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by gibibit 4mo ago
Not "literative" programming, but "literate" programming. The official Knuth page: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/lp.html
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by gibibit 1y ago
What more do you want an OS to do? What do you expect Apple to add to MacOS? Just don't break stuff. Fix bugs. Once in a while some new kind of hardware or network protocol might need to be added. That's it.
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by gibibit 1y ago
If done with Electron, that will be 100 MB. Or with Tauri, 5 MB. Which, amazingly, seems tiny.
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by gibibit 1y ago
I am always curious how different C programs decide how to manage memory. In this case there are is a custom string library. Functions returned owned heap-allocated strings. However, I think there's a problem where static strings are u
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by gibibit 1y ago
Obviously they don't put the weight on the product main page, that is absolutely heavy. The Helinox Chair Zero is the standard by which all backpacking chairs are compared https://helinox.com/products/chair-zero -
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by gibibit 1y ago
True, "nm" initially seemed to be nautical miles, but then this square meters thing appeared. The point is that "m" should be meters, but "mi" would be a more customary abbreviation for miles in the U.S.
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by gibibit 1y ago
"A single 1-kW jammer can take down GPS for a 300-nm radius.[...] A CRPA can shrink the effective radius of the 1-kW jammer to 3 nm. The jammer’s area of effectiveness is slashed from 280,000 m² to 28 m²." An example of the kind o
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by gibibit 1y ago
Very informative, thanks!
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by gibibit 1y ago
Hilarious, 3000+ votes for a Stack Overflow question that's not a question. But it is an interesting article. Interesting enough that it gets to break all the rules, I guess?
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by gibibit 1y ago
Is there any software that can provide verified, trusted archives of websites? For example, we can go to the Wayback Machine at archive.org to not only see what a website looked like in the past, but prove it to someone (because we implicit
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by gibibit 1y ago
I still can't believe how slow MS Word is to load a .docx document of about 150 pages of text, you can watch the page count in the status bar grow over a period of 10 seconds or more as it loads/paginates it. On the plus side, it&
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by gibibit 1y ago
I predict this won't be popular. E-ink is great for reading a book, especially on a portable battery-powered device, but on a large desk display connected to a general-purpose computer, it doesn't make sense at all. Slow and incon
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by gibibit 1y ago
To me, spam is unsolicited email or phone calls. People or organizations contacting me when I haven't requested they do so.
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by gibibit 1y ago
Interestingly the Macbook trackpad does not have physical buttons. It uses haptic feedback to simulate the feeling of a "click", but in reality there is no button which could be interrupted by dust. I did have a Macbook trackpad f
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by gibibit 1y ago
For reference, Rust provides a similar experience let names = ["Peter", "Julia", "Xi"]; names .map(|name| format!("Hello, {name}")) .iter() .for_each(|greeting| print
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by gibibit 1y ago
Just wrong!!
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by gibibit 1y ago
I am excited for any path that gets us toward a faster, leaner, cleaner web browser. It is insane that we have to dedicate multiple gigabytes of RAM, have CPUs 1000x faster than we had back with Netscape Navigator, and still the browser per
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by gibibit 1y ago
Excel won't import ISO 8601 timestamps either, which is crazy these days where it's the universal standard, and there's no excuse to use anything else. You have to replace the "T" separator with a space and also any
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by gibibit 1y ago
After a little confusion I see this "Ractor" is the Ruby actors library https://ruby-doc.org/3.2.2/Ractor.html I was a little confused because when I think of Ractor, it's the Rust "Ractor" lib
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by gibibit 1y ago
Oh yeah, the forgotton IPv5!!
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by gibibit 1y ago
It is a clever trick. Very useful in C also, maybe more than in C++. It can be overused, though. Kind of works like Rust declarative macros (`macro_rules!`) in that it is often used to repeat and expand something common across an axis of th
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by gibibit 1y ago
I agree with the article. Maybe businesses are trying to protect themselves, but as a user, mandatory 2FA reduces the level of security I can achieve for myself. Because security is not just confidentiality, it's also availability: the
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by gibibit 1y ago
ARM Cortex-A is an application processor, not a microcontroller. With an MMU (can run a full OS like Linux) and without internal memory. Cortex-M is a microcontroller, without MMU (can't run Linux etc.), and typically has internal RAM
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by gibibit 2y ago
Will phones really be completely without wired ports? It's possible but unlikely any time soon. Wired ports are still important for development/debugging and crash recovery purposes, local data sync with a PC, as well as backup an
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by gibibit 2y ago
I've been using ripgrep for years now and I'm still blown away by its performance. In the blink of an eye to search a couple of gigabytes. I just checked and did a full search across 100 gigabytes of files in only 21 seconds. The
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by gibibit 2y ago
I know it's probably an intentional exaggeration... but are there really any microcontrollers over 1 GHz core clock? Fast I know of is ST at around 600 MHz.
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by gibibit 2y ago
I guess this is a matter of preference. I see when I click a link on stack.lol that the page header remains visible, but the rest of the page disappears (blanks to white) for a second before the next page appears. I prefer a seamless experi
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by gibibit 2y ago
Correct. HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43301369 Not a vulnerability in the way that Tarlogic makes it sound. Disingenuous and misleading article for sure.
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by gibibit 2y ago
Amazing, thanks! To anyone who hasn't tried it yet... Jiff is a fantastic time and date crate, I highly recommend you check it out, as a possible improvement over chrono and time.
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by gibibit 2y ago
You're right that an application project (a `binary crate` in Rust parlance) for embedded firmware versus a PC application is very different. But library crates are often usable in both an embedded or system-level context or in a full-

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