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by idoubtit 4mo ago
Couldn't LE have a branch in Europe or anywhere outside the USA and its minions? Because they're betraying their own goals, as stated in their About page: “It is a service run for the public’s benefit. [...] Anyone who owns a doma
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by idoubtit 4mo ago
The problem with this article is that the benchmark method they use is flawed. The documentation of zshbench explains why: https://github.com/romkatv/zsh-bench Even with a low grade laptop, my zsh config grants me a su
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by idoubtit 4mo ago
Not too bad? A hidden procedure with ten clicks, which the user has to repeat for each web browser. And it may break at any time if the browser changes some details. Or if KDE changes. And it's specific to KDE, with no alternatives in
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by idoubtit 4mo ago
No, more like: git rebase -i # squash all the commits (e.g. in vim with ctrl-v) git reset HEAD^ git add -p # interactively pickup the RED hunks git ci -m RED The main difference to jj is that the RED commit is c
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by idoubtit 5mo ago
There's one problem with arrays that I haven't seen mentioned here or by the OP: when inserting a key-value, the type of the key may change. For instance ["4" => "four"] === [4 => "Four"] This c
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by idoubtit 5mo ago
You can do that. Of course, PHP's native types are quite limited, but a phpdoc syntax should work with static analysis tools. For instance: /** @psalm-type MyobjType = object{mystring: string} */ /** * @p
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by idoubtit 5mo ago
What is the open standard? As far as I know, the ISO standard for zip only specifies two compression methods: "store" (no compression) and "deflate". If I follow that, when I create a zip file, I know it's not perfo
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by idoubtit 5mo ago
I had no heard of ECT, but I'm not impressed. I've just benchmarked it against two others PNG optimizers, and here are the file sizes for default and max levels: 1985457 oxipng-o6.png 2030036 oxipng-o2.png 2125459 ec
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by idoubtit 5mo ago
Not the GP, but I also have mixed feelings about Standard Ebooks. They modernise texts for American readers. This means changing the punctuation, merging some words, altering the syntax, etc. When I read an old novel, written two centuries
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by idoubtit 5mo ago
As pointed in your link, NetBSD achieved this with some help from Debian. If I understand correctly, it's not that NetBSD tried harder, it's that their problem was easier: fewer packages which change less (they still use CVS, &quo
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by idoubtit 5mo ago
I expected a toy project, but it is a usable library, which required a lot of work. Good job on delivering. A few comments: After reading "composer.json", I thought that the tests used a custom framework. I'm glad the project
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by idoubtit 6mo ago
If you have trouble with the default software on a Kobo ereader, you can install other applications aside it, then switch to them after boot. In my experience, the installation process is innocuous and straightforward. I use Koreader: after
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by idoubtit 6mo ago
The training of one LLM requires as much emissions as 17,000 people over a year. Which, according to the article, is 8 times more than last year, and may be underestimated by a factor 2. That does not cover the whole usage: the hardware
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by idoubtit 6mo ago
The chain of facts makes me sad: 1. The French government announces its digital agency is to write a plan, by the end of the year, so that France could reduce its extra-European dependencies. The communiqué is wrapped up with minor facts (e
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by idoubtit 6mo ago
The title is very far from the actual public statement that is linked in the article. The French government announced that its digital agency will switch to Linux during this year. This is about a few hundreds of computers owned by the agen
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by idoubtit 6mo ago
Here is an histogram of the energy mix 1990-2020 that illustrates your answer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Energymix_Germany.svg The nuclear share (red) is reducing during the 200Os. The wind and solar (light bl
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by idoubtit 6mo ago
The media (web or desktop) is irrelevant: a file format must exists for backup and interoperability. I barely use office documents myself, but I work on software that produce and parse many spreadsheets every day. An open standard is even m
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by idoubtit 6mo ago
I hope that Germany mandating ODF over OOXML will enhance the whole ecosystem. As a programmer, finding decent ODF libraries is far from certain. Last year I had to output some spreadsheets from a Go program, but I could not find any mainta
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by idoubtit 6mo ago
You missed an easier alternative that was in the article: ctrl-u saves and clears the current line, then you can input new commands, then use ctrl-y to yank the saved command. With zsh, I prefer to use alt-q which does this automatically (s
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by idoubtit 7mo ago
I've contributed a few optimisations to some implementations in these benchmarks, but as I read the code of many other implementations (and some frameworks) I lost most of the trust I had in these benchmarks. I knew that once a benchma
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by idoubtit 7mo ago
I'm not the GP, but I've seen "rebase lies" in the wild. Suppose a file contains a list of unique strings, one by line. A commit on a feature branch adds an element to the list. Later on, the branch is rebased on the mai
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by idoubtit 7mo ago
The canonical website is https://pijul.org . The homepage has a link to the pijul source repository.
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by idoubtit 7mo ago
I agree, though the list contains "L'œuvre au noir", another wonderful novel by Marguerite Yourcenar. I think some of the books on this list had very few readers, but were selected because of their relative fame among a list
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by idoubtit 7mo ago
> I find this other list more deserving of this title How is a list spanning over the last 40 centuries deserving of the tile "Books of the Century by Le Monde"? Why would the "Epic of Gilgamesh" or the "Book of
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by idoubtit 7mo ago
All this would be true if Linux and FreeBSD had similar exposition. But there's obviously less users and less hardware in the BSD world, so we must expect a higher variance. For instance, searching in recent FreeBSD issues, some hardwa
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by idoubtit 7mo ago
My experience does not match theirs when compressing text and code: > bzip might be suboptimal as a general-purpose compression format, but it’s great for text and code. One might even say the b in bzip stands for “best”. I've just
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by idoubtit 7mo ago
Before cutting a service, OVH sends several warnings. In my opinion, the worrying point is not that OVH made a mistake, it's that important messages to the "infrastructure mailing list" of Pandas were ignored for weeks... unt
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by idoubtit 7mo ago
Vagrant was a layer over virtualization, with hypervisors like virtualbox, kvm or vmware. The article mention virtualization and virtual machines several times, e.g. "unlike the virtual machine experience (which involved installing an
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by idoubtit 7mo ago
Precise info about the PHP foundation is hard to find. They have an annual budget of ≈500k USD, half of it assigned to developers[^1]. From a 2024 presentation video, they claim that the foundation has a "language impact" of 43% o
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by idoubtit 7mo ago
I'm not the GP, but I do remember why I rejected Kitty when I tried several terminal emulators last years: it broke quite a few of my workflows. For instance, in vim the F3 key was broken[^1]. It was very surprising and weird, and a po

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