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Learn Plain Nix Packaging(github.com)
2 points by gurjeet 4y ago|1 comments
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by gurjeet 4y ago
Sad news :-( This is why I prefer the projects, at least the small ones, don't try to maintain a domain of their own. Sooner or later the domain will not be renewed, by mistake, loss of interest in maintaining infrastructure, or becau
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Kaprekar's Routine (Math)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by gurjeet 4y ago|0 comments
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by gurjeet 4y ago
> ... data the avg person sees is 15 minutes delayed ..., that may as well be a light year. Nit pick: you've got your units mixed up; minute is a unit of time, and light-year is a unit of distance.
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by gurjeet 4y ago
I use Nix for the advantages it provides, and use other package managers (homebrew, etc.) for things that are not available in nixpkgs.
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by gurjeet 4y ago
> Honestly, doing that may be easier and a better option than using Nix packages in MacOS. Respectfully, I disagree. I’ve been using Nix on a couple of my Macs, including on an M1, and I’ve cutdown my dependence on homebrew almost to the
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VCs Squandered Billions on Scooter Startups. Investors: They’re Worth a Pittance(news.crunchbase.com)
4 points by gurjeet 4y ago|0 comments
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AI2sql – Generate SQL from Sentences(ai2sql.io)
4 points by gurjeet 4y ago|0 comments
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by gurjeet 4y ago
The situation is much worse than I had imagined; the parent project, libfuse, is also in need of a maintainer. https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse
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by gurjeet 4y ago
I did consider that. But then a cursory look at the open issues proved that I don’t have the requisite knowledge, and resources (various platforms that it supports)
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by gurjeet 4y ago
Since this is on frontage, a gentle reminder, dear reader, sshfs is looking for maintainers, and currently does not have any. https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs
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by gurjeet 4y ago
While TOCTOU is used to describe the problem encountered by software in general, an almost identical problem in lock-free data-structures is called the ABA problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABA_problem
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Ask HN: Is it legal for a company to exclude candidates from certain US states?
4 points by gurjeet 4y ago|5 comments
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by gurjeet 4y ago
Comparison with a related language (perhaps biased, since opinion is from creator of that language). "Comparisons between CUE, Jsonnet, Dhall, OPA, etc." https://github.com/cue-lang/cue/discussions/6
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InstantGeo – Geo Location as a Script(instantgeo.info)
2 points by gurjeet 4y ago|0 comments
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by gurjeet 4y ago
Note: the log (aka write-ahead-log) in Postgres, and its ilk, enables the D(urability) of ACID. MVCC in Postgres is implemented by storing the visibility info of each row in the row-header (search: xmin, xmax). Some commercial RDBMSs do use
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by gurjeet 4y ago
I guess the mods here need to create an exception for such paths, and simply label them as 'github.com', rather than the usual scheme of showing the user/org name.
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by gurjeet 4y ago
Postgres project is always looking for contributors. The project has a very nice, detailed, well-defined documentation on how to contribute [1]. The community is very welcoming, and has a process (CommitFest[2]) in place to ensure all subm
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by gurjeet 4y ago
Involvement of Autopilot is not confirmed, yet. > … the authorities are looking into whether the automated features were involved in the crash.
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by gurjeet 4y ago
Just a datapoint: Firefox on iOS, I see the xn— variant in address bar.
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by gurjeet 4y ago
Aurora Postgres is a fork of Postgres code, with modifications that allow it to leverage AWS' Aurora storage, and a few other things (replicas, etc.). The goal is to remain 100% Postgres compatible. So the network protocol, SQL queries
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by gurjeet 4y ago
Take it easy; it's a proof that you're only human :-) This bugfix brings up 2 good points. 1. Using TLA+ is no silver bullet to writing bullet-proof code. Someone translating from a proven TLA+ spec to code (C, Java, etc.) can eas
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by gurjeet 4y ago
I noticed a bug in the example, and thought that was the bug TLA+ would be used to solve. Apparently, that's a real bug, and the rest of the doc does not address it. So I proposed a fix for it [1]. [1]: https://github.com&#x
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by gurjeet 4y ago
> ... I am not willing to make the same wrong bet I did with C++. I sunk so much time into perfecting C++ skills ... What are your top complaints about C++? What parts/patterns are wasteful, and must be avoided? I have encountered C
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by gurjeet 4y ago
I'm not sure who you're referring to as the EDB team. Please share what make you think that. The commit [1] (dug up by someone else in this discussion), references 4 people (including the committer), and only one of them seems to
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by gurjeet 4y ago
The pitfalls documented here show that it's really, really hard to write portable shell programs. You might as well not try at all. Also, I find it funny that they say > ... to prevent trouble, do not take advantage of features that
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Portable Shell Programming ... Not!(gnu.org)
7 points by gurjeet 4y ago|1 comments
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by gurjeet 4y ago
Notably, SourceHut has this feature.
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Leave the Door Open for Employees to Return to Your Organization(hbr.org)
1 points by gurjeet 4y ago|0 comments
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Scientists Eliminate Chronic Pain in Mice and Primates Using Gene Therapy(futurism.com)
3 points by gurjeet 4y ago|0 comments

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