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by somat 7mo ago
ulimit? or more probably the c api setrlimit(2)
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by somat 7mo ago
"you catch more flies with honey than vinegar." The fun part about that truism is that when actually tried. You find out the flies love vinager, Far more than honey, something about the smell? It could be said the other way around
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by somat 7mo ago
I want to mention teapot. First an apology, it's not actually a good match for for question, sure, it's a curses spreadsheet, but it was made by someone who thought about the fundamentals of the problem a little too much. So it is
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by somat 7mo ago
It's weird but visidata is my favorite spreadsheet. "But... visidata is not a spreadsheet" I know, that's what makes it so weird. On contemplation, I think I grew dissatisfied with the normal spreadsheet data model, I wa
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by somat 7mo ago
I am not sure if I know what I am talking about or if it counts in this scenario but constraint solvers come to mind. I am mainly familiar with them in a CAD context so I am struggling to think of a use for them in a spreadsheet context. Bu
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by somat 7mo ago
Ehh, it's not theft, it's copyright infringement. And in the case of openttd, it's not the engine that has the legal problem, it's the graphics and the sound. Openttd is an engine to play transport tycoon content. If ope
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by somat 7mo ago
The funny thing about this myth is that wayland does not even try to support Mixed DPI setups, the only thing it supports is, as you put it, janky scaling. Not that X is any better in the end but at least it has the data available if any ap
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by somat 7mo ago
I don't entirely buy it, If true that should have killed the web, perhaps the web survived because it was not a product.
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by somat 7mo ago
The duality of generated content. It feels great to use. It feels terrible to have it used on you.
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by somat 7mo ago
That is exactly what it is. Move the mask light out of the visible spectrum so that the masking operation does not interfere with any colors. The sodium vapor light process was the best tech in the 1950s, Sodium vapor lights were used becau
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by somat 7mo ago
It is a well known process, Not a lot of general use so costs are not low, but not nearly as high as the original disney prism, I would guess around a 1000 USD for one. As far as I can tell any well equipped optics laboratory could make a b
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by somat 7mo ago
That is far-IR, thermal stuff, Near-IR, 700 nanometer-ish is right below red in human vision. Camera sensors can pick up a little near-IR so they have have a filter to block it. If that filter was removed and a filter to block visable light
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by somat 7mo ago
With regards to the sodium vapor process, an idea has been percolating in the back of my head ever since I saw that video. But I don't really have the budget to try it out. theory: make the mask out of non-visable light illuminate the
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by somat 7mo ago
"From the dawn of the Space Age through the present, NASA has relied on resilient software running on redundant hardware to make up for physical defects, wear and tear, sudden failures, or even the effects of cosmic rays on equipment.&
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by somat 7mo ago
I think it is part of a more general problem, I don't think anybody intends to make a terrible DSL it is just a natural progression from. 1.we have a command line program 2.command line args are traditionally parsed by getopt
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by somat 7mo ago
Not just modern machines, the Nintendo64 was memory bound under most circumstances and as such many traditional optimizations (lookup tables, unrolling loops) can be slower on the N64. The unrolling loops case is interesting. Because the cp
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by somat 7mo ago
The funny thing is that X11 can actually do heterogeneous dpi and Wayland can't. Unfortunately you will never find yourself in a situation to actually use a mixed dpi X11 setup (you lose your homogeneous desktop) and Wayland is better
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by somat 7mo ago
It is a stupid law but I feel people are overthinking this. For compliance the os has to provide an age category to an application and an interface for the user to enter this data. We already have an api to provide information to applicatio
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by somat 7mo ago
Attributes exist due to it's origin as a markup language. XML is actually (big surprise) a pretty good markup language. Where the tags are sort of like function calls and the attributes are args. With little to no information to be gle
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by somat 7mo ago
See also: postscript. The document structure extensions being comments always bothered me. I mean surely, surely in a turing complete language there is somewhere to fit document structure information. Adobe: nah, we will jam it in the comme
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by somat 7mo ago
XML makes for a pretty good markup language and an ok data interchange format(not a great fit, but the tooling is pretty good). but every single time I have seen it used as a programing language I found it deeply regrettable. For comparison
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by somat 7mo ago
I still enjoy building my pc's, But I put them in 4u server chassis. they are built better and have sane airflow. I have not been 13 for a long time and it is tricky to find non rgb parts anymore. No windows on my case but it still loo
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by somat 7mo ago
The requirement for unique user names is a little strange, I was putting together a small internal tool recently and after a bit of thought decided to use an opaque internal id for users and let the users pick and change their name and secr
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by somat 7mo ago
Hmm, that is interesting, why was that version originaly hosted on 3drealms site? Probably nothing, somebody there just wanted to share a cool picture. But what if that were an early apogee shareware distribution bbs?
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by somat 8mo ago
I am less sure about the others (capsicum, seccomp) but the threat model for opebsd's pledge is not that you don't trust the process, you do trust the process, otherwise you would not be running it. The threat pledge is trying to
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by somat 8mo ago
On a related subject, physical media, like a song album. I started by wondering if there were ever any solid state distribution options (One Company tried SD cards) and then started digging into the underlying storage tech to see if I could
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by somat 8mo ago
On the subject of "Things that should be in DNS" the public suffix list. Why on earth is data describing DNS trust boundaries not in the DNS? It's bizarre. https://publicsuffix.org/ So here is my RFC to corre
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by somat 8mo ago
It's flat (technically modal, but that does not make it more casual) interface with everything as invisible hotkeys and a near command line interface (the legos all over the place, actually in this case a better analogy would be legos
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by somat 8mo ago
I think stacking windows looks better, makes for a cool screenshot when trying to sell the thing. But tiling windows are more ergonomic for actually using the infernal machine. For me the revelation was that I have never said "Oh boy I
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by somat 8mo ago
It's the duality of user interface design. Two forces at war with each other. The professional interface is a complete mess. flat not nested, functionality duplicated all over the place, widgets strewn across the screen like a toddler

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