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by homebrewer 8mo ago
I've also always used em-dashes, it's not a very reliable indicator. That style is a dead giveaway, though. Some of its comments seem to be written by a human, but several definitely aren't. I've been spending less and l
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by homebrewer 8mo ago
The fact of this obvious LLM slop being at the top of this discussion is incredibly insidious . The "facts" it mentions are made up. Has this vapid style finally become so normalized that nobody is seeing it anymore?
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by homebrewer 8mo ago
Kitty is the best one. It has several features which have proven so useful I wasn't able to stay on anything else for more than a couple of hours (including the one this topic is about). Ctrl+Shift+G wraps the output of the previous co
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by homebrewer 8mo ago
Have you tried kitty with more aggressive settings? It feels very responsive out of the box, but the defaults are balanced for sane energy use on portable machines. repaint_delay 5 input_delay 1 sync_to_monitor no
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by homebrewer 8mo ago
If you spend any amount of time on remote machines with unreliable connections, local tmux is insta-reject because tmux inside tmux is very inconvenient. As with GP, it's also why I don't consider terminal emulators without tabs a
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by homebrewer 8mo ago
I re-registered an account last year to the same email that was used previously. That account was deleted in 2023. Although they used to request your phone number back in the day and do not do so anymore, so email retention policies may als
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by homebrewer 8mo ago
Depends on where you live. I haven't seen one for less than $1000, and that's for a five-year old model soon going out of support. Seems like a waste of money.
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by homebrewer 8mo ago
This should work? curl --dump-header /dev/fd/xxx https://google.com or mkfifo headers.out curl --dump-header headers.out https://google.com unless I'm misunderstanding you.
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by homebrewer 8mo ago
It's a waste of time unless you're specifically targeting and testing mac, all of the BSDs, various descendants of Solaris, and other flavors of Unix. I wrote enough "portable shell" to run into so many quirks and slig
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by homebrewer 8mo ago
Enable "showdead" in your profile. This cancer gets kicked off the site once it receives enough flags or mod reports, and its comments get hidden.
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by homebrewer 8mo ago
This is how you get precious takes like this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45322362 > First impression: I need to dive into this hackernews reply mockup thing thoroughly without any fluff or self-promotion. M
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by homebrewer 8mo ago
If you are suspicious, look at comment history. It's usually fairly obvious because all comments made by LLM spambots look the same, have very similar structure and length. Skim ten of them and it becomes pretty clear if the account is
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by homebrewer 8mo ago
These days, feature-wise, it's probably somewhere in the middle. It had support for things like window functions long before they became available in MySQL and friends. What it gives you over both is single-file databases which are eas
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by homebrewer 8mo ago
I'd also like to draw attention to the parent project Firebird. For some reason (probably its ties to Borland/Delphi?) it never became widely popular, even though it combines SQLite's ease of use with a proper fully featured
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by homebrewer 8mo ago
You've been able to setup separate firewalls, network interfaces, IP addresses, etc. for probably 20 years using network namespaces. How do you think container networking is implemented? But you can also use it through other tools; for
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by homebrewer 8mo ago
I take it you haven't had the pleasure of working with your average ("dark matter" as they're called here) developers. I wouldn't call myself an "advocate" of squashes, but it's often the only practic
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by homebrewer 8mo ago
Coccinelle for C, used by Linux kernel devs for decades, here's an article from 2009: https://lwn.net/Articles/315686 Also IDE tooling for C#, Java, and many other languages; JetBrains' IDEs can do massive re
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by homebrewer 8mo ago
Scary to see how many people replied to LLM slop without realising it.
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by homebrewer 8mo ago
I used to do a bit of mapping back then (nothing that survived to this day, thankfully); as I recall, practically nobody used official map compilers. As it often happens, the community wrote replacements that were much faster for debug &quo
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by homebrewer 8mo ago
Even simple Half-Life 1 mods built on textures and models from Half-Life 2 look much closer to 2 than one would expect. For example this mod, but not only: https://moddb.com/mods/half-life-dark-future You won't co
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by homebrewer 9mo ago
Don't; I'm pretty old myself, and I've only a vague idea of what gopher is because it was never used in this part of the world, and internet access also came pretty late. Maybe GP is in a similar position.
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by homebrewer 9mo ago
Looking at what they did to commercial software that used to have excellent, high density UIs, maybe they should stay where they are.
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by homebrewer 9mo ago
Did you read the link? Additional disk swap is optional, and if for some reason you would still like to have one, it's easy to disable writeback, using just the RAM. And even if one enables zswap and configures nothing else, compressin
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by homebrewer 9mo ago
zram has been "obsolete" for years, I don't know why people still reach for it. Linux supports proper memory compression in the form of zswap https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zswap
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by homebrewer 9mo ago
I presume you mean the Oracle cloud?
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by homebrewer 9mo ago
You don't have backups if you only have one "backup". Look up sysadmin's 3-2-1.
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by homebrewer 9mo ago
No, the right way to do this on Linux and FreeBSD is to use zfs with zfs send/receive. Creating snapshots and sending them is efficient enough to use it as the underlying storage for moderately loaded databases and VMs. They are atomic
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by homebrewer 9mo ago
I don't ever edit English wikipedia because my English is not nearly up to the standard, and suggestions for improvement (worthwhile IMO) are usually ignored. Grok at least won't ignore you. (I tend to post suggestions to unpopula
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by homebrewer 9mo ago
You'll like fontconfig then, which has both --force and --really-force https://man.archlinux.org/man/fc-cache.1.en
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by homebrewer 9mo ago
That undo program is called nilfs2, which unfortunately never became popular. I'll simply quote the kernel docs: > NILFS2 is a log-structured file system (LFS) supporting continuous snapshotting. In addition to versioning capability

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