sidpatil

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   by sidpatil 5y ago

   > And yet, if everyone does it, then Asian countries will also end up with no community -- because all the young people will be in the West. Not to mention the impact on prices in those countries. Over the long term, lots of young people
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   by sidpatil 5y ago

   > I have never used dwm seriously, but as far as I can tell the main feature it offers over i3 is tagging. What are you specifically referring to when you say "tagging"?
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   by sidpatil 5y ago

   Spoilers: Tubas on a checkerboard turned out to be an addicting VR game, to the point where the entire crew of the Enterprise was essentially zombified. Wesley and Ensign Robin Lefler (played by guest star Ashley Judd) saved the day.
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   by sidpatil 5y ago

   > 20/30 years ago, for whatever reason, a percentage of consumer batteries would be already dead when they left the factory. My uneducated guess is that manufacturing defects led to internal shorts or opens, both of which eventually
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   by sidpatil 5y ago

   The article mentions that this will be possible due to zswap. But SD card failure is a problem that Raspberry Pis are notorious for. Will this swapping wear out the cards and lead to failure even faster?
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   by sidpatil 5y ago

   I've been hoping for a long time that something like this existed. Now I've finally found it.
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   by sidpatil 5y ago

   > Reducing energy consumption is not the answer. Why not?
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   by sidpatil 5y ago

   See also psDooM, a similar concept for Unix processes. http://psdoom.sourceforge.net/
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   by sidpatil 5y ago

   Both WhatsApp and iMessage have supported this feature for a while.
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    by sidpatil 5y ago

    > “20% of electric car owners switch back to gas-powered cars of electric car owners switch back to gas-powered cars” Huh?
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    by sidpatil 5y ago

    > However there is a way to bake in discrete component values into the continuous optimization problems by using a continuous/"soft"/differentiable approximation of the min function to make "pockets" of opti
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    by sidpatil 5y ago

    Some of the older electronic equipment for military and scientific users had built-in ashtrays: https://mobile.twitter.com/resobscura/status/100735051103555...
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    by sidpatil 5y ago

    Check out Guix, which uses a Scheme dialect (Guile) for scripting.
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    by sidpatil 5y ago

    I thought that was a write-protect tab. That shouldn't have affected the ability to read from the tape, but only the ability to record to it.
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    by sidpatil 5y ago

    Do you have a sample comparison between an expression/statement in math syntax versus in pseudocode syntax?
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    by sidpatil 5y ago

    > Web 3.0 In my mind, Web 3.0 was synonymous with the Semantic Web .
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    by sidpatil 5y ago

    Also see CHDK [1], a FOSS firmware replacement for Canon point-and-shoot cameras. [1] https://chdk.fandom.com/wiki/CHDK
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    by sidpatil 5y ago

    If I understand correctly, OpenVMS made this straightforward—it was easy to call code written in one language from code written in another language. What we have today: 1) stick to languages which target a common VM, 2) hope your language s
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    by sidpatil 5y ago

    > For more obscure pinouts, I still check https://pinouts.ru/ One of my favorite resources on the Web. Information-dense, loads fast, easy to navigate.
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    by sidpatil 5y ago

    So you're saying he's the Nicolas Bourbaki of the software world.
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    by sidpatil 5y ago

    The source is available in a zip file on the download page. I didn't see any links to a VCS repo (but I also didn't look very carefully.)
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    by sidpatil 5y ago

    I've essentially stopped using Unison in favor of FreeFileSync. Its GUI is much more featureful and informative, not to mention easier to use. For example, I get live stats (bandwidth, files/second, etc. on a chart) during sync op
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    by sidpatil 5y ago

    Overall, FreeFileSync is more like Unison [1] than like Syncthing or rsync. Though, I haven't really used rsync, so I can't make a detailed comparison. Syncthing is automated/daemon, so the syncing happens in the background a
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    by sidpatil 5y ago

    > I asked what if we delete data from app by mistake? They told me we need to be careful not to do that. Ah, the Vinnie Boombatz treatment.
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    by sidpatil 5y ago

    Hey, just what you see pal.
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    by sidpatil 5y ago

    > There's no "secondhand" alcohol drinking like there is secondhand smoking Counterexample: drinking while pregnant.
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    by sidpatil 5y ago

    The country of Oman has something like this. If you are not Muslim, you can apply for a permit which will allow you to purchase alcohol in restaurants and state-owned liquor shops.
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    by sidpatil 5y ago

    The way I always understood it is that "open source" and "free software" are orthogonal concepts: Open source = bazaar-style (highly-decentralized development) Not open source = cathedral-style (highly-centralized develo
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    by sidpatil 5y ago

    > I think they’re confusing source licensing with a development methodology. Which is why as nitpicky as it sounds, we should really be making an effort not to use the term "open source" to refer to both.
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    by sidpatil 5y ago

    FORTRAN, the OG of scientific languages, is not slow. In fact, that's why it's still used to this day.