lieks

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by lieks 5mo ago
I haven't used s6 much, so I can't really comment on that, but Chimera tends to boot significantly faster on the same hardware, compared to Alpine with OpenRC, mostly because of dinit's parallel initialization. As for system
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by lieks 5mo ago
I've switched to Chimera from Alpine a few months ago. It's much nicer for desktop use. The service supervision is great, and many things that require some setup on Alpine just work out of the box. The packaging system is nicer to
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by lieks 6mo ago
> Christianity considers any sexual activity other than heterosexual sex for procreation within marriage to be sinful, Mostly true, except the "for procreation only" part. That's specific to Cathlicism. Protestant doctrine
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by lieks 7mo ago
It works as a fork deterrent; forks can't easily prove they are still correct without the test suite, so if a company needs to tweak SQLite for any reason, they are better off paying for the tests so they know their tweaks won't b
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by lieks 11mo ago
Because the whole goal is to not need any sort of "pointer discipline". The way he does it, you can store as many pointers to the arena as you want without keeping track of them, as long as they don't survive the deallocation
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by lieks 11mo ago
They have already shown themselves to be both able and willing. Hopefully the backlash from this current decision will delay their plans long enough for GrapheneOS, Lineage and others to figure out how to work around it somehow, which is wh
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by lieks 11mo ago
They didn't. They implemented the WebExtensions API for WebKit. It's not complete (e.g. Stylus doesn't work yet), but it's enough to run uBlock Origin.
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by lieks 11mo ago
You can install full uBlock Origin in the Orion browser, on iOS. It also has decent built-in ad blocking (though uBlock Origin is still better). I had been thinking for a long time to switch to Android (GrapheneOS, probably) when my current
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by lieks 1y ago
Common Lisp does have plenty of warts.
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by lieks 1y ago
It was originally designed to be used by government software in the EU. AFAIK, it doesn't really get used for much else, but it fills a niche not covered by the GPL family, which is weak/non-viral copyleft (as the LGPL provides),
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by lieks 1y ago
If you are already considering the AGPL, I'd like to suggest the EUPL. It also covers SaaS, is copyleft (forbids nonfree forks), but non-viral (can link to nonfree software), a lot easier to read, and also doesn't have the "b
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by lieks 1y ago
As a Brazilian, I'm a bit torn on this issue. On the one hand, our social media regulations are terrible, are being approved without due process, and will certainly be used for (political) censorship. On the other hand, it's annoy
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by lieks 1y ago
It's a lot easier to get a large team of artists to follow the same artstyle when that artstyle is just "realism". Also, photoscans are convenient.
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by lieks 1y ago
I've been trying to solve that for a few years now. The closest existing thing I could find in my research was acme from Plan 9, which actually does a pretty good job. The trick it uses is to have you click on a typed command instead o
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by lieks 1y ago
It also uses them correctly—with no spaces. I have never seen anyone do that on the web.
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by lieks 1y ago
The write(2) libc function is just a C wrapper for the syscall. It's the functions from stdio.h that are buffered.
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by lieks 1y ago
I have different reasons for avoiding AI. I enjoy understanding what my programs do to the deepest level, so making or using AI are both boring; they remove the fun part of programming and leave only the boring parts (mainly debugging). I h
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by lieks 2y ago
If copyleft is desired, the EUPL is very similar to the AGPL, but isn't viral, so you can link it as a library to a closed-source program. It's also compatible with most open-source licenses. Not sure if it's what the OP want
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by lieks 2y ago
I agree that abortion is evil, but in my perception, once someone gets to a situation where they're willing to murder their own child, it won't be a law that'll stop them. This problem should be considered moral, not legal.
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by lieks 2y ago
Just finished it (APL beginner). It's really fun as a game.
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by lieks 2y ago
SAaaS: Staying Alive as a Service
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by lieks 2y ago
It feels like this is aimed more at intermediary programmers (and seniors with careless attitudes). A lot of them have this bizarre idea that since bugs will happen anyway, there's nothing we can do to avoid them. Then they come up wit
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by lieks 2y ago
I have a theory that this generalizes to some extent. Pitch perception is also logarithmic; an octave in music is a 2x ratio. Memory is sort of logarithmic; you'd say a thing happened 1-2 days ago or 1-2 years ago, but not 340-341 days
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by lieks 2y ago
If we're counting only programming languages (and not fill-out forms), Prolog had it in 1971, before ML. ASCII didn't include _ until its 1963 draft, so it's probably somewhere in that time. I'll guess it's probably
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by lieks 2y ago
I used to not use any of those tools. In C, I split my source into logical modules, and added a short module prefix to each function, to make it easy to find. Later, I found out about ctags and started using it; but it's not that usefu
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by lieks 2y ago
The main reason I enjoy CLIs so much more than GUIs (or eves TUIs sometimes) is that it feels so consistent. There are conventions, but following all the conventions in a CLI is a lot easier than designing a good GUI. So they tend to be hig
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by lieks 2y ago
Librewolf is pretty much that. Firefox with stupid features turned off, all privacy settings to the max, uBlock Origin and no other customizations.
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by lieks 2y ago
/* Optimize a program. May perform unsafe optimizations. May introduce up to 1 bug. */ char *optimize(char *program) { (void) program; return ".export main\nmain:\n\tub2\n";
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by lieks 2y ago
As a programmer who dabbles in painting, what you are describing is indirect lighting and subsurface scattering (leaves are sort of transparent, so from the back they look yellowish, and the sky is blue, so shadows have some blue in them).
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by lieks 2y ago
In addition, everyone is stupid sometimes, especially me.

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