aktau

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by aktau 7y ago
I maintain my man pages in markdown format, and convert them to roff at build time. There are plenty of tools that can do that: pandoc(1), ronn(1), ...
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by aktau 7y ago
I used to develop something like this (5-6 years ago). By far the best (most stable and performant) solution was the following: - Linux OS (ease of management, installation, introspectability). - Debian (somewhat stripped down), with
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by aktau 8y ago
When I read the title, I immediately thought of Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne (1864). The flora are described as consisting of "...surrounded by a rocky coastline covered in petrified trees and giant mushrooms"
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by aktau 8y ago
I remember a discussion with Drew on HN a while ago. I held that the GitHub model was more inviting to small contributions given the overhead of figuring out how to get said small contribution integrated was paid for every new project outsi
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by aktau 8y ago
I've been trying to read the HTTP2 spec and I can't figure out whether it's allowable to return or modify the HTTP(2) status code in a trailer instead of in the header. After some re-readings, I decided it wasn't allowed
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by aktau 8y ago
May I ask which software/app you use that can do this?
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by aktau 8y ago
Very entertaining article, thanks for that. I recognized a lot of my own a-ha moments w.r.t eBPF/bcc reading all the sections (especially the kern_version thing). You seem to want to avoid either LLVM (understandable) or run-time compi
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by aktau 8y ago
This sounds great, especially the fact that v0.2 has much improved throughput over v0.1 in most cases. I must however echo some other posters' sentiments: latency is even more important than throughput, and alacritty's input laten
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by aktau 8y ago
One thing that seems suspect about this article is when he mentions that nobody else can put a chip like the neural engine in a phone. He says Google does it in the cloud. I don't think he's tried a Google Pixel (2) device before.
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by aktau 8y ago
It looks like you think that older approaches to open-source collaboration (like many of the GNU projects are using) are more or less as user-friendly as GitHub. I don't have the data to prove that they aren't, just an intuition.
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by aktau 8y ago
But also fewer contributions, I reckon. If someone wants to contribute something big, they'll jump through all the hoops. But if all one wants is to contribute another example to a man page, I'd wager they're more easily disc
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by aktau 8y ago
I wonder why you said that Unreal (I assume for the first, single-player, Unreal) was a mediocre engine. AFAIK it was competitive with Quake II and released only a couple of months later. Care to detail?
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by aktau 8y ago
I'd hope not, and that the nftables (nft) language can be implemented in top of this new infra. It is much easier to use and audit than iptables. EDIT: me, parent and grandparent should've read the article. There's already tw
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by aktau 9y ago
> Maybe that's the problem with dark matter: objects get heavier when speed increases, so since the speed is 18 orders of magnitude too large, everything is heavier than it ought to be. All because of an incorrectly named function.
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by aktau 9y ago
Now I'm curious. How is \r\n more right than \n or \r? In which situations? Advantages? Disadvantages?
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by aktau 9y ago
I remember playing GC1 on a 300Mhz celeron with everything turned down. Needless to say, anything but the easiest single players missions were murder. It ran like a dream on an AMD Athlon 700 with an ATI Radeon 9000 though, when I finally s
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by aktau 9y ago
This is fantastic. Thanks Massive/Ubisoft. I never played World in Conflict much (though I do have it), but I was a big fan of Ground Control (arguably the pre-predecessor of World in Conflict). It was basically my first online game. T
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by aktau 9y ago
Yes, yes and yes. We had this issue on the Neovim project a while ago [1]. This caused us to switch workflows [2] (although I would have preferred the --exec approach that you mentioned). Also see comment [3] by TheCorey mentioning you can
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by aktau 9y ago
So does vim, by the way.
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by aktau 9y ago
Just an odd note, I agree with a lot of the comments on this thread, but I thought Drive was a fantastic movie. I saw it in the cinema and remember my heart was rushing from all the emotion after seeing it. I could hear the soundtrack in my
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by aktau 9y ago
Looking at Algo ( https://blog.trailofbits.com/2016/12/12/meet-algo-the-vpn-th... ), it seems like it provides an easy way to setup a (secure) VPN on a piece of hardware you own or one of the supported public c
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by aktau 9y ago
Fantastic comment, this cleared up one or two headscratchers I encountered while patterning a Lisp I was writing in Lua with LPeg (I had just encountered LPeg and wanted to do something fun with it) on Peter Norvig's Lis.py. It didn&#x
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by aktau 9y ago
TIL about pup(1) [1], what a fantastic tool to grab some data from an HTML page. Written in Go too, so easy to deploy. That one's going in my toolchest. [1]: https://github.com/ericchiang/pup
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by aktau 10y ago
Cool. Is it public? What data structure do you use for the modifications?
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by aktau 10y ago
Where was that, if I may ask?
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by aktau 10y ago
Scrolling randomly through the document my eyes almost popped when I saw [Level 3, Chapter 16: Performance]: A pointer to a collection of objects of unknown number. These functions should use the VLA notation: void func(size_t
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by aktau 10y ago
This is basically the reason I visit HN at least once every day. What a fantastic article. Like the author, I've always had a fascination with ND games and especially the Jak & Daxter series (a fascination which only augmented when
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by aktau 10y ago
Interesting, I assume you're referring to some extension of eBPF that happened in the 4.9 pulls. AFAIK eBPF already is pretty functional in 4.8. What got added that allows full dynamic tracing? (And what is full dynamic tracing?). EDIT
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by aktau 10y ago
Have you reported it to the Neovim devs? It stands a better chance of being included there (IMHO) and from there it's possible that it trickles up (like the async features in Vim 8).
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by aktau 10y ago
I often use a script I hacked together called memo [1] when exploring the commandline. Today I was running a pipeline like this: $ memo expensive-with-lots-of-output | memo -s expensive | less I noticed that lz4 (the default (de)comp

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