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by LukeShu 4y ago
(without knowing the details of the DeWalt/Alton deal) There's a difference between "you can design and sell products under our brand" and "manufacture our design for us". And Apple will even do the reverse, ar
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For sure; by the late 2000s I was still seeing it, but it was fairly uncommon by then. When I said "considered a bad practice since the mid 1980s" I was specifically meaning since Grampp & Morris 1984 [1]. It definitely con
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I mean mapping of file extension to filetype is fine as an OS feature. On Unix that's /etc/mime.types (or /usr/share/misc/mime.types, depending on the system), on Windows that's the registry. What I
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by LukeShu 4y ago
On Unix, it only did the old behavior if you explicitly had "." in your PATH (same as all other programs doing path lookup). The original (1979) default PATH included ".", but it's been considered a bad practice si
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> 2. There's no good objective way to measure C-level performance. > On top of that, the best person for a given CXO job often just so happens to be a golfing buddy and/or have outside business dealings with half the board.
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by LukeShu 4y ago
> and logging out after each session I started using a Cookie AutoDelete plugin for privacy reasons; but it's also been great for this purpose, so I don't have to remember to log out.
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IME they aren't using phone number randomizers, they're using autodialer services that end up using "random" phone numbers. Same as 2FA SMSs often come from "random" numbers, they're just from a bank of n
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by LukeShu 4y ago
> some kind of TOML derivative (systemd, NetworkManager) A bit off-topic, but it's funny to me that you identified these as a "TOML derivative", when both of the mentioned pieces of software predate TOML. Systemd uses D-B
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The article specifically addresses why this is a bad idea.
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> > I'm thinking that the confusion is that you're thinking of this as audio or other wave-based signals > Doesn't most lossy image compression make the same assumption, e.g. JPEG? Yes, but the key difference is that
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by LukeShu 4y ago
Like the sibling comment, I wasn't sure what you mean when you write "50 FPS (max 25Hz)". "Hz" is literally "per second"; "50 frames per second" is "50 frame-Hz". Because we're ta
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As much as I want to agree with you, I get it: - To avoid polling, you want to be able to register a webhook to be notified when pushes happen. You're going to need Git-servicet-specific parsing of the webhook payload, and you probabl
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That's fair. I didn't address that because the GP post specifically said "interstate", and I didn't feel that the parent post was critiquing the broader point that lots of infrastructure projects between the 1930s a
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Construction started on Interstate system in 1956, and it'd be a while before it was complete enough to be usable.
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I didn't see it that way at all at first; what it initially reminded me of is when Latin characters appear in otherwise-Chinese or Chinese-produced documents (most familiar example: the manual leaflet that comes with a cheaply produced
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Libre WiFi is a shitshow, but half the things you cited aren't about WiFi. The "Docker/WiFi" problem that two of your quotes are about isn't about WiFi, it's about "Docker insists on messing with the fir
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All of the parens and I can see why you would say that, but no lisper would use Vim!
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> Great "Write The Stupidly Fastest HTTP Router For No Reason" Go craze 3 or 4 years ago Heh, I remember that craze as peaking in 2016 or 2017.
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I tried using the Wayback Machine to see what it looked like back when this article was first published, and discovered that danluu.com has been excluded from the Wayback Machine.
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Early x86/PC Linux versions used VGA's native text capabilities. When ported to m68k machines (Atari/Amiga) that didn't have native text capabilities, that's when Linux grew the virtual console we all know today th
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by LukeShu 4y ago
> the server he was connecting to was owned by BitMover (as far as I see) That would be surprising to me. Being a DCVS, lots of folks in the community would be running their own servers and sharing the URLs to them; that is were Andrew w
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by LukeShu 4y ago
Andrew Tridgell never downloaded or used the BitKeeper client program; he was never party to the BitKeeper license terms.
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> Per the Dijstrka quote ("Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes") Off topic, as the origin and precision of the quote doesn't affect your point, but: AFAICT the closest Dijkstra ac
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by LukeShu 4y ago
Yeah. I know the ~same text as the post that became my current job kept getting posted many months after I was hired.
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spook.el was "introduced at or before Emacs version 18.52". And 18.52 was released in 1988. And spook.el in a comment says ;; Created: May 1987 So the things that the NSA and ECHELON would have picked up on back in the 19
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No, YouTube is not lossless. The video that is created in the example in the README is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmm1AeYmbNU We can see that data is encoded as "pixels" that are quite large, being made up of
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By cloning that same URL. Except there's the snag that it's not a Git repo, it's a Mercurial repo. hg clone https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/watc
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I don't have an account and I don't see a paywall on mobile or on desktop.
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They dropped the mask requirement on a Friday (April 22nd), then on Monday (April 25th) sent out "We have reconsidered this decision, and the mask mandate will stay in place for the events."
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I have no problem paying for things. I like paying for things. Well, I like paying for value to be delivered. I don't like paying for "stop messing with me." The path from gratis to paid to paid-at-a-higher-tier should be &qu

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