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by enriquto 2y ago
In your analogy, if you set instead (more naturally I'd say) "x11=organism" and "wayland=pathogen", then you have exactly described a vaccine! Wayland's weak start allowed the system to develop a healthy immu
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by enriquto 2y ago
The article is incredibly interesting, but the choice of colors is so low-contrast that I can only read in it "reader mode", where the animations don't work. I have resorted to "select all" where the letters stand
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by enriquto 3y ago
But why? Just for people to gron it back into usable form? Unix tools work best with line-based data. Using some "structured" monstrosity like xml or json forces all other tools to deal with this particular format, thus breaking
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by enriquto 3y ago
> Beetles are like the MVP of species (minimum viable, not most valuable). Dude... There are water beetles that live underwater, but do also fly and walk. This is not "mininum viable" in any sense of the term. Just because th
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by enriquto 3y ago
It's funny that you mention Snowden, a person who exposed a whole lot of anti-democratic stuff going on in his own country and became a widely celebrated patriotic hero for his courageous work. I guess the people guilty of anti-democr
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by enriquto 3y ago
> abusing browser tabs as bookmarks This is not really abuse, it's very natural. Tabs, bookmarks and browser history should be one and the same thing.
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by enriquto 3y ago
Ugly and cranky is quite subjective... As much as I like Mathematica the language, the user interfaces that they propose are so wonky and ugly (in my eyes) that Maxima feels like a breath of fresh air and elegance.
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by enriquto 3y ago
Hear, hear! ...after all, a program is nothing more than a configuration file for a compiler!
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by enriquto 3y ago
Alternative (the suckless way): don't require people to keep stupid 'configuration files', help them edit your program to suit their particular needs.
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by enriquto 3y ago
I cannot reproduce this with xterm(372). I build a file that needs 20 seconds to print whole, but I can stop it with ^C instantaneously anytime I try.
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by enriquto 3y ago
Very interesting! Do you have a specific test to measure this performance in different terminals?
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by enriquto 3y ago
> Which alternative IPC + capability delegation protocol do you wish linux used instead? Why "alternative"? Aren't file-based operations good enough? A program reads and writes data to files/devices, which it can o
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by enriquto 3y ago
There's nothing special in "AI". Open AI is just like all open source/free software: Publicly available complete training data, public weights, public training source code so that the weights can be replicated exactly,
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by enriquto 3y ago
Your question is ambiguous for two different reasons. First, this value is not representable as a floating-point number, so there's no way that you can even store it in a float. Second, once you have a float variable, you can print
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by enriquto 3y ago
Yes, I was talking about what is described in your resources. You can do this: // define a floating-point literal in hex and print it in decimal float x = 0x1p-8; // x = 1.0/256 printf("
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by enriquto 3y ago
> That's true for every floating point number in every programming language you have ever used, though. Alright, if "you" have only ever used python. In C, for example, we have hexadecimal floating point literals that rep
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by enriquto 3y ago
> PostScript is deep magic Why do you say that? It's a very simple and tiny language that you can learn in an afternoon. Far from the utter complexity of modern things. It's barely more complicated than a programmable calcul
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by enriquto 3y ago
> What would be the net benefit of treating it like radioactive waste versus using it as a construction material? Man, that was just a silly example to illustrate the absurdity of the situation. We are currently unearthing millions of
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by enriquto 3y ago
Is this some sort of argument from authority? I'm not accusing the author of anything. But now that you mention him, the man was working at Bell labs during the time when Ken wrote his famous essay "reflections on trusting trust&
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by enriquto 3y ago
> unless you can plant a very large number of trees which live to maturity and what, then? When plants die, their matter is decomposed by fungi and all their carbon is released back into the atmosphere (unless the dead plant matter is b
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by enriquto 3y ago
> Each entry has about 42 bits of randomness. Queries are not recorded. Randomness is probably as good as the random resource in the operating system. Hmmm. Such a statement should be backed by proof, not by trust. Until you can run t
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by enriquto 3y ago
> The thing is there is no alternative way to do this. Maybe. But this is not clear at all from the given explanation: > In order to provide the smoothest experience as possible, the extension needs to know when you change active tab
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by enriquto 3y ago
Do you know if there's language support for that? Are there obscure gcc options that make "long double" be quadruple precision floats?
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by enriquto 3y ago
> x87 is just a really weird and funky instruction set that's best left in the gutter of history hmmm, can you use the long doubles in sse or avx? They are glorious, and as far as I see from playing with godbolt, they still require
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by enriquto 3y ago
There's more than two variants that you can be a fan of. I for one find both cases that you describe blurry, and can only stand truly clean, non-rescalable bitmap fonts.
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by enriquto 3y ago
thanks for the clarification! I'm just used to looking to the images without thinking too much about the water. I've never seen "close to nadir" radar images... wouldn't the ground fold over itself?
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by enriquto 3y ago
The liquid water absorbs most of the radar wave (at least for the C band, as is the case of sentinel-1). Thus, in the images it appears natively "black". When there are a lot of waves, the surface of the water forms some spurio
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by enriquto 3y ago
it should not be the flatpack who decides its own appropriate permissions, but the owner of the OS where the flatpack runs. Even when--especially when--, the permissions profile disagrees with that requested by the developers. Whatever pe
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by enriquto 3y ago
Fascinating to see the Greg Egan participating in these experiments!
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by enriquto 3y ago
you can, from inside vim. You press "K" over a word and it opens the manpage. If you have configured vim as your manpage viewer, you can thus navigate all manpages.

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