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by amiga386 11mo ago
Perl's binary brings with it the ability to run every release of the language, from 5.8 onwards. You can mix and match Perl 5.30 code with 5.8 code with 5.20 code, whatever, just say "use v5.20.0;" at the start of each module
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by amiga386 11mo ago
I was already using Tor Browser for sites that UK ISPs are banned from letting me access. I continue to use Tor Browser for entirely innocuous sites that are collateral damage of the OSA. For example, the Interactive Fiction Archive. All
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by amiga386 11mo ago
> in some part of europe, we have national healthcare so basically people don't think they are paying their medications, like there was some magic money. Europe is a big place, buddy. Which particular part are "we" from to
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by amiga386 11mo ago
We're currently indulging a hypothetical, the idea of AI being used to either improve the quality of streamed video, or provide the same quality with a lower bitrate, so the focus is what would both ends of the codec could agree on. Th
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by amiga386 11mo ago
> And in the case of many others, it makes a very significant difference. This is very true, but we're talking about an entertainment provider's choice of codec for streaming to millions of subscribers. A security recording dev
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by amiga386 11mo ago
> how do you switch DNS over when your DNS provider is down? You list multiple nameservers. yoursite.com. 86400 IN NS ns1.yourprovider.com. yoursite.com. 86400 IN NS ns2.yourprovider.com. yoursite.com. 86400 IN NS ns1.youro
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by amiga386 11mo ago
We don't know how the C program would have coped. It could equally have ignored the extra config once it reached its maximum, which would cause new problems but not necessarily cause an outage. It could've returned an error and sa
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by amiga386 11mo ago
In the chain of events that led to Cloudflare's largest ever outage, code they'd rewritten from C to Rust was significant factor. There are, of course, other factors that meant the Rust-based problem was not mitigated. They expect
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by amiga386 11mo ago
That's really good; clearly I haven't looked at more recent versions. The magic seems to happen in your link at SROAPass, "Scalar Replacement Of Aggregates". Very cool! According to https://docs.hdoc.io/h
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by amiga386 11mo ago
I find the same too. I find gcc and clang can inline functions, but can't decide to break apart a struct used only among those inlined functions and make every struct member a local variable, and then decide that one or more of tho
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by amiga386 11mo ago
Let us see if Replicate and Cog are shut down, and it becomes an Incredible Journey : https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/post/89180616013/wha...
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by amiga386 11mo ago
Snap and AppArmour work on non-Ubuntu operating systems but it's Canonical who pay for their continued development and derive the most benefit from them. If Red Hat directly employ the main developers of Wayland and/or its most po
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by amiga386 11mo ago
Red Hat have been funding Wayland since its birth. Its main goal was not to be "more polished", but rather to ditch 30 years of backwards compatibility (which some might see as cruft), re-architect for a "modern system"
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by amiga386 11mo ago
It's more a lament. It used to be that no matter how crazy GNOME got, all GNOME-specific apps still worked in vague harmony with KDE apps, Motif apps, etc., because the common substrate was X11, and backwards-compatibility was a key co
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by amiga386 11mo ago
>But what I also dislike is cheaters in my online games and I genuinely do not have a better suggestion on what to do. You can't suggest "run online games as close-knit social groups, with social exclusion punishments for cheat
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by amiga386 11mo ago
I think, rather, they've collectively come to the conclusion that brownfield development sucks and greenfield development rules. Which is true, if you're a voluntary developer. It's so much fun to play in new developments, an
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by amiga386 11mo ago
Thanks, I've changed my comments to say Xorg. However, in that potted history, let's not forget a lot of progress and advancement that Keith Packard and the FreeDesktop.org initiative did make. Standardising on autotools/make
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by amiga386 11mo ago
Ironically, X11 supports "diverse" people better than Wayland does. https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-d...
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by amiga386 11mo ago
Thus your choices for who will maintain Xorg: * The people who made it who also want to murder it * The crazy guy, who knows enough to be useful, but dangerous * Yourself None of these choices are good, and the Xorg developers know that. Th
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by amiga386 11mo ago
The problem is: * The people who make XFree86/Xorg, GNOME and KDE are all part of the same FreeDesktop.Org club. They have a (not so) secret plan to completely ditch X11 and replace it with the thing they've been dicking about wit
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by amiga386 11mo ago
I've ignored the leaderboard for its entire existence, as the puzzles release at something like 4AM-5AM in my timezone; there's no point getting up 4 hours early, or staying awake 4 hours after bedtime, for some points on the inte
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by amiga386 11mo ago
I suspect he means the choices of putting the central directory headers at the end of the file, as well as having local file headers as you read through the file, which allows for ambiguity. Alternatively, he could mean that, for the purpo
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by amiga386 11mo ago
I only heard the Peanuts theme song as an adult. As a child in the UK, the The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show was on TV, not Peanuts , and it had the theme song Let's Have A Party With Charlie Brown and Snoopy https://ww
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by amiga386 11mo ago
- archiver format to stow multiple files in one; your actual files (in your choice of format(s)) go inside - files can be individually extracted, in any order, from the archive - thousands of implementations available, in every language and
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by amiga386 11mo ago
That's the collective choice of the authors of those packages. A go module path is literally just the canonical URL where you can download the module. The golang modules core to the language are hosted at golang.org Module authors have
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by amiga386 11mo ago
I think you're overestimating how far families married outwith their class. Given the scandal of Mrs Simpson or Ms Markle, how often do you think Barons married commoners? It's the stuff of fairy-tales.
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by amiga386 11mo ago
Indeed. You are literally likely to be in a better social class today if your ancestors were Normans conquerors rather than the Anglo-Saxon conquered. https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/60593/1/__lse.ac.uk_storage_LIBRAR.
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by amiga386 11mo ago
Code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_says_no https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computers_Don%27t_Argue https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/3/a-computer-can-never-
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by amiga386 11mo ago
> They want two adults [...] to rent separate single bedrooms Then why do they even offer twin rooms? Doorless bathrooms are not explained by saying hotels ( that offer twin rooms ) secretly want all twin room guests to pay double and
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by amiga386 11mo ago
> To save money. If they want to save money, hostels are usually half the price of hotels. Why would they even choose a hotel in the first place? Plus, my experience is that hotels will simply cancel your booking, or force you to upgra

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