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by skywal_l 3y ago
It's a post announcing a draft of a library on a Rust forum and it follows an interesting discussion mainly about the public API of the library, the author being a newbie in Rust. Valuable knowledge on how to build a public API in Rust
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by skywal_l 3y ago
> Several months ago, I built a project using USB host mode on a Raspberry Pi Pico, which uses a USB numpad to pass messages to an MQTT server. This uses the Rp2040's USB host mode https://gitlab.com/baiyibai/pi
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by skywal_l 3y ago
Something of a tangent but I couldn't find anywhere a way to wirelessly extend usb ports. Allowing you to plug a mouse/keyboard/Yubikey to a computer in another room with minimum latency and without the need of any software o
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by skywal_l 3y ago
I agree we should look at the whole picture but that would mean to look at how much CO2 is rejected to produce an EV compare to a Petrol car and how much to recycle it.
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by skywal_l 3y ago
Great idea, I regularly got the urge of making something like this myself. It would be interesting to add a database of Make and model. An open source vehicule maintenance planning database containing the maintenance tasks and their period
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by skywal_l 3y ago
Does this apply to the City of London[0]? My understanding is that it has its own rules with regards to transparency for example. [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London [1] https://platform-pro
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by skywal_l 3y ago
TLDW: Andrew talk about the financials, the bug bounty program, the versioning strategy and the two main objectives on the short/medium term: 1. Get rid of LLVM and 2. Improve compiler performance. Then there is a Q&A session.
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by skywal_l 3y ago
Linus Torvald agrees with you: https://youtu.be/Pzl1B7nB9Kc?feature=shared&t=261
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by skywal_l 3y ago
glibc is LGPL. Static linking your application implies some obligation on your part. Musl being MIT is less restrictive.
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by skywal_l 3y ago
And using LTO[0] can also help. [0] https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/LinkTimeOptimization
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by skywal_l 3y ago
For those who do not know it yet, the now classic noyaml site: https://noyaml.com/
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by skywal_l 3y ago
> It looks like git.sr.ht is hosted on OVH in France They explain it here: > However, we found that OVH’s anti-DDoS protections were likely suitable: they are effective, and their cost is amortized across all OVH users, and therefo
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by skywal_l 3y ago
Incentives do matters. It should be pretty clear to anyone on this forum. The parent is absolutely right. Responsibilities do matter. In this case, there was clearly a systemic problem that was repeateadly ignored by mulitple levels of hier
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by skywal_l 3y ago
An interesting datapoint: comparison between GE HealthCare and its competitor [0]. To sum it up, here are the propotion of revenues reinvested in R&D: Philips: 12% Siemens: 8% GE: 5% [0]: https://www.linkedin.com/posts&#
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by skywal_l 3y ago
FYI, list of tools used: - Luke Stackwalker: For stack sampling (perf analysis) - ???: industry-standard disassembler - Process Dump: Dump process memory to file (for obfuscated code analysis) - x64dbg: For debug stepping. - MinHook: For pa
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by skywal_l 3y ago
Capitalism is the exploitation of men by men. Communism is the exact opposite.
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by skywal_l 3y ago
Greed, corruption and moral decadence are not soviet monopolies.
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by skywal_l 3y ago
Do you provide the vectorized version? It could be used to restore the original colors [0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38876295
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by skywal_l 3y ago
See also `Revelation Space` series of sci-fi books by Alastair Reynolds. People are being simulated so their knowledge and wisdom can be tapped after their death. [0] https://revelationspace.fandom.com/wiki/Gamma-level_
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by skywal_l 3y ago
So they send a probe to search for life on Venus (Venus Life Finder) but this is a private company [0]. What is their angle? What is the return on investment? This article [0] from September 2022 mention a planned launched in May 2023. Now
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by skywal_l 3y ago
I am sorry you feel I am being nitpicky. You are right that behind words like "attack" or "Germany" they are complex human interactions that are hard to understand in retrospect, but I fell obligated to push that discuss
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by skywal_l 3y ago
If we have to be pedantic, France declared war over Prussia. Germany did not exists at the time. And because Prussia mobilized much more effectively, it attacked France first.
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by skywal_l 3y ago
You'll be missed. Each video was interesting, fun and well made. I recommend to anyone to have a look at the backlog, especially the series about linguistics inspired by the "lingthusiasm" podcast.
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by skywal_l 3y ago
At the bottom of the article: "Created September 26, 2023".
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In the last two years only . FTFY
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> There's many cases where that's not true and indeed low-quality bug reports hurt the projects from getting better, specially for mid-to-high popular solo projects. So it's ok to report low quality bugs as long as you giv
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by skywal_l 3y ago
> There's a loose correlation of stars with quality/popularity/ activity Well if you're policy is to keep track of issues based on who stars the project, having a lot of stars means poor quality then. I kind of unders
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by skywal_l 3y ago
From the article: > switch the default 3 way merge algorithm to histogram
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by skywal_l 3y ago
I don't know enough about Flaubert, but Hugo?? Have you read some of its poetry? Have you read "The toad"? If the death of Eponine in Les Misérables does not touch you then I understand why you dismiss all these writers, but
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by skywal_l 3y ago
Why would you need an FB account?

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