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by dancek 7y ago
I'll just add that I tried it and pzstd -12 is still significantly slower than lbzip2 -9 on my machine, with approximately the same compression ratio for linux-5.0.8.tar. EDIT: no surprise, as -T0 also enables multithreading.
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by dancek 7y ago
I mostly use lbzip2 for day-to-day tasks too. But shouldn't you compare to pzstd to be fair? It's not very surprising that running 4 threads is faster than 1 thread in wall clock time. EDIT: no, I was wrong, `zstd -T0` is basicall
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by dancek 8y ago
Yes, I've been planning to learn GNU Radio. Thanks for pointing me to other interesting projects, too. I feel like I'll need to gain a better understanding of radio technology, though.
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by dancek 8y ago
Probably. The stereo separation is encoded in the signal, and I think mainstream SDR software has it working out of the box (but I don't listen to WBFM). Not decoding in stereo was probably just a simplification for the article. Then a
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by dancek 8y ago
Very nice article. Implementing something commonly known yourself with instructions tends to be enlightening. The instructions save you maybe 80% of your time, but you still have the chance to learn how everything works if you focus. It als
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by dancek 8y ago
You can get a software defined radio for around $25 (see rtl-sdr.com), allowing you to capture many kinds of radio signals (including FM radio, amateur radio etc). But I'm sure there are also dedicated FM radio usb dongles for much che
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by dancek 8y ago
Outputting an image via HDMI using an FPGA is relatively straightforward, almost as easy as VGA. I don't know about HDCP but expect it to be next to impossible. Inputting any pulse-based high-frequency signal is more difficult, be it V
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by dancek 8y ago
YMMV. I live in Finland, and I ride a bike almost every day of the year. Last winter the temperatures went below -20˚C and I still took the bike, and enjoyed it. Granted there are maybe three months a year when it takes dedication. And yes
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by dancek 8y ago
This is basically how every company theoretically does it in Finland, because of legislation. But then some people work 9 hours and report 8 because they feel pressured to perform better. Or they constantly work long days and receive balanc
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by dancek 8y ago
When I read soul destroying I was certain the punchline is that you'd later started cycling, making commutes both enjoyable and beneficial. Alas, I was wrong.
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by dancek 8y ago
I feel the same way. I hadn't heard of Liberator, though. We're using Reitit for routing both in backend and frontend and middleware for content negotiation and such. It's an awesome setup (though there were some rough edges
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by dancek 8y ago
Free software is about freedoms, but also tends to be available for free. Consider this: if I sold a piece of free software for $1000 and the buyer was free to share its source code, wouldn't they? Even if no actual user shared the cod
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by dancek 8y ago
Many comments here mention waking up during wisdom tooth extraction. I've had two surgical wisdom tooth removals under local anesthesia. General anesthesia was never suggested to me, and frankly I can't see why you'd even wan
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by dancek 8y ago
This is a great summation, and could well be one of the great quotes of software engineering.
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by dancek 8y ago
I just discovered this and haven't tried it yet. The reason why this is so much faster seems to mostly be that it uses https://github.com/romkatv/gitstatus (by the same author) as a daemon to get git status info.
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Powerlevel10k – a 10x faster fork of Powerlevel9k(reddit.com)
1 points by dancek 8y ago|2 comments
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by dancek 8y ago
To be fair, no major Christian church teaches that enjoying sex is a sin. The Roman Catholic Church does teach that contraception is sinful. No major Protestant church does.
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by dancek 8y ago
Or an UPduino which is still cheaper. I've had good experiences with one, though I'm only at the "PWM-animated LED" stage right now. Oh, and https://www.nand2tetris.org is great. You implement a simple CPU, a
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by dancek 8y ago
I really love your storytelling even if I'm not sure I believe one whit! You should try your hand at writing books/blog posts/short stories if you haven't already.
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by dancek 8y ago
I currently check fingerprints on first connection and then save them. They're available for most servers, including github and other git providers. I think I've only had to connect to one server without knowing the fingerprint in
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by dancek 8y ago
Sounds good in theory. Now, say I want to use github over ssh, how do I check if the randomart image is correct? (Getting my configs from github tends to be the first thing I do on a new machine.) The CA approach is probably good if you con
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by dancek 8y ago
Some people only check a couple of bytes in the beginning and end of the host fingerprint. I've done that. It's not ridiculous to prevent attack vectors that depend on common behavior, even if it's strictly speaking the user&
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by dancek 8y ago
This is nice, but I have no idea what to do with it. You could probably quite easily also implement choice of different equal temperament tunings. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19_equal_temperament and http:&
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by dancek 8y ago
Is that just because you don't actually like running? I used to always want to quit running ASAP, and the feeling just didn't go away whether I ran for five minutes or an hour. Fast forward some years, I'd gotten into cycling
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by dancek 8y ago
I was hoping that it's written in Rust. I wasn't disappointed either.
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by dancek 8y ago
This is a very good point, and one I hadn't considered. It's common knowledge that most people think they're better than average drivers, so we tend to compensate and believe we're no better than the statistical average
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by dancek 8y ago
Oh, oops. Too bad I can't edit anymore. Sad that the out-of-date site os ranked better on Google for "python shell".
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by dancek 8y ago
Similar story for me, but I consider the POSIX shell language a worthwhile least-common-denominator language. I avoid using bash or zsh extensions except interactively (and in a zsh plugin I maintain [0]). As I think you need to know the st
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by dancek 8y ago
I like Clojure a lot. I'm sure it would be a great language for configuring and extending an editor (I should know, I've written basically the same plugin for Vim [0] and DrRacket [1]). However, one thing I don't like is JVM
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by dancek 8y ago
I think the point was rather to know these tactics exist, work in practice and are difficult to counter. I don't want to lie in any circumstances, but I would like to detect that someone is lying to me.

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