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by ploxiln 2y ago
Security and Compliance gets to violate all good sense, because it's just sooo important . They can run un-reviewed un-sandboxed daemons as root on every system if they really want, they can have changes pushed automatically without r
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by ploxiln 2y ago
https://lwn.net/Articles/953144/ > Recently, though, the company has rearchitected its products, adding a large RISC-V processor (the GPU system processor, or GSP) and moving much of the functionality once hand
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by ploxiln 2y ago
> I never went to college I did ... the thing is, most college students need a lot of help, especially in earlier classes. On a statistical level it's somewhat the opposite of a population of self-taught programmers, who self-select
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by ploxiln 2y ago
> writing a modern browser (i.e. one that for example uses multiple cores efficiently by doing layout/rendering/etc in parallel) is almost impossible in C++ C++ also happens to be the only language in which that has been accomp
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by ploxiln 2y ago
Maybe not as bad, but similar ... I've had a frontend dev say they needed to see designs from the designer before they could add any kind of error message or indicator. The status-quo is just silence, the page just stops doing anything
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by ploxiln 2y ago
It is an issue for some modern big titles on PC. Trying to find some links that have somewhat general overview ... https://twistedvoxel.com/unreal-engine-5-pc-stuttering-issue... https://www.eurogamer.net/di
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by ploxiln 2y ago
The zig compiler can compile C and C++, using llvm, and it also packages various libc implementations, including glibc, musl, mingw, and msvc, and more for other OSes. Some people use it as a more convenient golang-like cross-compiler. And
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by ploxiln 2y ago
Fedora First (tm) - they are always trying to push the NEW HOTNESS way before it's ready. PulseAudio, wayland, systemd, all the extra systemd features that shouldn't be part of an init system, Gnome 3, there's always jank new
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by ploxiln 2y ago
How can you improve software, without tracking the ever-living s*** out of your users? (How did programmers do it for the first 30-ish years? As we all know, it's impossible ...)
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by ploxiln 2y ago
On my Sony Xperia I can force battery limit to 90% or 80%, but on my parent's Pixel 5a only the automatic/adaptive option was available? This seems like one of those things that's easy to offer, but Google hides it to be more
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by ploxiln 2y ago
Dnsmasq is one of those humble low-resources low-dependencies low-churn low-level tools that ends up in a bunch of places - so many home/SMB routers, "internet sharing" features of linux-based OSes (like android but also linu
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by ploxiln 2y ago
1) dev-requirements.txt 2) pip install . (optionally with -e)
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by ploxiln 3y ago
The noisy fan really varies by device. My Air Graident Basic DIY makes very little noise. I have another device I got earlier, a "Lonicera" (some chinese brand) and it looks like it has an extremely similar Plantower PM sensor ins
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by ploxiln 3y ago
(possible sarcasm detected ;) (A 2-3-4 triangle is not a right triangle, no angle is 90º)
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by ploxiln 3y ago
pip and venv are officially sanctioned. (venv and "ensure-pip" are included in python-3.x) That's all you really need (after you have the desired version of python).
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by ploxiln 3y ago
It's so much money that all the best scammers can't resist, and so much bureaucracy/regulation that all the honest folks reach their limit and move on.
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by ploxiln 3y ago
I'm reminded of this recent post about the Redis fork to be maintained by Drew Devault: https://andrewkelley.me/post/redis-renamed-to-redict.html > Redict is a Finished Product > Drew is a controversial pers
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by ploxiln 3y ago
Haha - there are many graybeards who would call most of systemd kinda crazy (myself included). But let's not get derailed into the old systemd debate here :)
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by ploxiln 3y ago
I write the backup codes in a small paper notebook, kept in a drawer at home. I've had to use it maybe once in the past decade. It's very unlikely that I'll lose both my phone and the notebook at the same time. It's extr
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by ploxiln 3y ago
That's exactly it. After "shipping the work to production" (making it faster for everybody), the overall average and p95 got worse. Each sub-population experienced improvement: countries with fast internet got faster youtube,
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by ploxiln 3y ago
If I recall the youtube slow-internet optimisation case correction, I think it is an example of Simpson's paradox. They made it faster for countries with fast internet, and faster for countries with slow internet, and then the average
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by ploxiln 3y ago
> Those who are censored are free to make their own websites to host their speech. I'm very sympathetic to this argument. Seems fair to me. But then Cloudflare, and any host big enough to withstand DDoS attacks, is strongly pressure
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by ploxiln 3y ago
"academic" as in "theoretically we can have object-oriented instructions in the CPU!" ... "theoretically the compiler can do all the instruction scheduling!" ... in practice oh please no
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by ploxiln 3y ago
> extreme internal competition in Intel to kill anything that might even vaguely threaten x86 Actually, Intel has tried pretty hard to kill x86, multiple times, and failed. Most recently Itanium, but before that iAPX-432, and a couple ot
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by ploxiln 3y ago
Unfortunately, how much you pay to recycle is hidden, in your taxes. You kinda need to know how much your cities pays for the recycling, vs trash, for each kind of material. Probably possible, but not easy. (But we know you can get paid for
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by ploxiln 3y ago
If you read the article, this isn't swallowing errors, it's just returning more-backwards-compatible errors. > ...when the app tries to print, it will ask the user to select a printer, and show an empty list. The user realizes,
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by ploxiln 3y ago
For renting apartments, it's just like this in NYC. But nothing like this in most of the country. I rented in Pittsburgh for a few years in college, and a suburb north of LA for a couple years after that, and the application documentat
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by ploxiln 3y ago
> the GrapheneOS golden rule applies: don’t try to be a ‘power user.’ The devices GrapheneOS supports are thoroughly modern and will manage their own battery health automatically, far better than you ever could manually So this advise i
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by ploxiln 3y ago
Ice dispenser in the door is apparently a huge risk factor for fridge failure. The ice making machinery either being in the non-frozen section, and/or having some mechanical components passing through the insulating door, makes it stru
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by ploxiln 3y ago
Also consider the carbon footprint of using caches! Apparently it takes longer, because it has to send/recv more data, compress and decompress, cause load on other systems ... It's really kinda impossible to judge the carbon footp

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