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by cesarb 2y ago
> If I buy something from someone for $1 then sell it to you for $2, I gained a dollar and you own a share that's worth $2. It's easy to see that this is nonsense: I could buy a widget from someone for $1, then turn around and
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Give it about 2 years and you’ll realize you were incredibly wrong about this take. [...] but it will become undeniable in roughly 2 years time. I recall reading similar statements more than 2 years ago...
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by cesarb 2y ago
BR went the other way. Registration of raw .br domains used to be allowed for universities, but AFAIK other than grandfathered registrations it's no longer allowed (new registrations have to use .edu.br). My suspicion is that it was du
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by cesarb 2y ago
> On Linux you got signalfd AFAIK, make's jobserver protocol is much older than signalfd.
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by cesarb 2y ago
> what ?!?! NTFS has no case sensitivity no compression. As the sibling comment mentioned, NTFS does have a case-sensitive mode, for instance for the POSIX subsystem (which no longer exists, but it existed back when NTFS was new); I thin
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by cesarb 2y ago
> But there are a lot of git repos out there with commits older than git itself (the Linux kernel itself I'm sure is the most prominent example). No, the official Linux kernel repository is only as old as git itself (being one of th
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> The alien machinery hums along, producing polymers. [...] The more I look around, the more the engineering world, once you go back more than a few years, looks like subterranean New York City. A mass of strange engineering feats hummin
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by cesarb 2y ago
That would be yet another gadget (with yet another tangly wire) to add to your bag. One of the best things (and one of the worst things, if you're interested in repairability and upgradability) of a laptop is that everything (other tha
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by cesarb 2y ago
Here's another one: 4) It's offline, and works in the absence of electric power. Even if you're in a tiny village deep in the middle of the Amazon forest, you can still pay for things with cash.
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> the basic gist is in the event of a cyberwar you could brick millions of peoples routers [...] but it's an interesting thought experiment regardless. I think this is already way past "thought experiment". In the day of t
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by cesarb 2y ago
Wouldn't the overlap between “people who run OpenWRT” and “people who use EOL D-Link routers” be "people who run OpenWRT on EOL D-Link routers"? The table of supported hardware at the OpenWRT site lists several D-Link models
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by cesarb 2y ago
> At the lower end of the price spectrum, OpenWRT supported devices [...] will probably remain supported for decades to come. Not really. Each newer OpenWRT release needs slightly more storage and memory than the previous one, and these
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by cesarb 2y ago
IIRC, this linking pattern was common enough back in the Geocities era, that HTML style guides explicitly recommended avoiding it. To those who lived through these times, it's quite obvious that there are three separate links, because
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by cesarb 2y ago
> e.g. files that don't exist, database rows that don't exist, etc. [...] The workaround is defensive coding, check if the file exists first, check if the row exists? Ugh NO. Please don't. You should never "check if t
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by cesarb 2y ago
> These guys hacked into a machine connected by ethernet with an idle wifi adapter And having an idle wifi adapter like that is common nowadays. For some reason, many desktop PCs intended to stay in a single fixed place come from factory
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Comparing the class count of some of today’s Java projects (including dependencies) [...] You are forgetting one important use case: defining classes dynamically. You have to count not only every class (including inner classes) of ever
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Fixing the upstream would not have updated it on the millions of machines running it, It was a very different world back then. You couldn't even assume a dial-up connection. Nowadays, the software would have been automatically upd
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> > Thread-local is way too magical for me. > There's a perfectly cromulent register just begging to be used; [...] what magic are you afraid of here? Most of the magic is not when using the thread-local variable, but when all
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Well, the article is about npm, a package manager for node. And Maven is a package manager for Java. The main difference IMO? The usual way to do things in Maven is to always use exact versions for the dependencies. When I specify I wa
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by cesarb 2y ago
Part of this complexity comes from what IMO was a mistake on Java's design (which was AFAIK copied by C#): the base Object class does too much. It has equality comparison, string conversion, object hashing, and a per-object re-entrant
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> > My monitor does not require online account yet - I don’t see why my VR classes should either. > They are standalone devices with a consumer OS and app store, much like your PC or smartphone. My PC does not require online accoun
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Changing the name to Raku doesn't obliterate Perl 6's history as Larry Wall's successor to Perl 5. Further than that, the name change only happened after it already had at least one official release under the "Per
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> Linux doesn't support it due to requiring an FPU. I have used Linux on a 386SX which did not have any FPU. Linux had x87 floating point emulation for a long time (AFAIK, that emulation has since been removed, together with the res
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> Other than those, if the machine is on: the cpu is always doing _something_. That used to be the case back in the 1990s when running MS-DOS. Nowadays, every operating system "pauses" the CPU when nothing is going on. The trad
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Linux has made progress in this area, but I think that Windows is still better. This might be one of these cases in which Windows had to become better. On Linux, you always could recompile everything yourself enabling debug symbols,
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> I’d like to use spatial sorting more and in regular folders, but that’s very fragile and second-thought in most UIs. I've heard that the "spatial Finder" from the old Mac OS worked like that: from what I understood from
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> Why would they take hours? Thermal throttling. I have personal experience with that: once I received a laptop which was missing the four screws holding the heatsink. It took over half an hour trying to boot Windows before powering down
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Desktop is a typical place where you absolutely don't need realtime. On a desktop, you want at least soft real-time when playing any sort of multimedia (audio, video, or interactive applications like video games). Otherwise, you g
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by cesarb 2y ago
> Nuclear waste in contrast is literally just barrels/boxes of stuff. You can pick it up with a forklift and put it inside a sealed container for the next thousand years. You can't pick it up with a forklift to put it inside th
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> most of my friends are on WhatsApp, but I use iMessage to talk to my wife [...] apart from one or two friends who aren't o ln WhatsApp [...] As shown in a more visual way: https://xkcd.com/1810/

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