Gaelan

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by Gaelan 6y ago
Windows, macOS, Linux, and BSD all (usually) run on Intel processors, so in theory it should be possible to write a program that runs on all three. However, despite ultimately using the same instruction sets, the four OSes use different for
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by Gaelan 6y ago
> Remember when everything had to use Growl? And yet Steam and Microsoft Teams still roll their own notifications, for some reason.
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by Gaelan 6y ago
And even in JS and PHP (and Lua) where arrays and hash tables are technically the same data structure, a hash table used as an array isn't actually indexed on elements, just numbers, so you don't get O(1) search.
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by Gaelan 6y ago
That means no paychecks, right?
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by Gaelan 6y ago
Griddy claims[0]—a claim I don't have the knowledge to verify—that this price spike was a political intervention, not a natural consequence of the market, and thus something they couldn't have predicted. [0]: https://ww
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by Gaelan 6y ago
dang, doesn't seem like this adds much over the NPR story it links to: https://www.npr.org/2020/12/07/943886033/emotional-but-ratio... (By the way, does the keyword "dang" actually do anyt
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by Gaelan 6y ago
I'd imagine not. Assuming the JVM's semantics aren't too different from those of the Java language, you always know at compile time how many arguments a function takes[1], so this optimization wouldn't be relevant. [1]:
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by Gaelan 6y ago
Headline is misleading - the article is about getting messages off a (booted and previously unlocked) device, not in transit (as "intercept" would imply). Still bad, obviously -- I'm guessing this is an iOS zero day -- but no
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by Gaelan 6y ago
When I get angry about gradle, I remind myself there is autotools.
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by Gaelan 6y ago
Homebrew could, and IIRC still can, build everything from source.
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by Gaelan 6y ago
> My copy of NixOS had no password on the root user by default, which is not ideal but I assume most deployments aren't like that (right?). By no password, do you mean: - it is impossible to log in as root with a password (a good th
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by Gaelan 6y ago
I'd be surprised if that were the case. Their sign up path seemed to know about and handle US citizens (asked for my SSN), and I can't imagine they'd go to that trouble if they were just going to silently and mysteriously den
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by Gaelan 6y ago
IIRC TransferWise holds all your money in escrow (as opposed to investing it or w/e), so they don't need to guarantee it. I'm not sure off hand if that's just what they claim, or if they actually make a legal promise to
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by Gaelan 6y ago
I (US citizen, freshman at a UK university) tried to set up a Monzo account a few months ago. They refused to give me an account, and refused (both in their app and over email) to tell me why. Left a bad taste in my mouth. Ended up going wi
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by Gaelan 6y ago
Just Wikipedia would be huge.
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by Gaelan 6y ago
Sure. But they do also allow a completely separate password.
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by Gaelan 6y ago
FWIW, although this isn't on by default, Chrome can be configured to encrypt all sync data, either with your Google password (which Google hopefully doesn't store) or a separate, offline, password.
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by Gaelan 6y ago
> Business logic should be written in POJO. Plain Old JavaScript Objects. Using a library such as Redux is a dumb way, but this is the community-embraced, herd-mentality way. Redux is really just a pattern for business logic using POJO -
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by Gaelan 6y ago
At least with Broadcom, you definitely need firmware. As I understand it, the chips don't have any data storage of their own, so they need to provide the firmware to the chip on each boot.
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by Gaelan 6y ago
There's arguably a big difference between non-free firmware (which is relatively isolated, and doesn't even run on the same CPU as the OS) and the user-facing stuff GP is talking about in Ubuntu.
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by Gaelan 6y ago
As I understand it, it's a single trusted binary (Google's Widevine), not arbitrary binaries from sites, so I doubt it's a huge security liability. Not to discount all the other problems with DRM on the web, of course.
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by Gaelan 6y ago
IIRC, you need to boot into the recovery partition and enter the admin username/password of an existing user, so I'm not sure this is doable even with physical access.
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by Gaelan 6y ago
But the fact that they are doing it by choice would imply that the GPL isn't as necessary as some think.
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by Gaelan 6y ago
The F# compiler seems to be written in F#. Therefore, you need to already have an F# compiler to build it. That GitHub repo mentions that "You will also need the latest .NET 5 SDK", which looks like it includes F#. (Presumably, wh
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by Gaelan 6y ago
If you're using Pi 3 and 4s, then there is an official aarch64 package cache. But yeah, older Pis (and the 0) are a PITA. Also, cross-compiling almost works now - I have a Pi 4 cross-compiling NixOS to armv6l for a Pi 0. But I'm u
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by Gaelan 6y ago
IIRC, the standard ARM instruction set does include some instructions with "javascript" in the end. I think they're floating point instructions that handle some edge case (NaNs?) in the same way that x86, and therefore the JS
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by Gaelan 6y ago
> Due to Apple Pay’s privacy architecture it can’t recognize transfers and always charges full fare. I don't think this is the case—in London, I'm pretty sure you can pay with Apple Pay and have your fares "capped" (s
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by Gaelan 6y ago
I'm pretty sure the vast majority of Mac apps still aren't distributed on the App Store. The Mac App Store almost certainly isn't a big money-maker.
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by Gaelan 6y ago
Why sadly? Autocomplete does a ton for making APIs more discoverable and easy to use.
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by Gaelan 6y ago
You're supposed to use the installer image to partition the disk, create a configuration, then run nixos-install; instructions are at https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/index.html#sec-install... . It&#

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