Asooka

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by Asooka 3y ago
The latter. Old versions of libraries aren't maintained and you're on your own to compile effectively from scratch an entire distro's worth of libraries. Ironically, it should be easier to have as strong backwards compatibili
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The Linux world would benefit strongly from having a much bigger commitment to backwards compatibility in foundational libraries. Obviously there is nobody who can force e.g. OpenSSL to keep supporting old versions or to provide them as wra
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And as we can see in this case, most of the toxins that you secrete after a "cleanse" are from the "cleanse" liquid itself! Though to play debil's[0] advocate for a second, the body can retain toxins from the enviro
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by Asooka 3y ago
Yeah, let's break the entire world in order to bring OpenSSH up to ideological purity (as defined by a particular group, to the exclusion of everyone else). XDG, or now Free Desktop, have no authority to dictate how others write their
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by Asooka 3y ago
Your documents should go in ~/Documents, not directly in ~. Also XDG is is specifically for X11 applications. I don't see why ones without a GUI should respect it at all.
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Quite glib, but I agree in spirit. Reporters need better OPSEC.
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Even without qualified immunity, the police in question would not face any charges, as they have no duty to protect anyone from anything.
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by Asooka 3y ago
Yes it should. Property is property. It is insane that some property somehow becomes unownable after an arbitrary length of time. If I own land, that land will go to my heirs or, if none exist, on auction. Then someone else will own it. It
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I find this part hilarious: > For years Unix programmers measured their “age” in the Unix community by the generation of John’s book which they owned. I am proud to say that I have a third generation of the photocopies. ... > Howeve
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At first I was making more and more paperclips. But then I found the other ways to make money and turned off the paperclip maker. I owned all the paperclip production capacity in the world, why would I make paperclips myself. I solved world
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Which is why we set standards for animal treatment and heavily fine those who break them so it is not maximally profitable. Happy, well fed, cared for animals are the tastiest and healthiest option. The well being of the animal directly tra
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You do not, the user is responsible for the operation of their device. Most of the time this should be caught by whatever malicious software detector the user runs. Also, Chrome and Firefox very heavily guard against extensions being instal
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For people interested in this, a very interesting algorithm is the H-curve. It is described in this paper http://hint.fm/papers/158-wattenberg-final3.pdf It has the neat property that it ends where it starts if the gri
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by Asooka 3y ago
Yeah. One hot day is business as normal. I know that we all want to show examples of extreme weather "on the ground" to quell the retards who say climate change is a hoax, but this isn't it. Even if there had never been human
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The main reason I think for why the telecom market succeeds under a fully free market model is the fact that you're buying network access, not a concrete product. To compare it with electricity - every house comes with access to the el
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I see nothing stupid in learning to use a tool the correct way.
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Yeah, the only games I have on my phone are S.G. Tatham's puzzle collection, a bunch of games I bought on humble bundle, and a Nintendo DS emulator now that my physical DS stopped working.
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Yeah, it's not a very good proposition right now, but if we have the android platform available for all desktop OS, perhaps companies writing games or other software for the desktop form factor could target android as a universal platf
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The ID is provided by the government for free, though. So I guess they will have to give you a phone for free, plus a free plan.
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Threads is a mobile-only app, like Instagram. You can't actually use Threads on a desktop browser, so that's probably why this is shared as a Twitter post. Even if it were a Threads post, it would not be submittable to HN.
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by Asooka 3y ago
The unit and service file formats are honestly fine, it should be possible to have a second implementation. We have several varieties of SysV init already.
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by Asooka 3y ago
Please use "allowlist" instead of "wh_telist".
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At this point I almost want to say that asking computers to render text in any way other than blitting pixmaps to a regular grid is a cruel treatment of the machine spirit. Joking aside, I am one of those people that completely disagree wit
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by Asooka 3y ago
If you're using a DCI-P3 (wide-gamut HDR) display, then #0000ff (or #aaaaff) in that display's colour space will be emitted as more saturated blue light than what an sRGB display is capable of. I am not sure if you will perceive t
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The biggest lesson for me is that you need to provide an incremental path to using the new features. The reason C++ succeeded as much as it did is because you can incrementally C++-ify your existing C code. You can provide C interfaces to y
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You can just say that this feature is only local to the current file and does not affect included files, nor files that this one is included in. There are already some preprocessor features that act like that, e.g. __FILE__, which contains
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What you're describing is a more intense (brighter, higher energy) blue, not a more saturated one. For more saturated colours, you need different RGB primaries than the ones defined in sRGB. The DCI-P3 colourspace used in HDR displays
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by Asooka 3y ago
Text mode GDB is very clunky, but it is better than any frontend I have tried. Whatever pain points it has, I can mostly work around with scripts, which isn't possible with a GUI. The worst part is that it's awfully slow for progr
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Hah. VIM has had both soft and hard wrapping since forever and they're visually distinguished by the line numbers and line continuation marks in the gutter. I find it extremely useful, as I don't want to write overlong lines for c
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Hm. Newlines are not required in many programming languages. I could see someone trying to skirt this by first converting the code to a single line, publishing that under LGPL, then taking that single line and modifying it however they like

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