EuAndreh

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by EuAndreh 2y ago
Not GP, but nothing wrong with kubernetes per se. It is simply unnecessary. You can get to gigantic success and extraordinary scale by growing vertically, without needing to add a very complex layer that kubernetes is. Think of the many li
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by EuAndreh 2y ago
s/sophisticated/complex/ FTFY
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by EuAndreh 2y ago
wow, I just realized you're the same dwheeler from the work on diverse double-compilation! Thanks for the improvements on POSIX, I've read many issues and discussions raised by you in the past couple of years. If fact, I think it
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by EuAndreh 2y ago
A dog-whistle camouflaged by criticism of OOP since it is out-of-fashion.
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by EuAndreh 3y ago
I found it on a past comment, for whoever might be interested: https://github.com/pyjarrett/simple_regex
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by EuAndreh 3y ago
That's very interesting! I have my copy of "Practice of Programming" about to be delivered. Is your regex implementation available somewhere?
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by EuAndreh 3y ago
> I would like the actual code compiled (vs some p-code bundled with an interpreter). What's wrong with p-code bundled with an interpreter? Some libc+cc combos add some code to do things the target architecture doesn't support
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by EuAndreh 3y ago
> though borgbackup is still unable to back up to the same repo from multiple hosts at the same time Wouldn't that mean that, when using encrypted backups, secrets would have to be shared across multiple clients? If I'm underst
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by EuAndreh 3y ago
We have "No language spec" and "The implementation is the spec". Sooo, languages with a spec are strictly superior?
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For a Century, the American Way of War Has Meant Killing Civilians (2023)(theintercept.com)
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by EuAndreh 3y ago
That is a very bad, no good idea. A good language-specific package manager should know how to resolve its dependencies and maybe install them locally, but most importantly provide this information to the system package manager (apt, rpm, et
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by EuAndreh 3y ago
Isn't that what AGPL is for?
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by EuAndreh 3y ago
In GNU make? Actually, yes: $ cat Makefile a\ file: ; echo 123 > '$@' $ make echo 123 > 'a file' $ cat a\ file 123
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by EuAndreh 3y ago
Why not email and mailing lists? Past all email limitations, a simple mbox archives everything. It works offline, is decentralized, etc.
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by EuAndreh 3y ago
> Is Jira that bad? As the saying goes, Jira is fine, the only problem is that it is Turing-complete.
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by EuAndreh 3y ago
Any sufficiently complicated Vim configuration contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Emacs.
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by EuAndreh 3y ago
Just shellcheck is enough.
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by EuAndreh 3y ago
An empty HTML page works on both. Add some margin and spacing and it keeps working. After that, what you can do is ruin it, targetting a webpage for a specific screen size.
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by EuAndreh 3y ago
We should nurture more accessibility, in this case, mobile compatibility. For instance, consider someone who has limited access to desktop computers and have to go by with a mobile device. These individuals do exist, and their access is as
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by EuAndreh 4y ago
dd(1) reads from STDIN by default unless given an "if=" parameter, and writes to STDOUT by default umless given an "of=" parameter.
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by EuAndreh 4y ago
You can forego the final "bash -c" by leveraging dd(1) to avoid the redirection problem: ... | ssh server.com dd of=out.tag.zstd
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by EuAndreh 4y ago
Or even Continuation Passing Style.
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by EuAndreh 4y ago
> There's no reason why <query xmlns='urn:xmpp:mam:2' .../> can't be <mam_query .../>. In this example, "mam_" is effectivelly a NIH namespace.
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by EuAndreh 5y ago
In Bash: C-x C-e This opens $EDITOR, and when you finish editing and close it, it runs the code.
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by EuAndreh 5y ago
> Sure enough sometimes while rushing to solve an AoC problem (...) >In a C program taking the same approach (...) "Writing C" and "rushing" is a strategy that cannot give you correct, robust software.
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by EuAndreh 5y ago
I've used the prosody XMPP server and the synapse matrix server. IMHO, the basic prosody setup is a bit simpler, but with the "extra" configuration such as retention policies, they're equal in setup effort. On the other
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by EuAndreh 5y ago
> If software consumers can't handle new warnings, the eco-system is broken. This includes C (...) I didn't get that. Won't this only happen to those using `-Werror` or something similar? If so, aren't they responsi
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by EuAndreh 5y ago
The sh shell, or POSIX sh, is closer to a zero dependency language. There are many systems that have shells which are not bash.
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by EuAndreh 5y ago
lex and yacc are part of POSIX, while flex and bison aren't.
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by EuAndreh 5y ago
lex and yacc depend on global variables, flex and bison, which are one the implementations of lex and yacc, don't.

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