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by foresto 2y ago
The Sovereign Tech Fund lists Fortran and PHP among its investments. https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/tech
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by foresto 2y ago
That's handy. I wonder why it displays without javascript in chromium, but fails to do so in firefox. If the author is here, could that be fixed? Edit: Restarting chromium and trying again yields the same behavior as firefox. I wonder
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by foresto 2y ago
I've been in a similar place. Here's what I found helped: 1. Hiatus from the project. A few days minimum; more likely weeks or months. Doing other things with my life clears my thoughts, recharges my motivation, and sometimes prov
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by foresto 2y ago
Is that not solvable using an IOMMU (assuming hardware that has one)?
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by foresto 2y ago
> That behavior should be totally irrelevant to code bases that are trying to handle C strings properly. "No true Scotsman..."
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by foresto 2y ago
> The point of strlcpy(3) is not to be the world's best and most efficient string copier. It's to provide a drop-in replacement to previous, memory-unsafe string copy routines It's not a drop-in replacement, though. Not
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by foresto 2y ago
I'm under the impression that UDP is what makes QUIC valuable, by keeping it compatible with the world's existing network hardware and firewall configurations. If that issue didn't exist, SCTP would surely see a lot more use.
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by foresto 2y ago
Thanks for the links. The approach described in that blog post seems like it could actually achieve crisp, native-looking text. What a welcome improvement that would be compared to the blurry, misshapen, overlapping, or poorly laid out resu
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by foresto 2y ago
Today, sure. That doesn't preclude it from maturing into something more generally useful, nor from eventually getting its own repo. I've built more than a few libraries that started out as functions and data structures within ap
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by foresto 2y ago
Looks like they're developing their own Apache-licensed GUI framework for this, called GPUI. I think of text handling as one of the trickier parts of building such a framework, so one specifically made to support a text editor would se
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by foresto 2y ago
I've always wondered why control-s was chosen for this, given the obvious conflict with XOFF (pause), which in my experience is the default almost everywhere. One would have to (a) know why it wasn't working and (b) be willing to
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by foresto 2y ago
Or `tput reset` to skip the one-second wait intended for hardware terminals.
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by foresto 2y ago
In case anyone here is not already familiar with it, gperf is a perfect hash function generator. https://www.gnu.org/software/gperf/manual/gperf.html
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by foresto 2y ago
I've seen it used for (the local equivalent of) "number" in various countries.
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FCC pushes ISPs to fix security flaws in Internet routing(arstechnica.com)
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by foresto 2y ago
To be fair, that comic was published around ten years ago. I'd say the example it used to make its point was reasonably accurate.
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by foresto 2y ago
> these features should be built into all conventional desktop terminal emulators. Lennart, is that you? ;)
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by foresto 2y ago
> Readability doesn't matter much when you have 10,000+ lines of code. You aren't going to read all that code, As someone who has read 10,000+ lines in order to track down surprising behavior in other people's code, I can
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by foresto 2y ago
I wonder if it's time for democracies to constitutionally enshrine encryption into our systems of due process (or whatever the correct legal term is). It would seem to align well with the concept of checks and balances, at least.
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by foresto 2y ago
I think the way it was conceived is orthogonal to the way it is encoded or displayed.
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by foresto 2y ago
I assumed it was because "diz" was "zip" rotated 180°. "Description In Zip" seems like it could be a backronym.
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by foresto 2y ago
What always nagged at me about the one-file-per-message approach is what happens when you accumulate many messages, perhaps by being on high-volume mailing lists, or never throwing anything away, or both. In particular: How much space is
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by foresto 2y ago
Obligatory Mitchell and Webb sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
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by foresto 2y ago
This table shows a lot of TLC models, at least some of which are still sold: https://www.johnnylucky.org/data-storage/ssd-database.html
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by foresto 2y ago
Are you trying to make me cry?
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by foresto 2y ago
It makes me sad to learn that someone's education is locked behind Discord's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
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by foresto 2y ago
> At least not without using a very clever (AI could possibly do it) rasterizer. Or something like the hinting bytecode in certain TrueType fonts? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truetype#Hinting_language
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by foresto 2y ago
> Since you are saying that you can't track down the exact service, That is not what I said.
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by foresto 2y ago
> instead of `cargo build` you'll need to use `filectl exec -u cargo build` You joke, but I already have to do this with lxc commands, and the systemd-compatible version of those commands is even longer than you imagined. See my oth
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by foresto 2y ago
> systemd has been a net positive for the linux ecosystem. You're presuming to speak for an awful lot of people there, on a topic that would be difficult to measure. > since the beginning of systemd people have moaned > it&#x2

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