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by metafex 12y ago
The tip about getting the binary from /proc is also helpful if you upgrade screen/tmux and the newer version doesn't allow you to reattach to it. With that you can use the old one to reattach, work your magic, and restart the
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by metafex 12y ago
Is this thing really a $1200 CNC-mill? What are the dimensions it takes? Also, materials, aluminium only? This thing could be really nice for hobby projects (not gun related, that is).
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by metafex 12y ago
I honestly have mixed feelings about this. It is a really nice showcase of what the standard library can do (walking the AST and modifying it) with little amount of code. OTOH it would be better to not make this a web-service. As much as it
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by metafex 12y ago
This is neither a preprocessor in the means of cpp (c preprocessor) nor a generics implementation. If you need a tool like cpp for go, use m4. It was made for things like that. Now, what this is, is a tool to make it more convenient to conv
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by metafex 12y ago
If you find FreeBSD docs nice, check out the OpenBSD manpages. For me they set the bar for nice documentation.
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by metafex 12y ago
And it supports QR-codes for kernel panics!
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by metafex 12y ago
It is really hard to say what you mean when you only have words to describe what you feel. I hope you can take this as an apology, I don't wan't to hurt any feelings with what I do or say, it is just too easy to loose the passion
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by metafex 12y ago
Okay, I understood this part of the article 'you can't do everyone justice'. As for the 'white dude' part: lucky guess ;-) But I personally can't identify with the flat stereotypes in games, it just doesn'
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by metafex 12y ago
Best example for this is Tomb Raider: The start of it was so awesome, a breath of fresh air showing that games can be w/o killing hundreds of people. Unfortunately ~2 hours in the game that got lost. Oh but the people complained about
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by metafex 12y ago
Avoiding the topic of sexism and racism is worse than not talking about it. So yeah, avoiding it is silly: it helps nobody. What I was referring to, is the part of the article where everyone had to complain about something regarding the vis
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by metafex 12y ago
It's silly how much goes into correctness in games nowadays. You'd have to make an Asteroids clone just not to offend anybody (except sentient asteroids...). Just make your game fun, challenging or whatever your goal is and have
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by metafex 12y ago
Make them the laughing stock of the world and nobody will take them serious anymore. As bad as the things they do are, it can't get anymore classy for a countermeasure. No war on whatever really helps the people, but this hopefully ope
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by metafex 12y ago
You get used to that pattern ;-) Also, the "I never need generics" made me smile. Sure, one can get by without them, but sometimes, as I said above, it would be really nice to have them.
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by metafex 12y ago
Lack of generics seems to always be the argument against Go. I have been coding in Go for over a year now nearly every day and it really became an annoyance only once: CRUD operations in a web-service expecting JSON-objects. That's l
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by metafex 12y ago
Yeah, I know, it's the unix concept thought further :)
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by metafex 12y ago
> Yes, UNIX has a bunch of nice ideas, but that is all. Ouch, that actually hurts a little. Yes, the kernel team at Microsoft is the real deal, but I'll not go into that. As to "a bunch of nice ideas", I'd suggest you
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by metafex 12y ago
It's basically for the fun of it. Trying out exotic hardware and getting out of your comfort-zone. For me it's just exploring things and maybe a reason to dust off those gadgets and play around with them. OTOH VMs are of course fa
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by metafex 12y ago
I may have the Plan 9 books on my shelf, but I too think that it is sad that Minix didn't succeed. Nonetheless, the grant from the European Union to fund further development of Minix is something really remarkable. With this Minix got
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by metafex 12y ago
It looks like others don't share the same sentiment ;-)
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by metafex 12y ago
Still, for simple high-bandwidth networking needs it should suffice.
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by metafex 12y ago
Damn, a Thunderbolt 2 PCIe card with two ports costs ~55€. That would make for one hell of a replacement for 10G Ethernet. Double the speed and cheaper. Does anyone know how the linux support for this is?
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by metafex 12y ago
A few years ago I worked for a small Telco company who provided software for virtual MNOs, and security there was not that, let's say, inspiring confidence. It is generally a problem with small companies in the Internet and Mobile-serv
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by metafex 12y ago
Macros used right can really help to clean up messy code and/or reduce repeating code to something clearer (e.g. in crypto-code).
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by metafex 12y ago
What a beautiful way to deal with runtime errors. This makes me really want to pick up rust again (and find a bug in the runtime :) )