robjwells

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by robjwells 1y ago
I believe this is just down to USB CDC, where baudrate doesn’t affect the USB transfer speed.
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by robjwells 1y ago
Yes, where would we be without the rules-based international order? Perhaps we would be watching videos every day of children blown apart by weapons of war.
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by robjwells 2y ago
I really hope guide-level docs are on the roadmap for Axum. The current situation of "here are some (third-party) blog posts and YouTube videos" is not greatly encouraging. For reference: https://github.com/tokio-r
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by robjwells 2y ago
> Everybody involved in this should get fired. I don’t disagree but the events in question took place and were discovered over 30 years ago. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/01/04/Appeals-court-Sherif
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by robjwells 2y ago
Yeah, I think this may be a good option when actively working on a project. Sadly at the moment, it's mostly a case of "I just need to make a couple of bug fixes in this old project, why is my editor shouting at me?"
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by robjwells 2y ago
It's only a personal side project and I have a good handle on the untyped modules in question, so in the end I suppressed most of the errors with `# type:ignore` and friends. I'd reconsider that if I was doing more than the odd bu
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by robjwells 2y ago
Worst of both worlds is right. I came back to a Python project with a couple of critical but untyped dependencies recently after writing mostly Rust, and to clear up a large number of these (particularly “type is partially unknown”) I had t
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by robjwells 2y ago
This is an excerpt (starting part-way through) of this article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/07/election-tru...
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by robjwells 2y ago
Comparing Jagan and Burnham to (respectively) Trotsky and Stalin is extremely strange. Jagan was perceived as a threat to British interests in Guyana, Burnham was deemed acceptable if unreliable. Britain sent warships and 700 troops to oust
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by robjwells 2y ago
One of the revelations over the course of this saga was that WordPress.org != WordPress Foundation. It's under the personal control of Matt Mullenweg.
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by robjwells 2y ago
As an example of the latter, Pimoroni offer an NVMe “base” that would avoid this problem and leave the PoE header free: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/nvme-base?variant=4121958...
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by robjwells 2y ago
Archive link for Ben Blum’s article: https://archive.ph/kn1Eb The two scientists who conducted “The BBC Prison Study” in the early 2000s wrote about the revelations in the Zimbardo archive material here: https://
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by robjwells 2y ago
Note this “disclaimer” in the guide: > In recent years, development efforts in the OpenVMM project have primarily focused on OpenHCL (AKA: OpenVMM as a paravisor). > As a result, not a lot of "polish" has gone into making th
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by robjwells 2y ago
> [This post] (and many others) have done a much better job than I could, explaining from a reader’s perspective why Fandom is bad place to host a wiki, The linked post (at j3s.sh) appears blank to me, so if others have the same problem
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by robjwells 2y ago
It may not even be that nefarious — perhaps they did the hack “for the lulz” then had pangs of conscience afterward and scrabbled around for a (false) excuse. In any case, the IA was in some cases the only public host of important documents
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by robjwells 2y ago
The note currently displayed to my account disputes the claims made in the linked tweet (that the Internet Archive is run by the US government(???)), not the supposed motivation of the attackers. That said, this just seems to me like the at
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by robjwells 2y ago
Eric Lichtblau wrote a good book on the resettlement of Nazis in the US, beyond the usual Paperclip names, called The Nazis Next Door. Here’s a talk he gave at UCSB on the topic in 2015: https://youtu.be/eP3srgksUqU
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by robjwells 2y ago
This is only true of typical UK-style roundabouts which are designed for motor vehicle throughput. It’s extremely common in the Netherlands to replace crossroads and T-junctions with roundabouts to improve safety, but Dutch urban roundabout
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by robjwells 2y ago
Xtensa is from Tensilica (now Cadence) but, as sibling comments point out, new Espressif designs use RISC-V. There's a bit of an overlap point: the ESP32-S2 and ESP32-S3 are recent designs that use Xtensa, and they were released at rou
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by robjwells 2y ago
For those curious about this history, you can watch John Pilger’s 2004 documentary Stealing a Nation for free on his website: https://johnpilger.com/stealing-a-nation/ For those who prefer to read, historian Mark Curti
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by robjwells 2y ago
Mullenweg has for a little while claimed that WP Engine does not contribute sufficiently to the open-source WordPress project, that its branding causes confusion among users, and that it ships an inferior product that reflects badly on Word
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by robjwells 2y ago
I believe in this instance he’s referring to WP Engine installations of WordPress pulling from the WP.org plugin & theme registries. There is a longer story in which Mullenweg has claimed that WP Engine does not contribute sufficiently
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by robjwells 2y ago
Here's Matt Mullenweg's post on Wordpress.org announcing this: https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine-banned/ There is some further discussion in the HN thread on the WP Engine incident:
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by robjwells 2y ago
I have no dog in this fight, but from the outside this is ludicrous behaviour. Matt Mullenweg, the CEO of a for-profit WordPress hosting company, should not be using his position in the open-source WordPress project to attack another for-pr
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by robjwells 2y ago
I hid the font names and still ended up with my current go-to font (JetBrains mono). I’m not sure if that’s the effect of familiarity or if we are truly meant for each other.
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by robjwells 2y ago
Yeah this is a baffling decision. I’d like to know what the motivation is. ASCII doesn’t even contain € or £.
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by robjwells 2y ago
> "Oh they wanted to kill OpenSolaris!" No, the lawnmower doesn't care about OpenSolaris, the lawnmower doesn't think about OpenSolaris, the lawnmower _can't_ care about OpenSolaris. The lawnmower can't have
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by robjwells 2y ago
For those who don’t get the lawnmower reference, take 5 minutes and have a hearty laugh: https://youtube.com/watch?t=1980&v=-zRN7XLCRhc (Start at the 33 minute mark if it doesn’t jump you there.)
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by robjwells 2y ago
Fortunately in Rust you can have it both ways, as in `Type::Variant` most of the time and `use Type::Variant; … Variant …` in cases where the type name just causes noise. Example in the playground: https://play.rust-lang.org&#x2F
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by robjwells 2y ago
You can install a Swift toolchain on macOS without Xcode, but Xcode is the “blessed” route and listed first on the swift.org getting started instructions. https://www.swift.org/install/macos However, it can be a bumpy

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