Karellen

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by Karellen 3y ago
Surely the "missing" money was never there in the first place? If a Post Office had £20,000 in takings on a day, but the buggy system reported takings of £30,000, then that's £10,000 of money reported missing, which the postm
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by Karellen 3y ago
> it would be very bad if basic operations in a CPU had similar level of error rates. Given how slow evolution is, and how many times DNA is copied and/or transcribed in any one individual, my intuition is that the error rates for g
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by Karellen 3y ago
> And then it's immediately better scannable than gauge because you just see a color If you're not color-blind, that is.
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by Karellen 3y ago
> nobody wants to read [documentation]. OP wants to read documentation. It's in the article. Quite a few commenters say that they're resorting to LLMs, not because that's how they want to learn about the code they're
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by Karellen 3y ago
Were they alternate implementations of sysv-init? Or did they do their own thing, and also happen to run sysv-init scripts for back-compat? Because systemd also runs sysv-init scripts for back-compat. Edit: Also, were any distros actually s
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by Karellen 3y ago
> authors tried to eek out an existence * eke out https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eke_out
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by Karellen 3y ago
> my concerns boil down to the fact that the adoption it has seen has lead indirectly (or, directly) into a monoculture; Were there multiple implementations of sysv-init being used by different distros on Linux before systemd came along?
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by Karellen 3y ago
OK, but if you do some work, and make a backup with `tar -cf ../.tars/backup-001.tar .`, then do some more work, and make another backup with `tar -cf ../.tars/backup-002.tar .`, then you also didn't create a new em
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by Karellen 3y ago
I thought that unless you're relying on buggy behaviour, or other implementation-specific details which are explicitly and prominently documented as unsupported and/or subject to change[0], any binary compiled for Linux libc6&#x2F
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by Karellen 3y ago
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/process/stable-api-...
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by Karellen 3y ago
Is there another time/place you're comparing it to, specifically?
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by Karellen 3y ago
The one problem with LRU that I always remember is one John Carmack one wrote about with an LRU cache for items that were always accessed in the same order (objects to be rendered, in z-order?), which happened to be slightly bigger than the
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by Karellen 3y ago
Um, I'm pretty sure that one's not a lie. Yes, git currently stores deltas between commits in its pack files, but that's an implementation detail to save space. Importantly, it's not how git was originally written, but w
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by Karellen 3y ago
How does using a timestamp column make querying the database more annoying than using a boolean column? Aren't the places you have to use filters exactly the same either way?
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by Karellen 3y ago
But... this query used UPDATE orders SET is_deleted = true DELETE without WHERE wasn't part of the problem.
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by Karellen 3y ago
I think GP's point was that there is an argument that `git` should be able to track "real" metadata about what changed. e.g. `git mv foo bar` should be able to record that "foo" was definitely renamed to "bar&q
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by Karellen 3y ago
> There are other terms the authors could use: oligopoly, oligarchy, inverted totalitarianism, plutocracy, soft despotism, rent-seeking. Those are motivations behind centralisation, but they won't all apply to all attempts at centra
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by Karellen 3y ago
I use `sponge` and `ts` (mentioned in the article) pretty regularly, and am really happy for them. I have used `isutf8` a fair amount in the past, but I find it mostly redundant these days (thankfully!) The other one that I don't use v
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by Karellen 3y ago
(2021)
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by Karellen 3y ago
My point is that, for a not-unreasonable interpretation of "shuffle", it is the same as "random". nvm
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by Karellen 3y ago
> > they are both shedding energy at the same rate per unit distance. > Interesting (and I think very reasonable) first-order assumption. Really? That triggered alarm bells in my head immediately . I mean, it might be true, but I&
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by Karellen 3y ago
Sorry, the point I was trying to make was "shuffle" could possibly mean "re-shuffle after every track" - so you could still get the same track twice in a row. (It was a bad way of stating it, that's on me)
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by Karellen 3y ago
Do you re-shuffle after the deck is exhausted, or after every hand? It's not excessively unusual to be dealt the same card twice in two consecutive hands.
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by Karellen 3y ago
On the individual topic pages, the [B] buttons allow you to choose a background, one of which is plain white.
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by Karellen 3y ago
Maybe change the link to the actual result, rather than 2nd-hand reporting? https://www.debian.org/vote/2023/vote_002#statistics (No matter how good LWN's original journalism is, this is just a news link that
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by Karellen 3y ago
> I still prefer to work with naive always-UTC datetimes. Why prefer to work with naive UTC datetimes, rather than explicit UTC datetimes? What's wrong with plain `datetime.datetime.now(datetime.UTC)`?
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by Karellen 3y ago
But the OBJS allows for an easy `clean` target, defined further down the article. Personally, I'd have gone with foo: $(OBJS) $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $< $(LDLIBS) to put all flag options first, then the output op
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by Karellen 3y ago
Which is ironic, given that man pages do reflow on different-width terminals and have done since the '90s.
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by Karellen 3y ago
> I have trouble comprehending what this piece provides beyond bullshit slinging at big tech. Wishing you were the one making six fixture for 2 - 6 hour days? I think the following paragraphs provide useful non-hypocritical/non-&quo
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by Karellen 3y ago
"If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing." https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/

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