pikrzyszto

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by pikrzyszto 1mo ago
If you do not control the application that sends messages, the application can always do E2E, only to spy on the messages on the end devices and snitch if necessary... We need E2E + no "bonus features", and to ensure both hold you
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by pikrzyszto 5mo ago
It's interesting to see lack of tolerance towards potholes - the government has a lot of other issues to work on (healthcare, education, pollution) yet potholes, being a problem we are affected by daily seem more important to people th
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by pikrzyszto 2y ago
zoning is still necessary, you don't want a pig farm (or anything equally stinky) next to people's houses.
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by pikrzyszto 2y ago
You may find it beneficial to workout some pelvic floor muscles. It's possible that your muscles got weaker and struggle with doing their job as well as they used to.
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by pikrzyszto 3y ago
And then you get hit by Universal Scaling Law (or Universal Law of Computational Scalability) - see the section on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_J._Gunther You can't throw more compute at a problem ad infini
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by pikrzyszto 3y ago
I used Flattr for a while but struggled with: - flattr support discovery: Instead of having a "Flattr" button on the webpage I visit I need to navigate to flattr website and search there... but I'm not going to do that. Maybe
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by pikrzyszto 3y ago
I'm curious - why? Can you send some resources about that? Do you know if there is an alternative law I could support my claims with in UK or EU?
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by pikrzyszto 3y ago
I think it was more about security/confidentiality - when you print and scan you exactly see what's that that you're sending. No hidden HTML elements, e-mail headers and stuff like that. And they blacked out some of the stuff
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by pikrzyszto 3y ago
The effort was zero - I copy-pasted an e-mail template from the internet and volia. Yes, this is in Europe. I think I learned quite a lot, namely: - why I failed the interview (I struggled to produce correct code, the code wasn't very
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by pikrzyszto 3y ago
I once asked for a feedback, was told that they won't give any. Filed a GDPR request and got all of their e-mails and internal tickets about me and my application. Funnily, they printed this data, scanned to PDF and sent the PDF via e-
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by pikrzyszto 3y ago
Poppler ( https://poppler.freedesktop.org/ ) handles this for you with pdftotext utility. It also ships with bunch of other utilities to work with PDFs
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by pikrzyszto 3y ago
Other captchas also waste (your and captchas' provider) electricity. For example reCaptcha requires tons of resources to track your moves to ensuring you're "not a robot". Sure, the data is also used to serve you ads but
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by pikrzyszto 3y ago
See also White Rabbit Project, i.e. how to synchronize clocks over the internet with sub-ns accuracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rabbit_Project
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by pikrzyszto 3y ago
The monarch has a lot of power to vet many laws without the public even knowing it happened. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/08/royals-vette...
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by pikrzyszto 3y ago
In the UK every bigger grocery store has a bin for old batteries, disposing batteries is trivial.
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by pikrzyszto 3y ago
From https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ : > Because it's a system daemon, and under Unix/Linux those are in lower case, and get suffixed with a lower case d. And since systemd manages
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by pikrzyszto 4y ago
See the following https://kunit.dev/ - unit tests for kernel https://docs.kernel.org/dev-tools/testing-overview.html - entire testing overview.
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by pikrzyszto 4y ago
Why would it care about stracing? It was never too slow for me. A "bad" performance might be caused by ex. consistency checking. Benchmarks like these don't tell much - you can't reduce software performance to one number
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by pikrzyszto 4y ago
I'm happy we have special-purpose tools for dealing with logfiles. I don't want to craft one-liners for "give me logs around timestamp" or "give me logs about my service's first start after the boot" every
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by pikrzyszto 4y ago
"tail /var/log/nginx.log" is now "journalctl -fu nginx" or "jouranlctl -eu nginx". Not that much of a difference, it really depends what you grow up with. We could argue "tail" is ugly
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by pikrzyszto 5y ago
I'd recommend you to have a look at https://80000hours.org/ or at least their job boards: https://80000hours.org/job-board/ They focus on the very problem you're asking about.
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by pikrzyszto 5y ago
emacs, a lot of art including books, film, wheel, fire, some programming languages (C, Perl, Python)
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by pikrzyszto 5y ago
Do you happen to know where does the "So you want to" prefix originates from?
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by pikrzyszto 5y ago
a lot of scientific books are like that, for example the art of computer programming.
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by pikrzyszto 5y ago
Are there any plans for ECC memory support?
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by pikrzyszto 5y ago
Why not? It took over 350 years for people to crack Fermat's Last Theorem. Some Hilbert's problems also took very long to crack but were finally solved.
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by pikrzyszto 5y ago
Remember that a lot of software not only relies on memory that the developer explicitly allocated but also on buffers and various caches, disk cache being an example. It goes a long way - kernel might refuse dropping disk cache when it c
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by pikrzyszto 5y ago
It's hard to reliably reproduce a cross-platform benchmark. They use different compilers, different compiler flags and do not show profiles. Also some compilers tend to be quite conservative in less-known environments. http:/&#x2
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by pikrzyszto 5y ago
yes - one of the reasons behind Dragonfly conception was that it's hard to write high-performant code for all architectures at the same time. Ditching ARM64 and others means much cleaner codebase and less effort to maintain all of this
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by pikrzyszto 5y ago
A good colo provider can hook your machine to a masterswitch, serial console and put a PXE server on the LAN (or just stick an ubuntu livecd into the drive) so you can solve many problems on your own without relying on IPMI or asking remote

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