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by jlokier 8mo ago
.COM binaries yes, but a.out binaries do have a header, similar in size to ELF. When ELF was added to Linux, I think it used a bit less RAM than a.out. ELF made it easier to build and deploy shared libraries, and the design was more consi
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by jlokier 8mo ago
> They do it so they don't have to stand up their own push servers I don't agree with this dependency on being in good standing with Google either. But there is a technical reason that isn't wanting to avoid using their p
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by jlokier 8mo ago
> when you can just open the thing in a website anyway. I can use my bank on some linux distro Unfortunately not. I'm in the UK. Two of my personal banks, all four business banks that I need to use, and several credit cards, requ
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by jlokier 8mo ago
Good point, though you have to beware that text-aware image enhancement sometimes replaces characters with what it thinks is a more likely character from context. I've seen my phone camera's real-time viewfinder show text on a sig
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by jlokier 8mo ago
That's because flat structures are often, or often turn into, "flat-in-name-only" structures. I don't think the Tyranny of Structurelessness is arguing in favour of hierarchy, or against other forms of organization than
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by jlokier 8mo ago
It depends which key combination or trackpad gesture is used to trigger the desktop switch, because they use different animation curvdes. It looks like they have different application focus or redraw behaviour too. - Control-Left/Righ
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by jlokier 9mo ago
I've worked on a hobby database that did something like this, but instead of "flat" dictionary compression over columns, it used a tree of compression contexts - trillions of them. Data was compressed in interior and exterior
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by jlokier 9mo ago
That's the addressing problem, although I have some bad news on that: NAT is used with IPv6 in some places. The reachability problem is, even with public addresses, sometimes you have to do the same thing to "configure port forwar
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by jlokier 9mo ago
Some recent HN comments about CRT implosions people have experienced. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355765 "I still have a piece of glass in back of the palm of my right hand. Threw a rock at an old CRT and it
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by jlokier 9mo ago
Some people don't have a choice. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46698278 "The company I work at gives all new developers a pair of 1080p displays that could have come right out of 2010." I have the
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by jlokier 9mo ago
It's not from the 2014 changes. From https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn06... : "Someone who was born British and has no other nationality cannot be deprived of their citizenship in an
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by jlokier 9mo ago
> If you are British at birth they can't strip your citizenship and kick you out Not true. If you have dual nationality at birth, typically because you have one British parent and are born in the UK, then you are British at birth
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by jlokier 9mo ago
Pi falls out of infinite sums, exponentials and differential equations all over the place. It's a universal constant, first discovered via geometry, but it's independent of geometry. For example, pi = the square root of the sum o
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by jlokier 9mo ago
> If the input image is only simple lines whose coverage can be correctly computed (don't know how to do this for curves?) then what's missing? Computing pixel coverage accurately isn't enough for the best results. Using
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by jlokier 9mo ago
They did it, so both of those are ruled out by context. That's how I talk, and admittedly some people find how I talk confusing when I think it's clear. Thanks for the amusing heads up on language interpretation! In pseudo-code:
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by jlokier 9mo ago
In the case of a URL it might be. If the domain is registered with the client named as the formal owner, the client may well be the owner even if they haven't paid for it yet.
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by jlokier 9mo ago
The company owner didn't dissolve it, the registrar did as a penalty for not filing accounts within about 4 months of the due date. The owner might not even know it's dissolved yet.
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by jlokier 9mo ago
My guess is it wasn't deliberate. They might not even know it's dissolved yet. It's dissolved by "compulsory strike-off", which means the registrar did it as a penalty for late filing of accounts about 4 months a
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by jlokier 10mo ago
I recommend -FX instead of -EX. They both quit immediately if the output is smaller than the screen size, but -FX does not quit if the output is larger and you jump to the end of a large file, so you can continue to do things like scroll b
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by jlokier 10mo ago
The amplitudes aren't small in the 512-dimensional subspace where 256-qubit calculations take place. 2^256 states are comfortably distinct in that many dimensions with amplitude ~1. Their distinctness is entirely direction. The obvious
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by jlokier 11mo ago
> 5% above their requested pay with Not enough to move the needle. 25% would move the needle. > with mentions that I could double it in one year They didn't believe you, or didn't after a short time working there. So it di
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by jlokier 11mo ago
> - but it wasn't obviously better than Firefox. Ah, but Chrome was obviously better than Firefox. When Chrome was released, the advertising I recall focused on one killer feature that Firefox didn't get for many years after
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by jlokier 11mo ago
> $1700 per month pays off a $350k loan in 17 years, does it not? No, it does not. You forgot the interest. Let's call it 6%, close to the current US average. The interest by itself comes to more than $1700 a month! Paying $1700
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by jlokier 11mo ago
If the original develoeprs had used Git, they'd be mostly fast-forward merges. Those are the default merge operation in Git, and they don't appear as merge commits in a repo. However, there commits start 33 years before Git was c
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by jlokier 11mo ago
> For example, suppose you allocate 1000 page sized objects and then free all but the last one. With an mmap based heap, you can free all 999 other pages back to the OS whereas with sbrk you're stuck with those 999 pages Actually...
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by jlokier 11mo ago
> Most people don't care about these things. Who are you to say that the harm is severe to people who don't care? I'm not the one deciding. I said some of the harms are severe. Not everything. It refers to things like
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by jlokier 11mo ago
> /usr/bin/env and /bin/sh are part of the POSIX standard, this is why NixOS has those available. Contrary to popular belief, those aren't in the POSIX standard. The following are not in the POSIX standa
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by jlokier 11mo ago
But far more than 1% are harmed by it. Sometimes the harm is severe. Vast oceans of poorly handled personal data collected in exquisite and unnecessary detail by dark patterns, copied around to everyone who might be interested with low reg
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by jlokier 11mo ago
It stands for "Full Time Equivalent". It's a measure of time spent working on something, to standardise comparisons of work capacity and acknowledge that it's not always full time, especially when aggregating the time fr
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by jlokier 11mo ago
You make a good point. In principle the police Wallet reader could have a function to virtually suspend the license, instead of physically confiscating your phone. I wonder if they thought of that, and I wonder if police would use the optio

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