ploxiln

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by ploxiln 1y ago
A multitude of tiny dependencies has a multitude of solo maintainers, who eventually walk away, or sometimes get compromised. A few big dependencies each have a team and a reputation that has earned trust and established release process and
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by ploxiln 1y ago
I feel like it was around 10 to 15 years ago that some people were excited to eliminate all the setuid on various binaries in a linux distro, by using linux file xattr capabilities. And eventually it became apparent that this wasn't su
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by ploxiln 1y ago
Not really. ECC memory will have an extra ram chip, and store an extra bit per byte or so, for that error detection/correction. DDR5 only has error-correction bits added to the bus, regular DDR5 doesn't have extra chips/bits
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by ploxiln 1y ago
> I am a consumer who is concerned about evil maid attacks This is seriously the least likely way for you to be hacked. Much more likely is that an auto-update is downloaded and run from a hacked server, or you sometimes use pip/npm
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by ploxiln 1y ago
I've seen a bunch of big companies have edicts sent down from the top, "all employees should be using LLMs, if you're not then you're not doing your job". But many employees just don't have much that it applies
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by ploxiln 1y ago
There's such thing as too many options, and there's also such thing as too few. This is one of the important ones. I'd say that macOS, Gnome, and Windows have definitely hidden or removed a lot of important options in the pas
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by ploxiln 1y ago
I think the only problem is that it's a surprise and mystery, particularly because "dumb" alphabetical sort has existed forever. When they "fixed this" for the 99% of regular users cases, they should have made it as
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by ploxiln 1y ago
Sometimes it seems like half the comment sections (but probably more like 20% lol) have a "what is wrong with all of you" as the top-rated comment, and I have to scroll way down, 5 or 10 top-level comments, before I find an exampl
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by ploxiln 1y ago
The Pi 3 B+ is still available for $35, it's what I still use on occasion - as an ad-hoc networked sensor, or an LED or switch controller, or an weird eeprom programmer ... Sure I could use an arduino in many cases, but the Pi running
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by ploxiln 1y ago
This math is missing a step: $200k went to your publisher who already gave you the $200k, so really you got about $394k total (before your taxes). And it's worth remembering that your publisher got $194k ... I'm not sure if this p
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by ploxiln 1y ago
Debian maintainers in 2009 did not let it slide, they did fix it in 2009 ... but it came back, twice! (and it seems not many cared about StarDict in 2015 to fix it promptly that time) > the same kind of problem was reported by Pavel Mach
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by ploxiln 1y ago
> Are you their parent? If not, we'll cut this favor short and just call child services". > Then do it. Call 911, say there's an injured, unattended child at the playground, and you're getting a hostile response fr
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by ploxiln 1y ago
You do need a newer SDK to update the target-sdk-version though. And you may find that libraries you used are not compatible, unless you update them, and updating them may break things. Maybe for a minimal app in pure java or kotlin this wo
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by ploxiln 1y ago
Most security features are, yeah. The cost in terms of freedom/flexibility and reliability/longevity is very high. But we're told, this is necessary, it's the only way to guarantee the security of the poor user. But if i
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by ploxiln 1y ago
Teller, from Penn and Teller, I think https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Penn_%26_Teller
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by ploxiln 1y ago
Maybe TAs are a good metaphor. Back in college, the classmates who went to TAs for help multiple times every week, really didn't get the material. I literally never went to a TA for help in my life, and learned the material much better
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by ploxiln 1y ago
> mega funds and giga corps throwing ridiculous cash for pay to win > This is just M2 expansion and wealth concentration I actually think "throwing ridiculous cash" _reduces_ the wealth concentration, particularly if a chunk
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by ploxiln 1y ago
What gets me about public recycling communications/outreach/programs is that they always emphasize "recycle more" and never "recycle carefully". Really it should be "First, don't put junk in the recyc
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by ploxiln 1y ago
I don't know why anyone would not include the "delivery" fee, I think it really is that cheap in many places in the US. Here in NYC the "supply" charge is much less than half of the total bill. If I add up all the
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by ploxiln 1y ago
Well, consider, you could have paid more for a different car that has better software, like a Tesla, Lucid, Rivian ... but you didn't. I'm not blaming you, I initially thought a VW ID.4 was a cool option. It just wasn't clear
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by ploxiln 1y ago
I see, thanks. ( Found it here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/9/7/716 )
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by ploxiln 1y ago
The real problem here was "-Werror", dogmatically fixing warnings, and using the position of privilege to push in last-minute commits without review. Compilers will be updated, they will have new warnings, this has happened numero
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by ploxiln 1y ago
> Netscape, in contrast, sells the consumer version of Navigator for a suggested price of $49. Users can download a free evaluation copy from the Internet, but it expires in 90 days and does not include technical support. https:/&#
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by ploxiln 2y ago
jest (or whatever was trying to auto-detect a "sapling" repo) should take explicit configuration to enable "sapling" or "mercurial" or whatever integration. And not try to run "sl" 16+ times in variou
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by ploxiln 2y ago
Yes, I've had the Framework 13 AMD ryzen 7840u for about 1.5 years. First few months had a lot of "use this distro with this kernel" but after 1 or 2 linux kernel releases it's been good, on Arch Linux with Cinnamon Desk
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by ploxiln 2y ago
Looking for the most "extreme" high-quality micro-sd cards on Amazon, and also on B&H to avoid the chance of counterfeits, I'm struck by how they are all so damn cheap. Whether SanDisk Ultra, Extreme, Extreme Plus, Extrem
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by ploxiln 2y ago
Wow, so ironic.
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by ploxiln 2y ago
My rough impression is that immigration and housing policy contributed significantly to his low approval ratings. Trudeau enacted a rather large increase in immigration a few years ago, and this caused a rather large increase in housing and
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by ploxiln 2y ago
A) New library versions are roughly as likely to introduce new bugs, as they are likely to fix old bugs. (If not, why are there still so many updates, you should be running out of bugs ...) B) If you run into a bug, update that library, the
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by ploxiln 2y ago
32-bit x86 linux will typically support 3GB per process, with 1GB kernel address area, I think? (Windows did 2GB / 2GB split by default, custom boot options can change it to 3GB / 1GB, but only some 32-bit apps fully supported it,

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