lambdaxyzw

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by lambdaxyzw 2y ago
That's actually a good question. Why? We have nanometets, picometers, centimeters, decimeters, kilometers, why not megameters?
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by lambdaxyzw 2y ago
I disagree, as a native speaker of a language where "bilion" means 10^12, it's clear to me that "billion" means 10^9 when used in English text. So I disagree that is ambiguous. But maybe that's wiem that way to
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by lambdaxyzw 2y ago
>SQL is a cool solution for a set of problems that has a very non-zero xor with a set of problems that we actually have. My usual problems are: 1) Running queries manually, where SQL is much more friendly than writing bytecode by hand. 2
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by lambdaxyzw 2y ago
As far as I know, database often does query caching. So it doesn't have to recompile the query all the time. On the other hand, query plan may depend on the specific parameters - the engine may produce a different plan for a query for
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by lambdaxyzw 2y ago
Do you have any proof it's not actually a coincidence? There were 30 whistleblowers, and it's over 3 years.
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by lambdaxyzw 2y ago
I think that's because most people consider this requires unjustified. Do you think similarly about expanding acronyms like SSH, CLI, HTTP, HN, FYI, USD, US, EU, PKI? Why/why not?
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by lambdaxyzw 2y ago
>is ordering via ssh secure?# you bet it is. arguably more secure than your browser. ssh incorporates encryption and authentication via a process called public key cryptography. if that doesn’t sound secure we don’t know what does. Stron
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by lambdaxyzw 2y ago
You can pay for both. And most people are not walking around all day, just traveling between two places.
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by lambdaxyzw 2y ago
>It’s only after the fall of the Soviet Union that shit with plastic poured into. As well with the fall of recycling, morals, etc. Soviet Union was green not because of morals, but because it was poor and couldn't afford single use
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by lambdaxyzw 2y ago
This makes me think, it would be nice if there was an easy built-in way to expose information about a process using the filesystem. Something like "cat /proc/$pid/fs/current_track" to get a name of a current so
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by lambdaxyzw 2y ago
Would be nice to have something that integrates with 7z - it supports a lot of weird archive types, including "weird" ones I care about (for example PE files, better known as ".exe files").
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by lambdaxyzw 2y ago
Doing micro optimizations is precisely the compiler's job - so I don't have to worry about it.
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by lambdaxyzw 2y ago
It's a witty response, and I think on some level even agree with you. But it's also a pretty shallow think to say. It doesn't adress the point of the article and it doesn't say "why".
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by lambdaxyzw 2y ago
You would love nixos - all configs are readonly.
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by lambdaxyzw 2y ago
Because programmers like to have something like DATA_DIR - a writable directory managed by the program. Thinking about multiple storage locations is effort and most users don't care about this too much anyway
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by lambdaxyzw 2y ago
I'm probably in a tiny minority, but I just flat out disable third party fonts. Everything looks equally good to me and I save bandwidth. The only expression are image fonts, which render as squares - I share the author's frustrat
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by lambdaxyzw 3y ago
I have never used anything other than pip and venv. Maybe I'm missing something, but I never felt like I'm missing anything. And Python package management is so easy and simple if you stick to that (well, except version conflicts,
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by lambdaxyzw 3y ago
> Two do not expose zmq to untrusted networks one: Is this documented somewhere? I use zeromq for the (internal, but by design usually accessible on the public internet) API of my project two: what happened to zero trust? Every network i
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by lambdaxyzw 3y ago
There is an investigation ongoing. Things like these take time. There's no point in informing the public about every action undertaken during the investigation, because the entity being investigated may take appropriate precautions. An