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by avar 5y ago
It's not remotely the same thing. If you haven't looked at an E-Ink display try tearing a page from a magazine or newspaper and comparing that to reading the same size of font on your laptop or PC. E-Ink is practically indistingui
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by avar 5y ago
I wasn't attempting to make a value-judgement about whether something /should/ have these dependencies, but only to point out that if you think this is comparable to C-based projects you seemed to be pretty out of touch with
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by avar 5y ago
I'm as much of a fan of the potentials of this technology as anyone, but it really look like it's terrible to use as a main display even for non-multimedia applications. I.e. try setting your mouse or keyboard to have even 50-10
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by avar 5y ago
I haven't used this product, but if you look at the linked YouTube video starting at around 11 minutes you can see it going from "ghosting" that's hardly noticeable when reading an article, to really noticeable ghosting
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by avar 5y ago
> How would you fix copyright? By abolishing it. Which I don't think is that radical of an idea. Would we come up with copyright today if we didn't have it already? I don't think so. The system as a whole makes no sense as
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by avar 5y ago
A little slow? I was pretty amazed by how fast it is in that video. I haven't kept up with E-Ink technology, but I own an old Kindle and it takes it 0.5-1s to refresh, but that 13.3" display is keeping up with finger gestures when
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by avar 5y ago
> It would have caught the bug, if the objects created were actually used and not just discarded by the testsuite. They were only testing with AddressSanitizer, not running the built binaries with it? Doing so is slow to say the least, b
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by avar 5y ago
It's typical for very large C projects to have perhaps 2-5 dependencies that aren't libc, often something very basic such as zlib, curl or openssl. A rust CSV parser has 8 dependencies?
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by avar 5y ago
> With over 3-million dead in this singular siege alone, I think we can safely declare the Siege of Leningrad to be the biggest loss-of-life in a __singular__ military operation ever... [...] > Nothing else in history compares. That&
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by avar 5y ago
> In Holland it's around 100 i think and here in Spain it's free. You personally pay around that amount in "insurance", but a big part of your healthcare costs are being taken out of your general taxation. The Netherl
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by avar 5y ago
Your neighbours are "stealing" from you, even if you run with that idea. They're not having to insulate your shared walls as much as their outside facing ones.
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by avar 5y ago
You can set "upstream" to another local branch, no remote is required, it's just how it's typically used. Under the hood it's just a way of naming another reference as a divergence point. I use this extensively with
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by avar 5y ago
I understand. Is there any reason you don't (or perhaps you're not aware that you can) use the branch upstream info for this? Whenever I work on a branch called "topic" I do the equivalent of "git branch --set-upstr
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by avar 5y ago
You can "git commit --fixup <commit>", but that creates a commit whose subject is the subject line of the commit to be fixed up, so that if you run one rebase and the hashes change you can still run --autosquash and the like
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by avar 5y ago
There's always SQLite, which can also be used as a key-value store.
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by avar 5y ago
Yeah, me to. I think that was always the plan, but nobody's had the time to go back, re-visit it, and make it so. I'd say that most of the work of driving features forward in git is hunting down those various edge cases, taking th
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by avar 5y ago
GitHub (which I'm not affiliated with) does some (all?) of their server-side merging with libgit2, not git itself, although I know they're considering moving to git with the "ort" work. So perhaps it's one of the ca
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by avar 5y ago
That's correct, there may be some very obscure edge cases where it has different behavior (known merge-recursive bugs), but in the general case if you've got UX problems with rebase or merge it won't help. Unless that UX prob
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by avar 5y ago
Aside from the UX question you've got, which I haven't had time to look at (sorry). We've shipped a pure C version of "add -i" that's been on if you've enabled feature.experimental=true since v2.29.0. It l
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by avar 5y ago
I've got some patches in this release. If anyone's got question that someone who contributes to git might be able to answer I'd love to help. Are there any specific things that git does that you wish were done better? I proba
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by avar 5y ago
I worked on an existing database once that stored geographic locations and used the signed bit for namespacing. Positive IDs were home-grown, negative ones were Unique Feature Identifiers from some old GNS system import (from some ancient U
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by avar 5y ago
> It generates a nastily complex regular expression that is hopelessly wrong. > [...] > The author makes no comment on how hideously bad it is[...] I mean, it's coming up with a solution that's about as good as the averag
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by avar 5y ago
That's not really a threat model to be concerned about, if someone can define bash aliases for you you're already running their arbitrary code, so them defining bash aliases for you should be the least of your concerns.
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by avar 5y ago
You're right, for a lot of people it isn't worth it. The linked article contain way more detail than I daresay the vast majority of users of git need to know about these days. If you're a programmer who heavily uses it in you
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by avar 5y ago
> ...just like you've done here. For what it's worth I did not mean to imply a relationship between the average median life expectancy for the population as a whole and the life expediency of a person who's reached that ag
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by avar 5y ago
> What changed? It's the same number of dead people, right? Aside from general aviation concerns, that 747-400 will have young families, infants and children on board, whereas exposing everyone on that 747-400 to COVID-19 would most
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by avar 6y ago
The youth unemployment rate in Iran is ~25%, overall rate is 10%. They issue their own fiat currency, and their GDP per capita is comparable to Thailand and Botswana. So yes, they can probably afford to have a bunch of people tweak knobs in
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by avar 6y ago
GCC or anyone else's C compiler doesn't really count as far as this convention goes. GCC's flag parsing is aiming to be compatible with conventions that preceded GNU, other vendor's compilers break their own conventions
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by avar 6y ago
Larry Wall wasn't forced out of Perl development. He decided on his own to stop actively contributing to Perl 5 sometime before 2000 and to hand it off to others. The whole Perl 6 v.s. Perl 5 branding was a source of friction, but as f
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by avar 6y ago
There's going to be good reasons for why a ridiculously long train isn't worth it when it comes to cost-benefit, but these reasons just seem contrived: > radio reliably The cars are physically connected, why couldn't you r

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