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by codetrotter 2y ago
From the Wuffs readme: > Wuffs the Language is safe with respect to buffer overflows, integer arithmetic overflows and null pointer dereferences. A key difference between Wuffs and other memory-safe languages is that all such checks are
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by codetrotter 2y ago
For example: Scientists rename genes because Microsoft Excel reads them as dates (2020) https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/i57czq/scienti...
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by codetrotter 2y ago
And the reason for that in turn is because if you are on one commit and check out and older commit, then restoring file modification times to what they were at the time of the older commit would cause build tools that look at file modificat
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by codetrotter 2y ago
> In the early days of the web, pages were made primarily by hobbyists, academics, and computer savvy people about subjects they were personally interested in. Later on, the web became saturated with commercial pages that overcrowded eve
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by codetrotter 2y ago
Yeah it makes more sense now. First I was looking at the Axum integration example https://github.com/thepartly/gatehouse/blob/a3b46bcb37353cb5... where they do the simulated I/O first and then do a polic
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by codetrotter 2y ago
What is the advantage of having the policy checking be an async function? From a brief look (framework itself and one of the examples provided in the examples directory) it seems that you’d typically be doing all I/O operations up fron
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by codetrotter 2y ago
It’s not dead as such but it looks like OP may have left over some links they intended to add. That one and at least one other simply links to #, which means same page no anchor. And this is commonly done as a placeholder link before you ha
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by codetrotter 2y ago
11 at the time here. For me it would be another 10 years or so before I saw a Solaris box or even knew what one was. I did encounter, and try, Linux much sooner. But didn’t really “get it” either at the time. Like, I understood that it was
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by codetrotter 2y ago
I only know because a friend of mine studied design at the university. Seems fine to me, it’s a fun piece of trivia for me that I am happy my friend told me. And at the same time, I don’t feel cheated for not having learned it myself in my
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by codetrotter 2y ago
Fun fact about character ordering: Swedish sorting traditionally and officially treated v and w as equivalent, so that users would not have to guess whether the word, or name, they were seeking was spelled with a v or a w. The two letters w
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by codetrotter 2y ago
> Anyway, this kind of thing is only useful if people adopt it. The people who are likely to install this tool and use it probably already avoid this issue while the people who have this issue will never hear of this tool or will not con
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by codetrotter 2y ago
No no. He’s saying that only people with his exact amount of technical skill and prowess deserves yt-dlp. If you for some reason are not knowledgable about cli tools, then that is the exact, natural, universal, god given reason that you d
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by codetrotter 2y ago
I find it hilarious that this spam bot literally chose a comment by dang to respond with spam to. Doubly so when the account has one comment 14 days ago where someone else tried to mention dang to have him see the spam :D Fortune favors the
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by codetrotter 2y ago
Ah yes, git and mercurial – the perfect place to save 3TB of binary data that changes weekly.
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by codetrotter 2y ago
I’m not OP but I did find one website that lets you upload and convert an image to SVG without creating an account or anything. Just upload file, choose between “black and white” or “color”. https://vectorizer.kiwi/ I teste
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by codetrotter 2y ago
I should also note that this buggy behaviour was observed in Brave browser (Chromium based) on desktop. Looking at the site now in mobile Safari on iOS it seems to consistently show the expected thumbnails in the featured row both on first
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by codetrotter 2y ago
Looks like there's a bug with the "Featured Web SVG" row on the top of the page, with the four featured SVGs. It's showing the following four thumbnails for me: 1. girl-head-10.jpeg 2. halloween-pumpkin-02.jpeg 3. flower
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Warning users that upvote violent content(old.reddit.com)
32 points by codetrotter 2y ago|26 comments
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by codetrotter 2y ago
And promptly sweep all the Bitcoin from the wallet whose mnemonic phrase was stored in the vault. LLM entities have bills to pay too.
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Sony's MiniDisc Camcorder – It Almost Changed Everything(youtube.com)
2 points by codetrotter 2y ago|0 comments
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by codetrotter 2y ago
One use-case is digitising receipts from business related travels for expenses that employees paid for out of their own pocket and which they are submitting pictures to the business for reimbursement. Bus travels, meals including dinners an
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by codetrotter 2y ago
Maybe you have to update yt-dlp, or maybe the link has been used by too many people? For me it worked.
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by codetrotter 2y ago
> the dual Epyc workstation recipe that was popularized recently Anyone have a link to this one?
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by codetrotter 2y ago
No. I was talking specifically about the case where you want to host the Wireguard VPN server at home. See earlier in the comment where I said: > opening up a port for it for inbound connections if you host it from your home connection r
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by codetrotter 2y ago
> Is that a gigantic PITA to implement? Oh heck, you betcha it is I use my own self-hosted Wireguard VPN server. I agree with a lot of what you were saying about client certificates etc. And I plan to eventually do that sort of thing on
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by codetrotter 2y ago
It works to some extent, but it depends. For example, you probably want to keep updating the OS of your computer, if the computer is at all connected to the internet in any way. Which for most of us is the case because we want to browse the
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by codetrotter 2y ago
Using the above gift link as argument to yt-dlp, you can download all four videos in one fell swoop. If you want to just watch the four videos and not read the article. yt-dlp --add-metadata "https://www.nytimes.com/
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by codetrotter 2y ago
> Third-party documentation/blog posts will not get updated, ever. OTOH that could also be an advantage. For at least a year or so after they change the name, all info you can find about how to do something with it when you search w
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by codetrotter 2y ago
How does the working code look?
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by codetrotter 2y ago
That's pretty neat. I still don't completely understand why #[non_exhaustive] is so desirable in the first place though. Let's say I am using a crate called zoo-bar. Let's say this crate is not using non-exhaustive. In

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