paulgdp

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by paulgdp 16d ago
Sorry for the late question, I'm very interested in your experience with FoundationDB. In just one sentence or two, how would you describe it?
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by paulgdp 3mo ago
> Yep, police can simply ask anyone for their passwords and if you don't give it up they can put you in jail. This is precisely the reason why I don't want to visit the US at the moment. The USA immigration officers can ask me
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China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI(tomshardware.com)
12 points by paulgdp 11mo ago|3 comments
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by paulgdp 2y ago
The name, the logo, the values and many important strategic decisions seems to have already been decided, before a public channel of communication has been created. Was this created by just you, or is there already a team?
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by paulgdp 2y ago
As much as I think they overreacted when banning you, it also feels like an overreaction to fork that soon. I hope a compromise will be found, and that you'll be back on NixOS as soon as possible!
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by paulgdp 2y ago
Yeah, automation in Nixpkgs is crazy and goes far beyond any other distros (that I know of). Why spend manual time when it can be automated?
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by paulgdp 2y ago
> Is nixpkgs really a monorepo as usually discussed? It's got packages, os modules, and some supporting scripts. Nix itself lives in a different place, so does the RFC planning, system artwork and a few other things. I would expect
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by paulgdp 2y ago
NixOS uses a monorepo and I think everyone loves it. I love being able to easily grep through all the packages source code, and there's regularly PRs that harmonizes conventions across many packages. Nixpkgs doesn't include the pa
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I Hacked macOS 【Lina and Cyan Nyan】 [video](youtube.com)
2 points by paulgdp 3y ago|0 comments
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by paulgdp 3y ago
But you can use `envfs` to "restore" that compatibility ;) Or something heavier like `steam-run`
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by paulgdp 4y ago
I allocate all my SSD space to one ZFS pool and then: - I can easily create new subvolumes (filesystems or block devices), for different mount points, containers, other distributions, VM disks... - The free space is shared between all of th
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by paulgdp 4y ago
I have been using ZFS as root FS since the first release of ZFS on Linux (2013) on all my machines (laptops, NAS, server) and I can't imagine going back.
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Fedora Linux Disabling Mesa's H.264/H.265/VC1 VA-API Support over Legal Concerns(phoronix.com)
4 points by paulgdp 4y ago|2 comments
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by paulgdp 5y ago
Why shouldn't it be a valid opinion to not like cryptocurrencies? And to not want to contribute? Why is not ok to prefer money regulated by the rule of law? Moreover, I have no idea how I could help with the problem of recovering stole
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by paulgdp 5y ago
How is it different from using Clang's CFI (control flow integrity)? I thought this was the same technique used in webassembly. Chromium is using this too i think
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by paulgdp 5y ago
To be fair, when sending a Pixel for reparations, Google very clearly and explicitly asks to factory_reset the phone. I personally didn't reset it when I sent my Pixel 3 to fix the charging port because my Pixel was fully encrypted. Al
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by paulgdp 5y ago
"Any optimization you could do in Rust is probably easier in C++" I think this feeling comes from the fact that it takes longer to learn the basics of Rust compared to C++. However, once one has learned C++ or Rust to a reasonable
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by paulgdp 5y ago
Having read a great deal from him, I just want to confirm everything said about Andrew Gallant, and I absolutely trust him too! This blog post is a great testament to his human skills: https://blog.burntsushi.net/foss/
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by paulgdp 5y ago
You might be interested in reading this more serious study: https://elifesciences.org/articles/62878 Article summarizing it: https://www.forbes.com/sites/amandasiebert/2021/03/03&#x2
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by paulgdp 5y ago
I haven't tried it yet, but Ego [1] feels like an imperfect but good enough solution to run your dev environment. [1] https://github.com/intgr/ego
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by paulgdp 5y ago
Here's a nice Twitter thread explaining how this works: https://twitter.com/bert_hu_bert/status/1444018619059429377
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by paulgdp 5y ago
I'm personally very enthusiastic about the security model of Fuchsia: https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts/principles/secure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIT1ISCioDY
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by paulgdp 5y ago
I've never received such an email, but I recently moved to many different countries (many months each), how can I check to which country my account is attached to?
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by paulgdp 5y ago
Does someone knows why this tweet was previously flagged on HN? see: https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1399094306221166592
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AI-powered assistance now helps anyone create apps using natural language(powerapps.microsoft.com)
2 points by paulgdp 5y ago|0 comments
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by paulgdp 6y ago
Your result is very surprising probably because you benchmarked on the very small example corpus whereas other languages were benchmarked on a much much bigger corpus
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by paulgdp 6y ago
I guess "prescription" refers directly to your first definition but can also refer to the two other ones by metonymy [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy
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Intellectual honesty, cryptocurrency, & more (Vitalik Buterin)(rationallyspeakingpodcast.org)
2 points by paulgdp 6y ago|0 comments
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by paulgdp 6y ago
Encryption for DRM needs to happen only once per media, and then can be saved to storage and shared infinitely many times. So that's probably something else
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by paulgdp 6y ago
I'm surprised that this article is not even mentioning one NewSQL DB like: - Google Spanner - CockroachDB - TiDB - YugabyteDB - FaunaDB Can it be that those are so little known by most developers?

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