Karellen

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by Karellen 4y ago
After the 10,000th bug in your program that turned out to be a bug in your code, not the compiler, the compiler ends up a long way down the list. Even if compilers do have bugs, the code you write (OK, the code I write) has a lot more bug
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by Karellen 4y ago
Wait, the benchmark to find the 35th fibonacci number took 1.077s for the Zig VM vs 1.657s for the Rust VM? I realise that these VMs are going to be totally idiomatic Zig/Rust, with the most straightforward implementation possible, a
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Flathub in 2023(ramcq.net)
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by Karellen 4y ago
> what are the odds I fart in the office tomorrow? Outlook not so good.
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by Karellen 4y ago
> Most in browser crypto seems to view the web server as both the adversary and the trusted party at the same time. I think that only considering a single web server (" the web server") is an oversimplification that's cru
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by Karellen 4y ago
The thing that confuses me is: > A keyword is "known" if it is defined by a vocabulary listed in the schema's meta-schema (identified by the value in $schema). { "$schema": "https://jso
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by Karellen 4y ago
Then it will be uncool. Heinous, even.
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by Karellen 4y ago
That's on lines 83/84. I'm not entirely sure that qualifies as the "top" of the source file. It's on the 4th page of the source file, given a traditional 80x25 terminal. (Assuming no wrapping, which the ascii a
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by Karellen 4y ago
A cron job to prepare the post, and a github action to stop it from being posted.
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by Karellen 4y ago
Well, go complain to ISO then, not me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_3166_country_codes... Edit: Also, if you've ever seen UK teams compete in international sports, all their athletes have "GBR&qu
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by Karellen 4y ago
That always trips a lot of people up because .uk is the country-code top-level domain for Great Britain, and cctlds are assigned using the 2-letter ISO country code for that country. ...except for Great Britain, who were one of the first fe
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by Karellen 4y ago
> It's probably the reason they punted and let a _kilo_gram be a base unit in the first place, Not quite - it's so that the system is coherent . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherence_(units_of_measuremen
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by Karellen 4y ago
Did anyone else initially read that as `Kosmos~1`, and wonder what the full name of the project was?
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by Karellen 4y ago
If only there were some way to make git distributed! /s
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by Karellen 4y ago
> So of course they try to abuse the DMCA as best they can to claw back those lost profits. Classic "felony contempt of business model" play https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/felony-contempt-b
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by Karellen 4y ago
I'm struggling to follow why a merge base makes a difference? Or even exactly what one is? A couple of questions which might help clear things up: Do you consider `main` a branch? If you create a new branch called `feature1`, do you co
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by Karellen 4y ago
> anything pretending to provide LTS while freezing software versions is misguided How would you define LTS?
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by Karellen 4y ago
That's not really a fair complaint against C, when many safer languages whose syntax derives from C (e.g. javascript) would have the same problem.
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by Karellen 4y ago
> If you're thinking about investing in AI startups now? My advice is to avoid them like the plague [...] it's too late, and you'll wake up one morning only to discover you've had your pockets picked. > I give it
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by Karellen 4y ago
I'm not familiar with the situation, but my guess would be that ChromeOS has created its own Wayland compositor with a bunch of private protocol extensions that Chrome on ChromeOS uses to get stuff done. But for some reason or another,
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by Karellen 4y ago
If that were the reason, the year of Linux on the desktop would have happened 20 years ago.
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by Karellen 4y ago
Cory Doctorow calls this "Enshittification": > Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business c
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by Karellen 4y ago
Doh. I often get confused when people use "crypto" to refer to cryptocurrencies rather than cryptography and encryption when the context isn't obvious. If you're talking about a product specifically built around cryptogr
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by Karellen 4y ago
I knew I remembered something else. There's also https://www.itpro.co.uk/policy-legislation/data-protection/3...
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by Karellen 4y ago
What are you talking about? Strong cryptography is Signal's entire point of existence.
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by Karellen 4y ago
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=retained+eu+law (GDPR is UK's implementation of an EU directive, the kind of law that the Retained EU Law bill seeks to get rid of.)
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by Karellen 4y ago
You don't have any old photos of yourself from when you were younger?
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by Karellen 4y ago
> If you measure a liquid other than water, then a fluid ounce does not weigh an ounce... so what? So that makes "fluid ounce" a bad name. Because it doesn't measure ounces of fluid.
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by Karellen 4y ago
> Explaining the argument one more time is not really convincing. Sorry, I wasn't explaining again because I thought you weren't convinced of my point. Based on your previous reply, I thought you hadn't understood my poi
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by Karellen 4y ago
But "millilitre" isn't named after a unit of weight. A fluid ounce of mercury doesn't weigh an ounce. But a millilitre of mercury still takes up one one-thousandth of a litre, which is itself one one-thousandth of a cubi

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