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by ptx 2y ago
It just seems strange that the message rate is assumed to be in some very specific range where the performance of D-Bus is a problem (mentioned in the slides) yet the performance overhead of JSON is not a problem.
362.
by ptx 2y ago
Why wouldn't you use the magic .zfs directory on FreeBSD as well? Are the instructions assuming an older version?
363.
by ptx 2y ago
> Performance looks like a total non-issue for this use case. The presentation brings up performance as one of the problems with the D-Bus though, so it seems like it is an issue.
364.
by ptx 2y ago
Setting the serialization format issue aside, why is the D-Bus broker an issue? Why was it designed that way in the first place if all we need (supposedly) is a socket and a simple request/response protocol? If it wasn't needed, w
365.
by ptx 2y ago
So the advantage is supposedly that it's extremely simple (just NUL-terminated JSON over a stream socket!) except that, when you look at the spec, it's actually not that simple, so they have only implemented a subset, and then the
366.
by ptx 2y ago
Maybe it would help to think of "enter" as "semicolon" (since it's the statement terminator) and configure a macro or shortcut in your editor to act as "end" which decreases the indentation level by one st
367.
by ptx 2y ago
Do they really need AI to prevent page breaks in the middle of images, which seems to be the main improvement demonstrated in the screenshots? Most word processing applications have handled this perfectly well for decades.
368.
by ptx 2y ago
> Then let's say someone renamed their CNET site FFXSource. This is addressed on page 5, where they quote the trademark policy[0], which until a few days ago said: "The abbreviation 'WP' is not covered by the WordPr
369.
by ptx 2y ago
> protocol level bugs are language independent; even memory safe languages have issues. [...] This defect in particular occurs in the c# portion of the stack, not in postgres. This could have occurred in rust if similar programming pract
370.
by ptx 2y ago
I don't understand why Gradle doesn't just provide the wrapper for download. They do provide the checksums [0], so it's not like the wrapper is customized for each repo or anything, but to download it you have to download the
371.
by ptx 2y ago
Debian developers can do it right because they're not affiliated with the vendor, so they can disable user-hostile features and settings that the vendor enables by default.
372.
by ptx 2y ago
Hmm. Yup. For example, this is broken: # freebsd-update -f "/tmp/path with spaces/freebsd-update.conf" fetch usage: freebsd-update [o
373.
by ptx 2y ago
Why should sockets be faster?
374.
by ptx 2y ago
It might run into legal trouble because whoever or whatever is making the decisions needs to be given access to sensitive information. This was apparently[0] what led to the impeachment of Park Geun-hye in South Korea. [0] https:/&#x2
375.
by ptx 2y ago
The documentation for Office 2000 [1] describes version control for Visual Basic using Visual SourceSafe integration, although I'm not sure if anyone used it. [1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions
376.
by ptx 2y ago
Doesn't this violate the license of the license? The very first paragraph says that "changing it is not allowed" – or "no one can change it" in this changed version. And calling it "GNU" and attributing it
377.
by ptx 2y ago
How do you get a license for the LTSC?
378.
by ptx 2y ago
They used to gather all command line arguments until they later decided that (oops!) it's "not acceptable per our privacy policies"[0] and they really shouldn't have been doing that. They have also had issues with anonym
379.
by ptx 2y ago
.NET Core would be great if it weren't tainted by the New Microsoft policy of turning all tools into spyware. Now you have to remember to set DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT=1 everywhere and meticulously ensure that it doesn't get str
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FreeBSD 14.1-Release Announcement(freebsd.org)
5 points by ptx 2y ago|0 comments
381.
by ptx 2y ago
I've had teachers who didn't understand the subject they were teaching. It's not a good experience and replicating that seems like a terrible idea.
382.
by ptx 2y ago
The menu key was always useless anyway, because shift+F10 does the same thing.
383.
by ptx 2y ago
But the equivalent pixel value depends on the root element font size, so the comment will be wrong when that changes. If you leave the math to the browser dev tools you'll get accurate results without any AI figuring out patterns.
384.
by ptx 2y ago
Like XMLVM[0] with English instead of XML. [0] http://www.xmlvm.org/overview/
385.
by ptx 2y ago
How do the "special tokens" work? Is this a completely reliable mechanism for delimiting the different parts of the prompt? Are they guaranteed to be distinct from anything that could occur in the prompt, something like JavaScript
386.
by ptx 2y ago
Oh, I see. You want to avoid serializing the objects since they will be copied anyway with fork(), but the parent needs a way to refer to a particular object when talking to the child, so it needs to pass some kind of ID. You could also do
387.
by ptx 2y ago
Do you have any publicly available code demonstrating this pattern?
388.
by ptx 2y ago
I wonder if HN sticks to the current HTML markup (which is full of validation errors!) to preserve compatibility with third-party clients that scrape and parse it? In that case, maybe we could get a query parameter along the lines of &quo
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by ptx 2y ago
Not actually "in Excel", though. The Python code runs on Microsoft's servers (they say in the introduction) and Excel is just a client. There's no reason they couldn't embed CPython in Excel, but maybe the intention
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by ptx 2y ago
> fortunately I could use Ed Satterthwaite’s excellent offline debugging system for ALGOL W What is he referring to here? What's an "offline" debugger?

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