Karellen

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by Karellen 2y ago
Looks like it, according to Wikipedia: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Langford%27s_basilisk Just read the story, thought it was very reminiscent of one of the plot points in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash (1992) -
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by Karellen 2y ago
Rotate the phone to landscape mode, and then into portrait. The address and tab bars should be displayed on the change to portrait.
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by Karellen 2y ago
Part of the benefit of having Starliner and SpX is redundancy. Having multiple vendors to choose from/have compete each other/use as backups if one is grounded, is a large part of the point. Having anyone, including Musk, have con
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by Karellen 2y ago
A really good primer on the whole background is LWN's recent "The WordPress mess" https://lwn.net/Articles/991906/ They have a follow-up "WordPress retaliation impacts community". It'
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by Karellen 2y ago
Hah, called it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41645867 > Oh.... they vendored everything , including a bunch of external x86 binaries. 32- and 64-bit. FFS. > But also - I sure hope they got the licensing corre
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by Karellen 2y ago
What the hell is that "dump truck with trailer" on a really long connector at 3:50? Is that a thing in some parts? How does that navigate almost any kind of roadway safely?
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by Karellen 2y ago
Ah, thanks for that. I was looking at the markings that are there, and they made it seem like traffic approaching the roundabout would have priority over traffic already on it.
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by Karellen 2y ago
So that's what happened to Captain Carnage!
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by Karellen 2y ago
Although that presentation does point out that the technique is more generally used in quines. Given that there is a fair amount of research, papers and commentary on quines, it's possible that the author may have read something along
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by Karellen 2y ago
> MS has managed to pacify even the strongest FOSS advocates I'm not sure that's the case. I think the strongest FOSS advocates gave up on Microsoft decades ago, and just don't engage with anything they put out. If MS re
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by Karellen 2y ago
(2012)
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by Karellen 2y ago
Oooh, a legacy version of winamp? Might as well clone the repo, that'll be a pretty small download, from before when software got all bloated ... 750Mb later: WTF? [tippety tappety clickedy clackedy] Oh.... they vendored everything ,
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by Karellen 2y ago
Winamp existed before piracy was well-organised, or even bandwidth-feasible for many people. A lot of people will have used it to play rips they'd made of their own CDs.
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by Karellen 2y ago
What about github's more recent history?
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by Karellen 2y ago
> I was lucky to learn early-on that publishing important things to the web meant relinquishing control of not just the IP, but my own agency and fate. Not only is that not true, it's contradicted by the very page you link. That pag
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by Karellen 2y ago
> The government is not a good allocator of funds, free market competition works a lot better for creating the best product. That doesn't explain why their civilian aircraft aren't just not the best product, but have gone compl
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by Karellen 2y ago
One might argue whether chips are actually small chunks of roughly cut (i.e. chipped from) potato, but crisps most definitely are not. Crisps are precisely sliced, quite thinly (and, as you point out, are crisp). Chips approximate chips.
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by Karellen 2y ago
If you have the right package installed purity /usr/share/games/purity/hacker will do the same thing, but local-first. Also: dpkg -L purity or whatever equivalent lists package files on your system
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by Karellen 2y ago
Ah. One other approach that does occur is to just malloc() a 16GiB buffer to begin with. Only pages you touch should end up being backed by RAM(/swap). Then your finalize() operation is just a realloc() to "shrink" the buffer
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by Karellen 2y ago
> So that they could be released with free(). Well, yes, you have to replace free() and calloc()/realloc() too. Sorry, didn't think that needed spelling out. > > Why not entirely replace malloc() for the process? > Now
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by Karellen 2y ago
> only 8GB of RAM lol. We had 32-bit pointers on 386/486 systems in the early '90s, on systems with frequently less than 4 MB of RAM. If making pointers 4x bigger on systems with 2000x the amount of memory is a problem, I&#x
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by Karellen 2y ago
Given that you're writing a custom allocator, why were you trying to hand allocations over to malloc()? Why not entirely replace malloc() for the process? (If you still need libc malloc for smaller non-growable allocations under the ho
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by Karellen 2y ago
I seem to have anti-GAS. I've got a 5-year old phone (thanks Apple for maintaining OS security support for my model for so long!), a 3-year old laptop I'm not planning on replacing any time soon, and the non-computer based hobbies
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by Karellen 2y ago
Any sufficiently complicated lightweight markup format contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, and only slightly easier to use implementation of half of either DocBook or TeX.
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by Karellen 2y ago
They describe the section of the manual, where 1 = programs, 2 = syscalls, 3 = userspace functions, 4 = special files, 5 = file formats, 6 = games, 7 = misc/overviews. So printf(1) is the man page for the /usr/bin/printf
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by Karellen 2y ago
> you just have to go to the bank and borrow 10x your capital. "just" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.
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by Karellen 2y ago
> getting 10% average annual returns with 10% annual volatility is worst than getting 5% returns with 1% annual volatility. Doesn't this depend on how long you're planning on investing for, and what your criteria for selling yo
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by Karellen 2y ago
Maybe another way of looking at it is - the paper is attempting to explain what LLMs are actually doing to people who have already anthropomorphised them. Sometimes, to lead people out of a wrong belief or worldview, you have to meet them w
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by Karellen 2y ago
3. Become a bookmaker/start a casino. It's like being a gambler, but you get to stack the odds in your favour, deliberately, tell people you've done so, and have everyone be fine with that . If you use any knowledge of futur
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by Karellen 2y ago
AFAIK git has pluggable diff and merge engines. I wonder if it would be possible to create a diff/merge git plugin for sqlite files that does an intermediate conversion to .sql dump files, with some kind of serialisation normalisation

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