ElectricalUnion

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by ElectricalUnion 6mo ago
From my point of view, they can't even "just turn on the Internet", even if they wanted. We know from the Ukraine side that "keeping the internet on" requires a whole bunch of personal sacrifice, and a lot of "
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by ElectricalUnion 6mo ago
Someone thought the "commit all previous operations to persistent storage" step would take just 1% of the time.
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by ElectricalUnion 7mo ago
Starting with SQL Server 2017, native Linux support exists. Probably because of Azure.
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by ElectricalUnion 7mo ago
I also find it really strange this weird ORM fascination. Besides the generic "ORM are the Vietnam War of CS" feeling, I feel that with average database to ORM/REST things, end up with at least one of: a) you somehow actually
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by ElectricalUnion 7mo ago
> interface designed for humans — the DOM. Citation needed. > The web already went through this evolution once: we went from screen-scraping HTML to structured APIs. Now we're regressing back to scraping because agents need to in
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by ElectricalUnion 7mo ago
The funny thing is that those days you can fit 64 TB of DDR5 in a single physical system (IBM Power Server), so almost all non data-lake-class data is "Small data".
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by ElectricalUnion 7mo ago
Claude Code still runs things on your local machine. So if you have some pretty expensive transpilation, or resolving dependency trees that needs musl recompilation, or doing something rust, you still need a reasonable ammount of local fire
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by ElectricalUnion 7mo ago
They don't even need that many mines or bombs to start with, presence of wreckage on the shipping lanes that aren't more that 75m deep would already put all shipping at risk.
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by ElectricalUnion 7mo ago
Common business-oriented language (COBOL) is a high-level, English-like, compiled programming language. COBOL's promise was that it was human-like text, so we wouldn't need programmers anymore. The problem is that the average pers
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by ElectricalUnion 7mo ago
For some sorts of "confusables", you don't even need Unicode in some cases. Depending on the cursed combination of font, kerning, rendering and display, `m` and `rn` are also very hard to distinguish.
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by ElectricalUnion 8mo ago
Isn't m.2 storage but DRAM - hopefully, meaning NVMe/PCIe not SATA speed - already exists as Compute Express Link (CXL), just not in this specific m.2 form factor? If only RAM wasn't silly expensive right now, one could use 3
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by ElectricalUnion 8mo ago
Ideally you want to run all those trusted (read: security critical, if compromised entire system is no longer trustworthy) processes on separated and audited machines, but instead busy people end up running them all together because they ha
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by ElectricalUnion 8mo ago
systemd should add and remove interfaces connected in the exact same hardware path with the same name they had before. Default literally insane legacy behaviour is just vomiting eth${RAND} where RAND depends on racing conditions. My educate
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by ElectricalUnion 9mo ago
jart Cosmopolitan. It combines a polyglot format (the αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε is simultaneously a Windows Portable Executable and a Thompson Shell script) and a polymorphic libc that works in all major OSes under both amd64 and arm64.
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by ElectricalUnion 9mo ago
"BRICS" is one of those organizations of countries that make even OPEC (famous for being non-commital, non-punishing, barely advisorial organization that doesn't meet it's own goals since the 1980's) look like a ver
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by ElectricalUnion 9mo ago
But that is the point of WARC: otherwise, your archival method need some sort of general inteligence (ai or human behind the scenes) to store exacly what you need. With WARC (and good WARC tooling like Browsetrix-crawler) you store everythi
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by ElectricalUnion 9mo ago
Is this even valid ruby? Doesn't it need Rails-specific Active Support to work?
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by ElectricalUnion 9mo ago
f-droid implies * that the application is source-available; * toolchain used to build the app is FOSS - application does not use Play Services, or proprietary tracking/analytics, or proprietary ad libraries. * application toolchain doe
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by ElectricalUnion 9mo ago
waypipe
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by ElectricalUnion 9mo ago
> strong ally to Russia, Iran and China It's more like (similar to other sanctioned countries) "forcibly coerced by the USA into being a ally of Russia, Iran and China by sanctions".
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by ElectricalUnion 10mo ago
That is a problem if you happen to have a nvidia GPU, and, as the article says, by nvidia forcing it, you will not be able to have that brand of customer gamer GPU anymore.
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by ElectricalUnion 10mo ago
If both programs do support unicode, they should just work. This entire post exists because legacy programs do not. And you are using Win32 because of those legacy programs. That is also why Win32 seems to be the most stable API for userlan
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by ElectricalUnion 10mo ago
I know that before, Unicode and locale aware systems were supposed to use unicode tags (U+E0000..U+E007F) to invisibly and "for all plaintext purposes" mark text for such han unification handling but that use is now deprecated. Wh
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by ElectricalUnion 10mo ago
Isn't the whole "thing" about JPA (and all other ORMs ever) that you're supposed to "use it" instead of directly doing well optimized native queries on your database so that you can jump ship if the database pr
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by ElectricalUnion 10mo ago
On Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, on my region, "Oracle Database - Base Database Service" (single node database) costs the same as a much more powerful cluster of managed "Database with PostgreSQL", or a managed cluster of
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by ElectricalUnion 10mo ago
I might have done the math wrong, but is this really supposed to be 330 * 290 um² * 128GiB * 8 = 96 m² big? And this is the RAM one expects per node cluster element for current LLM AI, nevermind future GAI.
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by ElectricalUnion 10mo ago
Serialization issue. From the Introduction to Cap’n Proto: "Cap’n Proto is INFINITY TIMES faster than Protocol Buffers. (...) there is no encoding/decoding step. The Cap’n Proto encoding is appropriate both as a data interchange f
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by ElectricalUnion 10mo ago
And the sad thing is that stuff directly in `/dev` isn't neither, it's just "first come first served" order, that is more or less guaranteed to be non-deterministic BS. One is supposed to use udev /dev/dis
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by ElectricalUnion 10mo ago
Who signs an "app" when I download it from Homebrew? If all Homebrew "apps" are the same key then accepting a keyring notification on one app is a lost cause at it would allows things vulnerable to RCE to read/write
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by ElectricalUnion 10mo ago
Portals are used to integrate applications to the host if they're being run inside a sandboxed environment. They are hooks that latch on the common GUI application library calls for things such as "open file dialogs" such tha

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