jgtrosh

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by jgtrosh 6y ago
Hey, great idea. Just one thing: the two-level horizontal scroll doesn't work consistently for me, and just seems a bit weird. I feel like the top level navigation should be left to the obvious top links. I don't really see the po
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by jgtrosh 6y ago
It is however useful to know the difference, and in some cases you actually need to write POSIX (code meant to be sourced for example).
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by jgtrosh 6y ago
Isn't dash the more popular/common POSIX shell nowadays? Not sure how to go about evaluating this claim.
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by jgtrosh 6y ago
Yeah, I guess it's not that bad. (Also it's not a noun, but an adverb, my bad.) Then my only gripe is that it doesn't really sound correct in the <verb> <noun> syntax, but then again many other commands don't
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by jgtrosh 6y ago
Not saying it didn't exist, just saying it's not an introductory high-level Linux user-space documentation. Also not saying apropos is incomprehensible, just that 1 it sounds weird as a Frenchman, 2 there could have been a simpler
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by jgtrosh 6y ago
à propos means apt/appropriate as a noun in french and in English, but the phrase « à propos de … » means “about …” ; which is much more (wait for it) à propos. It is kind of weird that it was used in Unix wherein only the noun form
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by jgtrosh 6y ago
On the AZERTY keyboard there's éèàç (I know ç is not technically an accent) and the circonflexe and tréma accents as dead keys. This is apparently enough to cause massive confusion on QWERTY keyboards and for everyone to accept discard
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by jgtrosh 6y ago
I'm curious if there's any existing effort to provide media on smartphones without scrolling. Not just “non-infinite scroll”, actually no scroll. Like, you have a page of text and to get to the next you swipe to flip, or tap a reg
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by jgtrosh 6y ago
On this case, the form is very simple and clear. So I don't think you can easily brush them off. It could be affected by some people really not caring/understanding. It could also be affected by some people wanting to support the
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by jgtrosh 6y ago
Setting as it has no accelerator, i'd say it shows how efficient the arm chips are, no?
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by jgtrosh 6y ago
I think the killer feature is snooping, not the format.
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
Afaik this is common syntax for if/else based only on the the initial condition; I can't remember where it's documented but I think it requires the do_this part to be a single expression. However, bash pitfalls recommends aga
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
((RANDOM % 10)) || timeout 3 cmatrix ; clear
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
If the lights start spending 2x longer often, surely that will push people to defy the light itself more than they did before. Using group punishment to curb individual behaviour is always at risk of undermining group obedience. I wonder wh
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
> If 0x12345678 was loaded into a 64 bit register such as RAX, then RAX refers to 0x12345678, EAX refers to 0x5678, AX refers to 0x78, AH refers to 0x7, AL refers to 0x8. I made a PR to correct this example which equated single hexadecim
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
> `ddkP` is probably the most advanced command I know Maybe I'm not thinking straight because of the sickness, but I think `ddp` from the line above does the same thing with one fewer keystroke.
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
> Hopefully network analysis/data mining laws/politics will be handled with a little less FUD, a little less grandstanding, and a little more efficiency than we're seeing with climate change politics... They were clearly d
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
Pretty sure you're somewhat responsible for your IP
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
X servers pays along with WSL as well as with anything else. I've used Xming and VcXsrv with WSL without any problem specific to WSL.
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
That's what you get when you build a walled garden and then fail to deliver on your promises. That breaks the suspension of disbelief. The walled garden is a fundamentally immoral way to practically implement security features; but whe
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
Sounds like fractions cleanly describe what you're saying? But that practically holds only for a reasonable amount of simple arithmetics. Fractional components tend to grow exponential for many numerical methods repeated multiple times
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
How does this relate to nested functions in C? (And resulting “infectious executable stacks”?) https://nullprogram.com/blog/2019/11/15/
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
Not claiming it's foolproof, but after years of using GBoard, the multilingual keyboard mode now feels like it corrects far more than it corrupts. Or maybe I'm just too accustomed to it. On the other hand you will never get my pro
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
Crash collection is common, so personal responsibility should be to just accept opt-out dumps in a security device? That's a weird argument. This is a pretty clear cut case as the users have made clear; it's good that they make it
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
This is missing Terminus[1], a wonderful bitmap font which is widely available on unices. [1]: https://sourceforge.net/projects/terminus-font/
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
Real noise is a large Spanish restaurant room towards the end of lunch when every single person is adding to the sonic barrage
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
Maybe some kind of opportunistic prefetching if you have regular deadlines and can expect a regular complex problem deadline. But maybe concurrent threads would be easier, so this could make sense only in a super limited embedded environmen
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
Reasoning is a tool we as humans use to justify our beliefs and actions (and not an internal process which shapes belief as often depicted). Communication is naturally enviable to help strengthen that reasoning. Communication <-> reas
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
Yeah, the hue rotation is really nice. Do you have a real example where it doesn't work?
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by jgtrosh 7y ago
The problem is very simple: if you have diagrams with black lines on transparent background it doesn't work with dark background. Many colour choices we do make less sense for dark backgrounds than for light ones. The comment above pro

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