pstch

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by pstch 5y ago
Is evaluation lazy in TypeScript ? For me, one of the most important features of a configuration language is the ability to directly refer to other values of the configuration, and more importantly, in the case of a configuration split in s
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by pstch 5y ago
In magnetic confinement reactors, the runaway neutrons collide with the reactor's shielding and can make it radioactive by neutron activation. I don't know if it's the same for inertial confinement, but I suppose it could be
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by pstch 5y ago
It's not even paranoia. He wants to present reasons of his actions, and the judicial authorities won't allow that, and are not even really hiding it.
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by pstch 5y ago
I prefer calling a graph "colored" rather than "with a labeling of the graph’s vertices with labels such that no two vertices sharing the same edge have the same label". Sometimes my graph being colored will be a problem
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by pstch 6y ago
Oops, it was not on nqueens, but on deriv. > Finally,Java performs best on this benchmark; we can see whilerunning the benchmark that it can run the G1 collectorfully concurrent on another core.
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by pstch 6y ago
Java being faster on nqueens shows an interesting result : GCs can actually make code "faster", by moving some work to another core. It's possible this could still be done with the described approach, but it looks much more d
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by pstch 6y ago
What is Amazon's interest in this ? I hope this is good news for the Blender Development Fund, but I'm scared of the possible consequences. I suppose we may end up seeing Blender Cloud offering remote renders using AWS's infr
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by pstch 6y ago
I'm using this setup, and I still get cookie/ToS banners all the time, especially using Google (I think I'm accepting their new terms of service 4/5 times each day).
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by pstch 6y ago
This is exactly what I thought 3 years ago when a dentist told me that it was very important for me to get rid of my wisdom teeth, because loss of enamel meant that they were very likely to decay quickly even with proper hygiene. Other dent
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by pstch 6y ago
It depends on many factors (teeth being devitalised, expected complications during the surgery, and other non-teeth related factors as well). Some people do get a local anesthesia (not knocked out), others have no choice.
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by pstch 6y ago
I was mistaken, file metadata is indeed encrypted.
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by pstch 6y ago
Oh it seems I was mistaken about that. ZFS does encrypt enough metadata indeed. Sorry for the noise.
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by pstch 6y ago
Yes, and there's another downside to that : it makes me lose the other ZFS benefits (raidz, mirroring, some level of performance).
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by pstch 6y ago
I find it very unfortunate that file metadata is not encrypted : if you need this to be encrypted, you need to stack LUKS on top of ZFS, and you lose many of the benefits of ZFS (per-dataset encryption, healing ability, RAIDz, etc) while do
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by pstch 6y ago
> The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) defines the directory structure and directory contents in Linux distributions.[1] It is maintained by the Linux Foundation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy
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by pstch 6y ago
As said by the other commenter, most of these patches are caused by NixOS not using the FHS (except for /usr/bin/env), which can be considered as a good thing in itself. In an ideal world, it would not be a problem (programs
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by pstch 6y ago
There are lots of things to be said about Nix and NixOS, and many of these things have been mentionned in this page, but there's one thing I really like with Nix : the fact the the configuration is expressed as a function that takes it
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by pstch 6y ago
Steam itself works pretty well, but I've had many games just inexplicably segfault on startup. It's weird because I get the same segfault: - using steam-run - in a FHS user environment - in an LXD container (on this NixOS host)
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by pstch 6y ago
Is the ballot for olympian medalists public ? What are the incentives for someone not to vote 99 for the candidate he wants to win, and 0 for all others ?
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by pstch 7y ago
The page you linked takes 8s to display on my browser, even on subsequent reloads, just because I don't allow third-party scripts. It also has no displayed images, for the same reason. I really don't wish more sites were like this
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by pstch 7y ago
EUC-KR doesn't improve much with LZMA (2% over UTF-16), but is better with gzip-9 (10% over UTF-16). I haven't studied this extensively, just did a few tests when waiting for it to download.
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by pstch 7y ago
An interesting - but not surprising - thing about this is that compression algorithms can be more efficient on wider representations of numerically-high code points (e.g, for some Korean corpus, using UTF-32 instead of UTF-8 improves LZMA c
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by pstch 7y ago
My main gripe is that JS is required to view the website. It doesn't work on my mobile phone (which is rather old, I admit), and it takes a huge amount of CPU time to load on my X60. I really like that I can still use HN on this phone,
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by pstch 7y ago
This site cannot be viewed without third-party JavaScript enabled (it shows a blank page on both Firefox and Chrome), and this is happening more and more on HN links. I think it's pretty sad that so many websites are adding a client-si
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by pstch 7y ago
There is another, silent, group : the ones that don't have any problem with the updates, because they disabled them, or because the local computer expert who installed their computer disabled them. They are also not vocal at all, sinc
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by pstch 7y ago
As I understand it, the CIP is opt-in, so it is truly voluntary. EDIT: Well, it's supposed to be opt-in, but apparently Intel has been sneaking it on user computers without their approval, which suggests that the checkbox used to insta
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by pstch 7y ago
KSM is also not totally free, a good amount of CPU time has to be spent to search for merging opportunities (this amount scales logarithmically with the amount of pages to scan). There is also a simple security implication, since you now ha
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by pstch 7y ago
I haven't been using Windows a lot in the last years (as you said, updates annoy me a few times a year, but I still take the time to do them), however, a lot of Windows users have told me and others in our hackerspace that the first th
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by pstch 7y ago
In the video, is the last application that opens when Longhorn starts up a package manager ? I've never really understood why both Microsoft and, especially, Apple have never tried to adopt a model similar to the one used by Linux dist
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by pstch 7y ago
To anyone that wants to learn or understand the Myers Diff algorithm, the first link in the parent post has great interactive visualization, which also cover the various improvements made on it by robertelder. And by the way, thanks a lot f

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