tomxor

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by tomxor 3y ago
> There we go again. I get the feeling you don't feel yourself asking for a magic genie here. Clearly you believe that there is an algorithm to determine a "reasonably well defined area" but are unable to provide one. A ca
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by tomxor 3y ago
> If your solution to vetocracy is to limit democracy then you aren't using democracy. Democracy becomes subordinate to the mechanism you are using to define the limit. At that point, the mechanism that determines that limit becomes
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by tomxor 3y ago
> they’re already testing it in Phoenix and San Francisco It's not dead, it's just extremely niche. Try testing in the sticks in country roads in England. Most people from the US who try that for the first time are terrified, a
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by tomxor 3y ago
Yes, triple redundancy is nice, but then the problem becomes how to make the code that checks the code also tipple redundant and checked without creating another layer to deal with. Most software that does this simply tries to make the test
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by tomxor 3y ago
Hardware radiation hardening techniques have existed for a long time, and are applied commonly in space, satellites, nuclear power, military. Roughly speaking it breaks down into a couple categories including the manufacturing of electronic
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by tomxor 3y ago
Ah, I wasn't aware it was the name of a common code golf challenge, I do code golfing myself but apparently not enough :) I guess it makes sense people would frame the game that way, arbitrary bit flips seems way too hard, I'm not
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by tomxor 3y ago
> Prepare a script that deletes one character randomly: Hmm, but can it also deal with general bit flips? Because that's usually what radiation does not delete characters. The only case it would delete a character with a bit flip on
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by tomxor 3y ago
Care to elaborate? It's difficult to put any weight in an anonymous comment when it relies solely on credibility.
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by tomxor 3y ago
Hence, "Likely". Especially so if you are of the opinion that it's only educational.
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by tomxor 3y ago
> More of an "educational" kernel. If you are writing this on an intel CPU, you are likely running minix3 right now. It's not not educational, but it's not the primary goal compared to earlier versions.
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by tomxor 3y ago
> The program shouldn't be trusted unless you wrote it yourself, or otherwise performed a security audit yourself. I'm just a humble non-crytographic-programmer making practical suggestions with the most substantial security im
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by tomxor 3y ago
Promoting diceware is admirable, but I don't like the idea of trusting a remote website generator. A local diceware generator is probably available in your package manager, e.g: sudo apt install diceware diceware -n 6 Quicken
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by tomxor 3y ago
Only if they are lucky, retaining limbs is not a contractual obligation for Foxconn.
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by tomxor 3y ago
I now often put the dishes away with my noise cancelling headphones on, after accidentally doing it one day with them on and finding out how much less jarring it is. I wonder what the affect of this on age related hearing loss is - i.e how
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by tomxor 3y ago
I've found in academia in general, when someone is condescending they are also often provably but stubbornly incorrect. I suspect this is more than correlation, since a degree of humility is needed to learn deeply about particularly ha
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by tomxor 3y ago
Debian LTS is also 5 years https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/ > Debian Long Term Support (LTS) is a project to extend the lifetime of all Debian stable releases to (at least) 5 years But to be honest I find the LTS schedu
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by tomxor 3y ago
For some reason it makes me think of the "very hungry caterpillar" children's book - not because it's about a worm - but because it has little holes cut out of the pages you can stick your fingers through :P
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by tomxor 3y ago
> people who are really buying status Yes, this is a huge area of value, which is why I was careful to write "functional value", because there are different kinds of value. There are non-functional value which are tangibly impo
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by tomxor 3y ago
That's a valid point, for subsequent loads in this case the inline svg is so small that when compared to the image tag it's replacing the difference is pretty small. But the other side of this is cache latency, this depends on the
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by tomxor 3y ago
Nice work! My only suggestion is to optimise it, which we have :) (Lifting this from lower down in the thread). The following SVG fragment is a drop in replacement for the <img> tag and produces the same result, albeit completely symm
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by tomxor 3y ago
transport compression isn't going to help with the unnecessary high precision coordinates. There are also a bunch of things that are just the result of it being automatically generated by some vector package, such as the transforms, se
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by tomxor 3y ago
Better still, an inline SVG fragment is only 151 bytes - and will save 318 bytes of http header: <svg viewBox="-32 -32 64 64" width=18 height=18><path fill=#f60 d="M-32-32h64v64h-64z"/><path fil
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by tomxor 3y ago
I see your 258 byte svgo version and raise it my 171 byte hand optimized version: <svg viewBox="-32 -32 64 64" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path fill="#f60" d="M-3
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by tomxor 3y ago
This is pretty good advice in general. The cost value curve of different things is different, and as you suggest, for the majority of things the functional value cut off is at quite a low cost point. What I find particularly amusing is when
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by tomxor 3y ago
> but almost every development environment/learning resources requires internet access. Figure out how to use your environment offline while you still have some access. Nothing is a replacement for actual experience. It's not g
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by tomxor 3y ago
1 sample: I only play quest2 untethered, don't have a gaming pc and don't want to spend time on that right now. Games are more than just graphics, and a lot of fun can be had without huge GPUs. The quest works well as a portable V
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by tomxor 3y ago
*cough* log rotate and gzip *cough* :D
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by tomxor 3y ago
If Linux isn't about choice, crayons are indoctrinating children with abstract art.
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by tomxor 3y ago
Not defending the idea of a db history but no db schema is going to beat plain text's 1 byte 0x0A per line delimiter.
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by tomxor 3y ago
heh, cute, that reminds me of the classic mac boot rom screen.

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