_vbdg

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by _vbdg 6y ago
When will people learn that government is always to be distrusted, most of all in times of crisis?
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by _vbdg 6y ago
> the most common spelling still is café Really? The data say otherwise: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=caf%C3%A9%2Cca... Do you have another source that supports the popularity of the diacritic vari
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by _vbdg 6y ago
That strikes me as much closer to linguistic than nationalistic; there's more than one nation that speaks English. Could you clarify what about that statement was flame-y? All I did was ask that adontz make the argument rather than m
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by _vbdg 6y ago
> SILHOUETTE OF JAPAN This may sound pedantic, but Japan the island or Japan the nation? It seems to refer to the island(s). On the other hand, the "farsi symbol" is of a particular nation rather than a given set of boundarie
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by _vbdg 6y ago
> who cares, if it is not used in U.S. right? This isn't intended to sound rude, but why should an American care? Dismissing the argument that for better or worse many people hold doesn't do any good. Making it might convince
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by _vbdg 6y ago
> not having all the characters needed for English I've heard this argument a few times, and each time it's just as contrived, particularly if you stick to American English. While I'm happy to acknowledge it's not go
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by _vbdg 6y ago
> This also enables third party APIs, such as the popular NVIDIA Cuda compute API, to be hardware accelerated within a WSL environment. Dollars to donuts this is why Microsoft is implementing this. GPU acceleration is becoming a critica
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by _vbdg 6y ago
Aside from the "proprietary bad" arguments (which is enough to get traction on HN), there are a bunch of practical reasons: 1. It's faster. Mr. Devault, Sourcehut's author, runs a benchmark site that demonstrates this:
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by _vbdg 6y ago
If one needs a docker container to run a text editor, I think that says all that needs to be said about it.
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by _vbdg 6y ago
Interesting note that this guy's choice of PAKE, Cpace, was chosen about a week ago by the CFRG for use in IETF protocols. Cpace is new, but that's a big vote of confidence for it.
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by _vbdg 7y ago
Ghidra is better than IDA for almost every use case I've found. I was working on reversing a bunch of mipsel binaries; Ghidra's decompiler worked, IDA didn't. I also tried r2 with Cutter, which did a decent job and had by f
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Crafting “Crafting Interpreters”(journal.stuffwithstuff.com)
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