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by cracauer 7y ago
All that work, and still I had to use right-click "open image in new tab" to see the text of a meme? Is anybody in there actually using that thing? (those in user-facing changes authority?)
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by cracauer 7y ago
I wonder how much of this doesn't actually have to do with the home, but rather office conditions: - open seating and/or highly sound-reflective surfaces - unfixable A/C and/or drafts and/or allergens - all methods
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by cracauer 7y ago
There is no specific difference between compile-time and run-time (regular) computing when it comes to testing and documenting it. As for learning something new, perl6 is a new language, this construct isn't in perl5, so they are in fo
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by cracauer 7y ago
The article reasons that you should use the syntax that makes it safest to enter and later change that table you need.
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by cracauer 7y ago
Of course if you'd use Lisp in the first place you could make a new syntax to input those things in the visually safest manner without waiting for a language revision. Compile-time computing is precisely about this, e.g. https:/
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by cracauer 7y ago
The situation follows the "mobile" (cellphone, tablet) situation where Chrome was just not providing an extension API that could be used to implement adblockers (or much else for that matter, e.g. Cookienukers). This is no surpris
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by cracauer 7y ago
I'm not sure what the status of publishing and disclosure is in Chrome right now. A few years back the location via Wifi was a feature of the binary builds only (like DRM) and wasn't in open source Chromium.
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by cracauer 7y ago
Using wifi networks around a device is Google's standard, low-power way to determine a device's location. In a cellphone it is used so that you don't have to fire up the power-hungry GPS chip. Since they built the entire infr
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by cracauer 7y ago
strings /opt/google/chrome/chrome | grep -i wifi | grep -i loca ../../services/device/geolocation/wifi_data_provider_linux.cc ../../services/device/geolocation/wifi_dat
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by cracauer 7y ago
The other large binary blob in the non-opensource builds, apart from DRM, is the wifi network detection module. It will look at what wifi networks are close to you, and Google finds out your physical location that way without your computer
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by cracauer 7y ago
Always surprised how few people realize this. Yes, on a random OS with no binary builds by Google I can have the Chromium browser. It does not have the ability to watch Netflix, though. To get that you need to run a Linux binary chrome in a
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by cracauer 7y ago
I always thought that a ring singularity, which is a rotating disk of infinite density with no size in the 3rd dimension, would be excellent for cutting bread.
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by cracauer 7y ago
The carriers and OTAs are still using QPX the same way after the Google takeover. That was actually part of the agreement to let Google buy ITA. It is still Common Lisp. Among other things you can tell by their contributions to open source
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by cracauer 7y ago
Well, most of the big airlines pay ITA software for their Lisp written QPX engine so that it searches their insane pricing data structure to display on that airline's own website.
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by cracauer 7y ago
Sending SIGINT to all processes isn't what is needed here. It needs to go to the "processes" that are currently going on. With systemd's parallel execution that can still be narrowed down in a useful way, especially is
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by cracauer 7y ago
There might be some way in which I had run a system that caused those endless slowdowns. But the point is, and that's why I think systemd is garbage, that there is nothing there that helps me debug what is going on. If the shutdown is
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by cracauer 7y ago
[nm]
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by cracauer 7y ago
[nm]
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by cracauer 7y ago
I have way too many cases of systemd startup items hanging with their timeout for no good reason. Worse, my most complicated high-uptime machine usually does not shut down in a reasonable time. Systemd says "waiting for session user cr
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by cracauer 7y ago
In my mind there is one killer feature in Lisp, and that is Compile-Time-Computing. You have a macro system that isn't some lameass additional language with severe limitations like the C preprocessor or C++ templates. You have all th
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by cracauer 7y ago
That is about the opposite of what works for me. A total absence of other signals isn't good. What I need is an "attention sponge". When attention lifts for a moment from the actual work, the "attention sponge" will
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by cracauer 7y ago
When I bought one they were just straight Sagers, not even rebranded. No customization that I could see. At the time some important features were not supported including Linux' own suspend-to-disk. Keyboard was so terrible and wifi dro
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by cracauer 7y ago
For starters, I want absolute numbers, which aren't in the web summary, but I can't download the PDF of the study.
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by cracauer 7y ago
No threads. no deal. There are also concerns about the ability to unwind the stack for non-local exits in manners that satisfy some languages' specification. Our compiler is ready to target WebAssembly, but we can't run anything u
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by cracauer 7y ago
What I want is some of those lenses and put them on my Canon. Looks like "pretty good" pieces of glass.
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by cracauer 8y ago
It's not just companies driving to more productivity. For example, those open office layout are about putting more people per square foot. No matter what they say otherwise. Nobody "communicates" in an open office layout and
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by cracauer 8y ago
Disclaimer: my own link. This is part of a series about compile-time computing. There's elements of fast run-testing turnaround in there, too.
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Safely dealing with scientific units of variables at compile time(medium.com)
1 points by cracauer 8y ago|1 comments
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by cracauer 8y ago
At the time I wasn't happy with that change. All of the BSD's did shared libraries with a.out just fine. The BSDs used GNU binutils, so the improvements were there to use for Linux. Linux' change away from a.out meant that bi
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by cracauer 8y ago
Here is more info: http://www.ai.mit.edu/courses/6.034f/psets/ps1/airtravel.pdf It's from 2003, thing got a lot worse since then. The carriers make the rule mechanisms without having mathematicians

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