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by jwilk 4y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31115642 ("GitHub: Private Profiles beta", April 2022, 125 comments)
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by jwilk 4y ago
Making the profile private doesn't hide your public repositories.
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by jwilk 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33033366 has a subscriber link.
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by jwilk 4y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32753235 ("Prevent DoS by large int-str conversions", 3 weeks ago, ~200 comments)
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by jwilk 4y ago
Why?
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by jwilk 4y ago
> I wonder, does GitHub Actions internally look for both "on" and "True"? More likely they hacked their YAML parser to treat on as a string. At least that's what Travis CI folks did: https://github.c
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by jwilk 4y ago
The common claim that there are ~7.5E18 (~2.5 × 2⁶⁴) grains of sand seems to originate from this back-of-the-envelope calculation: https://web.archive.org/web/19990117001023/http://www2.hawai... It takes
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by jwilk 4y ago
Archived copy without paywall: https://archive.today/Sd1tT
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by jwilk 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32950988 has subscriber link.
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by jwilk 4y ago
Didn't help: (WW) modeset(0): Option "TearFree" is not used
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by jwilk 4y ago
Contrary to claims in sibling comments, tearing is definitely still a thing in X11. mpv has a whole FAQ section about it: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FAQ#tearing Some of the solutions presented the
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by jwilk 4y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32753235 ("Prevent DoS by large int-str conversions", 9 days ago, ~200 comments)
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A Python security fix breaks (some) bignums(lwn.net)
2 points by jwilk 4y ago|1 comments
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Sdate – never ending September date(github.com)
1 points by jwilk 4y ago|0 comments
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by jwilk 4y ago
As a data point, when Google decided that knowing the password and the SMS verification code is not enough to get access to my account, I tried again with a different ISP, and that worked. (The first thing I did after regaining the access w
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by jwilk 4y ago
Summary of changes: https://unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.0.0/
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by jwilk 4y ago
Another, more recent statement from corbet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31852477
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by jwilk 4y ago
It's (usually?) less than that. https://lwn.net/op/FAQ.lwn > Must I subscribe to read the Weekly Edition? > No, the Weekly Edition becomes freely available to all readers one week after its publication.
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by jwilk 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32822082 got more traction.
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by jwilk 4y ago
There's also PyPI package upload tool: https://github.com/pypa/twine
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by jwilk 4y ago
git:// comes to mind, but that's not understood by browsers. irc:// is understood by Firefox at least.
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by jwilk 4y ago
The 100 year plan is for $999: https://www.networksolutions.com/domain-name-registration/po... Do you remember how much the 1000 year plan costed?
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by jwilk 4y ago
Which registrars offer that?
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by jwilk 4y ago
https://github.com/jwilk/url.sh/issues/2
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Compiling Rust with GCC: An Update(lwn.net)
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by jwilk 4y ago
SUSv4 requires that "if an operand resolves to the root directory, rm shall write a diagnostic message to standard error and do nothing more with such operands": https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/969991979
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by jwilk 4y ago
The former can be simplified to: wget -i ./urls
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by jwilk 4y ago
I'm pretty sure even the most tech-savvy users make this mistake from time to time. I certainly do. This happens often enough, there's an entry in youtube-dl FAQ about it: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-d
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by jwilk 4y ago
Most likely it escapes enough to prevent code execution, but last time I tried it didn't escape all special characters out of the box: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29071196
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by jwilk 4y ago
That's what the article says, but I can't see negation in the 1865 example: > His bearing towards male acquaintances, of whom he knew little or nothing and could care less, was marked by an affectation of gushing friendliness,

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