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by plq 3y ago
> You write "cat filename" and you can free your mind and focus on the rest of the pipes. Without cat, you have to keep filename in your mind while you write the first command. In bash (don't know about other shells) the &
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by plq 3y ago
Arch is not bad but last I looked it didn't have what Portage calls "slotting" ie the ability to have multiple versions of the same package installed side-by-side. It's especially helpful when eg. you are upgrading postg
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by plq 3y ago
Next time this happens, switch to git as synchronization method for the gentoo portage tree and checkout a tree that is, say, 3 months ahead of the last update date. Once that update is done, fast forward another 3 months and repeat until r
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by plq 3y ago
All quite reasonable additions to the language, kudos to the GCC team. I'm /very/ sad to see the unprototyped functions to go though -- that was my favourite way to catch newbies off-guard! Oh well ... As for those who like t
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by plq 3y ago
Oh sure, do that. But don't forget that these kinds of articles are written by lucky people whose "targets" were of interest to others. Would you care if I told you I held a world record in the 98m sprint? Embrace your weirdn
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by plq 3y ago
I never use pip for the system site-packages, that's the job of the distro package manager. As for pip install --user, I sometimes nuke the local repo so wouldn't be a robust solution given my workflow.
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by plq 3y ago
If your distro doesn't have a package for the backend of this plasmoid yet, it invokes the backend with[1]: python3 -m ddcci_plasmoid_backend So you can probably get away with this: git clone https://github.com
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by plq 4y ago
So I'm supposed to have a PDF reader to implement a PDF reader? What's the bootstrapping strategy here? tsk.
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by plq 4y ago
mmap() basically adds a new swap file that is only to be used for the contents of that specific file . This means it does page eviction on memory pressure and also results in deduplication as mmap'd memory of the same file can be used
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by plq 4y ago
So that's what he was wearing while waiting for the db dump to finish, I guess? Man, tech reporters are killing me sometimes.
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by plq 4y ago
And that's the exact joke I expected to find when I clicked on this post :) Anyhoo, kudos to the team for shipping. Building a generic game engine for the global audience is a massive undertaking.
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by plq 4y ago
His "arguments" are at the "This Is Gatekeeping" paragraph. It boils down to "spreadsheets are too fragile to be the foundation of any business-critical data pipeline"
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by plq 4y ago
In principle, they are not enabled by default because a C compiler must be able to compile standard C by default. One practical reason I can think of is because not everyone compiles their own code. You must most definitely look for and ena
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by plq 4y ago
This sounds like an exokernel design. What forces you to use the compiler that generates the trusted code to replace the MMU?
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by plq 4y ago
Ah yes, of course. A "mental" typo from my part, I guess.
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by plq 4y ago
> Also, "uninstallable" means "cannot be installed" Nope. In writing, it's technically ambiguous -- it could mean both "can't be installed" or "can't be uninstalled" but to me it mea
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by plq 4y ago
> decentralized != untrusted You can only trust the nodes that you control. That's not what I'd call a decentralized system.
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by plq 4y ago
I'll try to explain with an example: If you have an object at position (x1,y1,z1), at some time t1, and you want to move this object to a different position so that at time t2, it's at position (x2,y2,z2), you must have t2>t1.
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by plq 4y ago
Gentoo rocks. Installing Gentoo is a wonderful learning experience and it's the most flexible distro out there -- especially if you need to run a patched userland. Not mentioned: Gentoo Prefix project is useful for managing a Gentoo in
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by plq 4y ago
Think of it this way: If we say that we perceive the world in 3D space and 1D time (x,y,z,t), the t dimension is special: You can't change x,y,z if you don't advance t. Inversely, if x,y,z is constant, t doesn't need to advan
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by plq 4y ago
Hey, first let me be clear that I think it's great that Google is developing Flutter in the open, publishes it under a permissive license while also trying to get along with other contributors. However, it's not a community projec
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by plq 4y ago
Is there a CLA? Do I have to waive ownership of my contributions for my code to be merged? If yes then it's not a community project. Domain ownership has little to do with it. Look at who owns github.com :)
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by plq 4y ago
That's insightful, thanks. I contributed a script for building NSS on windows to vcpkg and even the build system in use (GYP, abandonware at this point) is technical debt in and of itself.
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by plq 4y ago
While OpenSSL is among the building blocks of the Internet, I find NSS to be a higher quality library, mostly because it doesn't break API like OpenSSL does, but also because it's a more complete solution that comes with an OS abs
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by plq 4y ago
> someone actually _DOES_ it. Sure, but my point stands: It still doesn't matter as a production platform :) hncat 34568832 | sed "s/runs production code on WSL/cares about WSL as a production platform/g&qu
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by plq 4y ago
> WSL 2 gcc version 7.5.0 (Ubuntu 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04) Why not run the benchmarks in an environment that matters? Latest stable gcc is 12 and I wouldn't think anybody runs production code on WSL.
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by plq 4y ago
It's an Android device. It has wifi. I really don't see how Sony could prevent its owner from using Spotify (or any other Android app for that matter) on it.
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by plq 4y ago
Well that'd work too :) The adoption of a particular memory allocation strategy depends on a lot factors. This is C++ after all.
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by plq 4y ago
You use custom memory management where it matters, gc anywhere else.
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by plq 4y ago
> Instead of reducing bugs, these might be introducing new footguns. Same thing could be/has been said about std::string_view or std::span but here we are. Like you said, a bare pointer could mean anything . This at least standar

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