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by ablob 7mo ago
You might have an application for which speed is not important most of the time. Only one or two processes might require allocation-free code. For such a case, why would you burden all of the other code with the additional complexity? Calli
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by ablob 7mo ago
Common video codecs are often hardware accelerated. This should be on the CPU side quite often, as there are a lot of systems without dedicated GPUs that still play video, like Notebooks and smart phones. So in the end it's less about
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by ablob 7mo ago
Both the curl and the SQLite project have been overburdened by AI bug reports. Unless the Google engineers take great care to review each potential bug for validity the same fate might apply here. There have been a lot of news regarding ope
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by ablob 7mo ago
This is the first time I've heard about Emacs trying to look nice.
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by ablob 7mo ago
I once saw a visualization that basically partitioned decisions on a 2D plane. From that perspective, decision trees might just be a fancy word for kD-Trees partitioning the possibility space and attaching an action to the volumes. Given th
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by ablob 8mo ago
Who cares who had it first, what matters is who has it, and who doesn't...
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by ablob 8mo ago
The short answer is yes. The post literally has an example of co-routines (think C-style: possible, but ugly). The difference here is how easy it is to write. I'd wager the question is not if it can be achieved, but for which use case
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by ablob 8mo ago
The blog-poster wasn't happy with the issue being closed, so somehow I doubt that opening a new issue and referencing this one would've yielded a different result from what we got now.
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by ablob 8mo ago
So if I want to use grep in a small script, do I have to write: /nix/store/grep-hash -flags files | /nix/store/head-hash instead of: "grep -flags files | head"?
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by ablob 8mo ago
>> No it isn't, it has a fixed number of yields, which has a very different duration on various CPUs > You say this with zero data. Wouldn't the null hypothesis be that the same program behaves differently on different CP
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by ablob 8mo ago
I really wonder how "It's year X" could establish itself as an argument this popular.
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by ablob 8mo ago
I find it concerning that kilo can mean both 10^3 and 2^10 depending on context. And that the context is not if you're speaking about computery stuff, but which program you use has almost certainly lead to avoidable bugs.
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by ablob 8mo ago
For the giggles: nice idea, but "small composable programs" includes perl scripts? That's great if you're already using perl, a bit much to install if you're not. There shouldn't be any burden of portability fo
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by ablob 8mo ago
The correct quote is: "Remove invalid 'd' suffix for double literals".
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by ablob 8mo ago
For meshed networks there is a secondary ID (with a name I do not know) that is used to distinguish between APs, since your device should only talk to at most one AP at a time. It wouldn't be surprising if they used that for finding th
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by ablob 9mo ago
There's also HTML, LaTeX and Typst for documents. I don't think that there is a clear winner here.
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by ablob 9mo ago
So why not allow for enabling this behavior as a configuration option? A big fat banner for most users (i.e. by default) and the few edge cases get the status bar entry after they asked for it.
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by ablob 9mo ago
If the IP address was leaked, wouldn't it be the address of the unit doing the NAT translation instead of the standard-gateway?
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by ablob 9mo ago
What makes you think it is?
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by ablob 9mo ago
I think it can be a reasonable assumption that the government has access to the code, while it is not being open to the public. There is a difference between "visible to everyone" (i.e. open source) and "visible to selected p
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by ablob 9mo ago
Do downsides not exist if you are lucky enough to not experience them?
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by ablob 9mo ago
I think it's acceptable to leave an escape hatch for these situations instead of leaving it to easy to misunderstand nooks and crannies of the standard. You don't want to zero out the memory? Slap a "foo = uninitialized"
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by ablob 10mo ago
It's not just him. I've had issues with windows popping up on the wrong display and also their scaling. Works without issue on X11; and I don't even know where to start looking on Wayland.
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by ablob 10mo ago
It sounds like I don't quite get your point?
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by ablob 10mo ago
Forking a project when the issue is that half of the staff left the project does nothing to alleviate the staffing issue, does it?
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by ablob 10mo ago
Without trying to sound snarky: What is the fancy alternative you are suggesting to pull requests?
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by ablob 10mo ago
I feel like it's a win by default. I do like to write my own programs every now and then and recently there's been more and more graphics sprinkled into them. Being able to reuse those components and just render onto a target with
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by ablob 10mo ago
A paragraph is a feature designed to help the reader understand the writer's intentions. If it is used all the time, just like here, then it ceases to be helpful in marking breaks in trains of thought; or anything for that matter. Cons
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by ablob 10mo ago
I'd wager that the whole modus operandi for desktop environments is not made with e-ink in mind. E-ink fits in a situation where only a few updates are ever required, and completely breaks down for anything requiring higher framerates.
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by ablob 10mo ago
Thank you for the clarification. If you expect me to justify an action depending on you being innocent, then I actually do need you to prove it. I wouldn't let you sleep in my room assuming you're innocent - or in your words: beca

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