VorpalWay

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by VorpalWay 9d ago
Depends on your use case. If i want to export some graph data structure from a program to visualise it for debugging purposes, graphviz is way more relevant than doing it by hand in drawio. But if I'm making a presentation for a confer
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by VorpalWay 9d ago
An alternative way to think about it would be a padlock and a key. Anyone can close the padlock (assuming the common spring loaded design), but only the key holder can open it. While this works for encryption, it doesn't really work fo
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by VorpalWay 9d ago
Shouldn't this have a "(1939)" suffix on the title according to HN rules? ;)
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by VorpalWay 10d ago
For books an important features is that the shelves have doors and a back, to have to dust off the books less often. Do yours come with that? I'm not finding that brand on any Swedish retailer from a quick search either, so not sure ho
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by VorpalWay 10d ago
I'm not sure that is such a strong signal. The minimum return policy by law in EU is 14 days. IKEA has a one year open box return policy. I would not argue that modern IKEA is high quality. I'm also sure I have seen other stores w
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by VorpalWay 10d ago
One signal (not fool proof, but often a good signal): what length of warranty do they offer? If some brand has a warranty significantly above the average for the product type, that can be a good sign. And I'm not talking about offering
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by VorpalWay 11d ago
I can't tell if this is serious or sarcastic. I'm going to err on the side of serious though. Maybe the majority is actually correct, and traditional architecture is just plain better. I certainly find it more welcoming than the m
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by VorpalWay 11d ago
It all depends on what you are doing. I do embedded with strict realtime requirements. CPU pinning would not be an option. I have also done software that should use as little resources as possible (but still be quick) to coexist with other
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by VorpalWay 14d ago
Two counterpoints: Searching for "unsafe" is a lot easier when you want to audit the code (there is even a lint you can enable to forbid all unsafe in a crate (library)). And there is a pervasive culture to avoid unsafe where poss
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by VorpalWay 14d ago
It has been going between 4G and 5G today while hiking, so if they lie it isn't all the time at least. But what do you suggest instead (on Android, a Pixel specifically)?
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by VorpalWay 14d ago
As a beginner use the editor built in on the website instead (called ID). JOSM is a great power user tool, but this article's recommendation to use it for your first edit is misguided.
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by VorpalWay 14d ago
And I think that illustrates my point well. Yes there is MISRA C++ and CERT for C when you write safety critical code. But that is a lot of extra rules to follow and remember (and have linting tools check where possible). It is basically a
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by VorpalWay 14d ago
It has been a long time since I coded C. Last I did I remember hating C strings and the standard functions for dealing with them. So easy to get buffer overflows. I'd rather have the language design be so that I dont constantly have to
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by VorpalWay 14d ago
5G seems pretty widly available here in Sweden in my experience, even in the countryside. Not that the speeds are actually better than 4G, but the indicator say 5G as I'm writing this in a tent in the middle of nowhere. :) I guess othe
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by VorpalWay 14d ago
As someone who coded C++ (15+ years) and later Rust (about 4 years now) for my dayjob: there are more than those you listed I have seen commonly. Unaligned accesses is a perrenial favourite, as is ODR violations and reliance on the undefine
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by VorpalWay 14d ago
For a static blog you dont need that. My blog made the (near bottom of) HN front page last year. I didn't notice a thing until I looked at the traffic report (using goaccess). Static site generator with the result served from a bottom
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by VorpalWay 23d ago
Interesting. Though after looking at the examples on their home page and skimming the examples it looks more limited than the imhex format. But that could just be because I don't know this library well enough.
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by VorpalWay 23d ago
The DSL (domain specific language) for defining data formats in ImHex seems really cool. I have never seen a language that mixes logic into definitions of data structures quite like that before. It wouldn't at all suit a general purpos
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by VorpalWay 24d ago
How is this undo different than Git's reflog? Genuinely curious, while I have heard of jj I haven't yet tried it (I read it couldn't handle git submodules, which would have made it dead in the water for my dayjob, that seems
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by VorpalWay 25d ago
I think the vaccum tube that it turns out to be is even cooler.
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by VorpalWay 25d ago
I found exactly the discovery fulfilling in Dwarf Fortress, Rimworld and Minecraft. Once I mastered those (well, maybe it is fairer to say "once I plateaued", there are way more skilled players than me) I found much less interest
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by VorpalWay 26d ago
Huh, I guess that works. I never considered it as a Signal replacement. It always seemed closer to an IRC (and I guess Discord and maybe Slack) replacement to me. But yeah I do believe it has end to end encryption for individual communicati
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by VorpalWay 27d ago
There are peer to peer (or otherwise decentralised, e.g. multiple servers operated by many different people) alternatives to Signal. I haven't tried any of them, nor do I know which ones have been audited. But if the worst comes to the
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by VorpalWay 27d ago
Reading your and others comment I wonder what sort of refrigerators and freezers you have. Mine are about 10 years old now, Bosch, full height and whatever the best energy class was available at the time. I'm very sound sensitive but r
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by VorpalWay 28d ago
I wouldn't mind having a standalone binary that anyone can download and just run on their Linux desktop, regardless if it is Arch, Alpine or Debian stable. With glibc that is a pain, I need to build in a container with tthe oldest glib
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by VorpalWay 28d ago
Tokio is definitely not the only reasonable choice. I use embassy[1] on microcontrollers (the Pi Pico and ESP32 in my case), where tokio can't run. [1] https://embassy.dev/
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by VorpalWay 28d ago
A problem with sending dummy messages on something like Signal, is that waking up phones unnecessarily is really bad for battery life. It also doesn't work for the voice/video call feature, since that needs to be realtime.
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by VorpalWay 29d ago
I just remembered that there is also https://github.com/sunfishcode/eyra (but I think it might be a dead project) which is close to that, it had slipped my mind. All of these are going to mean you can't link any (
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by VorpalWay 29d ago
Note that this is no-std no-alloc target, with all the limitations that leads to. You could add alloc with a custom global allocator, but I don't even know what high perf global allocator you could use that wouldn't need libc. Jem
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by VorpalWay 1mo ago
A Core One is closer to a X1C than a P2S. I'm not sure Bambu has a direct modern equivalent to that though. As for MMU/AMS, there does seem to be a larger price difference, I had not looked into that since multicolour doesn't

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