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by baobun 10mo ago
> If one has a reproducible JSON serializer Pretty significant catch if interoperability is a concern at all. Whitespace is easy enough to handle but how do dict keys get ordered? Are unquoted numbers with high precision output as-is or
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by baobun 10mo ago
> At the Electronic Frontier Foundation, we call this "privacy first": you can't solve all the internet's problems by fixing privacy, but you won't fix most of them unless we get privacy right, and so the (potent
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by baobun 10mo ago
> I don't understand how a company like OpenAI could be so reckless with user data integrity and access I don't understand how one can have such a rosy view of OpenAI at this point after all the dishonesty, subversiness and sha
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by baobun 10mo ago
Or just pay whetever's due when you return to exit. Having to schedule and reschedule sounds unnecessary to begin with.
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by baobun 10mo ago
Have you checked out uboot? https://u-boot.org/
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by baobun 10mo ago
Also, there is UEFI firmware for it. https://0ink.net/posts/2024/2024-07-01-pi-uefi-boot.html
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by baobun 10mo ago
One thing to keep in mind when reading about any "ZKP protocol" is that on its own the term has the same inherent vagueness as "end-to-end encrypted" - especially when like here there are more than two parties concerned
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by baobun 10mo ago
Great! And no plugins or scripts needed. Thank you!
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by baobun 10mo ago
Some underappreciated and forgotten tiling wms that are still viable today: - ratpoison ("tmux for X11". Ultralight, great for kiosks and similar where you barely want a WM at all) - stumpwm (ratpoison on steroids in Lisp) - Xmona
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by baobun 10mo ago
There is a new last line of TFA: > In case the sarcasm isn’t clear, it’s better to leave the warts. But it is also worthwhile to recognise that in terms of effectiveness for driving system change, signage and warnings are on the bottom o
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by baobun 10mo ago
There is no way this is not a degradation compared to a physical meter accepting cash plus whatever. My country doesn't really have parking apps yet here and paying for parking is never a friction.
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by baobun 10mo ago
This prompted me to ask the crowd about a similar use-case of editing your command line as it's already running your command https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46234678
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by baobun 10mo ago
Prompted by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46231293 - piping from stdout/stderr would be extra cool but we only really need the exit code here.
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by baobun 10mo ago
Yeah, the problem here is it requires preparation and preemptively adding that '&' to the first command. It doesn't work for the "oh, right" situations. Running all commands this way by default wouldn't mak
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Ask HN: Extendable" Shell Commands?
2 points by baobun 10mo ago|6 comments
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by baobun 10mo ago
How about that build script cloning the same git repo or wgetting the same release bundle over and over?
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by baobun 10mo ago
Heads up: The main thesis of the post is paywalled.
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by baobun 10mo ago
> it’s hard or impossible to define hash functions that map approximately equal keys to identical hash values. Why? Let’s take a look at what happens with the common epsilon comparison , for example: two numbers a, b are considered equa
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Digital House Arrest – How the EU Wants to Disempower Families(patrick-breyer.de)
9 points by baobun 10mo ago|0 comments
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by baobun 10mo ago
> decades-old, chemically degraded cassette Somehow it never occurred to me. I wonder how all the C64 games in the basement are doing...
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by baobun 10mo ago
AGPL all the things. If there's a sequence it seems sensible to start with client-side for obvious reasons. Document the relevant protocols (autogenerated from well-annotated sources can be helpful enough and reduce maintenance overhea
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Rsyslog Goes AI First – A New Chapter Begins(rsyslog.com)
2 points by baobun 10mo ago|0 comments
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by baobun 10mo ago
Hm, I've recently noticed kwin taking up what seems like way too much CPU at idle. Fedora with KDE. Happens on both X11 and Wayland with Wayland being worse and perceptibly slower.
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by baobun 10mo ago
General heuristics only get you so far and at the limit come with their own overhead compared to what you can do with a tailored solution with knowledge about your usage and data access patterns. The cases where this makes a practical diffe
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by baobun 10mo ago
75% or so of venture-backed startups fail within 5 years. OLPC results certainly aren't enough to invalidate the concept or model.
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by baobun 10mo ago
That list would be incomplete. Americans at least don't tend to "helpfully" automatically proxy their whole site through Google Translate when they detect foreign IPs.
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by baobun 10mo ago
The intro gives Ctrl+1 and Ctrl+Shift+A as examples. If you tried configuring emacs keyboad shortcuts that won't work with your terminal then this software might help to make them configurable. If you don't already have this probl
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by baobun 10mo ago
> I'm making the point that, in modern English, no other verb is available for the act of creating a poem. Make, Create, Formulate. > I am forced to tell people who ask me that the English translation of 姓 is "last name&quo
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by baobun 10mo ago
As if that's a solution. I feel we need a "Falsehoods programmers believe about language" campaign.
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by baobun 10mo ago
> I also had the same experience with the magic convention over configuration in Ruby. I'm not sure what this is a reference to? Is it actually about Rails?

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