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by vthriller 7y ago
That's debatable. Better at losing file contents after hard reset? Maybe.
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by vthriller 7y ago
re: ASLR, there's probably no need to disable it globally, since you can do that on a per-process basis with `setarch -R`
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by vthriller 7y ago
> In fact, let me know how to [disable image loading] in iOS Safari Given any browser, how do I reload a lazy-image that failed to load, without resorting to whole page refresh or diving deep into the Web Inspector? Most browsers have
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by vthriller 7y ago
> unlike a vfs can be done from userland You can implement and mount such virtual FS entirely in userspace using FUSE.
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by vthriller 7y ago
> this language is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from anything else I know Rust itself borrows a lot from functional programming while also topping the story with lesser-known things like lifetimes, so no wonder it feels alien to a lot of people.
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by vthriller 7y ago
> I guess you're one of those people who always uses the noscript extension in your browser Imagine that not only your browser, but the entire system cripples because of poorly written trackers, ad spots with animated sprites floati
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by vthriller 7y ago
> It just means you need to switch languages when you need to use them. Which is my point. So, what's the problem with that? I read it almost like "that doesn't mean that you never need to retrieve data, it just means you
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by vthriller 7y ago
What all those "ridiculous" tools allow, among other things, is: - Cheap parallelism. Things as easy as `grep | cut | sort` will utilize multiple cores despite shell and all the tools it spawns being single-threaded. I can't
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by vthriller 7y ago
> Rust … has no garbage collection What's your reasoning behind preferring GC to Rust's automatic memory management?
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by vthriller 7y ago
> As the Pentium chip gained momentum, Intel realized it would be more profitable to use the tech to make X86_64 architecture. ...which they didn't make but licensed from AMD, no?
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by vthriller 7y ago
Relevant discussion from not so long ago about backgrounds and screen/ambient brightness and whatnot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19607699
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by vthriller 7y ago
Here's an example from Mozilla: > While we still use it heavily, IRC is an ongoing source of abuse and harassment for many of our colleagues http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2019/04/26/synchronous-text
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by vthriller 7y ago
It depends on what crypto is going to be mined an how many accounts can be stolen given the fact that there is already plethora of bots that look all over GitHub for accidentally committed credentials. Heck, just a year ago people did scans
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by vthriller 7y ago
No idea why you're downvoted: things like [0] are marked as obsolete, GtkMozEmbed et al. are basically dead, and there's no viable alternatives except when you use Android [1]. The only option is to dive deep into Thunderbird&#x27
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by vthriller 7y ago
kdb is frequently described as an in-memory database, or with great emphasis on how efficiently it utilizes a ton of RAM. I've no idea how much does its performance actually drop when the amount of data goes past, say, 2x the amount of
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by vthriller 7y ago
I'd argue this is more about quacking like a PowerShell than manipulating xSV/JSON in the pipeline. So here's my quick bunch of links that show the demand for that. Here people emulate formatted and filtered ps(1) using GVari
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by vthriller 7y ago
I wish I started doing similar thing way earlier, because now I can't refer to a lot of content that vanished from the net for a number of reasons (creators getting bored, flagged out from youtube by bots that random haters set up, bog
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by vthriller 7y ago
> PC owners will be increasingly less compelled to bother even trying a Linux installation when their OEM Windows install already contains it as a compatibility shim. There is still a plenty of reasons to avoid Windows, from privacy conc
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by vthriller 7y ago
Relevant recent discussion about potential extensive internet regulation in Austria: "Austrian government seeks to eliminate internet anonymity, with severe penalties" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19698003
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by vthriller 7y ago
Python feels way too cumbersome for day to day use, unless you do a lot of data crunching. There are bash/python hybrids like [0], but good luck getting them on some legacy production server that still runs distro from 8 years ago, or
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by vthriller 7y ago
The answer to that would depend on the CL implementation, since not all of them can do AOT compilation.
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by vthriller 7y ago
> You just have to remember it before pushing anything on github. Do you read commit history looking for, say, relocated secrets? Do you go through the pain of rewriting said history regardless of whether you avoid merges with your curre
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by vthriller 7y ago
> I pick ZFS every time because of its … reliability, and being able to easily understand what goes on https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues?utf8=&q=is%3Aissue+... Panics and other issues are pretty rare
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by vthriller 8y ago
Well, it didn't work that well for me. Adding to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19682019 $ time 7zr a -mmt=$(nproc) -ms=off -m0=lzma2 -md=64m -ma=0 -mmf=hc4 -mfb=64 -mf=off linux-5.0.8.tar{.7z,} real 60
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by vthriller 8y ago
> There are plenty of codecs that give you either obscene ratios or low CPU usage, but none that support both in combination. I still find lbzip2 (which is a bzip2 reimplementation with better algorithms and support for multithreading) q
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by vthriller 8y ago
> At this point jemalloc is so good Some folks disagree: > [Ruby's] memory usage only reduces when using jemalloc 3; memory usage is still high when using jemalloc 5. Nobody knows why, so that makes the choice of defaulting to je
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by vthriller 8y ago
> The query language can fairly efficiently compute metrics at query time rather than needing everything precomputed I'm having hard time figuring out how query language might affect exectuion time. Granted, I've never seen bor
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by vthriller 8y ago
> The goal of design isn't to correct the user, but to correct for the user. But you can't solve brightness problem with just design of a web page: you can't know for sure that all of your users are in the dark, or that th
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by vthriller 8y ago
Clickable scroll wheel works fine, it is mapped to the same button. I can't, however, imagine left+middle chord on modern laptops, there are not that many laptops (mostly ThinkPads as far as I can tell) that have three physical mouse b
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by vthriller 8y ago
They (pornhub) do ask people about their age, depending on the country they're visiting from. For Russians they even tied confirmation process to one of local social networks (source in Russian): https://tjournal.ru/flo

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