psacawa

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by psacawa 2y ago
A relevant bit of self-promotion maybe: I created a small language server for systemd unit files which may help those having to integrate services with it. https://github.com/psacawa/systemd-language-server
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by psacawa 3y ago
Anyone who has had to sift through large BNFs such as [0, 1] to find that the syntax error was a syntactically significant "TO" knows that this is the case. Natural language has synonyms, computer languages really should avoid syn
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by psacawa 3y ago
Never was it more appropriate to say "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." By engaging in systemic historical revisionism, Google means to create a future where certain peoples do
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by psacawa 3y ago
> Major private media corporations in poland were already closely aligned with PiS [...] This statement is an outright lie. For example, Gazeta Wyborcza, all of Agora Media, and TVN have always been anti-PiS. >[...] and independent me
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by psacawa 3y ago
Technoparasitism. In my opinion, the very premise of AI girlfriends veers so far away from human flourishing that privacy concerns seem entirely secondary.
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by psacawa 3y ago
This is a remarkable inversion. The primary reason people forego children in the west is because it throws a wrench in their comfortable lifestyle. They prefer to live unto themselves, instead of unto children, i.e. selfishly. I believe the
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by psacawa 3y ago
If you are asking for examples of brutal acts performed or ordered by Muhammed, here is a long list [0]. Most notable to me is the murder of 600-900 captive non-combatants. This is referred to as the massacre of the Banu Qurayza (woman and
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by psacawa 3y ago
The accounts in primitve terms obscure it's true meaning. It's just a analytic function on the moduli space of elliptic curves. The collection of equivalence classes of elliptic curve (torii of the form C/lattice) has the st
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by psacawa 3y ago
Is there any intention of eventually supporting DML or DDL statements? That's when the COBOL-like nature of SQL syntax is most frustrating. For example, in order to run "ALTER COLUMN ..." I have to parse a ridiculous BNF like
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by psacawa 3y ago
Idiotic clickbait headline seeks to insinuate that there was something dishonest about her racing, when in reality her participation broke a false belief (a "lie") that women were physically unable to complete marathons.
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by psacawa 3y ago
Another possible outcome of "I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know": https://github.com/dominictarr/event-stream/issues/116
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by psacawa 3y ago
The website can further strengthen the illusion of interacting with the FS by using HTML+CSS that imitates the browser's builtin file browser. It knows what it might look like by examining User-Agent and Accept-Language headers.
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by psacawa 3y ago
A phishing strategy this enables: confusing the https:// URI scheme with the file:// pseudo-URI scheme. For example, we receive a phishing email which reads "This is the bank with your financial statement attache
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by psacawa 3y ago
Before you get all jubilant, note that they have fingerprinting techniques which don't use JS[0]. It was able to identity me. Contrary to popular opinion, disabling JS doesn't protect you from fingerprinting. They describe their a
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by psacawa 4y ago
Facile comparisons like this are very frustrating. Two thoughts: i) What makes you believe that they weren't correct, and the timespan for this annihilation isn't e.g. 100 years? That would be an instant in comparison with the tim
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by psacawa 4y ago
What can I say, man? History is absolutely chock full of examples that show that other identity groups can represent existential threats, including very recent ones: Chinese genocide of Uyhgurs, Burmese genocide of Rohinya, Russian agressio
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by psacawa 4y ago
It happens all the time for software that is copyleft-licensed in projects that are unwilling to also adopt a copyleft license. For example, it blocks linking the node interpreter to libreadline [0]. On the other hand, cpython is also permi
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by psacawa 4y ago
The likely confounding variable is just age: the oldest segments of the US population are the most caucasian, and these are the populations least like to use smartphones. So the correlation may be spurious. https://en.wikipedia.o
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by psacawa 4y ago
Good: - Sidebar for navigation Bad: - Wasted screen space - Other languages are not available as a simple anchor tag anymore. They are hidden behind <button> elements. It's annoying for readers who consult their own language and
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by psacawa 4y ago
Very interesting. Anyone has any idea about the technology that could be used for imaging more dense ICs and multilayer PCBs? In a presentation elsewhere, Ken says that he used a metallurgical telescope and USB microscope. So the imaging is
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by psacawa 4y ago
> The current backlash is not against globalization per se, but against: ... I cannot speak about the UK, but in general this isn't all that people are dissatisfied with about globalization. Very many are angry about the loss of a s
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by psacawa 4y ago
Please check out firenvim, which accomplishes this very useful trick in a site-configurable manner and is compatible with Tridactyl. https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim
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by psacawa 4y ago
For those who'd like to see similar techniques in action, a popular Youtuber recently made an iron arrowhead using iron age(?) metallurgical techniques [0]. He gathers water containing iron-oxidizing bacteria, he extracts the ore using
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by psacawa 4y ago
I don't know what the correct thing to do, but you can easily detect processes that have the LD_PRELOAD environment variable defined. This is a rare enough use case for manual inspection. Something like ``` for f in /proc/*
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by psacawa 4y ago
400 years ago: "Equality is prevented by the misperception that sharing land with the Jamestown colony will harm the Algonquin tribes" I shake my head whenever I see supposed scientists assert that everybody's incentives are
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by psacawa 4y ago
Since no one seems to know about it, jq is described in great detail on the github wiki page [0]. That flattens the learning curve a lot. It's not as arcane as it seems. The touted claim that is fundamentally stateless is not true. j
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by psacawa 4y ago
There's a video game that never bores me called Linux. You should try it out. In Linux, you can download software, and learn to use it to solve a wide array of problems. You can edit files, one of life's simple pleasures. If you f
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by psacawa 4y ago
I'm constantly worried that despite the increased understanding we have relative to past generations, the increasing scope of our technological interventions means that global catastrophes seem more likely to occur relative to the past
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by psacawa 5y ago
> Don't buy domain names Can anyone explain this? Assuming your data isn't in the WHOIS record, why does this increase your exposure more than any other company knowing your name? A search shows up options for anonymous domain
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by psacawa 5y ago
While this information is true, I am frustrated that the baseline for appropriate government is set by what happens in the west, or the status quo, or what makes Brussels give us pats on the back. It doesn't take a genius to see that

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