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by hashar 10d ago
From my recalling, a few years at most. There was, and apparently still exists, distributed.net which was aimed at brute forcing DES (easy), RC5-56 bits and then RC5-64 bits by establishing a web of personal computers (via a client one ha
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by hashar 1mo ago
Copyright IS an issue to Debian, and always has been for the last 30 years or so. They are, rightfully so, extremely picky when it comes to respecting copyright and licensing. It is the 0.01%. > Who the f*ck cares who made it? A monkey c
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by hashar 3mo ago
Maybe but I think you are underestimating the achievements Fabrice has accomplished. Among others: - Improved an algorithm to compute Pi, ran it on a *personal laptop* and broke the world record. That achievement is not even listed on his
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by hashar 3mo ago
I still use « briques », typically « 10 briques » instead of « 100 k ». I think there is some poetry in sticking to the old obsolete term.
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by hashar 9mo ago
I do not understand why the scrappers do not do it in a smarter way: clone the repositories and fetches from there on a daily or so basis. I have witnessed one going through every single blame and log links across all branches and redoing
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by hashar 10mo ago
« mann » comes from Old English and stands for a human being. « wïfmann », literally "female human", led to « wife ». « were » means man and comes from Germanic and I don't think « weremann » has ever been a thing.
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by hashar 2y ago
Why add the complexity of having to maintain an Ansible installation, a logging stack, deal with their upgrades and whatever python issue one might encounter. I had the issue of Ansible builtin `shell` not doing the right thing (sh vs bash)
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by hashar 2y ago
@unixispower , you might consider adding the site to TheOldNet webring ( https://webring.theoldnet.com/submit ). I have discovered it from a yesterday post about ucanet (a DNS for retro site). Your site would be an excell
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by hashar 2y ago
> inability to moderate which is really important for adult content Given Elon Musk twitted about moderation being censorship (twist: it is not), what could go wrong!?!
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by hashar 3y ago
I work for Wikimedia and I have been one of the few weirdos assisting in its creation back in the early 2000's. The first time I got exposed to wikis predates Wikipedia and my stance was: - a site editable by anyone on the internet? Th
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by hashar 3y ago
As a non US person, I have a couple questions: * What is P&A tech? * How one retires at 25 when working at Google which is way past IPO and the 100x return on stock option which is only possible at the earliest stage?
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by hashar 3y ago
Because despite Wikipedia and sister projects being one of the largest web property, it is running on a thin budget and has starved engineering resources. As far as I know, the transcode code is maintained by a single employee (possibly as
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by hashar 3y ago
We have that filed in our bug tracker back in July 2022 and when I looked at the issue ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T313114#8093706 ) almost all of the traffic came from a handful of IP addresses. Thus it is most pro
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by hashar 3y ago
Thank you! Cause I have expanded it to Elastic Common Schema! https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/ecs/current/ecs-reference.ht...
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by hashar 3y ago
They forgot to fill the paper work, the treaty formally ending the war got signed in 1985.
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by hashar 3y ago
> I recently learned that Kubernetes is running on a lot of free labour. Not sure what is your source for that? At a quick glance most contributions come from Red Hat, Google, VmWare, Microsoft, Amazon. Lot of independent contributions
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by hashar 3y ago
> datetime.fromisoformat(date_string) > > Return a date corresponding to a date_string given in any valid ISO 8601 format, except ordinal dates (e.g. YYYY-DDD) Thank you for that!
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by hashar 3y ago
"But first you need the proper cooking tooling. I recently came across Acme Inc. tea spoons to provide an healthy cooking suitable for vegans. Made of stainless steel based on the latest research, the cheap spoon can be bought through
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by hashar 3y ago
`bazel run` is for a rule that has been marked `executable = True` and there is no such rule in the repository. If you `bazel build //...`, you should get the compiled libs under `bazel-out/*fastbuild/bin/`.
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by hashar 3y ago
I'd guess the issue with that project is that it is mostly a single person effort and if that person is busy with other projects/repos/real life, they might not have the bandwidth to keep-up with the review, loose interest or
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by hashar 3y ago
I was wondering how I could have browsed to /lists and /highlights and eventually found the first one in the footer of the page. May I suggest to add /highlights there as well? Maybe just after FAQ and before Lists?
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by hashar 3y ago
> "It has been good for my work, but it also puts me in an unmanageable situation where I don't really know what to do." Well I guess the artist can give the money back?
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by hashar 3y ago
> In the "PHP at scale" section, I don't deny that it's possible to do so, but if Facebook and Slack moved away from PHP, it's probably because programs with other languages scale better. Facebook was/is mos
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An Internet of PHP(timotijhof.net)
6 points by hashar 3y ago|4 comments
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by hashar 3y ago
A post about PHP usage on the web which remains strong despite all the buzz about NodeJS, JavaScript frameworks or WebAssembly. It tones down the echo chamber always following the latest trend and reminds us that despite being twenty+ years
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by hashar 3y ago
There is surely multiple alternatives for any given language, similar to Draconis compressing the latin form, in french instead of the literal: 11 - Elle a dit au revoir trop souvent avant You could replace: * "dire au revoir&qu
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by hashar 3y ago
> how do you guys find the energy to hack nights and weekends? I do enjoy hobby programming but it takes me at least one week of vacation to detox from the work grind so I end up doing it only when I have extended vacation Namely passion
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by hashar 3y ago
Bors is also very similar to the Zuul CI system used for OpenStack. It has the equivalent of a merge queue (with additional support for cross repositories dependencies): https://zuul-ci.org/docs/zuul/latest/ga
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by hashar 3y ago
They don't need too since the link posted here is literally the press release announcement. For the inner details one should look at the documentation at https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/configuring-bra
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by hashar 3y ago
Not necessarily. I have been working fully remotely for a USA organization, although being a non profit the compensation is nowhere near FANG or anything from tech. I have some ex-coworkers and acquaintances working remotely from Europe for

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