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by vlowther 5y ago
I hated the Reddit app so much I bought BaconReader.
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by vlowther 5y ago
... and the fastest way to reset the processor was via a triple fault -- arrange for the general protection fault and the double fault handlers to both fail.
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by vlowther 5y ago
Same, except just yay.
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by vlowther 5y ago
Legalize it and let "hardcore" heroin addicts get a prescription. It is expensive due to it being illegal and the willingness of addicts to pay damn near anything, not due to any intrinsic difficulty in manufacturing.
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by vlowther 5y ago
I am curious about where things broke down with the 301 based solution y'all used earlier.
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by vlowther 6y ago
Well, my insurance for a family of four cost slightly more than 10,000 last year (both employer and employee sides). You could triple the amount I paid into Medicare in exchange for Medicare covering everyone and I and my company would com
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by vlowther 6y ago
`map[t]struct{}` saves you a few bytes per entry. Just use the `_,found := foo[key]` form of lookup
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by vlowther 6y ago
The overwhelming majority of religions are not monotheistic and believe no such thing about any given deity. /nitpick
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by vlowther 6y ago
It will look good on the bookshelf next to https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/3113099-mr-bunny-s-bi...
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by vlowther 6y ago
"On any platform, pages are synchronised to disk atomically : even though larger chunks might only be partially synchronised, pages are guaranteed to be synchronised atomically." Someone is being hopelessly optimistic about how r
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by vlowther 6y ago
Or better yet, condition yourself to hit [ a second time and use Bash's built-in conditionals instead of test and [
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by vlowther 6y ago
The GPU stats at https://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?module=statistics&vi... disagree with your first point. A few years ago I did all of my gaming direct on Linux with an nVidia GPU, and did so for over a decade,
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by vlowther 6y ago
Boot time pre-OS malware is not a theoretical risk. At all.
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by vlowther 6y ago
The issue is that the Pi does something that is almost-but-not-quite PXE. In particular, the RPI firmware does not send anything that identifies itself as an RPI so that the DHCP server can determine what packet to send in response -- the
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by vlowther 6y ago
Or you could just have separate branches for major versions. That works too, and everyone seems to forget it.
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by vlowther 6y ago
Excellent -- nil handling work as well?
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by vlowther 6y ago
Eh, last time I messed with I lost interest after noting that from-json | to-json would silently convert all numbers into quoted strings and do terrible things when nil was involved. It made non-trivial JSON manipulation not worth it. The
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by vlowther 6y ago
re: filesystem journaling: Unless you were one of those crazy people that used fat32 in spite of Microsoft's defaults, filesystem journaling has been the default in Windows mainstream consumer OSes since the release of Windows XP usin
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by vlowther 6y ago
What a weird slippery slope argument. There is a world of difference between "so complex that nobody understands it" and "I can telnet to port 80 and fetch a webpage using keyboard and fingers"
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by vlowther 6y ago
Yeah, it doesn't work that way, and no, most US citizens don't have any appreciable native ancestry, no matter what family mythology says.
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by vlowther 6y ago
There is also https://github.com/segmentio/encoding , which aims to have a zero allocation fastpath while preserving compatibility with encoding/json.
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by vlowther 6y ago
GTK came from the Gimp, not Gnome.
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by vlowther 6y ago
Zoom running on Plasma in X has worked fine for me for years. I would suggest that the problem (like so many others) is a Wayland ecosystem maturity thing, not a zoom thing.
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by vlowther 6y ago
Open source software is (I would argue) even more driven to fragmentation by political, ideological, and personality conflict driven squabbles than proprietary software, as there is no profit motive to also satisfy. Also, the broken window
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by vlowther 7y ago
Amazingly, so is http://www.zombo.com/ . It still delivers all it promises
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by vlowther 7y ago
well, good thing there is https://www.flatcar-linux.org/
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by vlowther 7y ago
The only time I have used recover in production code is in the rollback path of a highly concurrent transaction manager.
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by vlowther 7y ago
Almost the same, except mine was a Precision 7520 -- no Xeon processor, no ECC, but an AMD Polaris 11 based dGPU. My general advice for Dells is to spring extra for the Precision laptops -- sure, they are heavier, but the build quality and
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by vlowther 8y ago
You have a very limited imagination. Wireshark is regularly attacked -- it parses random data it gets off the network, therefore it can be attacked using deliberately malformed packets. See https://www.wireshark.org/securi
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by vlowther 8y ago
The study cited in the paper was carried out on Puerto Rico. There isn't exactly another more suitable climate to migrate to.

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