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by 20after4 5mo ago
Sooner or later (probably sooner), clouds of killer drones will be coming for all of us.
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by 20after4 5mo ago
The low level details of the Linux TTY driver is a surprisingly deep subject. This very old page taught me a lot about it and a recent HN discussion reminded me to dig up the old link. Hopefully others find it as enlightening as I have.
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The TTY Demystified (2008)(linusakesson.net)
97 points by 20after4 5mo ago|11 comments
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by 20after4 5mo ago
Phabricator (now Phorge) was developed by a team of 2-3 people for most of it's life, with a little help from several moderately active contributors like myself. Gitlab is a really big conglomeration of services and daemons and tools w
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by 20after4 5mo ago
This puts my poor little micropython calculator¹ to shame. 1. https://git.sr.ht/~twentyafterfour/macro-calculator
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by 20after4 5mo ago
> We don’t pay mechanics to Google “how to fix car”. No, instead of google they just look it up on alldata.
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by 20after4 6mo ago
$100 isn't going to buy you much access to claude code when they start charging a profitable fee for using it.
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by 20after4 6mo ago
https://flatpak.org/ does this on Linux and someone else already pointed out, MacOS does this with app store apps. I don't like handing control to Apple so I much prefer the FlatPak solution - you get very detailed an
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by 20after4 6mo ago
The human brain is incredibly efficient (Approximately 20W of energy consumption¹). These AI systems use many orders of magnitude more energy than human equivalents. 1. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8364152&#
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by 20after4 6mo ago
I don't think this is accurate. According to the New York Times¹ (among numerous other sources), the government has defied court orders at least a small double-digit number of times. "At least 35 times since August, federal jud
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by 20after4 6mo ago
When you import a repository into Phabricator, it parses everything into a MySQL database. That's how it manages to support multiple version control systems seamlessly as well as providing a more straightforward path to implementing a
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by 20after4 6mo ago
A system’s purpose is what it does, not what it claims to do.
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by 20after4 6mo ago
> Chances are that we as a society collapse long before we get to send humans to Mars. And possibly even before we make it back to the moon's surface.
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by 20after4 6mo ago
Veloren is awesome! Thanks for the work you do, I’ve enjoyed playing it quite a bit. It’s been a while so maybe time to check it out again soon.
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by 20after4 7mo ago
Yes. Leased IBM equipment was a critical infrastructure component of the holocaust.
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by 20after4 7mo ago
Only 100%? I'm seeing SSDs going for about 400% what I paid in 2024.
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by 20after4 7mo ago
Replacing one java tool with another doesn't solve anyone's problems. If they'd only used Rust then lives would have been saved.
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by 20after4 7mo ago
Because the misogyny is even more pervasive.
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by 20after4 7mo ago
It's almost as if they aren't considering the best interests of the public or the government/economy that they are dismantling.
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by 20after4 7mo ago
Your username is appropriate. From rfk: “Rep. Kim Carver (R-Bossier City), the sponsor of Louisiana's HB-570, publicly confirmed that a Meta lobbyist brought the legislative language directly to her. “ That’s more than fighting to amen
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by 20after4 7mo ago
This reddit thread¹ details thoroughly the connection to Meta (Facebook) and to a lesser extent Discord as being behind the push in the US. 1. https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_b.
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by 20after4 7mo ago
You can buy a cellular data plan for your laptop. Just plug in a 5g radio to your usb port or in some laptops you can even install it internally in a dedicated pcie slot. Carrier approval is not the reason phones are locked down. If it were
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Many US states planning or have operating system age verification laws(gamingonlinux.com)
48 points by 20after4 7mo ago|31 comments
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by 20after4 7mo ago
The marginal cost of one extra passenger is going to be very nearly zero. The vast majority of the cost is just moving the bus / train / plane, and the overhead / inefficiencies in the system. I've seen somewhere the n
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by 20after4 7mo ago
Yes, similarly in the US: I think the largest portion of the energy in the US is produced with gas fired power plants.
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by 20after4 8mo ago
This will come to other states soon enough.
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by 20after4 8mo ago
And apparently, encyclopedia dramatica is also now defunct.
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by 20after4 8mo ago
Wikipedia has an endowment big enough to sustain the site's basic maintenance, essentially forever. If donations disappeared then they would have to severely cut spending, however, I don't think it would be an existential threat
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by 20after4 8mo ago
Yeah this whole story reads like propaganda to me.
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by 20after4 8mo ago
> This is the approach US population prefers. Most of the population has very little leverage and is highly manipulated. It's the approach of a few who wield all of the power while the rest of us are either dismayed or distracted.

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