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by lloeki 3y ago
> Like you pointed out, documentation will advise against this approach If by "documentation" you mean "community documentation", indeed people like to point out that You-Re-Holding-It-Wrong-And-Should-Not-Do-This-As-
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by lloeki 3y ago
some BSD ones: sysexits(3) - meaningful exit codes style(9) - C coding style style.Makefile(9) - other coding styles (here, Makefile)
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by lloeki 3y ago
> it's filled with Nix-isms Which part? For the commands, update install upgrade uninstall are straight the same. There's an additional -A on install, but you don't need to understand it. The commands are even handed over
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by lloeki 3y ago
I don't buy the "just use X or Y" either. It's like "just use ohmyzsh". That's why I use dead simple nix stuff, which gets me 90% of the way (more like 140% if compared to Homebrew). If one's goal is
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by lloeki 3y ago
> This is a pretty extravagant claim If one wants to just replace Homebrew it's really straightforward: Install: /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install&
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by lloeki 3y ago
> Part of the reason that it’s painful to use is because while it’s marketed as “declarative”, in actuality it’s functional You're correct, with a twist: NixOS is declarative, nix is not - it's indeed functional machinery. This
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by lloeki 3y ago
> raku is perl 6 It used to be, but not anymore. It has grown to be its own thing with some happenstance parenthood through being born from an early attempt at Perl 6, and thus is now only being slightly more related to Perl than e.g Rub
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by lloeki 3y ago
There's this fun space made of p-adic numbers upon which you can define a simple distance, and then circles have mind bending properties like the diameter (max edge to edge distance) and radius (distance from edge to center) being equa
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by lloeki 3y ago
That's my take on it, and what I found so increasingly boring about those games Starfield is Fallout, but in space, Skyrim is Oblivion, but in the north, Fallout is Oblivion, but in post-nuke retrofuture, and Oblivion is Morrowind, but
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by lloeki 3y ago
VVVVVV has extremely simple and polished gameplay, what makes it interesting is how the same gameplay mechanic is constantly challenged and reinvented through very clever level design. It looks like metroidvania as far as exploration is con
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by lloeki 3y ago
> Ocarina of Time bored me in 1998. It still does Oh my so I am not alone. I always felt like it was terrible, especially compared to the GB and SNES ones, and whatever games were out on PC/PS/DC around that time (not so much a
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by lloeki 3y ago
> I don’t understand how a big game like this could have you just walking around doing nearly nothing for several hours straight Alan Wake 1 had a lengthy walking around/watching cutscenes first part, so this sounds good to me: I li
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by lloeki 3y ago
Totally. e.g platform PL45 (B5) is shared across Audi A4/S4, VW Passat, and Skoda Superb. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Group_B_platform SEAT is also in the mix. Seeing by them on the road it's q
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by lloeki 3y ago
I was wondering which patent is at play here. From this[0] (paywalled) I found RE47244[1] "alarm suspend system" before the paywall kicks in and mention of "Panel’s ruling leaves one sensor patent intact" Unclear if RE47
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by lloeki 3y ago
Ha, lucky 10k + frequency illusion. https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion Never heard meetcute before, so, today I'm a lucky 10k as well!
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by lloeki 3y ago
> Biking at 45-48 MPH is rare, dangerous, and free of tripping hazards which I think are a much larger concern Two decades ago I was doing downhill MTB. On a road section it was quite frequent for me to reach those speeds†; and that&#x27
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by lloeki 3y ago
Sure, I mean we won't get to do a Grand Tour again anytime soon but we can and did send things either to planets or heliopause and beyond. As a nearby comment mentions, Voyager were flybys so now that it's done and even if we coul
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by lloeki 3y ago
> let us New Horizons would like to have a word.
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by lloeki 3y ago
I recently bought a 5 bay 10Gbps USB-C hard disk enclosure. Most of the reviews were very good, a few mentioned that they had slow speeds, weird disconnects, data corruption. Plugged the thing in with two 16TB disks on a Linux machine, and
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by lloeki 3y ago
> double-cab small/medium sized pickup truck From a EU perspective that vehicle is nowhere near the "small/medium" scale, even for a truck. I recall watching some documentary about a guy who tried driving from the US
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by lloeki 3y ago
Honda had the electric engine essentially replacing the flywheel on their IMA system. They could have dropped the typical starter motor but it was kept for redundancy. While the ICE would still move at all times valves could stay up for 1 (
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by lloeki 3y ago
Unpublished: a shell written in pure Ruby, blurring the line between "shell-land" and "ruby-land" (think xonsh, only it does not "fallback" to the other side of the world at parse time. it's all first clas
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by lloeki 3y ago
> It works, but the benefit isn’t usually to the consumers despite that being the intention. I'd argue that "it works" as in not experiencing blackouts is of significant benefit to the consumers.
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> The tagging I’ll keep manual Picard is not automatic, I'd describe it mostly as "assisted". There's a two step process of track clustering and release metadata searching that are automatic, but each transition to th
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by lloeki 3y ago
I jumped to read a bit about it, expecting from your comment a swift victory, but it's much more involved than that, the sequence of attack strategies and counterattacks are quite suspenseful. https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by lloeki 3y ago
> I think there's an argument that pixel art was designed for CRT displays and thus optimized for it In many cases there is no argument to be had. https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/a/167807/6463 These spri
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by lloeki 3y ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_deprivation#Lasting , which has a bunch and is a nice overview. Obviously underresearched for humans due to ethical concerns.
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by lloeki 3y ago
> the signal has to get to and from us for every decision. And if communication is blocked for any reasons, the vehicle is stuck Curiosity and Perseverance have a limited form of autonomy to work around that, as both can AutoNav: the for
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by lloeki 3y ago
> make the connector a closed standard that can't be used without ruinous licencing fees and keep a squad of patent attorneys on retainer Time has shown that doesn't seem to prevent cheap - and potentially dangerous - knockoffs
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by lloeki 3y ago
So, not actually USB compliant? (save for the connector) One can't blame non-compliant cables on USB-C as it could happen with any other connector.

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