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by nrclark 4y ago
Gzip is fine for lots of tasks. It's not the most efficient compressor, either by space or speed. But it has a million implementations that all work well together. If you just need "good enough" compression with no fuss, gzip
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by nrclark 4y ago
I have the VPN problem too. For me, it's a proxy thing. My company puts an HTTP proxy in-place inside of their VPN, and Firefox picks up the settings from MacOS. When I disconnect from VPN, Firefox still has the VPN's proxy settin
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Try putting the laptop in "target disk" mode, and see if you can access it from another Mac. It'll make the laptop act like an external hard-drive, and then you can plug it into a different computer and copy off your files (o
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The model works for Redhat, yes. What about for the authors of all the FOSS packages that comprises it?
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I wish more standups would bring back that format, honestly. It's a lot more interesting than the "watch somebody use Jira" format that seems to be more common today.
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I can't speak for everybody. But for me: yes, a 5 minute standup is valuable. It's much, much better than a 30 minute standup IMO. Most people can pay attention for 5 minutes. So if the meeting's only 5 minutes, most people w
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I realize that is a bit of a topic change, but do you think that ideal reflects the reality of patents today? I've read a lot of modern patents, and not one of them was written to convey useful information. They're all dense legal
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by nrclark 4y ago
I'm not super-great with Zig, but my understanding is that `count` should be the return value, post-increment. When the return value is unspecified, Zig will default to an implicit return of the last-calculated rvalue. The same behavio
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I always think it's interesting to view meat production through the lens of history. Goats or sheep can be raised on land that's completely unsuitable for farming. Pigs and chickens can recycle food-waste into usable protein. You
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Solid approach for desktop Linux. Not possible on Unix in a general sense, because cgroups are a Linux-specific thing. They also depend on having certain kernel options enabled. So if you want to write software that can target MacOS or any
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I feel like it doesn't make sense to colonize Mars while we have any unused land on this planet. The worst deserts on this rock still have gravity and oxygen, and they aren't a rocket trip away. If you'd have to recycle your
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by nrclark 4y ago
Woah, interesting! I didn't know that Make could launch programs directly. Is that specific to GNU Make?
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This article has some questionable advice imo. SHELL := bash Bash is a much slower shell than Dash, which is why Debian and friends don't use it as /bin/sh. .ONESHELL mitigates the speed problem, but you could also j
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Maybe you're right. But it would have been better for all of his family if he'd literally lit that money on fire instead of buying thousands of unread books. At least then, he wouldn't have left us with a huge problem to deal
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by nrclark 4y ago
It's possible to take this way too far. When my grandfather passed away, I helped my father clean out his house. The man had a 5-bedroom 2500 sqft house, basically full wall-to-wall and floor-to-ceiling with books and magazines. Most o
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Anybody here ever been to Slab City? I'd love to get the HN perspective on it.
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Does Bake support dependency expression / parallel execution? Those are killer features that keep me on Make for general-purpose automation.
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I use Make for all kinds of general-purpose build automation tasks, and as kind of a top-level catch all. No Autotools to be found in them (except maybe if called from some recipe).
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GNU Autotools and GNU Make are separate things, my dude. Autotools uses Make as the backend, but so do a lot of other things too. You don't need Autotools to use Make.
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Agreed 100%. It's possible to disable the builtins (with GNU Make at least), but I wish that they were off by default.
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+1 for this, free autocomplete is the reason that I love using Make as the top-level tool, even if the actual heavy lifting is done by CMake or something.
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That problem could be a really good application for a _Generic macro, which is another newish language feature in C.
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I see tar files used with compression pretty often, usually gzip or xz. That can mess up the ability to seek around in the tar archive and build a good index. I use tar.gz as my go-to archive format, don't get me wrong. It's easy,
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by nrclark 4y ago
Compilers are often implemented as a front-end/back-end split. The front-end compiles your input language (C, C++, Rust, etc) down to a low-level language called an Intermediate Representation. Then the back-end of the compiler optimiz
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by nrclark 4y ago
Great article, very informative. If you do a follow-up, I'd love to read about how the different SCHED modes interact with each other / default operation.
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What's the comparison between this and Repo?
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Every time I see something like this, I'm struck with the idea that Zuckerberg read Ready Player One and said "yes, that's make THAT future."
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Fwiw C is actually a huge abstraction over modern hardware. It's a good representation of the PDP-11 and similar-era computers. It's also a good abstraction for modern microcontrollers. C's view of the world is also a really
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I've heard that suggestion a few times - just plan for documentation in your sprint. It's a nice idea. I've never seen it done though.
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How do the Washington/Colorado salary disclosure laws interact with bonus structures and stock grants? A staff engineer might make $250k/year in base salary, but their total comp could be much higher.

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