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by lloeki 2y ago
Interesting that a lot of the (general, not specifically here) commentary is "don't use bash, use python" which I find quite clunky, noisy, and boilerplatey to do the same thing as a shell script. Kinda Master Foo and the Ten
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by lloeki 2y ago
> You won't find python pre-installed on all distros, like alpine The same can be said of bash, especially since you mention Alpine (also FreeBSD) Perl, though... ;) (if Perl is not there it gets pulled in very quickly as a dependen
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by lloeki 2y ago
Having only "accept all" and say "configure", or even a highlighted "accept all" and a very small or even just unhighlighted "deny all" is against GDPR. IIRC: - choices presented must have the same vi
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by lloeki 2y ago
The key bits: > we believe that we should stop migrating all repositories unconditionally, and instead keep our two systems: Gerrit and GitLab. Gerrit should remain for the use-case of deeply connected repositories. GitLab should remain
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by lloeki 2y ago
Sometimes I really wish I didn't brick my OnePlus X, it was a good and simple device. Perfect for a spare fallback phone or a main one acting like a dumb-ish phone with QoL smart features (like camera, navigation, bank apps, music, tot
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by lloeki 2y ago
> Hopefully vendors will implement some kind of universal wallet scheme that supports all options rather than encouraging vendors to only support one that they choose. Or each bank is going to have their own homegrown, horrible "wal
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by lloeki 2y ago
Absolutely. I use it both with and without Nix. By direnv's design, this vscode extension restores sanity in vscode env handling mess†: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mkhl.dir... † Depending on how
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by lloeki 2y ago
> Every time I look at NixOS, I think that it perfectly solves a problem that I only have once every 5 years, when buying a new computer. I think I even looked into it once to automate that exact process, but that idea fell apart at the
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by lloeki 2y ago
Sometimes they don't even manage to make splashes and it looks like they're just stationary when in fact they're an impending sinking stone in under 30s. I was once called out by a lifeguard about that, as I was just chilling
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by lloeki 2y ago
> 24-bit audio is obviously a noticeable improvement 16-bit is (IIRC) 96 dB of dynamic range, going from well below human perceptual noise level to above damage threshold. 24-bit is good for headroom when recording/mixing but useles
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by lloeki 2y ago
> As for HD redos, for movies this isn't an issue: they were all made on 35mm (or 70mm) film Doesn't matter when they remaster it to be way too dark or screw up with colours and tone mapping to give it a "more modern"
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by lloeki 2y ago
Makes me think that probably a lot of unattended shell scripts out there should use -q in case someone has a .curlrc altering the behaviour of curl, and thus breaking the expectations of the script. Maybe even should be a shellcheck rule.
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by lloeki 2y ago
> android (using the DAVx app) It borderlines on the insulting that Google refuses to support CardDAV and CalDAV OOTB.
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by lloeki 2y ago
> Python, C++, Ruby and Java all use exceptions. To them, “exception” means, “nifty piece of syntax kinda like goto.” Not Ruby. In idiomatic Ruby^ exceptions are for exceptional cases, not code flow. "nifty piece of syntax kinda lik
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by lloeki 2y ago
At work we have this C++ that needs to be distributed as, in essence, a shared lib, and that needs to work with a lot of variability. So it has C++ and so needs a C++ stdlib. Dynamically linking is annoying so what if we statically link it?
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by lloeki 2y ago
There's a notable difference between fucking up the filter efficacy lifetime expectancy - meaning there are filters that were expected to work - and "I don't care" venting toxic fumes straight out the window like a Break
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by lloeki 2y ago
interestingly "accu" in french is also used, but only for rechargeable batteries.
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by lloeki 2y ago
> If we exchange ownership of ideas, we end up with one idea each How would that work? Given that one exposed to an idea, a person cannot exactly erase it from their mind... I mean if I have an idea and I give it to you the idea itself
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by lloeki 2y ago
> Various people I know (including me) can hear music in their heads, almost like a recording Same, happening to me right now, happens automatically almost every morning when I wake up, which kind of gives me my own "soundtrack of t
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by lloeki 2y ago
If I build a house and you build a house and we exchange houses, both of us end up with exactly one house each. If I have an idea and you have an idea and we exchange ideas, both of us end up with two ideas each. There may be labour in bot
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by lloeki 2y ago
Don't forget vehicles got heavier, rims got bigger/rubber has thinner sides, suspensions geometry evolved and got stiffer (and possibly non-linear, at least on the high end) and so on and so forth, reducing the amount of elastic e
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by lloeki 2y ago
> Agile supports some uncertainty, but often a mile is taken when an inch is given. An inch or a mile, over time and with local information only it has you running around in an ant mill pattern[0]. I've seen my share of such project
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by lloeki 2y ago
I seem to recall information travels slower in fiber (optical) vs wires (electric), resp. ~2c/3 vs ~c, or am I remembering it wrong? Or is it a significantly different optical medium? If so, does that matter at all here? Dunno if that
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by lloeki 2y ago
So, it's still bits all the way down? Whether we're talking about app, IP, or LL it's always bits/s, each level bringing a cost due to encapsulation. And then at PHY there's baud. Is non-ISO unit "T" &#x2F
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by lloeki 2y ago
> why can't we have smart light switches that work like physical ones (two states) and work both directions (i.e. toggleable remotely) Separate command from power! Like this? (command + relay(s), inside switch box) https:/&#x2
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by lloeki 2y ago
That physically moving progress slider that can also be operated is absolutely bonkers. It took me a few moments to completely let it sink in. Those physical concepts at 0:38 look very good.
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by lloeki 2y ago
Indeed one would have to squint to the point of blindness. Logs are single point in time, flat, linear sequence, never dropped (at best you'd collapse sequences of identical, repeated logs). Think dmesg, syslog, systemd journald/j
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by lloeki 2y ago
> the essay mentioned a comic series called BLAME, in which machines programmed to build cities, buildings, infrastructure, got derailed after humanity perished, endlessly creating walkways and stairs and buildings to nowhere, for nobody
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by lloeki 2y ago
What about any or all among of their contacts, messages, docs, notes, schedules, photos, apps, app contents...? > How screwed are they if everything was in iCloud, vs they were using 1Password/{own,next}Cloud/Evernote/Meta
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by lloeki 2y ago
That one? TIL https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/icloud-passwords/pe... > The iCloud Passwords extension is compatible with macOS Sonoma and Windows versions supported by the iCloud for Windows app. To en

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