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by csdvrx 3y ago
TIL. Thanks a lot for your comment. This meta analysis just opened another dimension for engaging with art. > the mere fact that a certain image or certain parts of a given image enjoyed that much of an investment to look like it does, s
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> then people decided perl was bad and moved on from that. Screw what people think. I found out I like perl. The last thing I wrote is a programmatic partition editor [1] - like how you use sfdisk to zero out the partitions, except I wan
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by csdvrx 3y ago
Relative is all that matters. A rising tide lifts all boats. Microsoft has grown faster and larger than Google from 2013 to 2013: 1000% compared to Google 400% Firefox relative market share down by 90% is a ripple effect of Google generous
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by csdvrx 3y ago
I think you perfectly summed it up. Mozilla depends on google largesse, which limits its perimeter of freedom. Imagine if Firefox included perfect ad blocking + antitracking (ex: reporting a standard canvas size, having multi account contai
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by csdvrx 3y ago
My quirk is being phoneless. I have an android phone, but unless I'm flying, it stays at home, in a drawer. It's certainly not for everyone, as apps are used for almost everything, but I've found it helps me achieve deep focu
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by csdvrx 3y ago
After having spent too much time trying to get the simple https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/ features into mainline tmux (last November https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/3753 )
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by csdvrx 3y ago
With NetBSD, I've discovered an OS that gives me joy in a way that's hard to describe: NetBSD is neat, works everywhere, and its users are friendly. It's not as well known as FreeBSD (or Linux) but yet you've got everyt
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by csdvrx 3y ago
I can't reproach to Firefox that it's refusing to bite the hand that feeds, but the last time I tried it, there were other issues: - it was prefilled with icons for facebook and twitter (bit let's say people who switch may be
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> Huh, wonder if people who aren’t familiar with the subject saw “GPT” and thought you were going off into AI gibberish land? If they don't know GPT is a type of partition table, I think their stereotypical dislike of perl is the le
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by csdvrx 3y ago
Mozilla receives money from Google, so I'd take whatever they say with a pinch of salt. Right now, the only serious alternative to Google Chrome is Edge, and if Firefox became too good or threatened Google in any way, Mozilla may see t
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Show HN: A programmatic partition editor in Perl(github.com)
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> Bummer you’d been downvoted for that. Some people have an instinctual dislike of things they've been told it's fashionable to hate. I resent that, because all programming languages are interesting in their own ways. > It s
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by csdvrx 3y ago
That's what I liked about Windows too. I had to move to Linux, but with wine I know I will able able to use some binaries forever. If I write something that I plan to reuse or need again later, I will write it in perl
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by csdvrx 3y ago
I like perl. Before, I had written a toy web server in perl (it was fun and I learned a lot), then I ported it to cosmopolitan to have it run everywhere! This year I've written a fdisk replacement in perl, to make hybrid MBR+GPT for bo
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by csdvrx 3y ago
You can have both. APE are generally faster and smaller. Fat APEs (aarch64 + x86_64) are larger, but interesting in their own way.
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by csdvrx 3y ago
I understand you mean good, but Apple is less free. WSL2 is nice, but it's more than than- it's knowing that I have the choice (to go with Lenovo, Dell, HP etc) if say I hate the keyboard layout
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> Can you elaborate a bit on “by default there’s more freedom on Windows” part? 1) You can download and install binaries without using an appstore and without going to some settings. 2) You can install offline and create a login that&#x2
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> What are you talking about? I was being ironic, as revenue for a company that size is easy. However, deciding what to use it for is hard. Growing new lines of business is even harder for old companies. So I was only half joking: given
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> See, Google, that's how it's done. Invest in an ecosystem for two decades, with many money-losing years, and you might have a shot at breaking in a highly competitive market. I don't think they have the money or the huma
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by csdvrx 3y ago
That's like how iphones mean more to Apple than MacOS Personally, as much as I loved Windows 10 (and then 11!), I saw the writing on the wall and I moved to Linux last year. I trust Microsoft a little more than Apple, as by default the
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by csdvrx 3y ago
Agreed - COLORTERM has its own problem. I prefer your approach, it looks very sound! A fork of terminfo may be needed if the description of modern terminal capabilities can't be added -- or if old and deprecated attributes repurposed f
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> because Ubicloud needs to grow its own copy-on-write features for block device snapshots, things we lack today. Just, why? CoW (or your own CoA) are ripe with performance problems. How exactly do you benefit from their use?
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> One counter-intuitive thing we found is that it's slow to save and restore caches, but the machines have good CPU, so for us it's been faster to disable cache entirely and just redo everything on each build. The link to SPDK
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by csdvrx 3y ago
I've posted my configuration here, for an 12th gen intel alder lake P, both the kernel .config and the cmdline. Check the specs or ask GPT ("on many separate on-die cache does the 12th gen intel Alder Lake P i7 1270 has?") an
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by csdvrx 3y ago
I love windows, so when I moved to Linux I tried to replicate this on my Linux box I've found a lot of drivers like to spread their interrupts all over the place, so it's not as simple as using cpu affinity (or pinning processes)
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> what's the point of setting CONFIG_HZ=1000 with it? Agreed, if you go "tickless", you want to go to the lowest value for what's still ticking: I have my own kernel configs, and I generally use HZ=100: # zcat /p
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> to improve a driver that was buggy for many years that I hacked in a way that made it work awesome but would never be accepted upstream because it violated FCC regulations Now I want to know more! Was it a misbehaving wifi? Did it vio
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by csdvrx 3y ago
Personally, I don't drink, and I've noticed sleep to be the best indicator of my coding performance but YMMV
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> It’s just collecting data for the sake of collecting data. No, sleep is one of the most important parameters for health! If in 2024 you are not collecting data on your sleep to take action (and for ex, stop overtraining, reduce drinkin
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by csdvrx 3y ago
There are several similar formats allowing to do the exact same thing with other chips: I'm most familiar with mediatek, but essentially it's always a read-only bootloader, in case the normal boot can't start. I can't im

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