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by aktau 2y ago
Me too. I still cherish the black hardcover I got on my first trip to the US for $20 (must've been around 2006). This one: "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story".
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by aktau 2y ago
Related: https://opengoal.dev . Context: Naughty Dog used a custom Lisp-alike (GOAL) to build the Jak & Daxter series on PS2. They left enough debugging information in that it was possible to reverse engineer. The OpenGOAL pr
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by aktau 2y ago
> That tool’s RSS is somehow 170KB (vs zero for a self-daemonizing process). Why is the RSS relevant? I assume it doesn't need to keep on running. Also, even if it kept running, 170KB is not the end of the world. > Also, it’s inc
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by aktau 2y ago
That doesn't read like taking a dependency on systemd. Rather, Pipewire doesn't have custom code to "daemonize" by itself. Is there any reason why all individual tools should learn how to daemonize (in addition to or in
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by aktau 2y ago
This was tried by ZyX-I when the Neovim project was started. AFAIK they managed to create an alternative parser for Vimscript, but the transpiler was never finished (or productionized?), I think due to incompatibilities that are hard to a
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by aktau 2y ago
What is Vim's internal data structure nowadays? I thought it was essentially a list (array) of strings.
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by aktau 3y ago
> Unrelated, but what does "open-coded" mean? I never seem to find an obvious answer online. In my understanding, open-coded means something akin to "manually inlined". Or: written inline while an acceptable alternati
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by aktau 3y ago
These videos were fantastic, thanks for linking them. The perfect balance of a little theory with practice and examples for someone who has an immediate need to control something but has never taken a control theory class.
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by aktau 3y ago
What I found interesting when I visited Brazil was that the Atlantic Forest felt much more like the jungles of animated movies (and even live movies) that I had seen in my childhood, than the actual jungle (Amazonas area, at least around ji
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by aktau 3y ago
Indeed, this is awesome work.
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by aktau 3y ago
Firefox mobile (Android) has a reader mode (just like the desktop edition). I just tried it and it works very well for this article.
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by aktau 3y ago
Thanks a lot for the exposition. I'll take these to heart. Not sure about Minecraft yet (despite your praise) due to the open-ended nature and the possibility to get addicted, but the NES/SNES Mario games I'm sure to try (I
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by aktau 3y ago
I had no idea about this "keep the pipe open" behaviour. I thought it would spawn the binary on every print statement and thus didn't consider it in the past. But now...
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by aktau 3y ago
Arenas are available as an experiment. See (e.g.) https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/ztaxhu/docs_for_the... .
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by aktau 3y ago
Thanks for the data point, I'm curious. We've decided to give them (3, 5, 7) basically no screens except for occasional television. But I'm wondering whether it would be better to give them something creative that they could
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by aktau 4y ago
Walking the stack via frame pointers is also faster than some other methods ( https://blog.felixge.de/reducing-gos-execution-tracer-overhe... ), it appears. This benefits use cases like profilers and tracers. In big deploymen
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by aktau 4y ago
Performance increasing when setting `GOMAXPROCS=1` sounds like an (interesting) edge case for the scheduler. If you ever encounter this again, it would be great to file an upstream issue about this. Go has plenty of built in observability t
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by aktau 4y ago
Valve has earned my money this way. I wasn't on Steam for the longest time (among other reasons because I didn't own HW/OS combinations that could actually run things), but now I am. I'm playing even fairly recent games
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by aktau 4y ago
> Who cares about bit more lossy compression for an already lossy compressed file. Perhaps for those unaware: "without quality loss". I guess the people who care are those who store a lot of images in jpeg format (at least rela
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by aktau 4y ago
Anything after the Pixel 5 doesn't have unlimited Google Photos storage anymore (but perhaps you knew that and that's the reason you're doing with the series).
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by aktau 5y ago
Not to detract from your general point, but I believe that this specific situation was addressed in Go 1.18's GC pacer rework: https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/44167-... .
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by aktau 5y ago
Putin would pick another target, if he did start launching nukes. France has nuclear weapons.
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by aktau 5y ago
Thanks for the post! I read http://cureresearch4type1diabetes.blogspot.com from time to time and that author does not give such glimmering summaries of the work that Dr. Faustman is doing (and has been doing for a long while). I
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by aktau 5y ago
This was cleaned up in the Belgian variant of French: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_French . - 70 = septante (versus soixante-dix, which is 60-10) - 80 = huitante (versus quatre-vingt, which is 40-20), *EDIT*: w
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by aktau 5y ago
I don't know much about this, but upthread various people say that scalar replacement happens very rarely if at all, currently. E.g.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29324132 . Could you perhaps comment on that, si
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by aktau 5y ago
UNIX domain sockets also support an abstract namespace, not a part of the filesystem [1]. An excerpt of [2]: > The abstract namespace socket allows the creation of a socket connection which does not require a path to be created. Abstract
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by aktau 6y ago
See user `fluffything`'s comment on this same thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23895629 , describing this approach (Eytzinger layout).
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by aktau 6y ago
That just sounds like a UTF-16 encoded file, which is common on Windows AFAIK. Every second character would be a NUL byte. Perhaps micro doesn't autodetect encoding? Or you forced it to utf-8?
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by aktau 6y ago
What was it replaced with?
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by aktau 7y ago
Others have explained, but I found it funny to read this word. My native language is Dutch (flemish variety) and I would also read this word as expressing a negative emotion (fed up sounds right). "gat" = dialect/slang for as

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