akavel

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   by akavel 5y ago

   For me for one thing, although I do use Sourcegraph for searching public code (thanks for creating and maintaining it!), I find the website too slow and heavy-feeling. Not in a way that makes it impossible to use, for sure, but somehow just
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   by akavel 5y ago

   Could someone help me understand the following sentence from the article? > Controversial hackbacks, i.e., the hacking back of attacks, are rejected as a "means of cyber defense in principle." Does this mean "hackbacks&q
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   by akavel 5y ago

   Ouch, right, I borked the name of the GNU kernel - sorry and thanks!
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   by akavel 5y ago

   Nix itself is in first approximation "just a package manager", so not particularly tied to a kernel AFAIU. As to NixOS, this one's a Linux distro, so it currently mostly assumes Linux kernel AFAIK. I tried exploring plugging
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   by akavel 5y ago

   Is there some tool like this that you could recommend? I tried searching for one at one time for my project, assuming someone must have written something like that for the script command, but didn't seem to be able to find a reasonab
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   by akavel 5y ago

   (Meta: I wonder if the (2019) suffix really makes much sense here? On one hand, the site says "since 1992"; then, in theory, the front page has a "last modified (...) 2019", but this is really only about the front page&#
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   by akavel 5y ago

   > I don't understand this comment. (...) I don't see any functionality on godocs.io that is missing from pkg.go.dev. Sorry, but: • Where can I access the diagram (not just a list) of the transitive imports graph of a package?
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   by akavel 5y ago

   I don't find the parallel good. Trying to invent a better one, I thought I'd say the coronavirus situation is IMO more like a question of whether, say, some particular volcano's explosion was natural, or human-induced. As suc
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   by akavel 5y ago

   How many bytes of bytecode & any envelope does this file compile to? Together with the include'd deps vs. alone without them? How many bytes does the VM interpreter & runtime take?
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    by akavel 5y ago

    Knowing Lua, what advantages would I see if I tried using Toit instead? what disadvantages? how about eLua in particular? how about OpenResty with LuaJIT maybe? (I'm asking honestly to try to understand, including which level of "
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    by akavel 5y ago

    As to "home use", personally I'm successfully keeping my dotfiles & $HOME/bin/ scripts managed with Nix + home-manager. Becomes useful when changing jobs, and also makes it easier to share new config tricks betw
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    by akavel 5y ago

    Notably, and with a disclaimer that I myself unfortunately failed to live by ideals in this case and did buy, Onyx seem to have their own issue, which is violating GPL: https://old.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/comments&#
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    by akavel 5y ago

    > "and understand that you are only learning NixOS, it won't help you use anything else" So — for one thing — in my personal case, it helped me at one time when I was experimenting with kernel build flags. With the cavea
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    by akavel 5y ago

    <enso-fanboi mode="on" disclaimer="&employee-soon;"> Have you seen https://enso.org ? Personally, I'm strongly hoping for it to become a modern contender in such space (of making programming e
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    by akavel 5y ago

    Note: the article says children learn better, yet adults earn better. It does not say one of those is good or bad.
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    by akavel 5y ago

    Having it available via Nixpkgs could be cool! :D
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    by akavel 5y ago

    The idea of my tool is not really to help in some specific way of processing logs, but rather to make it easier to fiddle with grep and other Linux CLI filtering tools, by shortening the feedback loop vs. normal shell REPL. I'm not sur
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    by akavel 5y ago

    Do you have some tricks for how you handle filtering through logs? Or some ideas if there could be a tool that could help you or mitigate your most critical issue[s]? I found filtering through longs a major pain even for a fully sighted per
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    by akavel 5y ago

    Not 100% tested, but should hopefully work: find . -name go.mod | xargs gawk -i inplace '/^replace \(/{d=1}; (!d && !/^replace/); /^\)/{d=0}' Explanation of gawk arguments: — -i inpla
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    by akavel 5y ago

    Could someone please help me understand what a "dataframe" is? I see this term thrown around occasionally, but failed to find a definition/explanation for someone who doesn't actually already know what it is :(
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    by akavel 5y ago

    Answering somewhat weirdly, because I kinda haven't started writing (or, more precisely, publishing) yet either: I had a similar problem, but very recently I feel I got to a place where I might have cracked the motivation issue for m
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    by akavel 5y ago

    Thanks!! I need to check the tool then!
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    by akavel 5y ago

    Thanks for the reply!! So basically working notes, makes sense, and I vaguely thought about that too; although it would appear they somehow don't seem to work that well in my case for this purpose; I need to think about it. As to the &
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    by akavel 5y ago

    Thanks a lot for the reply!! FWIW, I didn't notice the change of tenses or other stuff at all, found the whole piece very engaging and interesting! (Though admittedly skimmed some details that I didn't care enough about :P) As for
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    by akavel 5y ago

    So, I have a meta question: how does one go doing writeups like this? I mean, I kinda tried once post-factum, but I feel details are already starting to get blurry at that point in my memory (esp. of all the failed paths, but also byte offs
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    by akavel 5y ago

    AFAIR, Zig has an open issue on how to pass additional context with errors, such as e.g. row & col where a syntax error happened.
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    by akavel 5y ago

    Will 2 binaries differing by timestamp hash the same? do you suggest that file hashing algorithms skip date bytes in a binary? The KISS solution is to not vary date in the binary.
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    by akavel 5y ago

    Hm, honestly, this was kinda precautiously overly-defensive statement from my side. I mean, I'm also following Luna/Enso with huge interest, but it's kinda on-and-off for me; it seemed to me to still have some rough edges in
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    by akavel 5y ago

    There's a one-way implication here, not two way, i.e.: I_want_socially_acceptable_absence => I_join_with_camera_off but there's no 100% certainty the other way round.
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    by akavel 5y ago

    Though this argument also supports the parent comment actually: notably, standard library has much higher than usual chance and assumption of being possibly used in tight loops - with no way to relax that assumption based on actual (often c