angrygoat

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Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet – here’s why (2017)(theconversation.com)
12 points by angrygoat 5y ago|4 comments
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WASICaml(github.com)
1 points by angrygoat 5y ago|0 comments
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by angrygoat 5y ago
It has also taken a whole subfield, GIS, which was seen as difficult, expensive, and specialised, and made it possible to easily include geospatial functions in all sorts of projects.
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by angrygoat 5y ago
Yes, exactly. Multics actually tried, here's a memo from 1974 discussing the issue: https://multicians.org/mtbs/mtb696.html Paged shared libraries, signalling by ramping up and down CPU usage, there are an enormou
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Guido van Rossum aiming to make CPython 2x faster in 3.11(theregister.com)
27 points by angrygoat 5y ago|6 comments
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Reverse Engineering the Covid Vaccine Source Code(youtube.com)
1 points by angrygoat 6y ago|0 comments
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by angrygoat 6y ago
"Firefox: ... However, it never actually uses the cache to fetch the entries. As a result, Firefox actually issues requests to re-fetch favicons that are already present in the cache. We have reported this bug to the Mozilla team, who
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by angrygoat 6y ago
> and it's an increasingly difficult case to make for a home user, as all of the alternatives are pretty good. Yeah, this. I've found myself drifting over to OneDrive for personal use; it's pretty good at least on macOS, a
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by angrygoat 6y ago
A snippet of a quote from Pirate Praveen in the article. > All the current trends are making it easy for developers to ship code directly to users. Which encourages more isolation instead of collaboration between projects. This is where
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Weird radio beam probably isn’t aliens but it’s the best candidate yet(newscientist.com)
2 points by angrygoat 6y ago|0 comments
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by angrygoat 6y ago
The battery impact of having Docker running with a few containers seems greatly decreased on Apple Silicon. I used to be reluctant on my Intel MBP to use Docker if I was out and about - working in a cafe between meetings for example - becau
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by angrygoat 6y ago
This reminds me of graphing calculators in the late 90s when I was at school. I initially had a HP, but it took what felt like 500ms to respond when I pressed a key. I switched to a TI-83 and it was chalk and cheese - instant response; you
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Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz(phiresky.github.io)
684 points by angrygoat 6y ago|139 comments
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Scented candles: An unexpected victim of the Covid-19 pandemic(twitter.com)
2 points by angrygoat 6y ago|0 comments
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Mac-Optimized TensorFlow and TensorFlow Addons(github.com)
1 points by angrygoat 6y ago|0 comments
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by angrygoat 6y ago
I guess the flip side is that, hopefully, the Docker ecosystem will start getting a lot better at multi-arch, at least for x86-64 and ARM. I just ordered an M1 MBP and I'll be quite happy to start thwacking bugs in images and upstreami
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NASA scientists secure samples from the asteroid Bennu in spacecraft OSIRIS-REx(abc.net.au)
2 points by angrygoat 6y ago|0 comments
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by angrygoat 6y ago
That's a funny sketch, but there is literally a standardised minimal set of English just to deal with this potential problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_English
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by angrygoat 6y ago
I used to work with a fairly large HPC environment which had a large number of NFS attached disks. One of the issues we ran into was unlink() on ext4; it could take quite a long time for large (TB..) files on busy servers. NFS would eventua
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Why PostgreSQL 13 is a Lucky Release(info.crunchydata.com)
3 points by angrygoat 6y ago|0 comments
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by angrygoat 6y ago
Video of the demonstration FPS here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDn8ymyXPcI
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by angrygoat 6y ago
I've got IPv6 from my ISP - I gave my pi a static v6 IP, set up cloudflare and told it that v6 IP, and cloudflare handles making it available to the v4 internet. Has worked pretty well so far, just for tinkering stuff, nothing 'pr
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by angrygoat 6y ago
Ah, thanks – it sounds like it's better than when I was bitten by this (three or four years ago.)
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by angrygoat 6y ago
The biggest downside with Google's offering (I don't know about Zoho) is that there is no way to easily export all of your documents to an array of bytes that can be saved in another system – also known as a file. Seriously – if y
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by angrygoat 6y ago
Someone once handed me one of these when I asked for an extension cord, and I didn't notice. I plugged one end of it in, reached around for the other, and copped 240V AC. Luckily the house had an RCD (mandatory here in Australia), so I
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How to Easily Configure WireGuard(stavros.io)
4 points by angrygoat 6y ago|0 comments
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by angrygoat 6y ago
Commit two hours ago: "Implement rate limit" :-)
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by angrygoat 6y ago
Excellent that there is accessibility support, but at what range can people pick my calls up – especially with a directional antenna?
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by angrygoat 6y ago
Interesting point about the x86-64 patents expiring and the possibility of third parties making chips for that instruction set. Is it just so big and clunky that the energy is with ARM / RISC-V?
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by angrygoat 6y ago
True, but there's not much point mining for crypto if the WASM module's gateway to the DOM/JS/... doesn't let you export the result.

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