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by jlokier 3y ago
For Gmail's recovery mail I use an address on my own domain, but for the domain's registrar I use an email at Yahoo! (mail.yahoo.com). Yahoo! hasn't been without problems. I was annoyed when they deleted the inbox of users w
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by jlokier 3y ago
It's quite difficult to handle double width characters and emojis reliably on all modern terminal emulators First, the application and terminal must agree which Unicode characters are double width, as in take up two cells and move the
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by jlokier 3y ago
It"s also a work thing. Discord was required for my job in 2021, so I had to join it then. It's used in a similar way to how Slack is used in some companies, though I've never worked anywhere that uses Slack. Since then I&#x2
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by jlokier 3y ago
> I'd love to hear why spaces became the dominant form of indenting code. Does anyone know the history? My take is it's because when people use tabs, they don't only use it for "regular" code indentation, which
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by jlokier 3y ago
In late 2021 I compared OS threads to io_uring for filesystem I/O at random-access reads from fast, NVMe SSDs. That measurement told me that it's not necessary to use io_uring for disk I/O performance for some workloads. It f
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by jlokier 3y ago
> Setting DELETE_ON_ERROR is superior. Relying on .DELETE_ON_ERROR will fail to delete the file if your Make process is killed abruptly, in such a way that Make can't clean up. Things like killed by OOM killer, power failure (lap
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by jlokier 3y ago
Strange. I've been using Firefox on macOS for the last 10 years and it's still working well for me, including to access Google services. Tabs work very well in Firefox for me. I have 17083 tabs open at the moment, on my 2013 Macbo
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by jlokier 3y ago
Where I live, in the UK, it isn't possible to login to three of my bank accounts for admin or make credit card payments without a smartphone to confirm payments sometimes. I had to approve the debit card purchase of a small pizza via i
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by jlokier 3y ago
I agree. I'm working with code that uses 'verbose "message"' for level 1 verbosity logs and 'trace "message"' for level 2 verbosity. Makes sense in its world, but it's not the same meaning
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by jlokier 3y ago
Just tried "python" and "python3" on various Linux distros, which output respectively: On an Ubuntu 20.04 desktop VM: python => Python 2.7.18 (default, Jul 1 2022, 12:27:04) python3 => Python 3.8.10 (defaul
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by jlokier 3y ago
The short version: If you have precious data you want to be stored very reliably and consistently, choose FDB over Redis, (or choose a SQL database with a good reputation for reliable storage). The two words that come to mind are "dura
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That's a beheviour of quorum systems - majority voting. It guarantees no inconsistent writes in the event of a network partition, where each half of the replicas are workig fine and can talk to each other, but are getting no response
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by jlokier 3y ago
I was banned from the school computer room within a few days of my first computer lesson. Also using BBC Micro / Econet. While the teacher was typing in their admin password to the Econet file server, I quickly typed a one-liner on on
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by jlokier 3y ago
I see people reporting that apps such as Zoom and Discord can't do screenshots or screen recording/sharing with Wayland. That's a glaring issue for many users these days.
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I agree it could be torture for all sorts of creatures, including small humans. But whether anything is bothered by the sound depends on the energy level and other characteristics. Spread spectrum ultrasound sonar below the local noise flo
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by jlokier 3y ago
I believe SiFive's CPUs and chip designs are not open source generally, although they do open source a lot of related things such as software, specifications, tools. I looked at their GitHub and didn't find any CPUs in there, tho
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by jlokier 3y ago
Don't even cook them or use milk. Finely cut oats, in cold water with a small quantity of raisins: "Oats and raisins". Let it soak a little to wet and soften, but not enough to turn it into high viscosity gloop like when co
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by jlokier 3y ago
I hadn't encountered 'gank' before these comments. But I had to look up MOBA too :-) And I used to write multiplayer battle games for a living! And my favourite recent game was a MOBA without me knowing that was a term! Whic
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by jlokier 3y ago
> it's also a much newer problem in as much as syntax-highlighting is much newer feature Just an aside. I wouldn't associate syntax highlighting with new. It's almost as old as text editors. Accurate syntax highlighting
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by jlokier 3y ago
Looking around the only USB-C device I have now is my phone. - Phone: USB-C - Bose wireless headphones charging: Micro-USB - The hand-held fan (nice one) I bought last week in the heatwave: Micro-USB - Lenovo tablet: Micro-USB - Macbook Pro
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by jlokier 3y ago
Thanks, I see how that's good advice for someone who wants to proceed with an application and feels stuck. But personally I have no real problem making choices or decisions, quickly if necessary. I understand the usefulness of making
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> if you don't advertise for very specific roles, people are confused and don't apply. As a candidate I have the opposite experience with companies that advertise a long list of roles, like Flexport's "200 open rol
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by jlokier 3y ago
I got one of these "someone request a password reset" mails from Facebook yesterday. I don't think I've had one before, and my email on its own domain I've had for ~20 years doesn't seem to be one people type
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by jlokier 3y ago
I think the replies and downvoter may have missed my intended point, which is that WhatsApp seems to be simultaneously treated as not an official channel and yet also treated as containing officially sensitive messages. Whether Boris was te
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Also worth a note that Boris Johnson (former prime minister for those far from the UK) himself said he was happy to share all those WhatsApp messages on his phone with the investigation team, and it was a government department that stepped
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by jlokier 3y ago
Happy Eyeballs makes a simultaneous connection over IPv4 and IPv6 to an HTTP server, and uses the first connection that gets a server acknowledgement. This is useful because many networks have noticeably different response times for IPv4 an
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by jlokier 3y ago
Some articles say it's reaction with the plastic. But others, and an interview I heard once with someone from Coca-Cola, say it's because plastic bottles are more permeable to CO₂ gas than glass bottles or metal cans. That is, the
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by jlokier 3y ago
That's less than a month's income for a few people on here. I recall a comment from an engineer at Nvidia a year or two ago saying $700k/year was about much they were paid, in response to someone else not believing those leve
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by jlokier 3y ago
> an old smartphone collecting dust in a drawer that could be had practically free. Needed to use an old smartphone in a drawer recently, due to current one failing. Unfortunately they tend to be too old to install current apps. Good f
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> I’ve used a VMWare Fusion shared folder between a Mac host and Linux/Windows guests for several years with zero issues. Performance has generally been very good, basic permissions work (haven’t needed anything beyond rwx), and I

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