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by skissane 4mo ago
Well, you'll have a SHT_NOTE section and then PT_NOTE pointing to its contents, right? So that way the notes are accessible both via section headers and program headers. Mach-O does similarly have a distinction between sections as a li
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by skissane 4mo ago
> I think discussion here are missing that most people do not own a PC/laptop and if they do barely ever opens one, and not because they can't afford it, but it just didn't fit into their daily lives. This is obviously ent
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by skissane 4mo ago
> Wasn’t compatibility what really sunk WSL1? Yes, but a big part of the problem with WSL1 was the size of the conceptual gap between POSIX and Windows NT that WSL1 had to bridge. An “MSL1” would likely have fewer problems because the ga
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by skissane 4mo ago
If Apple wants to add some brand new feature to Mach-O, they generally just define a new load command. There's generally just one way to do it. The main downside, is (in practice) only Apple can do it. [0] Whereas, with ELF – if you wa
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by skissane 4mo ago
I honestly think Mach-O is more elegant than ELF, with its structure of load commands. Of course, ELF still wins by being more mainstream, and not being de facto under the control of a single vendor.
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by skissane 4mo ago
> I'm pretty sure all the references to X11 systems, aren't supported by the VT, that ain't X. This isn't true. The Linux VT console supports both X10 and X11 mouse reporting–except the Linux kernel source code calls
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by skissane 4mo ago
But this isn't true. console_codes is only what the Linux VT console supports. For an example of what it omits: Alternate Screen Buffer support (DECSET 1049). This is common used by full screen apps (e.g. vi, less) to save/resto
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by skissane 4mo ago
> The 19% result is real and independently replicated in over 1,800 patients, but whether bepirovirsen reduces the 1.1 million HBV deaths per year depends on trials in populations that weren't enrolled here. Do we know, how many of
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by skissane 4mo ago
> but if you want to create a pseudoterminal, it's different on each This is somewhat outdated information. POSIX.1-2001 added "posix_openpt" to create a pseudoterminal, and most POSIX implementations now support it–at lea
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by skissane 4mo ago
> The 6502 and Z80 could use 16 bit addressing to access up to 64kb of memory. The 6502 had various other addressing systems, including iirc 8 bits, but none of them were wider tha 16 bits. Many 6502 and Z80 systems used bank switching t
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by skissane 4mo ago
As an aside, I'd always been told that the actual ANSI X3.64 standard wasn't available unless you paid $$$ for it, and that's why people referred to ECMA-48 instead. Recently, I discovered that it has been available for free
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by skissane 4mo ago
> The Linux manpage for ANSI escapes is pretty comprehensive as a catalogue. [1] If you're looking for what you can actually use, and what has been deprecated, man should be the first stop. The Linux console_codes(4) man page is onl
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by skissane 4mo ago
> There were at one point switches to the WIN command to tell it whether to come up in real mode or 286 protected mode. In the latter it definitely did use the features of protected mode. Windows 3.0’s WIN.COM supported: /R for real
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by skissane 4mo ago
> but a lot of these ultra religious groups have high attrition. Many of them actually don’t. How could Kiryas Joel be growing so fast if it did? 80-90% of children stay in the faith, and when 6 kids is considered a small family, and fam
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by skissane 4mo ago
Last month, the US Census Bureau released their 2025 population estimates. In the ~5 years from April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2025, it estimates Kiryas Joel's population grew from 32,956 to 47,147 – a 43.1% increase. [0] That's not spe
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by skissane 4mo ago
For me, that only shows the first two paragraphs. This lets you read the whole article: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/spacex-oth...
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by skissane 4mo ago
And don't even care to make a serious effort to get it back. I suspect if they tried using the UDRP with a claim "we lost it by accident, cybersecurity risk, current owner is just squatting on it without actively using it" –
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by skissane 4mo ago
> Proton, Copilot, and literally this single issue are what pushed people to Linux. This isn't the only issue. I think another big issue is pushing more and more integration with Microsoft cloud services (e.g. Microsoft accounts), a
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by skissane 4mo ago
My position: If some version of panpsychism is true, AIs are plausibly conscious We don’t know whether panpsychism is true Therefore, we don’t know whether AIs are conscious Hence, confident proclamations that they aren’t conscious have dub
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by skissane 4mo ago
> I'm not a huge fan of Star Wars Andor is honestly a lot better than most of Star Wars. Heroes who are flawed and morally complicated; imperials who seem more like real human beings than cartoon villains.
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by skissane 5mo ago
To what extent does Grokipedia reflect Musk's personal ideological biases? I haven't paid that much attention to it, to be honest.
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by skissane 5mo ago
> But in that case, there is still the option to edit the page or start a discussion. Honestly, I think on any politicised topic, that’s a waste of time - there’s a large contingent of Wikipedia editors with a shared deeply ingrained per
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by skissane 5mo ago
I’ve seen cases where Wikipedia is completely missing any coverage of some topic, but AIs can cover it easily, because they are capable of doing a few web searches and pulling up relevant news articles or journal articles. Admittedly this i
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by skissane 5mo ago
I bought him a desktop with Windows installed. At some point, he decided he wanted to install Linux. He wanted to try Arch, but got stuck on the install process, so I helped him install Ubuntu. Later on, he managed to solve his problem with
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by skissane 5mo ago
China is making huge investments in biotech, and its regulators tend to be more permissive than those in many Western countries. It would not surprise me if sooner or later, China begins to take the lead in medical innovation and the US is
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by skissane 5mo ago
> How did you get him interested in Linux and OS stuffs in general? I’m sure I made some contribution, but a lot of it is just him-e.g. he’s an Arch Linux zealot, I never touched Arch until he started demanding I fix things he’d broken i
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by skissane 5mo ago
My dad asked what to get our 13 year old as a birthday present. So I asked him, and he said Jon Duckett’s JavaScript and JQuery book - which he realises is a bit dated by now (2014), but he wanted it anyway (in part because he already has
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by skissane 5mo ago
I remember being bored as a teenager on a family holiday to New Zealand in the 1990s, so I went and dialled 911 from a payphone to see what would happen-I got a recorded message saying that in New Zealand, the emergency number isn’t 911, it
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by skissane 5mo ago
The most obvious one is SIGINT agencies breaking RSA, DSA, ECDSA, ECDH, etc. Of course, the plan is by the time quantum computers become capable of breaking those algorithms in practice, the industry will have moved to post-quantum cryptogr
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by skissane 5mo ago
Economic growth isn't the only thing that people care about. If you tell people that "the cost of this policy will be reduced economic growth"–some will view that as a price worth paying. Likely that's true even for you

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