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by theamk 5mo ago
It would be super cool if you chose 20-100 queries (both common and niche) and shown the sample search results for those. Those would be completely cached/pre-rendered, so the cost would be very low and there will be no potential for a
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by theamk 5mo ago
reserve a TLD, like ".v6", and you are done. URL parsers don't break, the amount of code to change is not that big, and many of the user-space applications can keep working with no changes at all, as long as they use high-lev
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by theamk 5mo ago
At least for Ubuntu, it is much easier to use disk-creator tool, which will automatically create the right partitions and enable persistence. No hex-editing required.
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by theamk 5mo ago
function make_widget(parent& x): w = new Widget() x.children.add(w) RAII is not going to help you here, you need something else (move semantics or refcount-based GC are most common, but other choices exist too).
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by theamk 5mo ago
Apparently this is using regular Xen/KVM under the hood, just like most other virtualization techniques [0]. [0] https://docs.edera.dev/technical-overview/architecture/kvm/
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by theamk 5mo ago
.. and the story is locked behind paywall that needs a subscription to unlock. But seriously, those "payment required for smart toothbrush" laments are getting old. Yes, there are people who will happily sell you a smart toothbrus
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by theamk 5mo ago
> Ü uses RAII for memory and resources management (no GC is involved), but manual memory management may be still used in unsafe code. Saying "using RAII for memory management" is insufficient - with just RAII, you cannot even a
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by theamk 5mo ago
What do you mean? Things like those still happen, and probably will for a long time. They did end up being slightly nicer looking though, cheap 3D printers and CNC machines really increased a baseline of what hobbyist in the garage can do.
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by theamk 5mo ago
Direct link to PDF (go to page 62): https://cdn.coverstand.com/61061/865273/2c88ea662e2b57478723... (Their "digital publication" link is pretty limited, cannot be zoomed and has no in-page keyboard navig
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by theamk 5mo ago
Author of the OP is the VP of the adtech company, with their main revenue coming from being able to put together accurate profiles of people to spam them with campaigning attempts to get them to buy things. He is not mad because Google can
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by theamk 5mo ago
Most people (and orgs) do things that benefit themselves. The question as a user, who is likely to be more aligned with you? - Mozilla, Meta, Google, Facebook - VP of "monetization technology" company, "Marketing data expert&
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by theamk 5mo ago
This seems like this is written by an advertiser who wants their profits, but pretending to care about privacy so they get users' support. Here is a more honest summary: "This proposal hurts us, small advertisement networks and pr
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by theamk 5mo ago
Can we link to something less self-congratulatory? This is an ad for noscope and not security report. Also, authors of related code contest this [0]: > When packages are uploaded to Forgejo, they are uploaded to a user or organization th
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by theamk 5mo ago
> Creating perfect randomness is surprisingly difficult. Even modern random number generators never generate completely ideal random numbers: small systematic errors can result in some numbers appearing slightly more frequently than othe
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by theamk 5mo ago
When I first learned about ternary machines like SETUN [0] I was so excited! Forger bits, there are "trits", and instead of boring boolean logic you have +/0/- trits. As alien as it gets! But then I read much more about
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by theamk 5mo ago
hm.. so did Matt get saner? > I have colleagues LITERALLY DYING I can’t be with because Silver Lake / Quinn Emanuel / WP Engine shoggoth... nope, it's all the same insanity
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by theamk 5mo ago
The title actually mentions "USB PD" - that's USB Power Delivery, the electrical magic which can increase voltage over USB lines to 12V, and increase power correspondingly. Without USB-PD (or similar technologies), the max po
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by theamk 5mo ago
No, not in general. Explaining stuff is a skill, and if you have it, the IQ gap is not a problem. And if you don't have it, then you'll have problems explaining to someone even with the same IQ but in the different industry. If yo
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by theamk 5mo ago
It is a commercial hardware, and author wants to get some money back from it. Nothing wrong or shameful about this, as long as this is clearly stated from day 1 (and it is). At least they provide full schematics here, which is better than m
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by theamk 5mo ago
.. and the answer is "It's * our* cloud! Unlike others' clouds, ours can do sync/offline operation, so you can pretend you are an edge, while still paying us" (oh, and it is called "SQLite AI" despite for
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by theamk 5mo ago
It is not even TUI, it is just library/API. It cannot print the text on the screen, it returns python's internal data structures. I guess if one really wanted to show off the libraries, they could create some sample programs that&
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by theamk 5mo ago
> With git, I'd routinely go and delete old branches to declutter. With jj, there's simply no need to. The same with stashes. It's really nice not having to do that labor, and simultaneously not dealing with long lists. w
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by theamk 5mo ago
Remember early internet? The time when it actually cost non-trivial amount of money to post stuff on the web, and there was no expectation that webpage authors would get any money back? This worked pretty well. Websites were hobby - one mig
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by theamk 5mo ago
why? Web Serial is one of the better web-based integrations out there. There is no functionality available without an explicit authorization, all that website can do is to pop up a dialog. And you approve individual port on per-site basis,
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by theamk 5mo ago
Are you saying that "aliasxneo", thread starter who worked as "controls technician" is an "ultra-capitalist"? I love the idea of unions, but it's hard to take its advocates seriously when they just dismiss
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by theamk 5mo ago
There is more to life than money. Many of the websites I read do not collect any appreciable amount of money from ads, or have no ads at all (one example: news.ycombinator.com :) ). They want a recognition, or to share the knowledge, or com
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by theamk 5mo ago
Which rules were broken? I don't see anything weird there at all.
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by theamk 5mo ago
No one got "stunned" here, apparently the moderator made an edit with a comment "tried to make title/question better" and the OP took it as some sort of endorsement?
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by theamk 5mo ago
Once project reaches 1.0 for the first time, a lot of people expect that "main" branch is now working all the time. That's what the whole "CI/CD" is about after all - every commit should work. If you are making
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by theamk 5mo ago
That is pretty bad! "a remote attacker capable of asking DNS queries or answering DNS queries can cause a large OOB write in the heap." Malformed DNS response causes "infinite loop and dnsmasq stops responding to all queries.

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