quectophoton

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by quectophoton 4d ago
I mentioned this in a response[1] to a sibling comment, but my question is more about learning what are the advantages of swap itself, other than just cheaper slow RAM. What does the OS do differently with swap vs RAM? What can I do with sw
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by quectophoton 4d ago
In my examples nothing is taking away from nothing, I'm just asking if, if two situations have the same total amount of GB, what's the actual difference between RAM+swap vs entirely RAM. Use the 32+32 numbers if you're more c
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by quectophoton 5d ago
Something I've never understood is why, say, 60GB RAM + 4GB swap is supposed to be faster than 64GB RAM + no swap. Or why 64GB RAM + 4GB swap is supposed to be faster than 68GB RAM. I get the hibernation argument, but not the arguments
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by quectophoton 7d ago
Reading charitably, when writing that part of the comment they probably were thinking of links that look like buttons, for example the "Get started" link in Tailwind's home page. Regardless of how that specific one looks like
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by quectophoton 27d ago
I don't know what's wrong with me, but I can't do mental calculations with dates because I always think I'm off-by-one, no matter what. I prefer to "move vertically" in the month. Knowing that 1=8=15=22=29, usi
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by quectophoton 27d ago
> Points to the future where my bots talk to your bots. Relevant comic from 2014: https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3576
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by quectophoton 1mo ago
React.js with JSX (which people use to avoid writing HTML) is basically the opposite on its tolerance for mistakes but somehow it seems pretty popular, to say the least.
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by quectophoton 1mo ago
Parent post already told you a way to distribute your software to Linux users; assuming your tarballs with prebuilt binaries "just work", as in, it's enough to untar it wherever (/opt?) and create a symlink in $PATH for
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by quectophoton 1mo ago
Tangential but still related to that story, but the battle for the meaning of "REST" is already lost. Saying an API follows REST but doesn't implement HATEOAS (part of its definition), is like saying a database follows ACID b
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by quectophoton 2mo ago
Online typing speed tests are in a really good position to collect and sell this data, if they aren't already doing it.
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by quectophoton 2mo ago
> Similar to how us vim users keep updating/rewriting our config. What (or why) are those frequent config changes? I use neovim and I can say I've migrated[1] to vim packages (from Pathogen) years ago, and I also git-clone a
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by quectophoton 2mo ago
As far as I understand, everything ends up centralized to USA anyway (ICANN), who then tells everyone what TLDs are allowed or not.
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by quectophoton 3mo ago
> The equivalent would be if I got carded every time I stepped out of my house just in case I might decide to buy alcohol later. More like requiring ID verification in fridges just to be able to open them, because they might contain al
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by quectophoton 3mo ago
> For one role we got ~70 applications and all CVs looked obviously AI-written. Were those ~70 applications all of them, or were those ~70 applications the result of an AI filtering from a larger amount? If the latter, are you sure your
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by quectophoton 4mo ago
Don't forget: * No relative imports. * The `require` directives from the `go.mod` files of your dependencies are always ignored. Those two combined, mean that there's no easy way to fork a dependency. It's doable, but some of
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by quectophoton 4mo ago
> My recommendation for DNS - on servers - would be to install unbound locally and use that. At least on Ubuntu 26.04, you can't easily bind Unbound on a WireGuard interface because of services dependency order, so the Unbound servi
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by quectophoton 4mo ago
And when you don't need the Steam Deck for gaming anymore, it is still useful as a home server.
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by quectophoton 4mo ago
I don't know, if I didn't know Mullvad or GrapheneOS, and saw ad on TV, I'd probably check it out. Or an ad about an ISP with IPv6 support, at the very least it would make me check if my current ISP finally added support, and
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by quectophoton 4mo ago
> I am sure ads can work on me, and the HN crowd, if I was targeted. EU-based cloud, 100% sovereignty, AGPL code, colocation services included. Prepaid balance and SEPA direct debit supported. [Read more]
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by quectophoton 4mo ago
If `docker` is already there, why even bother with `sudo` when you can just: docker run --rm -it -v '/:/mnt' -u 'root' 'alpine' '/bin/sh' '-l' Chances are that t
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by quectophoton 4mo ago
If it helps, I didn't find anything wrong with your comment. I appreciate the link and the info :)
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by quectophoton 4mo ago
> Humans must not anthropomorphise AI systems. Can someone explain why this is a bad thing, while at the same time it's a good thing to say stuff like "put a computer to sleep", "hibernate", "killing" p
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by quectophoton 5mo ago
A text input field for entering your command line(s), with a text log for the output, does indeed seem to be the crabs of software. Usually with some abstractions that allow you to write longer scripts[1] and just refer to them by a short n
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by quectophoton 5mo ago
> 1. Go, when I first saw code I wrote almost a decade ago still compiles and runs in Go, I decided to use Go for everything. There were some initial troubles when I started using it a decade ago, but now it's painless. And fewer de
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by quectophoton 5mo ago
> I'm also not impressed with a carrot disclosure that looks like this. Running a python script to compromise a locally hosted instance? Bruh, you have physical hardware and host shell access. That python script could be doing anyth
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by quectophoton 6mo ago
Out of curiosity, do you have (and want to share) stats about requests per second? It's always nice to know these things for future reference. No worries if not :)
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by quectophoton 6mo ago
I think there was an SMBC comic about this topic, but I don't think I can find it, and the site doesn't exactly make it easy. I don't even remember if it was pre-2020 or not. It was about how people would get a thing (a robot
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by quectophoton 6mo ago
Years later: "The current measures are a step in the right direction, but we have found them insufficient. We are now requiring the use of this specific proprietary binary blob for any action related to the verification process. It wil
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by quectophoton 6mo ago
If I had to use AI with neovim I'd probably use https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/99 or one with a similar workflow.
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by quectophoton 6mo ago
Except instead of sending through post offices, it'd probably be through "runners" like on Mirror's Edge.

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