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by teo_zero 4y ago
> A good default en keyboard layout (why would the default not be a good one? It boggles the mind—and sure, that's a distro concern, not a "Linux" concern, but so's everything that matters on Linux). You must have had
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by teo_zero 4y ago
Do you have any source for this? It's a topic I've always wanted to understand better. Especially, it's not clear which mode consumes less.
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by teo_zero 4y ago
> moving out of GitHub when Microsoft bought it was the right decision But what prevents Microsoft from harvesting open-source code from any hosting site? What have you gained?
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by teo_zero 4y ago
> that happens to people as well, ie. they see some algorithm and down the road have to write something similar and end up reproducing the exact same thing. And if such algorithm is copyrighted, that would be infringing! It doesn't
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by teo_zero 4y ago
IIRC Amiga's Intuition library had "windows" and "gadgets", not "widgets".
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by teo_zero 4y ago
> The agreements we've achieved on standards, even when they're not perfect, should be considered global treasures and treated as such. Hell no! As soon as you see a better way to do the same thing, you should allow the user to
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by teo_zero 4y ago
I couldn't disagree more. My mental sanity depends on some fixed beliefs. One of those is that every key sequence not involving the Win key is sent to and handled by the application in focus. Including F-keys, which many applications e
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by teo_zero 4y ago
This is indeed how I have read books, recently. I installed an old Kindle app on the PC, and configured it with my Amazon account. I download the books through the app, then start Calibre with the deDRM plugin which will find my private key
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by teo_zero 4y ago
> Money is not zero sum. It is created and destroyed as loans are made and repaid. I don't think this is true. Every transaction, even the ones that take place in the rows of a bank's database and not with physical money, invol
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by teo_zero 4y ago
A teardrop has a "relatively flat front end" just as every rounded shape has a point where its tangent plane is vertical, even a sphere, the "less flat" shape I can think of! It doesn't mean you can place a vertical
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by teo_zero 4y ago
I'm surprised nobody has raised the trust argument... Who guarantees that the WASI blob has no hidden backdoor?
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by teo_zero 4y ago
I've never had issues with tabs in Makefiles, but I admit it's a bad design and wonder why it hasn't been corrected in all these years. It's not like there hasn't been time to plan a path towards a better design in
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by teo_zero 4y ago
Temporarily switching to a different keyboard layout in your SO settings shouldn't be that difficult, though.
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by teo_zero 4y ago
I don't remember C using & in declarations. Is it a recent addition?
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by teo_zero 4y ago
What would a better interface be? I mean in C, of course!
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by teo_zero 4y ago
Do you think your work was useless? When I was in the army, my team was requested to move a huge pile of wood logs from A to B. I later discovered that another team was moving them from B to A. With no other purpose than keeping the soldie
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by teo_zero 4y ago
How long will it take before CSS is Turing-complete?
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by teo_zero 4y ago
So this article is about looking for a perfect solution, not finding it, and finally compromising on some of them, like end-to-end encryption, ease of migration...?
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by teo_zero 4y ago
Wait... I'm not sure where this conversation is going. I say that the beauty (or value or worthiness) of the pictures of the Mandelbrot set comes from the transformations we apply to uninteresting complex numbers. Similarly, the beauty
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by teo_zero 4y ago
I always use this technique. It make no sense to free() all the memory just before the exit(). But the prerequisite isn't whether the program is short-lived, but rather that the memory usage pattern is "alloc often, free at the e
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by teo_zero 4y ago
The structures that emerge from a series of transformations applied to an initial field (be it the natural numbers or the complex set), could be due to the transformations, or intrinsic of the underlying field. The parent comment stated tha
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by teo_zero 4y ago
You mean, like the Mandelbrot set?
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by teo_zero 4y ago
I dissent. The list of ingredients of the cake I'm eating doesn't lessen its exquisite taste.
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by teo_zero 4y ago
I don't read anything suggesting that. Primes are primes in whichever base.
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by teo_zero 4y ago
Not objects but memory. It was common in 16-bit era. And you would access it through memory segmentation, with two registers: one pointing at the segment beginning, the other being the offset. In code: addr = base << 4 + offset
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by teo_zero 4y ago
Flags are modifiers to alter the standard behavior of a command. If you use it 99% of the times, then I'll argue that the definition of "standard" is wrong.
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by teo_zero 4y ago
Git's interface is like the 'find' UNIX command: it makes complex things possible, but does nothing to make common ones easy. 99% of times I want to find a file in the current directory or below: find . -name foo -print
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by teo_zero 4y ago
Even in neovim you can select a region first (via 'v') and act on it later. E.g. to change till the end of the word: 'vec' (where idiomatic vi would be 'ce'), to delete the content of a block: 'vibd'
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by teo_zero 4y ago
Helix supporters often cite the object-action paradigm as preferable to vi's action-object. I find this argument moot: you can work in object-action fashion in vi as well if you remember to begin your sequence with 'v' (possi
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by teo_zero 4y ago
> The only access patterns where the linked list should be expected to have an advantage are... Exactly my point: such access patterns exist.

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