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by Karellen 3y ago
One slight variation on that way of thinking about it - a server mediates access to a resource for its clients. A file server mediates access to a file system; clients connect to access files. A database server mediates access to a collecti
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by Karellen 3y ago
I thought I covered that in the part about needing to check for updates/release announcements yourself if you've turned automatic updates off?
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by Karellen 3y ago
The trouble is, security fixes (generally) don't get backported to older branches. If older branches are even a thing. Say you're on Foo 1.4.7, and the jump to Foo 1.5 includes a feature re-org you don't want, and no security
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by Karellen 3y ago
"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight." -- attributed to Bill Gates
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by Karellen 3y ago
If people were going to learn not to use proprietary software/hardware like the stuff that the wankers at Nvidia churn out, they'd have learned it over a decade ago when Torvalds gave them a big "fuck you" - which had be
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by Karellen 3y ago
> Only wimps use version control: real men just merge patches from their email inbox, upload release tarballs on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;) -- Linus Torvalds (not really, but almost)
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by Karellen 3y ago
> intentionally removing important historical information What makes that information important? > about what branch changes came from Is it even "what branch"? Most of time I'm rebasing my changes from one commit on `m
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by Karellen 3y ago
Did you have your own custom script for cloning an entire CVS repo? I don't remember CVS having one out of the box, and just checking out a working copy via `pserver:` would leave you with a tree you couldn't even `diff` in a disc
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by Karellen 3y ago
Only 1 out of 6 ("Transnational law") by my count?
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by Karellen 3y ago
PSA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_shortening#Disadvantages (Also note the difference between the length of the "Advantages" and "Disadvantages" sections)
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by Karellen 3y ago
I'm not sure how Rocky fits the same pattern as The Karate Kid . Even at the very start of the first Rocky , Rocky is a journeyman boxer, who's been in the game a while, and goes to the gym on a... ok, on a semi-regular basis
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by Karellen 3y ago
> Modulo is not an operator, "operator" is being used as a term of art in programming language design, to describe a symbol used to indicate that an operation should be performed on one or more operands. https://en.w
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by Karellen 3y ago
5:32, Swinging on a Star?
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by Karellen 3y ago
Team America: World Police - Montage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFrMLRQIT_k
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by Karellen 3y ago
I thought it was late March, around the time of the equinox? March was still the 1st month, but the year didn't start until towards the end of it. Notably, I thought the accounting/tax year started in late March, and didn't c
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by Karellen 3y ago
I've always considered it a mistake to refer to "%" as a "modulo" operator in C because of its ability to return negative numbers. That's not how modulo arithmetic works. C's "%" is a remainder
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by Karellen 3y ago
What improvement does your 1000-door variant have over the 100-door variant described in the article?
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by Karellen 3y ago
It was the 100-door variant (described in the article) that was my key to properly understanding the result.
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by Karellen 3y ago
For me, the issue is, who do I distrust less - Google or Apple? Yes, they're both shitty in a number of ways. And while is is easier to root Android devices than it is to root iOS ones, last I checked you were still dependent on the ve
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by Karellen 3y ago
But also, Microsoft's "SQL Server" is officially pronounced "Sequel Server", so a lot of devs who grew up working on Windows systems will pronounce "SQL" as "sequel". For them, it's not ent
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by Karellen 3y ago
I am reminded of Feynman's story about teaching physics in one Brazil university, one semester, a few decades ago: http://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education The students learned to repeat the text of the b
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by Karellen 3y ago
Not "Kool Desktop Environment"?
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by Karellen 3y ago
They generate text which looks like the kind of text that people who do have understanding generate.
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by Karellen 3y ago
> relying on a corporation like a bank to be nice is risky and a fragile stance (they can change ToS any instant). Banks are a lot more tightly regulated that most other businesses, and (in my experience) don't generally have "
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by Karellen 3y ago
ITYM hunter3 hunter4 hunter5
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by Karellen 3y ago
I was quite pleased I figured out what the error was about a minute before the video started explaining it :-)
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by Karellen 3y ago
I was intrigued by this, and looked up: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/chrono Yeah, it is a bit chaotic. ...but, given that there often isn't just one " a time point from the OS", and thinking a
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by Karellen 3y ago
High performance systems are where these kinds of optimisations make the most difference. If most of your overhead is due to the low performance of the language/runtime you're using, these kinds of optimisations won't make as
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by Karellen 3y ago
I almost missed the colon in the title and was intrigued to learn more about these bright, fast-growing astronomers!
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by Karellen 3y ago
What have those other things got to do with parsing though? Granted, they rely on parsing having already happened , but I don't see how there's much feedback from those considerations to the way that parsers work, or are written,

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