necovek

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by necovek 9mo ago
In general, some tools like mplayer or VLC allow playing an MP4 file without an "index", but may require certain CLI arguments. There are tools which can fix that too (was it mconvert from mplayer or ffmpeg, not sure).
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by necovek 9mo ago
Thanks for the explanation: I disagree with both, though. Yes, it is hard for customers to understand the determinism behind some software behaviour, but they can still do it. I've figured out a couple of problems with software I was u
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by necovek 9mo ago
Impossible is a strong word when what you probably mean is "impractical": do you really believe that there is an actual unexplainable indeterminism in software programs? Including in concurrent programs.
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by necovek 9mo ago
I was involved with bzr and Launchpad: anybody using pure Git hated it. GitHub, even with fewer features compared to LP, was pretty well regarded. Yes, kernel and Linus used it, but he used a proprietary VCS before that did not go anywhere
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by necovek 9mo ago
I do not think that's how it worked out for GitHub: I'd rather say that Git (as complex as it was to use) succeeded due to becoming the basis of GitHub (with simple, clean interface). At the time, there were multiple code hosting
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by necovek 9mo ago
Well, if there is an emergency lane to the right... it actually happens quite a bit around here.
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by necovek 9mo ago
I believe inattentive driving correlates more with accidents than things like hard braking, and might be the leading cause of hard braking too (inattentive driving will lead to following distance being reduced too as you are not watching fo
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by necovek 9mo ago
I've contributed almost full time to free software as a student. When I became a professional software developer, suddenly I lost the time to do it.
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by necovek 9mo ago
Yeah, there are ways to reduce the impact (as a sibling comment mentioned, typos or commands missing on a system could still be used to trick the operator), but I was mostly explaining the attack vector in case it is present in the PATH.
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by necovek 9mo ago
Sure, but this would be contained to when your CWD is ~/bin or ~/.local/bin (or wherever you put your "-" scripts in).
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by necovek 9mo ago
Which was the point here, wasn't it? Script files that you will be commonly running and only editing rarely, I'd optimize for how easy they are to run, not operate other commands on them from within a shell.
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by necovek 9mo ago
On non-English keyboards (Serbian/Croatian/Slovenian, but as they are based on QWERTZ, I imagine German and possibly others too), both "+" and "-" might not require pressing Shift either, and are much better ch
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by necovek 9mo ago
Sounds quite a bit like Zope in the Python ecosystem. In theory, all nice and dandy, in practice, too much of a fuss. And in the usual SW engineering manner, it gets "solved" by adding a "simplified" layer on top, making
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by necovek 9mo ago
Somebody mentioned it elsewhere, but it is a security risk: if you end up in a directory that's not under your control, and you do a "ls", it might execute "./ls" instead of /usr/bin/ls, and that
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by necovek 9mo ago
Heh, who else remembers the golden benchmark, a US Robotics 56k hw modem (the only one I could find locally was an external one too) to get online in either NT4 or Linux. But when I finally did save for one, I could fully leave Windows behi
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by necovek 9mo ago
Windows is ultimately a lot more complex, and not open source. This also builds on the Linux ecosystem, so even if it comes from Microsoft, I imagine engineering culture is different from that on Windows and especially their online platform
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by necovek 9mo ago
If anything, Microsoft has a lot of problems because they support a wide variety of crappy hardware and allow just about anyone to write kernel level sw (drivers). Not sure if this changed, but they used to run in the ring0 even. This was m
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by necovek 9mo ago
Maybe we need secure attestation for sandbox to be protected against compromised host :) It does sound hard, and might need to employ homomorphic encryption with hw help for any memory access after code has been also verifiably unaltered th
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by necovek 9mo ago
It was certainly one perspective that was valuable to have: I imagine everybody understood that it was by CIA (it was in the name!) with everything that implies even with "fact" in the name. There were still actual facts in there,
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by necovek 9mo ago
I'd actually go a step further: even science and scientific method require a sort of "faith" that the underlying assumptions (axioms of formal logic and algebra at the very least) are true. The core difference is that science
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by necovek 9mo ago
This is becoming futile: this is not even about proof, but there not even being a full account of two cases you are basing your opinion on. Obviously, you can derive any opinion you want out of that, but while I am used to terms like "
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by necovek 9mo ago
Thanks for confirmation, but anatomies of people, especially at the p5/p95 extremes, can be widely different: maybe I've got a very small head with a short forehead :) So in a sense, I'd still like an option to mount it diffe
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by necovek 9mo ago
Hopefully a sea platform does not end up flying into space all of its own, only to crash and burn back down. Maybe the AI workloads running on it achieve escape velocity? ;)
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by necovek 9mo ago
Being 6'5" myself, I am worried I'd be blinded by the lamp when I stand up: to avoid adding a base under (an already bulky) base, is there a way to separate the lamp itself and have it wall/ceiling mounted (still pointin
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by necovek 9mo ago
Hey Senko, did you consider using ZFS or BTRFS snapshotting feature to simplify some of the things you need? For GH auth tokens, you could also pull that outside the sandbox, and have the agent push to a local clone exposed to the host, and
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by necovek 9mo ago
That's interesting, how does Chrome implement "sandboxing" in Windows and MacOS? For Linux, does it use the same underlying technology as Docker, Podman, LXD, LXC (cgroups, namespaces...)? Or is a custom "sandboxing&quot
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by necovek 9mo ago
I object to your conclusion that "they have no durable principles": not sure how do you get to that from two different experiences documented with a single paragraph.
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by necovek 9mo ago
As described there, this assumes slow overnight charging, and latest generation of batteries (not sure how viable that was the time of EV1). Even LiOn batteries have charging patterns as the blocker to adoption, which means that practically
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by necovek 9mo ago
With so many discharge/recharge cycles common for a 105-mile range vehicle, how long would that NiMH battery last?
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by necovek 9mo ago
I am saying there is no evidence either way: they had contrasting experiences and one GP established this means that company has no standardized policies. Maybe they do, maybe they don't — I don't think we can definitively conclud

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