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by krylon 4y ago
Thank you!
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by krylon 4y ago
This sounds really cool! I've sometimes wondered why server-based RDBMSs don't offer something like this. Is it too hard to implement? Or did people just not think of it? Or do they have something like this and I just never learne
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by krylon 4y ago
Do I understand this correctly as being the software equivalent of pushing the reset button? Or am I missing something? I wonder what the history behind this feature is.
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by krylon 4y ago
This cracked me up. > Q: Is this serious? > A: Eternal moral vigilance is no laughing matter.
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by krylon 4y ago
As did I, resulting in slight disappointment when I eventually figured out what this was actually about. There sure are some code bases out there that could use a bit of de-pranking. ;-)
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by krylon 4y ago
I agree that is very weird at first. But after building a toy project including about 5,000 lines of Lua, I can say I got used to it fairly quickly. Most of the time, I was accessing arrays via iterators anyway, so I had to deal with indice
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by krylon 4y ago
If you legalize it, you can regulate the THC content by legalizing only weed with a maximum THC concentration, and/or by taxing it based on THC levels.
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by krylon 4y ago
> People don't like Lua Who doesn't like Lua? That is right up there next to disliking kittens and puppies...
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by krylon 4y ago
I'm not sure if that makes me feel better.
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by krylon 4y ago
Would I be very wrong to suspect that early RISC CPUs forced programmers and compilers to pull similar stunts? The major difference was probably that RISC systems had compilers, while on the 6502, it was BASIC or assembly. So programmers mi
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by krylon 4y ago
> inxi is a new one for me. For me, too. I was surprised to find it already installed on my system. :)
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by krylon 4y ago
I use dd, too. But I usually know what device corresponds to the USB drive. If my laptop only has one HDD/SSD, it's /dev/sda, so a USB drive will show up as /dev/sdb. My desktop has two internal SSDs, sda and s
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by krylon 4y ago
I concur. I've been using GNU/Linux on the desktop (and server) for 20 years, I don't think I ever used blkid or lsblk. fdisk, on the other hand, was a thing in the DOS/Windows world, too, back in the day, and dealing wi
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by krylon 4y ago
> things like FTP and all the rest would "just work". I remember reading about one or more web browsers dropping FTP support entirely not very long ago. Sic transit gloria mundi. EDIT: Just in case it is not clear, I wholeheart
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by krylon 4y ago
> Personally, I'd strongly recommend not sharing sqlite connections between threads anyway for those reasons. I have to admit I am surprised this would work at all without blowing up in your face in surprising and horrifying ways.
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by krylon 4y ago
I am sooooo happy that MATE exists. I'm sure there's plenty of things people dislike about it, but to me, it hits the sweet spot. Maybe this is just because I've been using MATE and before that Gnome 2 for more than 15 year
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by krylon 4y ago
Coincidentally (yeah, that is what They (tm) want you to believe...), that is also the title of a really fun and strange episode of the X-Files. One of my favorites.
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by krylon 4y ago
Many years ago, an IT security person I was talking to referred to humans as "the one security-critical component that cannot be updated". It's a bit cynical, but not entirely incorrect.
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by krylon 4y ago
Huh. I received a text message a couple of weeks ago, informing me the "gift" that I had "bought" had been delivered to the "location agreed upon" by me, and to please visit this really suspicious looking URL f
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by krylon 4y ago
There are people who don't need to do that. Their use case may be writing the monthly newsletter for the local rabbit breeders club, or writing that novel they've been working on for decades now (and totally are going to finish
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by krylon 4y ago
In my experience, under OpenBSD hardware either works well or not at all. No "sorta-kinda works unless there's a lunar eclipse". So when it works, it just works.
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by krylon 4y ago
> "Everything you always wanted to know about the Unrelated Movie Reference (but were afraid to ask)" Unfortunately I do not remember any relevant details, but I once came across an article that was titled "Everything you
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by krylon 4y ago
Technically, you could build that on top of Linux, too, just like you could build an Android-lookalike on top of FreeBSD if you wanted to. That being said, it would be nice, at least if the resulting system exposed more of its Unix guts,
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by krylon 4y ago
I used FreeBSD as my main desktop OS from about 2003 to 2005, and I was very happy with it back then. More recently (~2016-2017), I tried to install FreeBSD on an old ThinkPad, and I was not very happy with it. PC-BSD worked fine, but the u
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by krylon 4y ago
The installer asks you about your network configuration (no idea how it deals with wifi, though). If you answer "use DHCP", it just works (tm), at least for wired and virtual network interfaces.
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by krylon 4y ago
Does escape analysis play into it? This could allow the Go compiler to reduce the number of heap allocations (which are not free in either language), which in turn also reduces the load on the GC.
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by krylon 4y ago
> another pain in the ass step ... > finish my business (no pun intended) So that first pun was intended, I presume? Well done! I wonder why those fancy high-tech Japanese toilets haven't caught on over here (
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by krylon 4y ago
CSV sucks, yes, but for moving/exchanging/aggregating data between various independent sources, it's the least terrible option everyone can process easily.
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by krylon 4y ago
I don't know when it happened or what caused it, but ever since I started paying attention to the animals that live all around us, even in a relatively urban environment, my mind has been blown repeatedly. Bats, squirrels and rabbits a
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by krylon 4y ago
TL;DR - the frogs may not have been intentionally buried by humans the way we bury dead humans. Sounds a little bit like an opener to a Lovecraftian story, although the real explanation is in all likelihood way less exciting (but fascinatin

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