wizerno

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by wizerno 9d ago
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42156977
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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009)(james-iry.blogspot.com)
4 points by wizerno 2mo ago|0 comments
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Virtual memory explained as a dialogue between a process and the Linux kernel(blog.codingconfessions.com)
2 points by wizerno 4mo ago|0 comments
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TLA+ Caught a Silent Data Divergence Bug in Postgres's pg_rewind(multigres.com)
6 points by wizerno 4mo ago|0 comments
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by wizerno 1y ago
Another great read on futexes is Ulrich Drepper’s paper "Futexes Are Tricky" [1]. [1] https://cis.temple.edu/~giorgio/cis307/readings/futex.pdf
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The Jargon Lexicon(catb.org)
1 points by wizerno 1y ago|0 comments
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Pointer Pointer (2012)(pointerpointer.com)
1 points by wizerno 1y ago|0 comments
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by wizerno 1y ago
https://www.judyrecords.com/what-happened-with-tyler-technol...
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by wizerno 1y ago
Does anyone else miss the functionality of the Android WhatsApp widget [1] on iOS? Being able to read messages without sending read receipts via the widget is a great feature. The iOS notification 'peek' is a clumsy substitute. Is
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MESI Cache Coherency Protocol Visualization(scss.tcd.ie)
60 points by wizerno 2y ago|2 comments
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by wizerno 2y ago
It looks like you're correct -- Gregglogger relies on pynput, and its behavior on macOS aligns with the library's documented limitations [1]: Recent versions of macOS restrict monitoring of the keyboard for security reasons. For
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by wizerno 2y ago
I wonder if they'll index more repositories over time. As it stands, there's no clear way to tell what's indexed versus what's not. A transparent way to see the scope of coverage would be incredibly helpful for users.
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by wizerno 2y ago
The author has a few blog posts covering the tee, split, which, and cat commands [1]. [1] https://www.anardil.net/tag/coreutils.html
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Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing(takeourword.com)
238 points by wizerno 2y ago|103 comments
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by wizerno 2y ago
John Oliver discusses how so many people have come to take on student loan debt, why it’s so hard to pay off, and what we can do about it [1]. [1] https://youtu.be/zN2_0WC7UfU
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by wizerno 2y ago
As someone who's fascinated by formal verification and who's early in their career, what advice do senior folks who have been using TLA+ have? TLA+ isn't taught in most universities and while I've read about so many inte
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by wizerno 2y ago
If you're referring to the StackOverflow example from the article, it's different because they follow `/questions/:id/:slug`. Keeping slug at the end makes it a lot easier to delete while keeping it readable.
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by wizerno 2y ago
While the slug helps someone know what they're opening before reading it, most apps have link previews which give you just enough information you need.
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by wizerno 2y ago
As per RFC 3986 [1], reserved characters such as , and / must be URL encoded. , is encoded as %2C / is encoded as %2F [1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986
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by wizerno 2y ago
A slightly related discussion on Type Unions in C# from a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41183240
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by wizerno 2y ago
An example of a not-so-great URL design: Amazon product links have an optional slug before everything else like `{slug}/dp/{id}`. So you end up copying a gigantic URL everytime you wish to share a product unless you use the share
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by wizerno 2y ago
They have an equally impressive post [1] about CPUs! [1] https://cpu.land
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by wizerno 2y ago
https://archive.is/rfwJC
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by wizerno 2y ago
This is so important and underrated in life. > "This is what I infer when I see someone who is comfortable in their unique strangeness, too. There probably exists someone who enabled that evolution of personality. A parent, a friend
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by wizerno 2y ago
Surprising! This feels exactly like finding out Overleaf is open-source a few days back [0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40832930
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by wizerno 2y ago
It's also called banker's rounding. To understand why it's a good default, you can check out https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/2120
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by wizerno 2y ago
I believe it should be https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/continua
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by wizerno 2y ago
Exactly. I had the same thought so I checked the website again and there is almost none to no mention of "open-source" or their GitHub repository link anywhere. Quite likely being done to drive more users to buy subscriptions inst
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by wizerno 2y ago
Julia Evans blog post [1] on the same topic, contains some more useful options. [1] https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/02/16/popular-git-config-options/
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What Game Are You Playing?(autodidacts.io)
3 points by wizerno 2y ago|0 comments

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