danudey

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An explanation of why the Windows Vista shutdown bit is in a weird new menu: https://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-shutdown-...
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Games For Windows Live but we turned off the servers so now the games for windows are dead
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Maybe if they incorporated this into their Safe Browsing service that could be useful. Otherwise I'm not sure what they're going to do about it. It's not like they can quickly push out updates to Antigravity users, so being a
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I'm not sure what your argument is here. We shouldn't be making a fuss about all these prompt injection attacks because they're just inevitable so don't worry about it? Or we should stop being surprised that this happens
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The idea is that your container image is the thing you want, and is (relatively) immutable, so you delete and create containers when you want things to change. If you need state you can do that with volume mounts, but the idea is that you d
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If anyone wants to be surprised by optimization, a great way to do it is to look at all the cases where, even though Python is slower than C, the Python interpreter written in Python is faster than the Python interpreter written in C. Also,
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I 'wrote' (adapted from the Rich project's example code) a simple concurrent file downloader in Python; run 'download <any number of URLs>' and it goes and downloads each one, assuming that the URL has what lo
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Not to mention that a lot of these performance improvements, while sane, are on the order of milliseconds of improvement. Unless you're doing one of these unoptimized approaches thousands or millions of times in a tight loop you'r
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Not to mention that trying to understand existing Perl by asking the community 'what does this do' or 'how does this work' often (in my experience) resulted in 'RTFM' or 'man perldoc' rather than some
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There are also a lot of things about Perl that prevented new developers from choosing it when other options were available. I learned Python from reading a pocket language reference that just described the syntax and standard library, becau
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A simpler way to do this, especially if you do tagging in your repositories, is to use `git describe`. For example: $ git describe --dirty v1.4.1-1-gde18fe90-dirty The format is <the most recent tag>-<the number of com
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I've seen this done in some settings as well; the 'wipe and install the system' VLAN and the 'normal behaviour' VLAN. When you want to reinstall a server you tell it to reboot and then swap the VLAN; once the instal
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I've set up PXE booting at two previous companies for very different use cases. The first was to automate server deployment; we ran bare metal servers, and even though we had managed hosting in our data centre the installation, configu
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What's scary is that OpenWRT is a project created by people who wanted a better solution than what was out there, and are therefore largely driven by a desire to create a good product. Meanwhile, corporations are driven entirely by pro
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If you assume that the only benefit of using rust is built-in valgrind, sure, but there's more to the language than preventing off-by-one errors. If people don't want to use the language then that's fine, no problem, but a lo
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> The problem with junior developers is that Rust will be incredibly frustrating to learn by perturbation Yes, this is the biggest issue with Rust that I've seen; most language will let you do something wrong and then as you learn y
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It's all correct and also pointless and irrelevant. It all boils down to "Rust doesn't fix every possible problem so why not stick with something that still has every possible problem?" In other words, they're upset
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"How do I get a list of every resource in a project" "How do I change the resource limits for CPU core count" Beyond that I've never used Gemini for any actual purpose.
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Slight correction: the LLM doesn't change the page for you, the LLM creates sort of a mini-extension (like GreaseMonkey) that changes the page for you. This means you only make one request to the LLM and it creates something to modify
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1. AI is generating a lot of buzz 2. AI could be the next technology revolution 3. If we get on the AI bandwagon now we're getting in on the ground floor 4. If we don't get on the AI bandwagon now we risk being left behind 5. Now
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Just let me choose a filter when I'm doing a search on YouTube and that's a good start. Beyond that I can just block or 'don't recommend this channel' for anything that shows up in my feed, but the fact that these p
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If creators are required to disclose that they used AI to create, modify, or manipulate content then I should be able to filter out content created with AI. Even if I'm thinking of a specific video it's getting harder to find thin
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Go look at the comments on any Phoronix article involving Rust in any way and you'll see that it's 80% rust haters making all the same arguments every Rust hater makes. You can implement the same safety features in C++ and assembl
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> We could go to Z site and say, "Hey, you could probably make your users happy if you made this change". Maybe they'd even pay us for that insight? My honest opinion: 1. No site would pay for that insight 2. Every site sh
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As a relatively novice programmer who's worked in tech for decades but not as a software developer: I take issue with the idea that you need to write considerable amounts of Rust and C++ for these statistics to be expected. In fact, de
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As an end user: at least with autotools it's easy for me to see the available configuration options with ./configure --help in a nicely readable way. cmake has -LAH but it's still... kind of awful. At least it knows how to us
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My first read is that 'storing auth data in a relational database is bad' or 'storing critical auth data in a system where only one node can write' is bad, but thinking about the possibilities a bit it could be a factor
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There are similarities, but not quite. The UK House of Lords can't block legislation, only delay it and suggest changes to bills. It's also appointed for life, meaning the lords are immune to political pressures - they don't
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The goal isn't about guaranteeing that all states have X number of votes; the house and the senate vote separately on things. For a bill to pass the house and the senate requires: 1. A majority vote by the house whose members are alloc
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An ice age is a period of expansion of glaciers and ice sheets, so winters could get worse without actually falling into an ice age. Specifically, they're saying "this could cause an ice age, with winter temperatures plummeting to

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