jcarrano

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by jcarrano 5mo ago
I found, in my rather recent experience with Go, that using anything other than zero for invalid, default or "sentinel" values is a source of potential problems due to the lack of real constructors.
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by jcarrano 5mo ago
It is also relatively easy to work, since ancient times. Iridium is the rarest metal, so rare and hard to work that it is not practical.
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by jcarrano 5mo ago
At one point I used to have two mice plugged in and would use either one depending on which hand was free.
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by jcarrano 5mo ago
That's honestly a fear of mine, that I might lose the taste for simplicity.
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by jcarrano 5mo ago
How much of the fish self-sufficiency of China is due to them plundering the seas across the globe?
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by jcarrano 6mo ago
Thinking how a secure setup for uploading packages from a CI would look like: the package must be signed by the devs, and for that they must build it independently on their machines (this requires a reproducible build).
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by jcarrano 7mo ago
100% of those cases would be favorable to cops. Defamation laws are quite restrictive in Europe, much more so when it involves public officials (take a look at the Strafgesetzbuch)
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by jcarrano 7mo ago
Exactly what I meant. For example, in Germany one would have a hard time for much less.
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by jcarrano 7mo ago
"Download more HP" is the new "download more RAM".
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by jcarrano 7mo ago
My colleague's Thinkpad had its fan fail. He ordered a replacement which arrived next day. He swapped it himself and kept on working.
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by jcarrano 7mo ago
100% agree. I used to watch the sun rise over the river from the train during my commute. It was worth having to wake up when it was still dark.
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by jcarrano 8mo ago
> This control board uses the same microcontroller GPIO pin to both drive segment A of the LED display and sense the door switch. Is it necessary to be so skimpy with a safety feature?
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by jcarrano 8mo ago
"If you need subsidies in order to live off art, you don't live off art but live off the state". As part time artist I see many problems with these schemes: - Decoupled from people's actual appreciation of the art being
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by jcarrano 8mo ago
> Society has not disintegrated. Has art improved in any measure?
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by jcarrano 8mo ago
That is one of my problems with systemd: it has way to much "magic" built in. SysVinit/OpenRC and related are easy to understand and debug: they only do what's in the scripts.
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by jcarrano 8mo ago
The 3d-printer of software: get a custom part quickly and cheaply, even if not suitable for mass production.
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by jcarrano 10mo ago
They "conveyed" the software, according to GPL wording. They violation is towards the original software's authors.
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by jcarrano 11mo ago
"Long asbestos fibers have been shown to interfere physically with the mitotic spindle and cause chromosomal damage" [1] https://archive.cdc.gov/www_atsdr_cdc_gov/csem/asbestos/how_...
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by jcarrano 11mo ago
With master gone, it's time to get rid of the man-pages, which were invented to mansplain commands by bearded men in the 70s.
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by jcarrano 11mo ago
The problem with asbestos is that, due to its structure, it keeps breaking in the longitudinal direction, making thinner and thinner until it is the size of chromosomes. Physical interference with DNA is how it causes cancer. My understandi
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by jcarrano 11mo ago
Having a separation between the "pure language" and the library is a requirement if you want to have a language that can be used for low-level components, like kernels or bare-bones software. I don't think this is possible in
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by jcarrano 11mo ago
That was the first product released >10 years ago at my previous job [1]. The idea did not quite catch on, though, and the product was repurposed (successfully) as an OEM charger. There is not a lot of power available on street lamps and
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by jcarrano 11mo ago
No point whatsoever. If you have to deal with money you never use floating point. Either use arbitrary precision, or integers with a sufficiently small base like blockchains do (which can be also though of as fixed point). Also you would ne
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by jcarrano 11mo ago
I have the HP logic analyzer that runs HP-UX. To me it's crazy that I can connect to it with a 2025 Linux OS and run X11 apps remotely out of the box.
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by jcarrano 11mo ago
I canceled my Spotify subscription because it would not let me "reset" the algorithm to get fresh suggestions. A "discovery algorithm" that I used (works great for jazz) consisted on looking up which musicians played on
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by jcarrano 11mo ago
After waiting 3+ months for the Finanzamt to respond.
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by jcarrano 1y ago
Carl Sagan doxxed the Earth with the Voyager disk.
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by jcarrano 1y ago
I don't believe that. Even in the most backward places where people can barely read they can manage to get an ID. If anything, it would have a leveling effect, by decoupling the voter id from things like driving, which have nothing to
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by jcarrano 1y ago
If you moved to another district you should vote there. If you want people temporarily out of their district to vote, then in district X you could have a box for district Y, put paper ballots in, and send the sealed box to Y to be counted.
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by jcarrano 1y ago
Just use paper, count by hand, and abolish mail-in ballots and you should be fine.

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