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by brendyn 11mo ago
In practicing no because in the end it generally takes a human intelligence to fully understand the requirements of a particular program, sanity check everything, get the right dependency versions and fix build errors. For code library repo
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by brendyn 11mo ago
Now in grapheneosin the updates settings it allows you to apply Google's upstream security patches, but grapheneos is forbidden from releasing the source code for these until a certain time later. You can read more about it on their bl
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by brendyn 1y ago
So my friend and I were trying to learn some coding together. We had our laptops on the same wifi and I wanted us to use git without depending on GitHub, but I was completely stumped as to how to actually connect us together. I don't w
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by brendyn 1y ago
This project made me learn about and attempt to implement the SPAKE2 protocol and HKDF as an exercise. It's quite fascinating. It lets you upgrade a short password to a long key, but requires trusting a server to rate limit attempts on
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by brendyn 1y ago
I had no idea fossify was fork. Until this moment I had apps from both of them, some orange, some green, but the calendar started bugging out by opening a different date to what I clicked on. I see my phone hasn't updated it since last
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by brendyn 1y ago
A parasite leaches off it's host to the hosts harm. Maybe it's not a good analogy, but Im in china, and it's painful after paying money for a VPN to bypass censorship to find myself routinely blocked by CDNs because they deci
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by brendyn 1y ago
The article states that he previously said he was going to keep going until he passed away, it he suddenly announced it at the end of the meeting without anyone except his close family knowing.
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by brendyn 2y ago
As a casual onlooker, reading blog posts here and there, it's evident the topic of Rusts' suitability for game development is a hot topic of discussion and research. Sometimes it feels there is a sort of existential dread coming w
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by brendyn 2y ago
I heard syncthing has recently given up on developing the android app. Unfortunately the filesystem in android has become more and more restrictive so using an app to manage files globally that reside in each individual apps container is be
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by brendyn 2y ago
Manny people mistakenly recognise Bopomofo as katakana. I use bopomofo and get this reaction a lot, it just have to mention its actually bopomofo/zhuyin and then they know what it is.
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by brendyn 2y ago
I can't remember enough to say, but it certainly emphasis the interactions and feelings between different characters. The story has an initial ending, and then a continuation which focuses on therapy recovery from all the psychological
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by brendyn 4y ago
I once saw a video of a highly aerodynamic solar car. Due to the high laminar flow of the air around it bugs would just go around the car. Perhaps this also causes modern cars to splatter less bugs.
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by brendyn 5y ago
It very much doesn't work like that. I work on Guix a little, and I remember someone saying ~5% of packages were broken at any given time. there is something of an equilibrium between packages breaking due to changes and someone fixing
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by brendyn 5y ago
I heard from an Anton Petrov video it would reduce the planets average temperature by half a degree for some time, but I don't know where he got that info from.
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by brendyn 5y ago
It's great but can be very irritating when he pronounces sentences in a contrived way instead of just saying them naturally and clearly.
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by brendyn 5y ago
If we could somehow make it into a donut planet we could presumably sit in the middle of it experiencing no acceleration. Would the time dilation effects still occur then?
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by brendyn 5y ago
I also met a fellow student who was working on this too years ago. Not sure how far e got. to be honest I think he was just to reluctant to graduate and get a real job so kept finding ways to stay at uni.
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by brendyn 5y ago
I package software for guix, and I one aspect I hate is having to come up with synopses and descriptions for packages. I wonder if this could be used as a basis for generating these things automatically. since there are already tens of thou
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by brendyn 5y ago
Basically because there isn't much of a difference. IPFS is basically bittorrent that breaks compatibility to add some fancy new features in exchange for more resources usage, like RAM. bittorrent v2 also does this but more modestly as
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by brendyn 5y ago
bittorrent v2 is a bit different and more similar to IPFS: https://blog.libtorrent.org/2020/09/bittorrent-v2/
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by brendyn 5y ago
With 666 karma. Beware Evil doppelgänger Bert.
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by brendyn 5y ago
What deelowe said. Shepherd's cli tool is herd. For example you can run sudo herd status. In practice it means they are running GNU Guix
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by brendyn 5y ago
Meanwhile my sister that I convinced to use Signal is getting the fake Amazon scam messages and I don't know how to stop it. She has "Sealed sender: Allow from anyone" disabled but received it again anyway after she blocked t
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by brendyn 6y ago
I went to UTAS and they also have a random out of place Confucius statue, are you from a different University? I heard some rumour that it was donated kinda randomly, and they didn't realise how big it was going to be.
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by brendyn 6y ago
It's important to me. Could you please link me to where these nonfree bits are?
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by brendyn 6y ago
In japanese, the family name comes first so they actually line up naturally Nick Szabo Nakamoto Satoshi
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by brendyn 6y ago
I don't know about lumen, but i think in Scheme a symbol is "just" an immutable string, except that is used in a different ways for different purposes than strings which are for text. Here is Guile Scheme (not sure if this is
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by brendyn 6y ago
You're doing precisely the correct thing to learn a language the right way: Stephen Krashen is an expert on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBuQ61lSIBI He rambles on about dementia and reading ant the start but i
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by brendyn 6y ago
with that, I think if the cp fails, the rm will still be deleted. maybe 'set -euo pipefail' will fix it. Do the $1 and $2 need to be quoted too incase there are special characters?
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by brendyn 6y ago
To help ensure your work is preserved, ensure that your code is also archived on https://softwareheritage.org , and sites/documents on https:archive.org. I just submitted a save request on softwareheritage. not sure if it wi

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