Pet_Ant

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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
I once got invited a meeting so that we could bill the client for my time even if I had no idea what the project was about. But they had no work for me to do, so I went to the meeting and ate sandwhiches and faded into the background. So, I
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
I've thought that it could be as simple as commit's with a message beginning with "minor:: " do not get shown by default.
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
One thing I've wanted is the ability to group commits into a mega commit. So the history of little changes remains, but as you are scrolling you don't see all of them.
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
That's funny because I swear almost every woman in my life has read it or at least knows enough to reference it. Even women who are from different walks of life and don't know eachother.
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
If you give a man a fish he eats for a day, but if you teach a man to fish you give up your monopoly on fisheries. It used to considered vile that drug dealers tried to hook their users and force dependence... turns out that they were just
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
> FSL uses this "eventual open source" mechanism too. I stand corrected. I hate license proliferation, but the naming and marketing is better. I hope the other former open-source companies consolidate on something. > undergo
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
The only closed source license I find acceptable is the BuSL "Business Source License" because it eventually becomes opensource. It guarantees you a 4 year moat on the code before it becomes open source, and it remains source av
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
Oof. That's a depressing read: > This post is a long-winded way of saying that I lost faith in my ability to push the work forward. The gem of despair: > Another example is what should be done when a 32-bit integer is shifted by
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
But don't most of the design issues apply to Talos as well? And if it's security focussed, I think it's acceptable to say "It's AM4 (not 5), and only works with this RAM brand with these times and costs 5 times as m
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
If stuff like the Raptor Talos can exist, surely the community can come together to support a company building an x86-64 motherboard that is completely binary-blob free...
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
Is miss repl.it for what it used to be, just a quick way to play with a bit of code.
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
Man, it's almost like healthcare and human lives shouldn't be for profit...
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
https://www.drivethrufiction.com/ I've gotten a lot of BattleTech novels and Fantasy Flight Games universe novelas there. There a bunch of comics as well. A lot of entering reading material for flights. Dark Horse comi
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
> By contrast, the Rust programs I've seen tend to specify types in terms of low-level, machine types. This seems to be an artifact of the domain that Rust is currently being used in. I don't think it's anathema to Rust to
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
I do wonder if CISC might make a comeback. One is cache efficiency. If you are doing many-core (NOT multi-core) than RISC make obvious sense. If you are doing in-order pipelined execution, than RISC makes-sense. But if you are doing supersc
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
A death notice... with a link to a GoFundMe for a cancer treatment. Just another poignant reminder on the state of American healthcare.
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
It seems to me that there is an aspect of marketing to this deal. Nvidia has the mindshare, so this would help legitimise AMD offerings. This is almost product placement/sponsorship for AMD. Also, this would battle test AMD's plat
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
Still hate JSON for the unvalidated schema-less world we live in.
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
I'm reminded of a meme that compared "car keys" with the word "khaki" in a 'Boston'-accent (non-rhotic). Or the "pin=pen" merger of some accents, or "caught=cot". No one speaks "En
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
Compressed instructions are also for microcontroller use. RISC-V -rightly or wrongly- is trying to be an ISA that can handle the whole stack from embedded microcontrollers to a top-end server. As such, there are compromises for both aims.
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
> This is nonsense, for a number of reasons. Clearly, one should be able to exist in society, including going outside one’s own home, without needing to accept this kind of thing. I think this is the rule that is currently under renegoti
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
Your safety margin is my profit margin. - Mr MBA
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
Serial port or serial port over "ethernet"[1] (technically it's 8p8c[2]). My router doesn't have a video port, but it does have a dummy terminal port. I had to scrounge a video card for my server to set it up, but it doe
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
I really want a little adapter that can plug into a monitor to make it a dumb terminal. Instantly on, no full OS, just a VT100 or something. I've looked into it with a PiZero and some HATs but I'd like something made by smarter pe
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
I have heard it described as not quite an "alphabet" but more like a rebus[1] using an alphabet. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebus
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
I find that the issue is much more often not updating dependencies often enough with known security holes, than updating too often and getting hit with a supply-chain malware attack.
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
I really wonder why Arabic has never gone back to printing. What we think of the Arabic "alphabet" is just it's cursive form. They have an alphabet that is basically just Syriac. Would have been easier to render on low bit di
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
The name is likely an anglicised version of "klocki" just meaning "blocks" in Polish. ( in Polish 'c' is just a "ts" not a "k", so "cumani"->"tsunami" and "Ghosts
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
Yes, there is "UNIX V7" in 2013... which apparently only IBM's AIX supports. This is ironic because the whole idea of UNIX is to create a common platform for interoperability, but only one platform actually supports. I really
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
> things were hardly a panacea with a lot of buttons and checkboxes as the infamous "Bulk Rename Utility" showed how things could get out of control Layout and usability are independent of widget design. I'll take the wid

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