ktpsns

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by ktpsns 4d ago
+1. https://streetcomplete.app/ is really easy to get into.
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by ktpsns 9d ago
Thank you so much for Dolphin! I have been a hardcore Konqueror user back in the days. Early dolphin felt like a back step. Nowadays, thought, it easily outshines Konqueror. I still miss a few KIOs which were showcased in Konqueror. I guess
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by ktpsns 17d ago
I am just delighted by the screenshots. I love this Win9x like interface aesthetica for being dense in font size/information, very stringent in optics. Even if this is not exactly the colors and shadows of Win9x, this aspect remains. T
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by ktpsns 1mo ago
For portfolio and service only, virtually any GH alternative discussed here will do it. Even a self-hosted cgit or static page git browser will do it for read-only.
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by ktpsns 2mo ago
What about IPv6? (SCNR)
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by ktpsns 3mo ago
Another thing is the stdlib integration of goroutines. We see this in Python where various generations of paradigms kind-of coexist. Golang built their goroutines into the heart of the stdlib which puts it IMHO in a special position.
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by ktpsns 3mo ago
This is the reason why I implemented rather dumb but individual, hand-crafted captchas for my own websites in the past. Things like input fields which must be left empty, silly multiple choice questions only humans could properly answer at
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by ktpsns 3mo ago
Thank you for this valuable comment! I remember having read somewhere that zig now requires to pass the Io argument around, which one can interpret again as "colored functions". IMHO it is a missed opportunity not to implement a m
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by ktpsns 3mo ago
HTTP QUERY was discussed many times in the past here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48568502 (4d ago, 173 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29794838 (4y ago, 125 comments)
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by ktpsns 3mo ago
It's unfair to compare an idling deep sleep device with a cold boot. However, there is a shortcut: Just don't boot a full OS (thinking of custom firmware which boots in fractions of seconds, standard in the Microcontroller world).
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by ktpsns 3mo ago
In other terms: The "recent" success of AI is mostly the commercialization of industrial scale stochastic plagiarism. Compare it to piracy, done by individuals for the benefit of themselves and their friends. If they ever thought
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by ktpsns 3mo ago
Honest question, what is the zig version of goroutines these days? They removed async from the spec. Honestly the only reason why I stick to golang for some projects are goroutines.
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by ktpsns 3mo ago
This is in fact useful for people who demand you to print out and sign contracts. Did so many times in the past, using some ghostscript+imagemagick scripting to avoid the cargo culturing.
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by ktpsns 3mo ago
It's incredible how we said the same argument in pre-web 2.0 days. People loved to write code like <a href="javascript:open('http://example.com')">bla</a> I haven't seen thes
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by ktpsns 3mo ago
Lyapunov sounds a good tool but the README reads so LLM-generated and with little love that I am not bothered to look further into whether this is solid or not.
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by ktpsns 3mo ago
Teensy is a great choice because it has a high processor frequency for a rather cheap price (IIRC 600mhz for 20€)
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by ktpsns 3mo ago
Add »hacking the self-driving car« to the equation and you get the perfect classical-cyber hybrid crime. Afterwards, the poor waymo cannot remember what even has happened. That's spy film material :-D
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by ktpsns 3mo ago
There is lots of discussion on this old API here on hacker news, for instance https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31739794
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by ktpsns 3mo ago
I find the arena experiment very interesting. If done right, whole programs can be structured as as a set of arenas. I've read some things on arenas here such as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37670740
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by ktpsns 4mo ago
Long-distance shipping is even a pain in the (so-called) developed world, for instance from Europe to the US. As soon as your shipping value exceeds a treshold (IIRC about 1000€), you have to electronically declare the customs. There are ag
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by ktpsns 4mo ago
Exactly. This shows that "extremely portable" is actually marketing for "It supports a number of platforms. In my opinion, this number is big".
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by ktpsns 4mo ago
Matlab inspired the scilab ecosystem, which is based on numpy, scipy, matplotlib, pandas. This was a major driver for the data science industry for a decade before AI kicked in and tensorflow, etc. was also built ontop of these libraries. W
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by ktpsns 4mo ago
I just gave Zulip a try with a team of 3. I loved the UI because I spent years in pain finding things in big Slack and Mattermost installations (big = 30 users, nowhere near enterprise-level). For my two junior colleagues, instead, Zulip wa
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by ktpsns 4mo ago
I wonder why they quit their strategy of (practically) "infinite email storage". Compared to other data sources, after identifying hand-written E-Mails and attachment this would give them superior access to high quality LLM traini
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by ktpsns 4mo ago
Severe, but you also need to use quite specific configuration to be vulnerable. I can imagine this pattern to be widespread in some classical PHP applications deployed via nginx.
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by ktpsns 5mo ago
Beautiful and informative website from the old age: Tables, tiling background pictures, no fancy fonts or colors, even the formulas (equations) are typesetted as low-res bitmaps instead of contemporary MathML/JS/etc. For me, it fe
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by ktpsns 5mo ago
That sounds awesome. A bit like plan9 philosophy "everything is a file". I wonder whether one could implement something like this with fuse+git (gitfs doesnt allow this, cf https://gitfs.readthedocs.io/en/stab
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by ktpsns 5mo ago
I loved the simple increasing numbers of Subversion. This was better then CVS "ad-hoc" versioning and also far better then git's hashes. Single numbers are easy for humans. I would love git would make it possible to work that
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by ktpsns 5mo ago
Title is misleading. The vessel has "autonomous navigation", I guess this is some autopilot function which is probably widespread these days. I thought of "autonomous" as in "no crew onboard". That would be goo
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by ktpsns 5mo ago
To be honest, three nested RDPs sound like a terrible hack. In an ideal world, this would be two port forwardings and one RDP (thinking about ssh, which is still underrepresented in windows world). In an even more ideal world, this would be

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