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by mfsch 6y ago
The article says “Marlinspike has served as a paid technical adviser for the project since its inception” in the same paragraph, so I would say the article is quite clear on the financial relationship.
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by mfsch 6y ago
Post Mortem of the incident discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26581027
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Load Balancer Service Degradation, March 25, 2021(netlify.com)
1 points by mfsch 6y ago|1 comments
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by mfsch 6y ago
Careful about creating mirrors, the Unsplash license [1] explicitly disallows “compiling photos from Unsplash to replicate a similar or competing service”. [1]: https://unsplash.com/license
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March Update: Status Report(pine64.org)
81 points by mfsch 6y ago|35 comments
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Rust const generics MVP hits beta(blog.rust-lang.org)
313 points by mfsch 6y ago|84 comments
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by mfsch 6y ago
What can help in Switzerland (and potentially in other countries in Europe) is to complain through a consumer protection office. SRF has a TV and radio show (Kassensturz/Espresso) where they regularly solve consumer issues by threateni
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by mfsch 6y ago
> "if it's in the AGB (terms of service) good luck arguing/defending" It might be hard to argue without suing, but legally there are provisions that if the AGB contain “surprising” terms, you have to be made specifica
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by mfsch 6y ago
They even ask you to download their proprietary app and send them a picture of your actual ID: https://www.infomaniak.com/en/support/faq/2144/blocked-order
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by mfsch 6y ago
I think the most consequential difference is that sourcehut is built on top of existing tools for distributed development with the goal of avoiding lock-in. Instead of replacing the distributed tools traditionally used in FLOSS development
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by mfsch 6y ago
It’s not just that the image is transparent though, because the color of the text changes too. I thought perhaps it’s using the site CSS to style SVG elements (which appears to be possible, though I haven’t tried it), but it turns out it’s
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by mfsch 6y ago
What’s really neat is that when you switch to dark mode in the bottom left corner, the image flips to dark mode too!
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by mfsch 6y ago
This has also been my only use of the sidebar. It looks like the new design takes this into account and moves the language selection to a more prominent location at the top right next to the title.
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by mfsch 6y ago
Related: There was a recent discussion on HN [1] of an article in which someone described their process for designing a new home, and the author recommended “The Timeless Way of Building” by Christopher Alexander as one of their inspiration
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by mfsch 6y ago
Even for floats & ints, try doing some array operations without allocating memory for intermediate results. In Julia, I can write whole PDE simulations that never allocate intermediate values inside the time integration loop. I haven’t
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by mfsch 6y ago
`view(v, 1:N)` did cause an allocation in previous versions, but the allocation was a small, fixed size while `v[1:N]` would allocate memory proportional to `N`. From what I understand, this was required to avoid garbage collection of `v` i
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by mfsch 6y ago
One thing to note is that it’s worth learning a little bit about how to write performant code in Julia and how to correctly measure its performance when evaluating the language. It’s common for people to underestimate the performance benefi
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by mfsch 6y ago
Stack-allocated views are a big deal! Even in code where the direct cost of the view allocations is acceptable (e.g. because the work per view is high), they should help a lot. Unnecessary allocations are one of the easiest way to accidenta
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by mfsch 6y ago
I’ve often wished that journalistic institutions would also publish a more long-term view on what they think is going on in the world. I think the most important effect of this could be that it would push them to consider how much their dai
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by mfsch 6y ago
I think for those it’s best to subscribe to the RSS feed of the channel. Feed readers are great for infrequently updated content!
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by mfsch 6y ago
For those sorts of scientific simulations, you probably want to use the MPI.jl package rather than the built-in parallelism – at least that’s the conclusion I came to when I started the fluids code I’m currently working on. MPI.jl is a thin
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by mfsch 6y ago
Does anyone know if this works if you change your phone number? The support article [1] still says you’ll lose your history in that case, but the scenario mentioned in the blog post (someone else scanning the QR code) seems to imply that th
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by mfsch 6y ago
The way I do it is that I whenever I start working on some functionality and it’s not immediately obvious how to implement it, I open a text file and write down my thoughts as something between stream of consciousness and design document, u
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by mfsch 6y ago
Perhaps a bit off-topic, but the chorus of “Africa” is almost exactly 20 seconds long, so it is a great song to wash your hands to if you’re sick of “Happy Birthday“.
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From Failure to Fehler(boats.gitlab.io)
3 points by mfsch 7y ago|1 comments
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What Constitutes a Vulnerability?(boats.gitlab.io)
4 points by mfsch 7y ago|0 comments
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by mfsch 7y ago
In the video they tout the X-57 as a contribution to the “urban air mobility market”, arguing that small aircraft can decrease commute times and avoid congestion. This seems very backwards to me. Cars are already very inefficient in their u
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by mfsch 7y ago
I’ve recently started a little project for my own reference manager. Since I end up writing papers in Latex, I want my bib file(s) to be the ground truth and I’m slightly obsessive about things like consistent capitalization and author name
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by mfsch 7y ago
From what I understood of the article about secure value recovery [1], SGX is used to derive a more secure key from the password you provide, so a broken SGX alone is not enough to decrypt the data stored on the server, you still need to cr
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Librem 5 Birch Shipping Announcement(puri.sm)
5 points by mfsch 7y ago|0 comments

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