VorpalWay

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by VorpalWay 2mo ago
While there are for sure a lot of programming jobs that don't touch anything "important", like making dime a dozen websites or apps, I think you underestimate the number of things that need some form of higher quality control
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by VorpalWay 2mo ago
It might be fine for some, but it is an accessibility issue. Just like some people can't deal long term with either light mode or dark mode (and some are fine with both).
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by VorpalWay 2mo ago
And yet, KDE Plasma is so more usable than Gnome these days, because they swung too far into removing settings. You needed to install a separate Gnome Tweak tool to even be able to change font antialiasing settings last I looked, which is p
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by VorpalWay 2mo ago
Looked through it. I'm only considering things while they owned it. For example, Github was pretty good until Microsoft made them migrate to Azure. Uptime has been bad since. Several of the games are good, but those were mostly made by
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by VorpalWay 2mo ago
The kernel is okish. But compared to Linux it is surprisingly bad at a number of things. Handling lots of tiny files in huge directory trees is much slower on Windows than Linux for example. I dont know if that is due to NTFS vs ext4/b
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by VorpalWay 2mo ago
Arguably Sweden (and possibly the other Nordic countries too) are even better places to live (or at least equally good). Well, as long as you can stand the climate and the lack of sun in the winter. We have right to roam in nature here, whi
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by VorpalWay 2mo ago
Not OP, but I have, and I'm not impressed. Perhaps it would be good if you are doing things in the training data (like churning out yet another bland website). But if you are doing things that are not well represented in publicly avail
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by VorpalWay 2mo ago
Oops I missed that indeed. Too early in the morning, my bad.
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by VorpalWay 2mo ago
Even if they did (and I dont see any evidence either way), lobsters is an entirely different site (that also requires invites, excluding the majority of users from commenting). Since the other person decided to not post it on HN I dont se
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by VorpalWay 2mo ago
That seems a bit harsh, we dont know if both posters discovered this article independently.
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by VorpalWay 2mo ago
> Rust doesn't get to override musl internals. Is malloc not a weak symbol in musl? I would expect it to be overridable like it is with glibc. Or does ripgrep only override Rust's global allocator?
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
Reading the linked bug report about executable stacks they fixed it? So they did the right thing. I'm not saying there will never be bugs (no non-trivial software is bug free), but as long as those are handled correctly that seems reas
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
Glibc is backward compatible though, they even have symbol versioning to provide multiple versions of the same symbol. So as long as you have the same or a newer version of glibc (than what was built against) you should be good to go. And
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
> Benchmarks show that per-paragraph recompilation achieves O(1) latency, constant regardless of document size, whereas Typst’s [3] incremental compilation scales linearly (O(n)). > The tradeoff is temporary inconsistency: pages the u
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
Oof, please report that as an issue (if it hasn't been done already). KDE uses https://bugs.kde.org
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
Linux usability has come a long way in recent years. I switched full time to Linux in 2006, but I can absolutely understand those who wouldn't back then. These days? Unless there is a specific piece of software that can't run on L
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
There is no reason we need a badly coded vendor control panel to install firmware upgrades though. On Linux https://fwupd.org/ is a database for vendor firmware, and you use one shared open source took to install upgrades f
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
> And then what, ever single gaming mouse/keyboard config is going to appear in the Windows UI dialog? Actually, why not? The driver could declare a list/tree of extra configurable options, and windows could generate a configur
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
Dont forget they own github too. The vast majority of open source software is on there these days. Yes there are other options: gitlab.com, some project specific gitlab instances (freedesktop for example), forejo / codeberg, and the Li
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
Outside of Embassy in embedded, tokio is the only realistic choice though, because it is likely that any third party async crate has a dependency on it already. Yes, smol, monio, glommio etc exist, but they are marginalised (and as far as I
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
Apple is also a record label (that existed before the computer company), specifically one owned by the Beatles. There were even some legal battles between them, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Comp
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
Well, they could have used a less generic and misleading name (it is not very open, as noted in the article). OpenAI only really have themselves to blame here.
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
> Much better than modern insurance! Sort of, unless you lost it to a fire or flooding, which the thieves guild presumably wouldn't cover. Also, is this really true or an urban myth? I'm not finding sources googling this, at mo
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
In Swedish "korn" is a specific species of grain (called barley in English). For grains in general we use the term "sädesslag".
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
Something like Anubis in front of the server to protect it might be an option. It sucks that we have to resort to that yes, but it seems the least bad option currently (better than the entire internet going through Cloudflare at least).
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
Even in other industries it is common that spare parts and consumables have a very high margin (while the initial purchase has a much smaller margin or in some cases is even subsidised). The most well known example is probably printer ink&#
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
That is interesting (and I recommend you flash stock openwrt instead, I did on mine). But no, the parent comment I replied to claimed Israeli / IDF connections.
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
Source? A cursory check on their website shows a Hong Kong and a US address. Some people seem to be claiming mainline China associations as well, which could be true, can't find anything on that in either direction. But Israeli, no can
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
I happily own a car with nothing fancier than a bluetooth radio. No touch screens and no Android Auto is a blessing. But from this and sibling comments it seems that CoMaps have nothing to offer me (except possibly better search).
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by VorpalWay 3mo ago
Hm, I guess there is no law. But why would so many manufacturers include this unless there is some legal reason or other pressure on them to do so?

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