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by meribold 2mo ago
The explicit expectation with the AUR has always been that you can't blindly trust the PKGBUILD files. It's more like running an installer from a random website on Windows than it is to using official distro repositories. I think
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by meribold 4mo ago
Lots of comments are also massively overestimating the amount of time/effort that creating this setup required.
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by meribold 5mo ago
The new latest version (commit 806789e4d454b, 307 bytes) should also work. It no longer sets p_memsz to something unreasonably large, which was most likely the issue with the 301-byte and 298-byte versions from a few days ago.
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by meribold 5mo ago
I fixed the most likely culprit now (excessively large p_memsz value). It cost a few bytes; the new executable size is 307 bytes.
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by meribold 5mo ago
Looks like I may have stretched what values are acceptable for p_filesz/p_memsz too far. What's your kernel version? (I tested it on 6.8.0 and 4.4.0.) Perhaps the 316-byte version at commit 451827cfd5399074 (before that particular
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by meribold 5mo ago
GP is likely referring to how fields in the ELF and program header are abused for instructions and data in a way that happens to not break things on Linux.
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by meribold 5mo ago
If the savings are about `mov $1, %edi` and `mov $10, %ecx`, those 32-bit immediate values line up with the higher bytes of p_filesz and p_memsz in the program header, which have to be zero [1]. If not, what are the savings? :) [1]: https:
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Show HN: A (marginally) useful x86-64 ELF executable in 298 bytes(github.com)
13 points by meribold 5mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: A (marginally) useful x86-64 ELF executable in 301 bytes(github.com)
65 points by meribold 5mo ago|21 comments
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Show HN: Git command for creating snapshot commits on a not checked-out branch(github.com)
4 points by meribold 6mo ago|1 comments
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by meribold 7mo ago
My terminal "warns" about them thanks to using a bitmap font that has no (significant?) Unicode coverage beyond code points 0 to 255.
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When to use "cat -n" instead of "wc -l"(blog.jpalardy.com)
3 points by meribold 9mo ago|2 comments
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by meribold 1y ago
This seems like it would be great together with a pair of display glasses (like those from XREAL, for example). But I wish it had a TrackPoint.
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by meribold 1y ago
Sad to see GPT-4.5 being gone. It knew things. More than any other model I'm aware of.
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by meribold 1y ago
Such a nefarious package could also read browser cookies, SSH keys, emails, photos, and a million of other things.
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by meribold 1y ago
That depends on the messenger app. Telegram, for instance, supports backing up messages as HTML and/or JSON.
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by meribold 1y ago
> person who managed to put their words online He also managed to do quite a lot of other things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Karpathy
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by meribold 1y ago
This system seems quite similar to sending messages to oneself on Signal/Telegram/whatever. What I like about using messenger apps is that every note gets a timestamp and that messenger apps are, in my experience, more polished th
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Show HN: Git command for creating snapshot commits on a not checked-out branch(github.com)
2 points by meribold 1y ago|0 comments
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The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2025: Tuesday June 10(daringfireball.net)
1 points by meribold 1y ago|0 comments
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by meribold 2y ago
There are screen-locking programs that don't hide what's on the screen (for example `alock` and `xtrlock`). So you can use one of those in a script that also launches this tool.
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by meribold 2y ago
Good point. Perhaps we could store the length of the common prefix from the last time we went left as well as from the last time we went right. The minimum of those two should remain a common prefix with the search key for the rest of the l
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by meribold 2y ago
You don't need to compare the whole key most of the time. I think the amortized cost for a comparison is in O(1).
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by meribold 2y ago
What's better about the T440 compared to the successors up to the T480? I'd consider the T440 a low point due to the lack of TrackPoint buttons.
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by meribold 2y ago
> "git oldest-ancestor brancha branchb" does what it says. The oldest (common) ancestor of two revisions would typically be the initial commit. I assume your alias really finds the last (most recent) common ancestor. But are yo
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by meribold 2y ago
> I had to have a multi-day argument over the precise way to define constants in Perl Couldn't you have used whatever the other person was suggesting even if the change was pointless?
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by meribold 2y ago
Maybe Markdown doesn't allow arbitrary nesting of inline markup, but the combinations I actually wanted so far work. With reStructuredText, OTOH, I ran into limitations even though I didn't try to commit typographic atrocities.
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by meribold 2y ago
Wasn't reStructuredText the one where you can't make text a link if any of it is bold/italic/monospaced? IIRC, nesting of inline markup is generally not possible. It works in Markdown…
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by meribold 2y ago
I tried figuring out whether Firefox can be made to never open a new tab in response to a normal left click on a link. The advice I found is setting `browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction` to 0 and `browser.link.open_newwindow` to 1 in ab
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by meribold 2y ago
There's one more detail along the lines of theme changes in other tabs and theme preference changes from the OS/browser: activating the correct theme following history navigation. When I navigate to another page of the author&#x27

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