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by mappu 9y ago
I maintain an application that used a similar custom flag package. I am in the middle of porting it back to the stdlib one, (A) for consistency with the wider ecosystem and (B) to avoid reflecting on struct tags.
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by mappu 9y ago
What don't you like about Go's GC? Compared to Hotspot, it doesn't STW; it makes a different throughput/latency tradeoff that is more suited for its application domain; and it's actually needed a lot less often beca
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by mappu 9y ago
The show Ben-To is based on seizing the moment when that discount happens.
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by mappu 9y ago
Shell out to wkhtmltopdf.
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by mappu 9y ago
""" The question on the lips of everyone in the Linux community is, "What if Linus Torvalds (affectionately known to the trade press as 'Linux Torvalds') gets hit by a bus?" Reams of virtual paper have bee
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Remote data leak in Varnish (CVE-2017-8807)(varnish-cache.org)
2 points by mappu 9y ago|0 comments
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by mappu 9y ago
Note that VSCode doesn't completely display lines of this length ( https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/27380 ), and Kate struggles as well
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by mappu 9y ago
DokanY (LGPL) provides a FUSE-compatible API on Windows.
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by mappu 9y ago
In New Zealand we had a controversial proposal to seriously reduce the cat population, over concerns about them destroying local protected wildlife. Pets provide important companionship. But some environmental costs of pet ownership aren&#x
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by mappu 9y ago
>As of alpha2, Godot is using Mono 5.2 and C# 7.0 is supported. This is an explicit dig at Unity, which is still(?) on Mono 2.x and C# 3.5 owing to their custom IL2CPP toolchain (with Mono 4.x / C# 6 in beta for the editor only).
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by mappu 9y ago
One minor downside to `with` is how it brings normal control flow out to the right.
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by mappu 9y ago
The ScopeGuard RAII destructor will be called at the end of the scope, but Go's defer will be called at the end of the function. e.g. in Go can you can defer inside a for loop.
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by mappu 9y ago
Pinta is the FOSS version of Paint.NET, and it has a Mac version. https://pinta-project.com/
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by mappu 9y ago
Visual Studio Code also has opt-out telemetry enabled by default, with no warning (that i've seen). https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/faq#_how-to-di...
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by mappu 9y ago
I know some Windows 7 holdouts, who either prefer the interface or they're against telemetry. That was a defensible position as long as 7 was still under security support, but these findings put an end to that. Time to switch, and -1 t
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by mappu 9y ago
Qt can be used commercially under the terms of the LGPL at no cost. When used appropriately (i.e. dynamic linking to unmodified Qt, or, offering source for a modified dynamically-linked Qt), the commercial company is not forced to open sour
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Google Project Zero Discovers Windows Kernel Memory Disclosure Bugs(googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
2 points by mappu 9y ago|0 comments
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by mappu 9y ago
I use HeidiSQL for MySQL, it seems to support Postgres.
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by mappu 9y ago
>I have tried every single git UI under the sun, command line and not, and they all fall short outside of the basic use cases I haven't found any git UI that matches TortoiseHg, for new and experienced users alike - my best picks
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by mappu 9y ago
Hg user here. One interesting hg/git difference is that Hg allows file history across renames by explicitly tracking the rename operation, whereas git just does a fuzzy content match.
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by mappu 9y ago
I had to check if Go's path.Join() does the same thing with joining to an absolute path (luckily for me, it doesn't). I can see that being a useful feature for implementing e.g. `cd`, though.
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MacOS APFS filesystem performing much better than the dated HFS+(phoronix.com)
7 points by mappu 9y ago|2 comments
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by mappu 9y ago
Here is another, more recent benchmark showing opposite results: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=macOS-AP...
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by mappu 9y ago
The guide is split into separate sections for clang (cross-compiling), MSVC, clang-cl, and WSL. Compiled swift binaries can be native windows executables when using the non-WSL compilers.
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by mappu 9y ago
Ars is only as good as its authors - every time i am particularly impressed or displeased with an article, i check the author. Some patterns emerge.
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by mappu 9y ago
I use https://www.npmjs.com/package/fontmin#svgs2ttf for that (as part of my build script).
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by mappu 9y ago
https://materialdesignicons.com/ Available as web font or individual SVGs, sources on github, SIL/Apache2 licensed.
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by mappu 9y ago
Anandtech have great content, but their advertising can be... aggressive. I assume you have an adblocker on desktop but not on mobile?
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by mappu 9y ago
Previous comments are interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2755461
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by mappu 9y ago
On Linux this functionality is usually provided by GVFS or KIO. But if you have authenticated to a network resource under Dolphin (KIO), you can't necessarily edit a file using a GTK+-based editor - or even a Qt one that isn't KIO

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