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3y ago
During these Twenties we're gonna have trusts, mobs and monopolies but with Big Data™
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3y ago
To me, this looks like recipe for disaster navigating in darknets like Tor.
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3y ago
Sad to see this just a month and a half from this post: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/08/26/cve-2020-19909-is-eve... Is the CVE system unreasonably alarmistic or is C unpredictable with flaws?
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foul
3y ago
I'm very interested in your knowledge of the eink market, until today I thought it was some kind of cartel.
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3y ago
I avoid them because of their price tag
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3y ago
With offline material! If you can afford to take with you some hundreds GB of data and a laptop you're set. For example, let's say you want to learn Erlang: install the VM, keep an offline cache for dependencies (with their respec
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3y ago
The real meat with those fine folks is reachable via gopher.
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3y ago
The core is rotting probably, but there's a lot of other software than the compiler and OS core facilities under GNU which is pretty much thriving, so it's hard to judge and do something about getting back to the drawing board. Gi
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3y ago
And its wonky spinoff bitreich
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3y ago
It's nice to have, but always pen a .PHONY `clean' target to clarify what to kill before trying again after a big failure.
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3y ago
Haha, the alternative the author proposes looks like either Mithril or jQuery-over-JSON. Those patterns (done like that, not jQuery) have a very concrete problem of failing 90% of the rendering in case of errors ("Don't have error
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3y ago
> When I looked at jq source code in 2013, I noticed it used flex and possibly yacc/bison. No idea if it still does. It has bison and flex files in the source code currently. > jq uses flex in the creation of a language interpret
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3y ago
It's affordable but some displays cost as much as waveshare displays, and waveshare displays are new, not refurbished/repurposed.
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3y ago
If it's GPT4, it would fool me. It IS bland in tone and quality, but to me it looks like human-generated for voicing over some clickbait Youtube video.
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3y ago
I'm on Telegram all day and I use that to remind me of things, thank you.
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3y ago
I was thinking about switching to Ian Jackson's wm of choice, vtwm [1], but the fact that fvwm has even that it's incredible. FVWM is truly the living bible of window management. [1] vtwm.org
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3y ago
What the hell, now rename the website as GitTok lmao
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3y ago
"Cordon blur", appreciated the wordplay
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3y ago
Sometimes I have the arrogance to have an expectation of what could I read there on the article, so I read the comment section on HN first to find unexpected insight or a POV I wouldn't find boring, for better or worse.
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3y ago
The blogpost cited by Chris angered me so much! Author at first glance appears as just a user and developer on Linux, in fact they are a full blown Fedora-GNOME-Wayland follower and what I read was a Fedora advertising piece. Since the ince
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3y ago
Quality is an opinion. Big teams are oftentimes there to improve flawlessness and appeal.
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3y ago
Simplicity is a word with a lot of meanings, in OP I'm witnessing a million poor souls trading low time-to-market, immediateness for users, for maintenance over the years on a few thousands moving parts.
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3y ago
Do you prefer "Money never existed without levy", then?
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3y ago
mutool poster -x 2 -y 2 input.pdf out%d.pdf
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3y ago
Isn't htmx intercooler.js without jquery, which is (intercooler) a 10 years old library been used extensively in a lot of sites?
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3y ago
>Many more people used MS-DOS/Windows during that time. Most of them suffer for a decade, then (if they stay under Windows) they mostly find Python or Autohotkey.
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3y ago
>I find this gatekeeping at odds with RMS's insistence that all software should be open source. What is the purpose of open source, if you can't do anything with the source code? Asking to/paying whomever you want and not
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3y ago
The vibe is "You can explore further, I will not"
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3y ago
Security measures like Cloudflare anti-DDOS reverse proxy rely precisely on widespread TLS, can deny access to any client not performing sanctioned TLS handshake (like curl, scrapers, or even old browsers which by chance can do TLS 1.2). h
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3y ago
>Also, AI has existed for 50+ years and only in the last decade it has found actual utility. Is your point like this because you don't know what you're talking about or are you conflating AGI research with AI as a whole?
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