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by teo_zero 2y ago
I'm a big fan of compiling my own kernel with all needed drivers compiled in, with the EFI stub compiled in, no initram, no grub, a fixed cmdline that works 99% of times. This allows a boot to happen in less than 5 seconds. The 1% of t
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by teo_zero 2y ago
I build my own kernel. I did invest some time to select the right configuration, but now it's just a question of copying over the old .config and running "make". What's annoying about that?
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by teo_zero 2y ago
When you buy a wireless mouse do you complain it has no cord?
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by teo_zero 2y ago
Does it make sense to compare a C executable with an interpreted Python program that calls a compiled library? Is the difference due to the algorithm or the call stack?
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by teo_zero 2y ago
Compare two specifications and summarize the differences (not a word-by-word diff).
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by teo_zero 2y ago
We could conclude that "greenhouse effect", the evocative term that's been superseded by "global warming", was indeed appropriate!
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by teo_zero 2y ago
I'm torn about ignorecase/smartcase: for interactive searches it's great, but there's no way to exclude it when invoking gd, gD, *, :tags, etc. (at least in Vim, not sure about Neovim). I'm thinking of leaving ignor
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by teo_zero 2y ago
Another source of surprise: 4[arr] // same as arr[4]
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by teo_zero 2y ago
I love your post, and agree to everything, except the last 2 sentences. Yes, CSV is broken beyond repair. But this doesn't make the choice of separator immaterial. It's broken for other reasons AND for the separator. A character t
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by teo_zero 2y ago
Speaking about signal-to-noise ratio, this is an example of a low one.
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by teo_zero 2y ago
How does the version with buf0 and buf1 work? It looks like it sends always the same two values...
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by teo_zero 2y ago
Would it be acceptable to save the old address as a uintptr_t before the realloc(), and compare it with the new one after?
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by teo_zero 2y ago
Brilliant! I wonder if there are other goods with similarly high gaps in price.
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by teo_zero 2y ago
> Dropbox, OneDrive and others are dangerous because they default to cloud-first. To "save disk space", they upload your files and provide a proxy/placeholder for your actual content. Your comment seems to address their cl
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by teo_zero 2y ago
Yes, of course I was too quick: I was trying to suggest to use a single bracket char in the command just as TFA uses the comma. But it turned out that an opening bracket wouldn't work with some non-bash shells. So I was doubly wrong.
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by teo_zero 2y ago
> The lower-case letters are the very characters used in system commands; brackets, backslashes, the colon, the back-tick, and the single-tick all had a special meaning to the shell Please note that brackets have no special meaning to th
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by teo_zero 2y ago
If there's a place in the world I would expect to not have capacity issue, that's Google. If I were a judge, I wouldn't rule it's unreasonable for users to assume that it can store as many data as they produce, after hav
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by teo_zero 2y ago
> You can use all the regular operators you want on these numbers, just remember to x10000 when storing them, and /10000 when extracting from them. ??? You can only use addition and subtraction in this way. As soon as you touch mult
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by teo_zero 2y ago
Sorry, but your wc implementation does nothing to detect words, it just counts the spaces. Of course you don't need a state machine for that!
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by teo_zero 2y ago
> very easy to partition and process in chunks Which counters to increment at each byte depends on the previous bytes, though. You could probably succeed using overlapping chunks, but I wouldn't call it very easy.
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by teo_zero 2y ago
For handling ASCII, table needs 4 states × 3 classes of chars. Why is it defined as 4×4? To handle illegal chars, it would need a 4th class but also a 5th state, so that's not the reason. Can it be to replace a 'modulo' opera
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by teo_zero 2y ago
That's an over-generalization. Only branches that capture exceptional events, e.g. error checks, show 99% hit rate. Branches that are part of an algorithm are driven by the data you feed to them. For example in a classical binary searc
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by teo_zero 2y ago
I think the author swapped problems #1 and #2. The first one (name clash between different packages) is triggered only if the binaries are called the same, that is after you fix the second one (binaries having uu- prefix). Problem #5 is not
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by teo_zero 2y ago
I don't know why we should resuscitate this highly opinionated piece from 2016. Probably it resonates with someone's superficial experience using LaTeX, but the arguments it uses stem from analyzing just the beginning of a documen
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by teo_zero 2y ago
I'm sure LLMs can optimize the training of other LLMs (either by inventing new ways or fine tuning existing ones). But we can't predict whether this will result in a giant's leap in the field, or just small increments. That&#
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by teo_zero 2y ago
"We will not raise the prices." Small print: except, if we do, you'll get back your payment. Smaller print: except, we might give you a set of stickers instead. Even smaller print: except if we run out of them, then you'
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by teo_zero 2y ago
Thank you, I thought exactly the same when I read that sentence. For a moment I doubted my memory was faulting me, but your comment confirmed my mental sanity.
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by teo_zero 2y ago
> dropping old cruft, entrenching UTF-8 support, and other areas. I couldn't possibly disagree. My point is that focusing on ownership, lifetime, etc. (the most prominent features of Rust) shouldn't be goals for a tool that&#x2
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by teo_zero 2y ago
And the apostrophe is a single left quote.
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by teo_zero 2y ago
Am I the only one who thinks we need less short-lived tools written in memory-safe languages an more system infrastructure written in said languages? Don't take me wrong, I like when someone creates a better version of something existi

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