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Why the “Null” Lifetime Does Not Exist(sabrinajewson.org)
1 points by qsantos 3y ago|0 comments
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by qsantos 3y ago
There is nothing special about 生きがい ( ikigai ). It's just Japanese for “reason for living”. There is a wider phenomenon where people attribute deep meaning to mundane Japanese words, such as 改善 ( kaizen , improvement), 引きこもり ( hikikomo
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by qsantos 3y ago
Shirley's review was accurate for a non-urgent MR, but was bogging an urgent ticket. Ignoring them would not have increased risk, but the policy is important to manage technical debt. A simple resolution in this case is to move the com
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Nitter Redirect: Firefox addon to view Twitter link without an account(addons.mozilla.org)
17 points by qsantos 3y ago|11 comments
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by qsantos 3y ago
But you could expect ssh localhost sh -c 'cd /tmp && pwd' to pass "sh -c 'cd /tmp && pwd'" over the network, which would trigger the expected behavior. But the arguments are
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Largest integer factored by Shor's algorithm?(crypto.stackexchange.com)
2 points by qsantos 3y ago|0 comments
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by qsantos 3y ago
For the record, I have noticed two other places where the angle brackets are missing: struct AsciiString(Vec); and impl Index> for AsciiString {
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by qsantos 3y ago
Location: Paris, France Remote: yes, I am used to working fully remote, including in English Willing to relocate: not short-term Technologies: Rust, Python, React, C & C++ Résumé/CV: https://qsantos.fr/portfolio&#x2
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by qsantos 3y ago
https://qsantos.fr/ Rants about C and undefined behaviors, random experiments with ham-compatible cryptography. I finally gave up writing my own blog engine after a few iterations over the decades. I am just using WordPress
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Our Python fileserver management code has been quite durable over the years(utcc.utoronto.ca)
1 points by qsantos 3y ago|0 comments
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by qsantos 3y ago
That's not the point from the quote, and it is actually discussed in the Google article
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by qsantos 3y ago
Check it with a cryptographic hash. With I/O bottleneck, and assuming a SSD at 300 MB/s, that should bring the latency to 3 ms, well below human perception. Even the 60 MB/s of slow HDDs should be more than fine. Anyone who h
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by qsantos 3y ago
> For example: you might not want to use Rust because its steep learning curve means you’ll spend more time learning than delivering Related to that, it might not actually be the case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by qsantos 3y ago
The clocks have not become a hundred-fold faster, I grant you that. But, combined with specialized instructions, the improvement of the instruction pipeline, the growing cache, the multiplication of shadow registers, the addition of hyperth
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by qsantos 3y ago
I am always frustrated with the usual answer to these kinds of demonstrations: “Yes, but these new apps are doing so much more. Also, security.” Except, that they are not, not at the time they are launched at least. And even if they were, w
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Rewriting Ockam in Rust(ockam.io)
4 points by qsantos 3y ago|0 comments
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by qsantos 3y ago
The crux of the argument of this article seems to be that C allows working directly with raw memory, which is necessary for some low-level tasks, such as communication with memory-mapped devices. This is not possible in pure managed languag
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Having non-x86 machines makes your life harder(utcc.utoronto.ca)
46 points by qsantos 3y ago|94 comments
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by qsantos 3y ago
Tangentially related, but I like how readable the source code of CPython (the official interpreter for Python) is. It is plain C without many shenanigans. If you wonder how Python handles big integer, hashmaps, and so on, just dive in the s
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by qsantos 3y ago
The mass of the Earth has no impact on its orbit. Think about it this way: the northern and southern halves of Earth orbits the sun in exactly the same orbit as the full Earth. Now, if we increased the mass of the Sun, however…
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Fiction Review: The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet(thecodedmessage.com)
5 points by qsantos 3y ago|0 comments
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by qsantos 3y ago
No Reddit, no Stack Overflow. Thankfully, documentation and manuals are still on various platforms and not a single website.
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Stack Overflow Is Down(stackstatus.net)
176 points by qsantos 3y ago|115 comments
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Let's Encrypt (ACME) has a decent reason for (still) using CSRs(utcc.utoronto.ca)
1 points by qsantos 3y ago|0 comments
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by qsantos 3y ago
Using the word 'DreamBerd' in your project name implies that the DreamBerd Foundation does not own your project. However, not using the word 'DreamBerd' in your project implies that the DreamBerd Foundation doe
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by qsantos 4y ago
Add this to Application Autostart in xfce4-session-settings. xcape -e 'Super_L=Control_L|Shift_L|Alt_L|Super_L|Escape' Then bind xfce4-popup-whiskermenu to Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Super+Escape in the keyboard shortcuts. You can use another