krylon

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by krylon 6d ago
Gotta admit, that is probably my favorite Wikipedia article. It reads like a conversation between two stoned teenagers (which, admittedly, a lot of cosmology and quantum physics do, to non-physicists like myself).
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by krylon 2mo ago
"Cheap" and "Alpha" would have been hard to pull of simultaneously. But it would have been really cool.
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by krylon 3mo ago
Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - I also starting writing a Lisp interpreter in Python. I also called it Lispy. This time, the coincidence is less remarkable though, as the word play just sits there, begging to be played.
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by krylon 3mo ago
Just as I was thinking to myself that it might be fun to play around with Lisp again, this shows up in my news ticker. Coincidence?
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by krylon 3mo ago
The blue-footed booby deserves a place in the top 10, IMHO. But I see the competition is fierce.
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by krylon 4mo ago
Rest in peace, Mister Salus.
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by krylon 5mo ago
I remember running CoLinux back in my training days ~2005-2006. It seemed a bit like black magic to me at the time, but it worked quite well for my needs. But CoLinux - IIRC - required the NT branch of Windows. I can only imagine the level
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by krylon 6mo ago
I had the same reaction.
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by krylon 6mo ago
The outcome is the same, yes. With incompetence, there is at least a glimmer of hope things will get rectified. But you are correct, trust is destroyed this way, and it doesn't look like Microsoft cares much.
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by krylon 6mo ago
True, however, that has been the case for quite a while. This particular incident doesn't change that, except for the VeraCrypt developer, who is in a crappy situation now (not just regarding VeraCrypt, he mentions he was using the cer
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by krylon 6mo ago
As much as I like bashing Microsoft, never underestimate people's capacity for incompetence, especially where large organizations are involved. I don't see how they would gain anything from this move.
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by krylon 6mo ago
STRICT tables are something I appreciate very much , even though I cannot recall running into a problem that would have prevented by its presence in the before-time. But it's good to have all the same. I don't think I've eve
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by krylon 6mo ago
Tell that to Raymond Chen! ;-D
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by krylon 6mo ago
The full title, "The cover of C++: The Programming Language raises questions not answered by the cover" was too long for HN, apparently.
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The cover of "C++: The Programming Language" raises questions(devblogs.microsoft.com)
4 points by krylon 6mo ago|4 comments
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by krylon 6mo ago
I haven't switched to pkgbase. Yet. I don't intend to for the time being. I set up a VM to test it, but I haven't gotten around to actually testing it.
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by krylon 6mo ago
Last I heard (~8 years ago), the RAID-like functionality in btrfs was very unstable and crash-prone. The impression I got was that there was not a lot of interest in fixing this. Then bcachefs came and ... appears to have gone nowhere AFAIC
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by krylon 6mo ago
On openSUSE Tumbleweed, it is. Each Upgrade creates two snapshots, one before, one after, and if anything goes wrong, I can boot into a snapshot where the world was still in order. I have a higher opinion of ZFS than I do of btrfs, but FWIW
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by krylon 6mo ago
I have not thus far had anything to do with containers, so docker is unknown territory for me. I run audiobookshelf in a Debian VM via bhyve, but I was gonna run a Debian VM anyway.
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by krylon 6mo ago
My home server has been running FreeBSD for ten years now, and it has never let me down. Except for one time I got fresh with /dev/speaker and triggered a spontaneous reboot (I don't know if it's FreeBSD's fault or
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by krylon 7mo ago
I chickened out. :(
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by krylon 7mo ago
Rest in peace.
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by krylon 7mo ago
...just as soon as Linux takes over the desktop! ;-)
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by krylon 7mo ago
> this is possible via snapper on Linux + btrfs but needs complex installation and is not so integrated FWIW, openSUSE defaults to btrfs on the root filesystem and uses snapper in a very similar manner to zfs boot environments on FreeBSD
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by krylon 8mo ago
Huh. If you go through the hazing of installing arch without that new installation script, it is consistent, I suppose. One thing in favor of this approach, is that it is very straightforward. Not what I'd choose, but I think that is t
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by krylon 8mo ago
You mean people still log into a virtual terminal and call startx? (blushing emoji) I mean, if that's the way they like it, that's fine. It feels a bit quaint, though, at least to me. If a graphical desktop is what I want anyway,
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by krylon 8mo ago
I only use it for shell access to machines in my home network, so I cannot remark on performance, but it is also by far the easiest to use VPN solution I've had contact with. Not that I'm an expert in this matter, but setting up W
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by krylon 8mo ago
> 0[str] is valid and asserts dominance. At this point I came dangerously close to spewing water all over my keyboard. :D
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by krylon 9mo ago
When I started using Linux, I didn't do so because I disliked Windows so much, I just was an insatiably curious nerd. But since then, each new version of Windows has made me more and more grateful for not having to deal with that dumps
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by krylon 9mo ago
This is the howling insanity that drove Microsoft to kill the start button, then reanimate it, then move it to the center of the task bar .

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