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841.
by 1_player 6y ago
Also cp will silently overwrite existing files (unless it's aliased to cp -i), while if you were using a GUI you'd get `(1)` appended to the filename, that while not very helpful, doesn't cause DATA LOSS when you don't k
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by 1_player 6y ago
True, but there's plenty of Stockholm Syndrome as well. C++ is a mess, and there's people that will defend that mess to the end of times. Those people managed to get pretty good and have a deep understanding of all of its quirks,
843.
by 1_player 6y ago
When I was 16 I helped my father and his friends by cracking a laser scanning software they got their hands on which required a hardware key. Thanks to Ollydbg, I just had to open the executable, find the error message and change a JZ to a
844.
by 1_player 6y ago
There is bacteria everywhere in your house, on your skin, inside of you, on every single surface on planet Earth. The idea was to keep Covid out, any other contaminant you think you're getting rid of has already breached your security.
845.
by 1_player 6y ago
"For instance, please don’t adopt the slogan “A Design Firm Unlike Any Other” and then set it in Helvetica." I feel vindicated. Helvetica might have been cool when it was invented in the 50s, but nowadays it's the most overus
846.
by 1_player 6y ago
Are you really? I hear people ask for C to F conversion as much as the other way around.
847.
by 1_player 6y ago
Oh man, that takes me back. I used to love looking into my father's spare electronics cabinet when I was a kid, full of chips and resistors and capacitors. I vividly remember the LED drawer, with a hundred red, green, yellow LEDs he us
848.
by 1_player 6y ago
I adopt a different attitude. If you have been spoiled by something, doesn't mean it's better, just that you are set in your ways. Which might be good, but sometimes it's better to broaden your horizon. I liked macOS, I had u
849.
by 1_player 6y ago
I have never seen this personally, because the first thing to do if you haven't upgraded Arch in a long time is check archlinux.org where they list right in the front page any breaking update, which are quite rare and they provide the
850.
by 1_player 6y ago
Why do we need a third party app to clean leftover files? Dragging is cool, but doesn't make the uninstall process better than Windows apparently
851.
Userbenchmark – the April Fools that never ends [video](youtube.com)
1 points by 1_player 6y ago|0 comments
852.
by 1_player 6y ago
I did find out recently that MARQUEE renders at a crappy 30 fps on Safari. Unacceptable in 2021.
853.
by 1_player 6y ago
52% sounds impressive, but how many percent of total UK interactions with the site is that? Probably in the range of 0.01%, to be generous. We're giving away our freedom for 0.01%. "But think of the children!"
854.
by 1_player 6y ago
> environment variables are mutable global state, therefore bad Wrong. They are immutable global state. There is no way of updating a process environment set after it's started. Apart from corner cases (execve), env vars are immutab
855.
by 1_player 6y ago
Some time in the last 100+ years we've started talking about fiber, and the benefits are still dubious. Dr. Zoë Harcombe - What about fiber? https://youtu.be/4KrmpK_Lckg
856.
by 1_player 6y ago
I read somewhere that younger people (I guess Millenials that grew up with Napster) might prefer 128kbps to lossless in blind audio tests because it sound better to them — artifacts and all — as it's what they are used to. Anyone has t
857.
Who has the fastest F1 website in 2021? Part 1(jakearchibald.com)
1 points by 1_player 6y ago|0 comments
858.
by 1_player 6y ago
If you actually use the project's source code, and this is not the case. Being inspired by a MIT project doesn't have any condition at all.
859.
by 1_player 6y ago
RTFA. There's is nothing against RMS in this post. Please don't start a flamewar out of nothing.
860.
by 1_player 6y ago
It also was a practice in European medieval history, and at least until 1837: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DkyahZplFo Apparently we've been doing notched sticks since the Paleolithic age.
861.
by 1_player 6y ago
That does not mean it's not complicated either.
862.
by 1_player 6y ago
> go party, hang out, get drunk, travel and socialize all the time This is the 20-something version of being idle. Minus the travel, which isn't a given. Being 20 doesn't mean you want to do something productive or meaningful w
863.
by 1_player 6y ago
Well, my friends and I don't, so perhaps not. I have a small server, and I can't see the point of paying for Nitro just to have animated custom emojis. Not worth the $10/month to me.
864.
by 1_player 6y ago
And don't block VPNs either. At least not mine. Not sure where GP got this information.
865.
by 1_player 6y ago
I do not know WHY it is taboo. I know it is because the only official resource given for the WSL term is a code of conduct document with no further explanation. Draw your own conclusion, I ain't got more than that.
866.
by 1_player 6y ago
Looks like they're using the default LaTeX font which is OK in print and awful on computer screens.
867.
by 1_player 6y ago
It is not disingenuous. WSL is a taboo term in the Arch Linux community, for one reason or the other. If you search for it in the Wiki, you get redirected to the Code of Conduct. It is less about being irrelevant and more of a "we do n
868.
by 1_player 6y ago
Which is why Zig shipping with a functional C compiler with cross platform support is a brilliant idea. Just run `zig cc` and you don't even need `clang` around. https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-cc-powerful-drop-in
869.
by 1_player 6y ago
Of course, but you don't need a lot of work to make the C compiler happy. The result might not be 100% safe, secure and mathematically proven, but sometimes you need to deliver, fast, not create the safest 1k lines of code on Earth. To
870.
by 1_player 6y ago
Indeed I do, these days I spend most of my time on Elixir. But it's handy to have a lower level language that can compile statically for some complex sysadmin task. Go is fine, but a little too plain for my tastes.

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