sidkshatriya

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by sidkshatriya 2mo ago
Thanks for sharing the forbes link. From the link: "De Raadt says BSD could have become the world's most popular open source operating system, except that a lawsuit over BSD scared away developers, who went off to work on Linux an
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by sidkshatriya 4mo ago
Yes I agree and this is what I meant. The cost of electricity, petroleum, transportation, the cost of goods brought in from around the world to feed and clothe the human and so on. The real power required to support a human life in a develo
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by sidkshatriya 4mo ago
> "After 16 minutes and 41 seconds, it came back" ... "further 47 minutes and 39 seconds" ... "After 13 minutes and 33 seconds" ... "After 9 minutes and 12 seconds" ... "After 31 minutes and 4
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by sidkshatriya 4mo ago
> but the language is still very young and we believe a tight-knit group of engineers with a common vision moves faster than a community-driven effort. This is a false dichotomy. For years Golang was developed in the open but strictly mo
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by sidkshatriya 5mo ago
> If you dont have analytics you are flying blind If you have too much emphasis on (invasive) analytics you might end up flying empty i.e. without customers.
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by sidkshatriya 5mo ago
> ...our team needs visibility into how features are being used in practice. We use this data to prioritize our work and evaluate whether features are meeting real user needs. You should be able to see what features are being used by see
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by sidkshatriya 5mo ago
> Isn't this pretty much standard in this day and age? If something is "standard" nowadays does it mean it is the right way to go ? One of my main issues is that this means your BIOS has to have a WiFi software stack in it
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by sidkshatriya 5mo ago
> It seems that things wouldn't work without a BIOS update: PyTorch was unable to find the GPU. This was easily done on the BIOS settings: it was able to connect to my Wifi network and download it automatically. Call me traditional
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by sidkshatriya 5mo ago
> It's true that the lack of multithreading in PHP has been a persistent pain. No actually it's a joy to have no multithreading. It keeps the complexity budget lower. You can do multithreading through a custom PHP module if you
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Master branch PHP now BSD 3 Clause(github.com)
1 points by sidkshatriya 5mo ago|1 comments
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by sidkshatriya 5mo ago
PHP master branch recently changed the license of PHP to BSD 3 Clause !! See also https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php_license_update The funny non-standard license of PHP has hurt it over the years. This is finally fixed !
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by sidkshatriya 5mo ago
Will this strategy work every time ? Maybe for AI it will work (market is competitive and Apple just purchases the best model for its consumers). But this approach may not work in other areas: e.g. building electric batteries, wireless mode
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by sidkshatriya 5mo ago
> It seems like a worthwhile study if you want to know what CPU to buy to play specific old games that use bus locks. Games that will never be fixed. Fair. > old games that use bus locks Yes the bus locks here are unintentional since
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by sidkshatriya 5mo ago
This article seems relevant to me for the following scenario: - You have faulty software (e.g. games) that happen to have split locks AND - You have DISABLED split lock detection and "mitigation" which would have hugely penalised
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by sidkshatriya 5mo ago
I tend to use FreeBSD and Linux mostly. Here is my take on OpenBSD. Good: - Small, comprehensible system - Emphasis on simplicity - Developers good about getting OpenBSD working on newer architectures e.g. Apple M1/M2 - pf Bad: - Very
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by sidkshatriya 5mo ago
My approach costs $0 . You don't need to do the heavy lifting, Wifibox does.
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by sidkshatriya 5mo ago
No need to get a USB dongle. You can use PCI passthrough to a Linux VM that has the Wifi driver. See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704816
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by sidkshatriya 5mo ago
> I would get a new laptop because a laptop without WiFi is useless. You can run Linux in a VM and PCI passthrough your WiFi Adapter. Linux drivers will be able to connect to your wifi card and you can then supply internet to FreeBSD. Do
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by sidkshatriya 6mo ago
I am partial to your sentiment but I don't think writing all the terminal handling code in elisp gives us code that might be too interesting to read (to me at least). Understanding the VT state machine and all its quirks and inconsiste
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by sidkshatriya 6mo ago
> Status: Early prototype. Fully vibe coded. [...] Cool project... However, the terminal is where you enter passwords, ssh, set API keys etc. Something so sensitive should not be "Fully vibe coded". For a project like this, I w
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by sidkshatriya 6mo ago
Ok you have a problem with the way I framed my questions and my (unintentional) tonality. Fair enough. Let's move from critique of the way I asked my questions to what your experience with bhyve has been, if you're willing to shar
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by sidkshatriya 6mo ago
> If you are unsure of bhyve's abilities then why not test yourself? It is not possible to come to a conclusion about everything in the world yourself "from scratch". No one has the time to try out everything themselves. S
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by sidkshatriya 6mo ago
I love FreeBSD but Linux just provides every feature under the sun when it comes to virtualization. Do you find any missing features on bhyve ? Is bhyve reliable ? I can't imagine its been tested as thoroughly as KVM ...
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by sidkshatriya 6mo ago
One of the biggest knocks against Rust as a systems programming language is that it has weak compile-time and metaprogramming capabilities compared to Zig and C++ In the space of language design, everything "more powerful" is no
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by sidkshatriya 6mo ago
> it could be possible that llms can mak great use of them This is actually a good point. Yes, LLMs have saturated the conversation everywhere but contracts help clarify the pre-post conditions of methods well. I don't know how good
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by sidkshatriya 6mo ago
> I understand you want to self-promote Not a very fair assumption. However, even if your not so friendly point was even true, I'd like people who have invented popular languages to "self-promote" more (here dlang). It is
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by sidkshatriya 6mo ago
> How do you know nobody wanted it? Some imperfect data points on how to judge if a language feature is wanted (or not): - Discussion on forums about how to use the feature - Programs in the wild using the feature - Bug reports showing p
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by sidkshatriya 6mo ago
Yes, I noticed that too -- why "London Croydon" rather than "Croydon, London" ? Date in Europe: 30/03/2026 Date in China: 2026/03/30 Then you have Little Endian and you have Big Endian. TL;DR: Some hu
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by sidkshatriya 6mo ago
Like your UUID joke but agree with sibling comment that 9950X3D2 is actually a good name.
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by sidkshatriya 6mo ago
I was clicking and clicking hoping for the reflow madness to stop. Thanks for this tip -- BTW we need to click _each_ orb. Occationally a previously untamed orb will start making its presence known until it is stopped. OK I think I have bee

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