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by somat 2y ago
Yes, and that function goes by several names, I call it the hash function, a deterministic operation that returns unordered results. The non-deterministic variant of this I call random(). if you want deterministic results, you should use th
872.
by somat 2y ago
ah, the seed, an innocent implementation detail, but many people latch on to this and missuse random as a hash function. The one I remember was this screwball long term archival system from the early 2000's, zipped business archives on
873.
by somat 2y ago
Opposing goals, the purpose of markdown is to have a nice looking plain text document that can be automatically typeset and asciidoc is to have a well structured plain text document that can be automaticly typeset. Note that markdown'
874.
by somat 2y ago
Quick, we need to come up with a retconed acronym(retronym) of RISC that makes the "S" into simple.
875.
by somat 2y ago
"what if a single cell could hold multiple values at once?" Somebody is rediscovering why slide rules are nice. you get your answer but you simultaneously get nearby answers as well. I am not sure what the modern ui equivalent wou
876.
by somat 2y ago
Probably attempting to correct the shipping imbalance. Shipping china to US is much cheaper than shipping US to china. My understanding is that a large part of that is due to china not needing to pay full local delivery(USPS) fees. Somethin
877.
by somat 2y ago
This is why I have doubts about self driving cars, it changes the accountability from the driver to the manufacturer. And I have a hard time believing the manufacturer would want that liability, no matter how well they sold. This is also th
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by somat 2y ago
I could see a poorly coded stringly parsed interface (think sql) triggering on a mid span character sequence. but I agree, it would have to be a real mess of an interface. For example the client uses "eof" to separate or end queri
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by somat 2y ago
> C wasn’t available—buying it would have been expensive as well! On the subject of expensive mainframe software, I got to do the spit take once of "you are paying how much for a lousy ftp client? per month!" I think it was aro
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by somat 2y ago
Most of the time I have seen fiber set up as a dedicate bridge device GPON to ethernet, the Optical Network Terminator(ONT). And honestly, I am fine with this. copper ethernet is much easer to deal. This makes a nice clear demarcation point
881.
by somat 2y ago
I am not sure what you want out of I3, but if it is "i3 configuration is too complicated" might I suggest spectrwm. I like it because it hits that sweet spot for a tilling WM between "more configurable than dwm" and &quo
882.
by somat 2y ago
At least it's not an electron app. Every single time I see an electron app, I wish there was a way to deelectronify it and just run it as a server. Mainly I am bitter because I run an openbsd desktop and would have a pretty good chance
883.
by somat 2y ago
True, the lens is usually more important than the sensor, remember that the hubble space telescope is only one megapixel.
884.
by somat 2y ago
Unable to provide any meaningful commentary, but I just wanted to talk about how great the headline is, I had to read it three times to parse it to any sort of coherency. airbus and airbus did what?
885.
by somat 2y ago
You don't see them much any more, but cold cathode backlight lcd panels also have a high voltage section to drive the ccfl's And thank goodness, I like to tear things apart when they break, I am not very good at fixing them but fi
886.
by somat 2y ago
See Also: the openbsd pc speaker driver http://man.openbsd.org/speaker I use it for fun alarms on my apu-2 based firewall echo "L8F#F#C#F#DF#C#F#BAG#ABAG#E" > /dev/speaker
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by somat 2y ago
Sure, on linux all you really have is xorg, what used to be xfree86, but I have used xsgi, and there are X servers for windows, heck, I have even seen this amazing demo Xserver that ran on the web. footnote: there is something wrong with th
888.
by somat 2y ago
Raises the question, how far can you get using only custom elements and css? It sometimes appears that the modern ideal is to not have an element "do" anything on it's own and depend on the css to define it's purpose. Bu
889.
by somat 2y ago
How composable do you want it? When I want to make a complicated intermediate query that other queries can reference I create it as a view. I will admit that future me hates this sometimes when I need to dismantle several layers of views to
890.
by somat 2y ago
There is one theory that that the biblical story about the annihilation of the city of Sodom was brought about by a large air-burst meteor, think Chelyabinsk and add a couple of order of magnitude. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x
891.
by somat 2y ago
The hardest(most inefficient) part is finding out what tags a file has. find . -samefile group/beatles/love_me_do album/please please me/side 2/1 vocals/paul mcartney/love me do vocals&#
892.
by somat 2y ago
I still maintain that all it would take to add tags to the unix filesystem is to start calling "files" "tags" then use ln to add tags.
893.
by somat 2y ago
openrsync is a neat story, it was made because they wanted to use rsync in the rpki system, but the standards body balked, saying they should not be using something where the standard was the implementation, so the openbsd folk(specifically
894.
by somat 2y ago
There is an interesting video essay by the Huygens Optics channel where some simulations of these field effects are considered. Turning Waves Into Particles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMP5Pbx8I4s And if unfamiliar, tha
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by somat 2y ago
Honestly the cddl being incompatible with the gpl is one of the weirder statements to come out of the fsf. It comes up every time the cddl is mentioned but no one really knows why they are incompatible, it is basically "the fsf says th
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by somat 2y ago
I was pretty happy because I was able to actually do something in ffmpeg recently. It is this amazingly powerfully tool, but every time I try to use it I get scared off by the inscrutable syntax. But this time as the mental miasma that usua
897.
by somat 2y ago
I recently watched an interesting video on the subject of corn syrup. Which led me into the fascinating rabbit hole of sugar chemistry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY66qpMFOYo If I might summarize. Your body can absorb
898.
by somat 2y ago
I have found openbsd to be one of the best unix desktop systems. Which is strange as that is not something they advertise as being good at. A large part of this is familiarity with the system(surprise, if you use a system a lot, you get com
899.
by somat 2y ago
Ipfs has a pub/sub mechanism. As far as I can tell it is stuck in some sort of inefficient prototype stage. which is unfortunate because I think it is one of the neatest most compelling parts of the whole project. it is very cool to be
900.
by somat 2y ago
The bicycle was an amazing revolution in travel that we(or at least I) don't really acknowledge. A relatively affordable machine(both in initial and maintenance costs) compared to a horse. but it makes you 10 times more efficient when

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