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by fpoling 5y ago
I year ago I worked on media decoding code both on Mac and Windows. Documentation for media API sucked on both platforms, but it sucked in different ways. Apple quite frequently left important details and it took me few weeks to understand
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by fpoling 5y ago
Chromium still uses C++14, not even C++17, due to binary comparability with PNaCl plugins. In 2022 the support for those will be retired, then more options will be possible.
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by fpoling 5y ago
Yep, without a build farm it takes 6-7 hours to do a full Chromium build...
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by fpoling 5y ago
These days one can use an external battery over USB-C if the internal battery is not enough. And I can use it to charge all the devices plus there is no need to shutdown the laptop to change the batteries.
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by fpoling 5y ago
Free email as in the sense of email service like hotmail or gmail, not an email client.
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It is otherwise impossible for a small company to provide free email.
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by fpoling 5y ago
It is really hard to subpoena a server in Iceland. Iceland gave asylum to Robert Fischer despite huge press from US to extradite him.
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by fpoling 5y ago
The notion of existence of ideas has been discussed in philosophy since Platon and has not settled. Consider that to express an idea even a simple one like the numbers one-two-three one needs to use a language. And language has infinite num
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by fpoling 5y ago
I thought that frequency hopping made jamming RF links impractical and the main problem is jamming of GPS.
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by fpoling 5y ago
The nuclear power plant in Belarus is a political project funded mostly by Russia to increase political ties with Belarus. It cannot be profitable without "free" money from Russia.
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by fpoling 5y ago
The whole state is immune so it is not possible to handle state change locally in a sub-component. The parent component that embeds it needs to call it and place a new updated component state into a new whole state. But then the parent need
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by fpoling 5y ago
For me the appeal of Vim-type editors is that I do not need to learn new shortcuts when switching between Mac, Linux and Windows that I have to do at work periodically. This is a reason I use a Vim plugin with VS-Code with few custom keybin
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by fpoling 5y ago
US gets a lot of ammunitions and other weapons from Norway making Norway one of the leading weapons exporter in dollars-per-capita metric. So Norway in practice cannot say no to F-35 as that risks loosing those lucrative weapons contracts.
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The Putin-Era Propaganda State (2015) [pdf](sllc.umd.edu)
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NAT does not need anything more than port numbers or UDP cannot be used with it. As for QoS going beyond port number, source IP and rate of packets asks for troubles.
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by fpoling 5y ago
What is fascinating is how self-reliant Phoenicians were. Take wheat. Then periodically during the voyage stop to saw it and wait for few months to harvest. Then continue. This was very risky, as they had no idea about climate in new places
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by fpoling 5y ago
I still occasionally use quilt, http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt , as it properly works across arbitrary submodule tree. StGit does not support that as I understand.
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by fpoling 5y ago
The story alleged it were Phoenicians, not Egyptians, who sailed. And those were the best sailors at that time.
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systemd code uses it widely.
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In [1] Arthur De Vany showed rather convincingly that the split between distribution and production for movie production made things worse for the consumers. The problem is that the profit of the whole industry is dominated by very few titl
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by fpoling 5y ago
There is an important difference. The Bolivian plane was warned sufficiently in advance and had enough fuel to flight back to Russia at that point. The Ryanair flight was forced to land with a military jet leaving the pilots no choice but t
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by fpoling 5y ago
It is not that clear that Russia all that happy about the incident. A girlfriend of Roman Protasevich, who is a Russian citizen, was also detained and that already caused PR issues for Kremlin. Plus there is even comments from Russia’s Duma
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by fpoling 5y ago
The credit card companies still demand that it should be called cache discount and not credit card surcharge. Various marketing studies show that the term surcharge leaves bad impression supposedly due to priming effect.
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by fpoling 5y ago
I second that. At work we run our own email server (50 people company). I receive single spam message maybe like once in two weeks. With a Gmail home account I have that once in a month. A slightly more problematic is targeted phishing atta
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by fpoling 5y ago
There is no index checks in the current kernel C code at all. It is better to panic than violate memory safety.
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VSCode supports remote editing and running language server in a container.
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In one of his books Taleb pointed out that “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” is dangerous bullshit.
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by fpoling 5y ago
I used to like stoic writings until I realized that they rarely applied those principles to own life. Meditations is basically a description of painful experiences even when one is a rule of Ancient Rome empire. I would suggest to try to re
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by fpoling 5y ago
Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl You may also try Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung But in general there is no such book as there is no universal meaning. One has to find it oneself.
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SEG Plaza evacuation: Shaking China skyscraper sends shoppers fleeing(bbc.com)
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