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by MrDOS 4y ago
The .DS_Store file contains macOS Finder's view preferences for the directory. Finder will only write a .DS_Store file to directories where a user has actively altered their view preferences for that directory (e.g., switched from icon
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by MrDOS 4y ago
ankrgyl claims to be the author of the question ; I don't think they're the author of this blog post about the question.
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by MrDOS 5y ago
That's a pretty disingenuous take you've got there – contrary opinions (e.g., on gun control) are one thing, but hate speech (in the form of blatant transphobia) is quite another. ESR saw what happened to RMS and went underground.
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by MrDOS 5y ago
> wrapped in metal Not even new metal: for good or bad, this “DuraCOR Pi” appears to be repurposing the chassis of the DuraNET 20-11 Ethernet switch: https://www.curtisswrightds.com/products/networking/switch-r.
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by MrDOS 5y ago
> can't the backend (...) implement a jump table? Note that my example “switches” over two independent variables. Even if the Go compiler did generate a table, for this example it would really be generating two tables: and then w
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by MrDOS 5y ago
Not only that, but despite all of the other syntactic sugar Go is lacking (usually sorely, such as a “try” error handler), the switch statement is really just an “if” statement in disguise. var someVar, anotherVar string /&#x
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by MrDOS 5y ago
> but what does using btrfs on top of anything buy me that ZFS, bcachefs, or something like f2fs does not? Well, inclusion in mainline kernels is the big one over ZFS and bcachefs, I guess. I haven't seen F2FS before, so I'm co
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by MrDOS 5y ago
AFAIK it's not so bad in single-device use-cases. I think most of the more recent failures I've heard about have all had to do with Btrfs RAID. The prevailing wisdom still seems to be that if you want to use RAID, use an md soft-R
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by MrDOS 5y ago
Actually, it looks to me like the HTML response is the only thing that's gzip'd. It doesn't make sense to waste time gzip'ing the PNGs, but the CSS and JS files should definitely be compressed. (And maybe the fonts? No
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by MrDOS 5y ago
https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/geiger-bardswich-but-did-h... It is far from peaceful.
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by MrDOS 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Convoy_2022
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by MrDOS 5y ago
On my local Postgres 13 instance, the EXPLAINation of both of those queries looks identical – which is a trap, because the path of the query planner's understanding is narrow. It's quite easy to write a subquery which must be eval
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by MrDOS 5y ago
Postgres reference SELECTed aliases in ORDER BY/GROUP BY clauses, but _not_ in HAVING: test=# create table event (who text not null, test(# what text not null, test(# at timestamptz
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by MrDOS 5y ago
> I've never understood why this is deemed such a big ask by so many people. It's the “Script” bit of “JavaScript”. Once your scripting language needs compiling, it's jumped the shark. You need to go back to the drawing bo
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by MrDOS 5y ago
> Nice, this may be worth a Show HN. smallstepforman has submitted it before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25513557 . Unfortunately, it didn't garner much attention.
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by MrDOS 5y ago
> I'm honestly not sure what part of my stack is providing the feature It's Gtk. Gtk applications on Windows and macOS also use the same keybind to enter characters by Unicode code point. (It's kind of a pain if you use a
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by MrDOS 5y ago
IMO there are very few places where it's appropriate to ask unspecific questions. IRC and forums are “better” for them in the sense that there's a tighter response loop on narrowing down what the asker is actually interested in, b
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by MrDOS 5y ago
For longer than that. 846 open PRs, 3.7k open issues. And this long predates the GitHub takedown debacle. This isn't to say that they're totally AWOL: they do a really good job keeping on top of the boring break/fix work, lik
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by MrDOS 5y ago
Same thought here – https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-story-of-sun-microsystems-... for today's lucky 10,000.
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by MrDOS 5y ago
https://archive.org/details/whatcdcrawl Although I doubt there's anything in there that isn't also in the Goodbye Release: https://twitter.com/whatcd/status/923941782253121539 >
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by MrDOS 5y ago
> lightweight docker containers If you're on macOS, there's no such thing as a “lightweight Docker container”. The container itself might be small, but Docker itself is running a full Linux virtual machine. In no world is that
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by MrDOS 5y ago
Have you tried Quod Libet[0]? The paned browser is fully customizable, and you can regex search on any tag. I wish it gave more priority to album art, but it's far and away the most powerful browsing experience I've encountered in
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by MrDOS 5y ago
Ignoring the money for a second, I think for some people (author clearly aside), maintenance work can be the interesting work. As long as there's buy-in from the business side of the house – they understand the goal in its full exten
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by MrDOS 6y ago
I remember a Digikey catalogue c.2002? where it seemed like blue LEDs were the star of the show. Page after page of this new wonder. And then the following decade-long flood of blue-LED-festooned consumer products, where every new bit of ki
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by MrDOS 6y ago
178 MB/s is a calculation , not an estimate: 1,920 x 1,080 pixels @ 24 bits/pixel = 6,220,800 bytes/frame 30 frames/s = 186,624,000 bytes/s = 177.98 MiB/s You are seriously underestimating the simplicity of
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by MrDOS 6y ago
The capabilities of MikroTik devices are kind of inscrutable to those who have never put hands on them. Yes, they can route (in software). Yes, they can switch (in hardware, across most ports, depending on where they attached the switch con
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by MrDOS 6y ago
I switched to Bitwarden in early 2019. The migration was really easy, and I was surprised to find that it was accurate, too. Bitwarden has its flaws, but I'm happy with it.
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by MrDOS 6y ago
I'm trying to avoid installing Rosetta 2. Anyone know if there's a way to configure Homebrew to never install an x86_64 binary and throw an error if I ask it to install a formula which isn't native on AArch64?
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by MrDOS 6y ago
That's a great question. I kind of skirted around indicating one way or the other in my parent post because I've forgotten. My troubles were as recent as the beginning of 2020, but I encountered them on a Raspbian machine, so Lord
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by MrDOS 6y ago
I know everyone talks about 2020 having felt like a long year, but I had totally forgotten that Paragon had started trying to submit that back in August[0]. I'm really glad to see this is progressing. What a monumental set of changes.

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