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by usr1106 3y ago
Ah, that's what a merge train is. I always found the term confusing. We pay for Premium, but we don't use merge trains. We use only fast forward merging, so I guess it's a no-op in that case.
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by usr1106 3y ago
> Lisp code was data and could be formatted a "pretty printer". Sure, I have used it. Not in the 1960s, but in the 1980s. I don't doubt it was old already then. The problem is only that if the formatter is not mandatory, p
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by usr1106 3y ago
It certainly was in the beginnings. But more recently? Can you give any examples or data how? Of course they take all subsidies they get, but that does not distinguish that from many other big companies not founded on government initiative.
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by usr1106 3y ago
> is “how Git implements it” really the right way to explain it? >> Of course not, As long as the user is a software developer I would disagree. If the developer cannot understand the implementation concept style of explanation, I
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by usr1106 3y ago
Of course they would be possible, just harder and less efficient to implement. The snapshot representation can be transformed into a chain of diffs representation and the other way round without losing anything except performance.
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by usr1106 3y ago
> the merged commit can actually be literally anything That cannot be stressed enough. Years ago a searched for a weird bug and could not find it. Of course I did not look at merge conflicts because "they don't really introduce
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by usr1106 3y ago
Had never heard that either. At least Knuth did not take it personally, he used Pascal later :)
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by usr1106 3y ago
But LISP was already 10 years old at the time, so why did it not get traction? Maybe too minimal syntax? I kind of liked LISP, but figuring out whether you looked at the 5th or 6th closing parenthesis somewhere in the code was not fun. In o
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by usr1106 3y ago
So llseek would have been logical. But maybe being informative and portable is better. Edit: actually llseek exists internally: https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/lseek64.3.html
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by usr1106 3y ago
Nice. Although "latest news" are from 2021.
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by usr1106 3y ago
> tex is written in pascal; Just thought about that when Donald Knuth's Christmas lecture https://www.youtube.com/live/622iPkJfYrI lead me to one of his first TeX lectures https://youtu.be/jbrMB
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by usr1106 3y ago
Buying bandwidth from github for LFS blobs seems the wrong approach to me, assuming this is some hobby project. Is there an implementation to seed LFS blobs as BitTorrent?
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by usr1106 3y ago
I am not convinced one very detailed spec describing such details you mention even exists. I guess if vim, emacs, and less work correctly you are close to done. Screen and tmux are others coming to mind. All of them are open source, why don
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by usr1106 3y ago
I have always changed my ssh port and I don't see any convincing argument in this rant not continuing to do so. However, scanners have changed drastically during the last 5-10 years. I remember when you saw close to none login attempts
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by usr1106 3y ago
If this is a propriatary extension, does that mean as a Firefox user I am safe?
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by usr1106 3y ago
I believe unit tests existed. I had a test training in 2000 and things were pretty systematic already then. Not 100% sure whether the exact term was used then. Edit: JUnit is from 1997. So the name was definitely in use in 2003. I attended
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by usr1106 3y ago
Intel tampered with information security for 30 years? Yes, they (or at least some of them) had known that speculative execution causes security problems. But no, they have not been in business that long with technology that could be affec
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by usr1106 3y ago
Unbelievable, they called just after a couple of days? Does honest business (although after the fact) still exist? The emission cheaters are still years after being caught trying not to take their responsibilities against all end customers
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by usr1106 3y ago
I use none of those.
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by usr1106 3y ago
I have never used Bing. I use duckduckgo though and they buy their results from Bing. At least they did in the past, I don't follow them closely enough to necessarily notice every possible change.
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by usr1106 3y ago
Sorry, I assumed everyone would know that without a reference. .io is a regional domain referring to those islands https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Chagossians
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by usr1106 3y ago
The question has already been used in my first post: Fully usable for 99% of the users. > 99% of the users never use a compiler. Fully usable also means that you might have to adapt your your habits: Keeping many tabs open is just being
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by usr1106 3y ago
It's not about money. It's about using the planet in a responsible way. Unfortunately ruining the planet and harming many of its inhabitants is very cheap for many in industrialized countries.
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by usr1106 3y ago
Google is a major lead for destroying the planet. Ads waste incredible resources at the edge and in the cloud. 99% completely useless because people just hate them. And the remaining less than 1% even more harmful, manipulating people to bu
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by usr1106 3y ago
Do those have any ARM devices to offer? The question was about ARM particularly. Of course Intel runs Linux, apart from some peripherals. (Honest question, have not bought a computer for ages and not followed the market)
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by usr1106 3y ago
Please note that I had to correct the 1GB to 2GB. Sorry for giving incorrect data first.
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by usr1106 3y ago
> Older computers almost always use more electricity than newer ones, I don't see how this is a real thing. This computer is not on 24/7, but only very limited hours. So manufacturing a new one would a relatively high share. En
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by usr1106 3y ago
It works, but do applications just grow their memory consumption over time? I woudn't be overly surprised.
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by usr1106 3y ago
No exact calculation about GBs, just a general gut feeling that current resource consumption in the industrialized world is completely unsustainable. With smarter usage only a fraction of resources is needed for still decent user experience
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by usr1106 3y ago
It's mostly a standard Xubuntu with full disk encryption (just in case the machine gets stolen while travelling) i3 might be even better. I use that at work, but was too lazy to configure it on this machine. I have desnapped it though

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