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541.
by gpvos 2y ago
You can have thousands of unloaded tabs, but loaded tabs can gobble up memory and your computer may start swapping. It will usually recover from that but it can take a minute or two. If you get that often, you can open about:processes , sor
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by gpvos 3y ago
That was exactly what I expected the article to be about, actually. So there is nothing misleading. (Although I expected it to be about their website, not their ticket vending machines. But that's fine.)
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by gpvos 3y ago
Interesting, I'd never heard of awka. Note that frawk does some JITting using LLVM, so it can also be very fast; but it also doesn't support everything that gawk does.
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by gpvos 3y ago
I couldn't help the historian in me: looks like frawk gained CSV support in early 2020 with some bugfixes in July/August that year, while goawk gained it in May 2022, so my initial comment was correct.
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by gpvos 3y ago
I think the reverse would be more depressing. There will inevitably come a time when the signal will be indiscernible from the background noise.
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by gpvos 3y ago
I only found out recently that my favourite csv-munging tool, csvtool, is written in OCaml.
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by gpvos 3y ago
frawk was the first awk to add proper CSV support, but the better-known awks have added it now as well, so its utility has become more limited. Edit: Actually, for correctness' sake: goawk started earlier (2018, frawk 2019). I didn&#x2
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by gpvos 3y ago
No, it could not. I haven't seen a recreation that was as accurate in its interface, nor one with such up-to-date data.
549.
by gpvos 3y ago
I got it after 16 screenfuls, so it's still worth something.
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by gpvos 3y ago
Even when enumerating on wake there should be a way to know the actual physical port the device is plugged into. This must be very easy. If not, it is a design mistake that even a child wouldn't make.
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by gpvos 3y ago
A zero bit is not a cryptographically random bit.
552.
by gpvos 3y ago
The lengths of the sides do not correspond to 3 : 4 : 5 proportions. 2 : 3 : 4 is not a Pythagorean triangle.
553.
by gpvos 3y ago
Thanks. American logic is weird in so many ways. Publishing a price without including tax to consumers is forbidden here since it's misleading.
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by gpvos 3y ago
How so? All of Europe has sales tax, and it's not a problem. Don't the published prices include tax where you live?
555.
by gpvos 3y ago
While the idea is similar, the main difference is that Perl assigns the taint tag to input strings and requires you to do a special operation to cast it away (and also you can just print a tainted string!, and Perl does several additional
556.
by gpvos 3y ago
Not an actual 404 error page, but: for a short while, I ran the web site for an Amnesty International writing group in the Netherlands. We were assigned group number 404. The home page had a similar layout to the standard 404 error message
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by gpvos 3y ago
Nederlands Gereformeerde Kerken. We actually re-merged last year with the Gereformeerde Kerken (vrijgemaakt), which were in turn a result of the first schism I described. I find the underlying emotions and personalities (usually the most im
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by gpvos 3y ago
Thanks for the added nuance which I missed. As far as I knew, there has always been a strong association, even though not formal, between Kuyper's denomination (the Gereformeerde Kerken in Nederland (GKN)) and the university. Also iron
559.
by gpvos 3y ago
Free University is a perfectly fine translation, just not much used because of the high chance of misunderstanding. The "free" does stand for free as in freedom, just a different kind of freedom than you'd think of. The Vri
560.
by gpvos 3y ago
Because the word HOME and the ~ symbol are on that top-right key.
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by gpvos 3y ago
Drat. I would have liked one of those t-shirts.
562.
by gpvos 3y ago
Caps lock works only on letters, shift lock on everything that has a different meaning when shift is pressed, so also the numbers, symbols, function keys, etc.
563.
by gpvos 3y ago
> This presents proprietary software as offering superior assurances against backdoors In the image below that remark the author makes clear that proprietary software is often subverted.
564.
by gpvos 3y ago
It's the mouse cursors of everyone who is currently viewing the page.
565.
by gpvos 3y ago
A long time ago when I was buying speakers for my home, and the shop said I could bring my own music to test them, I chose Solitude Standing and specifically Luka to do so. It's nice to read now that I was not the only one. > I
566.
by gpvos 3y ago
No, we can't.
567.
by gpvos 3y ago
Astronomers aren't using software to determine the length of the day, but telescopes. (Well, they are using software too, but that isn't the problem.) The artificial second we use for our clocks because that's easier for some
568.
by gpvos 3y ago
The URLs are byte-for-byte the same, I thought HN would catch that and treat the new submission as an upvote to the older one, at least with such a short interval between them.
569.
by gpvos 3y ago
There are ways to inform the police, but they need to do "parallel construction" to allow information in court.
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by gpvos 3y ago
How do you know everyone is proud of it? For starters, I'm not.

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