
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by elehack 10mo ago
And readability. data.table is very capable, but the incantations to use it are far less obvious (both for reading and writing) than dplyr. But you can have the best of both worlds with https://dtplyr.tidyverse.org/ , using
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by elehack 1y ago
Yep. With the solution discussed, as I understand it, the e-mail program just needs to be modified to request a focus token and send it along with the URL request to the browser or the OS browser dispatch service to keep the expected behavi
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by elehack 1y ago
The article is about a mechanism for the OS to validate focus requests. The application with the link requests a focus token, and passes it to the browser along with the open-link request, and the browser can then request focus. It isn&#x2
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by elehack 1y ago
Describing this as a limit on "CS programs" is a common, but erroneous, understanding of the proposal limit. This specific solicitation — CISE Core Programs — has a 2-proposal-per-year limit. However, that only applies to this sol
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by elehack 1y ago
I like this — JSX is a little annoying to work with outside the major implementations. If this existed, I might not have found the need to make my little Hyperstatic library ( https://jsr.io/@mdekstrand/hyperstatic ).
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by elehack 2y ago
UUID v5 is quite useful if you want to deterministically convert external identifiers into UUIDS — define a namespace UUID for each potential identifier source (to keep them separate), then use that to derive a V5 UUID from the external ide
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by elehack 4y ago
Disclaimer: I am a CS professor. I don't think AI advancements will cause a problem for the value of the degree (or rather, if they do, then it wasn't a very good MS degree). The value of formal university CS education done well,
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by elehack 7y ago
That workflow has changed in the last few years. - Brand new templates (introduced about 5 years ago, the LaTeX template has had multiple updates per year since then) - Workflow that makes use of the source (or possibly codes the source emb
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by elehack 7y ago
I agree. I have no idea what IEEE is doing that costs that much. And while I don't take as hard a line against them as I do against Elsevier, I have never published with them and don't currently have any plans to change that.
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by elehack 7y ago
There's a lot to critique in publishing and associated costs, but this tweet is unfortunately factually wrong. From the linked article, ACM's publication costs are $10.9M, not $33.7M. One of the ACM's major publication initia
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by elehack 7y ago
Backblaze can back up arbitrarily large local drives, but does not allow you to set network drives as backup sources (for precisely this reason). It's fine with the local drive being shared - our desktop's big storage drive is exp
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by elehack 7y ago
It isn't just a change of server, it's an entirely different back-end infrastructure. To Do is a modern UI on top of Exchange tasks.
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by elehack 7y ago
Google did not create reCAPTCHA. They bought it; it was started by Luis von Ahn, who went on to create Duolingo. When reCAPTCHA was created, the alternative was CAPTCHA, which tried to impede bots but did not generate any social benefit. Th
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by elehack 7y ago
Yes. Bandits will often converge more quickly to the optimal strategy, but it is much more difficult to understand why that strategy is optimal and generalize from the bandit outcomes to predict future performance and performance of other
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by elehack 7y ago
Simple, non-evil answer: because it would severely impede spam prevention. This extensive writeup has details: https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/000780.... Long story short, to control spam
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by elehack 8y ago
Yes, publisher profits - especially for places like Elsevier - are ridiculous, even for the costs involved. But it's easy to overlook important costs in the publication system. One, as others have observed, is editors (and some adminis
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by elehack 9y ago
If the machine (1) has soldered-on RAM (preventing cold boot attacks) and (2) the portions of the OS that run prior to user authentication are sufficiently secure, then it really doesn't seem to be a problem. Last I knew, Windows does
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by elehack 9y ago
Only 3rd-party code I see in a GitHub is Google Analytics. There's a few loads from githubapp.com and githubusercontent.com. I also think the CI service, which GitHub doesn't provide, is a higher-risk environment for this kind of
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by elehack 9y ago
There are a few weird incompatibilities around things that have been moved to modules that are disabled by default. This just bit me with the javax.annotation package (moved to a JAX-WS module and turned off by default; this can jack with c
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by elehack 9y ago
Tuition + fees (possibly + books, but that is highly variable from term to term and generally substantially less than tuition) is the correct way to evaluate the cost of higher education. Room & board is generally optional at state scho
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by elehack 10y ago
Technically, yes, but practically, no. THEOREMS (the language of correct proofs) is in P; given a correct proof (possibly restricted to being in first-order logic), it can be verified in polynomial time. In the first-order logic case, all
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by elehack 10y ago
Moral: don't use users' contact lists to bootstrap or enhance social services. Barring strong differential privacy implementations, it will cause problems. Implementing a 'what friends do I have on this service?' featur
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Building a recommender? Show it off at the ACM Recommender Systems conference(recsys.acm.org)
2 points by elehack 11y ago|0 comments
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The Twitter of the Three-Ton Nail(medium.com)
1 points by elehack 11y ago|0 comments
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by elehack 11y ago
Sakai is an open source offering that seems to be pretty good. At Texas State we use a (heavily customized, I believe) instance of it as the standard e-learning platform, and it's quite a bit better than Moodle in most respects.
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by elehack 12y ago
I've been teaching databases this semester, and PostgreSQL's full-text search capabilities have been wonderful for allowing my students to build search into their projects without needing to learn additional tech (we're using

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