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by chungy 4y ago
I wonder how well a zstd dictionary will work against these kinds of data sets.
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by chungy 4y ago
My fuzzy memory had me thinking it was version 6, thanks for the correction! > note that back then, it was a signed integer. Still and always is. We'd be having a 2106 problem instead of 2038 if it was unsigned 32-bit.
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by chungy 4y ago
Early versions of Unix moved the epoch quite frequently between various dates in the 1960s and 1970s. Version 6 finally "settled" it on 1970 and everyone has just gone with that ever since. It's somewhat arbitrary, but by mak
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by chungy 4y ago
Yes and no. If you run modern Linux or FreeBSD even on 32-bit hardware, it does provide time64_t to userspace. Though you will have to compile programs to use time64_t on 32-bit architectures if you so choose. Both kernels have extremely st
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by chungy 4y ago
Intel pushed the 486 up to 100 MHz via the iDX4 chip (which lost the i486 branding, but it's still what it is). Initially intended for embedded systems, it was sold directly also to consumers with the "OverDrive" brand attach
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by chungy 4y ago
switch options falling through doesn't seem like magic to me. Rather, a common practice.
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by chungy 4y ago
It is when there's a demand for toxic niceness. Not every situation requires fluffy words.
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by chungy 4y ago
Nice is overrated. The GP clearly identifies a problem and suggests a solution.
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by chungy 4y ago
It's pretty bold to pin such a specific date when the release date of Debian 12 is not yet known. Debian releases are fully supported for one year after the next release launches, and then the LTS projects keep it going for another 5~7
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by chungy 4y ago
I suspect that Debian 10 and 11 will continue getting security patches for some time. All the same, it's great progress. :)
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by chungy 4y ago
Only GBA and NDS games can run natively on 3DS hardware. Everything else is software emulation.
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by chungy 4y ago
What? Since when? I just checked with useragentstring.com and the UA reports the same version I'm actually using.
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by chungy 4y ago
It has some severe limitations if you really want to exploit what TeX allows you to do with layouting. That being said, most documents don't need to (ab)use TeX to that extent. TeXmacs is fine for probably over 99% of actual documents.
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by chungy 4y ago
Pretty sure that limit doesn't exist anymore.
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by chungy 4y ago
At least an APK can be installed without the Play Store. But yes, I believe Google's requirement is absurd.
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by chungy 4y ago
Most Linux distros don't claim to be POSIX compliant. (In fact, software on GNU/Linux in general doesn't claim to be such. Sometimes it's taken as a guideline, more often ignored entirely.)
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by chungy 4y ago
Yes. Apt has preferences and pinning. Basically the official repositories by default have higher priority than other repositories. You can change the defaults, but you'll know when it happens (because you have to do it yourself).
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by chungy 4y ago
> if you take, say, Ubuntu 1.0, then run all the intermediate upgrade steps, you'll eventually end up with an up-to-date system as well. That'd be impressive, since Ubuntu 1.0 doesn't exist (first version was 4.10).
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by chungy 4y ago
I'm flabbergasted by a digital-only edition being $82. That's a price I'd find step even for print. I paid less than that for the print+digital combination of The Art of Computer Programming Volume 4B. $82 and being forced in
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by chungy 4y ago
Eh, if I tweaked the story, it'd probably drive the point home more if the aliens did have a difficult-to-learn-from-scratch system to work with too. Our scientific communities already have the homogenized forms that his hypothetical a
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by chungy 4y ago
Considering the term originated with them, it's fair to say they get to dictate what it means.
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by chungy 4y ago
He makes the assumption that aliens wouldn't have their own seemingly-arbitrary date and time system. Honestly it's biased for a "everyone but humans are entirely logical and never deviated" viewpoint that cheap (bad) sc
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by chungy 4y ago
OpenBSD was actually a fork of NetBSD ca. 1996; NetBSD and FreeBSD in turn are basically sibling-forks from 386BSD.
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by chungy 4y ago
> My personal impression from watching The Force Awakens was the opposite Totally fair, it really is a remake of A New Hope. I think the same could be said of The Phantom Menace, for better and worse, but there is precedent in how to sta
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by chungy 4y ago
I kind of get not using the Be GUI API makes it feel "non-native", but it's still a native port of GTK and Epiphany. It's not like they've built a Linux ABI emulation layer to run it.
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by chungy 4y ago
> I think the modern pressure to have a "canon" which explains absolutely everything that goes on in the world can lead to sterile and unbelievable worlds as well if a worldbuilder gives in too much. I agree with that. Leaving
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by chungy 4y ago
Probably haven't, but I'm not usually enamored with home console ports of arcade games when I can just as easily fire up MAME. I can recognize them for what they are on the hardware they target, but nearly always the arcade origin
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by chungy 4y ago
I'll definitely have to check them all out. Thanks!
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by chungy 4y ago
It still stands out as an actually-fun game on the 2600. The 2600 is before my time. I grew up with the NES and its library. I do see 2600 nostalgia in older generations, but for me, Pitfall is pretty much the only title worth playing.
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by chungy 4y ago
Eternal Terminal pitches itself as entirely superior to Mosh, but also describes itself as using TCP (Mosh uses UDP). I'm curious how that can actually cover the use cases Mosh provides? Mosh using UDP means that as a connectionless pr

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