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by nullifidian 4mo ago
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by nullifidian 7mo ago
I should have converted it to $' ', yes. It was posix shell compliant this way tho. (probably written when I knew more python than bash).
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by nullifidian 7mo ago
>installing many packages The issue is HOW MANY. This simple utility is in the 100-200 range, Zed editor is in 2000+ range. C/C++ software you find in distros is not only stabilized by the unstable/testing queue, which language
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by nullifidian 7mo ago
I would rather check urls with the following method: echo -e -n "https://іnstall.example-clі.dev" | python -c 'exec("""import sys, unicodedata\nfor ch in sys.stdin.read():\n try:\n print (ch,
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by nullifidian 9mo ago
>Chechnya So they invaded their own internationally recognized territory. Wonderful. By that standard Ukraine invaded Donbass after they declared themselves independent of Ukraine. >Syria Even more outlandish claim, considering they w
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by nullifidian 1y ago
I've been using "quasi-monopoly".
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by nullifidian 1y ago
If there had been something like this standardized in Markdown from the start, it might have had a chance for wide adoption. Right now, learning to see and use LaTeX math as easily as more ASCII-like notation is just more convenient since i
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by nullifidian 2y ago
This reminded me of the anti-theming sentiment in the gnome developer community https://stopthemingmy.app/
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by nullifidian 2y ago
>Nvidia would be willing to cut into its margin to provide Why would that be optional on a top of the line GPU that requires it? NVIDIA has nothing to do with it. I'm talking about defining an extended ATX standard, that covers PSUs
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by nullifidian 2y ago
>Because no PC power supply has a 24V rail Servers with NVIDIA H200 GPUs (Supermicro ones for example) have power supplies that have 54 volt rail, since that gpu requires it. I can easily imagine a premium ATX (non-mandatory, optional) v
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by nullifidian 2y ago
>which obviously fall out of scope of the First Amendment. It obviously doesn't. That would mean the US Government can ban all foreign press, just by designating countries as "foreign adversaries". And "foreign advers
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by nullifidian 2y ago
>What does this have to do with the First Amendment? Because obviously changing the owner-editor of a media outlet has everything to do with their editorial policy. The SCOTUS just said that censorship is ok (and forcing the change of th
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by nullifidian 2y ago
Tiktok algorithms could be considered a form of editorial position(be it foreign government influenced one, or just the type of content they elevate / not remove), and in this sense it is similar to banning a newspaper(which would obvi
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by nullifidian 2y ago
>Rust does not have a culture of "microdependencies" It absolutely does by the C/C++ standards. Last time I checked the zed editor had 1000+ dependencies. That amount of crates usually results in at least 300-400 separatel
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by nullifidian 2y ago
Some amount of the risk from the "dependency jungle" situation could be alleviated by instituting "trusted" set of crates that are selected based on some popularity threshold, and with a rolling-release linux-distro-like
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by nullifidian 2y ago
It's somewhat similar to 'recoll' in its functionality, only with recoll you need to index everything before search. It even uses the same approach of using third-party software like poppler for extracting the contents.
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by nullifidian 2y ago
"Vladislav Davankov" is a token "liberal". He's supposed to make such statements. Nothing that is uttered by Duma members is worth any consideration -- it's a complete theater.
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by nullifidian 2y ago
>given the age of this series It's from the Jul 2019. Not very old. CPUs from the early 2010s, with enough ram, are still perfectly usable for light browsing and text editing tasks.
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by nullifidian 2y ago
I tried compiling mandelbrot.c (single threaded one) from the benchmarks game and execution on jslinux took 12 seconds, while webvm completed it in 1.2 sec. The host takes 0.03 sec with the same gcc flags.
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by nullifidian 2y ago
>Nobody can do anything and Russia is lost and has become North Korea. I don't believe that. >seems Can you not sanctimoniously and arrogantly teach people, who actually live in it, what to do, from the comfort of your western ho
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by nullifidian 2y ago
the roots of silicon valley are in the decades of military contracts, initially, i.e. in the "government-sponsored industrial policy" https://youtu.be/ZTC_RxWN_xo?t=3546
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by nullifidian 2y ago
>So political change in russia is literally impossible Precisely. It's basically impossible. There has to be at least be a generational change, or a severe economic / military loss if we are talking about this decade, but even
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by nullifidian 2y ago
Ah, yes, the remaining English speakers in Russia will overthrow the literal millions of the silovik class whose entire job is to repress (with violence) any independent political activity. There is no "lobbying" in Russia, if you
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by nullifidian 2y ago
I think it's important to note that you can't use it commercially. "The INRIA Non-Commercial License Agreement is a non-free license that grants you the right to use the CompCert verified compiler for educational, research or
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by nullifidian 2y ago
>So the human rights violation is essentially being committed by the population themselves. While I too find it somewhat weird that the ECHR is involved in climate regulation, I find the appeal to majority/democracy to be missing th
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by nullifidian 2y ago
I guess George's 5 hour poking and googling around session, fruitless in terms of the actual results(making compute on AMD's consumer rdna3 chips stable), is newsworthy on HN as of now.
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by nullifidian 2y ago
It would have made it worse, because there would be 300 crates with 250 different maintainers, all pulled in by several trivial/baseline dependencies. More dependencies = higher the probability that a malicious maintainer has gotten ma
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by nullifidian 2y ago
Just an anecdote: I'm currently patching nautilus to move ellipsisation of long filenames in the list view mode from center to right aligned, because of course there is no option for it, but technical books tend to have several authors
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by nullifidian 2y ago
>The simplest and most effective solution against a drive-by attack scenario is, in our opinion, to treat GPU access in the browser as a sensitive resource, like microphone or camera access, that requires permission before use. For WebGL
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The Language of Astronomy Is Needlessly Violent and Inaccurate(scientificamerican.com)
1 points by nullifidian 3y ago|1 comments

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