cyphar

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by cyphar 6y ago
Languages aren't mathematics, you can't losslessly translate between them. All translations are at least to some degree "an interpretation of the underlying meaning". As someone who was raised bilingual, I always struggl
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(EDIT: I didn't mean to say that mailing lists are much better in every respect than GitHub/GitLab/etc, just that they don't deserve the hate they seem to get in every discussion about tools for collaborative development
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GitHub doesn't allow you to disable pull requests, despite many project (including notable ones like Linux) asking them to add this feature.
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by cyphar 6y ago
While the whole "bend your phone in half" thing was overblown, it definitely is a major issue. The whole class of touch disease issues (where the screen has grey bars flickering and touch stops working) were caused by the same und
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by cyphar 6y ago
And in a year or two I expect that clause will be found to be unreasonable by the ACCC (Australian consumer protection body) and Nintendo will end up getting fined for it. Their website says that it uses USB-C for charging and the charging
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by cyphar 6y ago
After looking at a few dozen accounts and their PR histories, the spammers seem to be just searching for repositories that have the word "website" in their description and picking a random set of 5 to send random requests to.
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by cyphar 6y ago
To be even more pedantic, you actually want to do while read -d '' fname do echo "fname: $fname" done <<<"$(find . -type f -print0)" Because if you wanted to export a variable fr
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by cyphar 6y ago
I have been disappointed in FOSS design decisions before, but I've also been on the other side of such decisions as a maintainer -- and it's often the case that users aren't aware of all of the trade-offs that go into making
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by cyphar 6y ago
The main way you'd be interoperating with ls is through pipelines, and GNU ls doesn't do any pretty-printing of paths when used in a pipeline (besides, arguably the correct way of handling paths that may have newlines or spaces em
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So you felt the need to rant at someone, knowing that it wouldn't be productive and that they'd experienced abuse over this in the past, but did it anyway? Why do you feel that's an appropriate way to act toward another perso
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by cyphar 6y ago
As someone who actually likes the new behaviour[+] would you mind elaborating why you dislike it so much? The only case I can think of is copying filenames into a GUI or something which doesn't support escaped paths, but the previous b
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by cyphar 6y ago
He's a video game designer who announced a new programming language called "Jai" in 2014, and no compiler has yet been released for it (but he discusses new language features on his Twitch stream)[1]. [1]: https://
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The logic behind the name was that it was like a master record which all other copies (branches) were based on. To be honest I think the original terminology of "trunk" always made more sense given that we have things called &quot
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by cyphar 6y ago
Maybe, but it doesn't sound right when written in Serbian. For comparison, here is an actual Serbian proverb literally translated to English: "Bolje vrabac u ruci, nego golub na grani" means "better to have a sparrow in
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I asked my mom (native Serbian speaker) and she said she's not heard of it as a proverb, and some Googling reveals that native Serbians are confused why foreigners seem to attribute it to us[1]. I also weirdly found a lot of questions
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Based on some searches it appears to be "Budi skroman jer si stvoren od zemlje. Budi plemenit jer si stvoren od zvezda." / "Буди скроман јер си створен од земље. Буди племенит јер си створен од звезда." But note tha
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by cyphar 6y ago
Regarding carbon-14, there is so little of it that it makes no sense to even think about it (about 1 in 10^12 atoms). In addition, all biological matter (including you and the food you eat) has carbon-14 present in it -- that's the b
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by cyphar 6y ago
The term "capitalism" is not (as you appear to be implying) synonymous with "market economies". In fact they are two separate economic concepts. There have been economic systems that had free markets (feudal lords bought
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This seems like a reasonable point, until you note that Apple explicitly forbids their manufacturers from selling genuine batteries to anyone. If the issue was simply that Apple didn't want their brand to be tarnished due to low qu
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This is because the introduction of Chinese characters also brought with it the introduction of many Chinese loan words which were then adapted to the sound system of Korean (ditto for Japanese). However, words that already existed in nativ
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> The modern Korean writing system (hangul) is unrelated to Chinese. This is true, though newspapers and some other written texts make use of mixed hanja-hangul script (hanja honyong) where Chinese characters (Hanja) are interspersed wit
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by cyphar 6y ago
The word "relationship" in this context refers to any kind of relationship including a business relationship. And a quick search shows that the law in question appears to basically make any interaction (no matter how minor) with p
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People are aware of it -- Unicode has casefolding rules which apply to all Unicode characters and are supposed to solve this problem, but I believe you can run into issues when the casefolding rules end up not using language-specific charac
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> I haven't found a way of discovering whether a file system is case insensitive or case sensitive without creating a file - is it possible? You should be able to do ioctl(EXT4_IOC_GETFLAGS) on the directory and check if EXT4_CASEFO
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by cyphar 6y ago
reCAPTCHA works in a similar way, they just ask you to determine which photos in a set of 9-12 contain a particular object (2^12 at best). If you just asked people to do the Reddit classification 7 or 8 times you'd get the same chance
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As someone who grew up with metric measurements, I could easily use the exact same "practicality" arguments against the imperial system. To me, an inch is a weird measurement that is slightly longer than 2cm, a mile is a bit farth
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All professional chess games have a time limit for each player (if you've ever heard of "chess clocks" -- that's what they're used for). In "slow chess" each player has a 2-hour limit and all of the other
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by cyphar 6y ago
Go only recently started handling -EINTR correctly (retrying the operation) though I do agree that this should've only been done in the higher-level wrappers. The "os" package shouldn't be doing retries IMHO. Pre-1.14 -E
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When looking for something like this a year or so ago, I found [1] which supports both NFSv3 and v4 as well as p9. It worked alright in my experience though I eventually switched to ZFS which has built in support to auto-configure NFS share
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That is not generally true. Countries with codified constitutions have special rules on constitutional amendments (examples include Australia and Switzerland which require a public vote on constitutional amendments, and even the US requires

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