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by wheybags 4y ago
I guess nobody ATM, but if the support for NTFS becomes really good then why not use it as your root fs? It's truly battle hardened (the fs, not this particular implementation necessarily), and it is really nice to use an fs that is su
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by wheybags 4y ago
A C++ dialect that dropped exceptions, headers and backwards compatibility (especially backwards compatibility with plain C). Everything that can be is statically linked, so no fussing about ABI. Explicitly no support for dynamically linkin
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by wheybags 4y ago
Not everyone works in such a formal setting. I talk about whatever the hell I feel like at work with colleagues, and they do the same. I honestly cannot imagine shutting myself down 8 hours a day like you're describing, it sound like h
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by wheybags 4y ago
That particular guideline seems to have informally expired. Normal news gets to the front page all the time. See, for example, the thread on the death of the queen. Hardly related to tech, startups, or even intellectual gratification.
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by wheybags 4y ago
I wonder if it would be possible / worth it to have the os prioritise one stick and power down the others until reaching some utilisation threshold.
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by wheybags 4y ago
Adding one not-missed item to the list: the annoying high pitch whine
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by wheybags 4y ago
Good news, they fixed it by no longer allowing execution of anything (even .desktop files) by double clicking. The state of desktop Linux just depresses me. Gnome especially, it just gets worse, and never seems to focus on the problems that
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by wheybags 4y ago
The mirror is a garbage newspaper, it shouldn't be on hn. (Source: am Irish)
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by wheybags 4y ago
Before they started doing that, my dad was able to get a second passport just for Israel. Technically you were not allowed to have more than one passport (Ireland, 70s), but they made an exception.
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by wheybags 4y ago
"Continuous integration" just means "automated tests on every push", and no longer means anything much to do with integration, which I always found kinda funny. It sometimes even means automatic running of scripts that a
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by wheybags 4y ago
One bit per year!
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by wheybags 4y ago
Or maybe they didn't know anyone was home? It's not so hard to imagine many scenarios where someone just wanted to rob the place.
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by wheybags 4y ago
Wtf, no.
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by wheybags 4y ago
To me, the best case scenario is adding a dependency of medium size and complexity that you're confident you could write yourself. This means that if you run into problems, you can just shrug, and then ditch the library, but if it&#x27
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by wheybags 4y ago
I always wondered if there isn't someone out there making dodgy devices with mac addresses in someone else's range.
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by wheybags 4y ago
I think they mean actual platform ads, not ads posing as posts from normal users. That said, I do think writing genuinely interesting tech articles on a company blog and posting them on Reddit/hn is a totally legit and effective method
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by wheybags 4y ago
Framed another way: is it better for your long term growth to work with colleagues who can teach you new skills, or to try to wrangle a dysfunctional team? IMO it depends on what you want to learn. If you want to develop your technical skil
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by wheybags 4y ago
The article completely fails to mention the issue of air quality in cities. One of the things I'm most looking forward to is walking around the city centre without getting diesel fumes blasted in my face.
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by wheybags 4y ago
Osts of zachtronics games. They are literally designed for this.
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by wheybags 4y ago
Jvm at least is jitted, not interpreted. Dunno anything about common lisp.
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by wheybags 4y ago
It's the ruling that rolls back roe vs Wade, the old ruling that forced all states to allow abortion. Unless you're living under a rock, I'm sure you've heard of this, perhaps not by the name of the ruling though. (I&#x2
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by wheybags 4y ago
On windows you can get 1ms accuracy out of the built in Sleep() function by calling timeBeginPeriod[1] It sets the resolution of timers in that process to the specified ms value. I've used this + spinning to make high res sleep before
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by wheybags 4y ago
I use a VM (wsl) on windows for git. I could run git on windows directly, but I have a whole setup of config files and ssh agent that I already have working on linux, so I just use that. It is a bit annoyingly slow when using it on a repo o
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by wheybags 4y ago
Tech moved incredibly fast for a while there, so a computer from 20 years ago is kinda useless. A computer from 10 years ago is not though. And if you think of a computer from the 90s in 2010, that would be useless. As the pace of developme
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by wheybags 4y ago
I wrote that bit about br tags before seeing any replies, sorry :p My sportsmanship is immaculate!
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by wheybags 4y ago
Slightly off topic, but a pet peeve of mine is how you don't get a real line break in markdown when you insert a newline. Sometime I want a line break without a vertical apace for a new paragraph, I can't be the only one here! I k
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by wheybags 4y ago
There's zenity, but I think it's not as featureful (I may be wrong there)
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by wheybags 4y ago
"The old new thing" blog by Raymond Chen at Microsoft: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ Random good example post: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220328-00/?p
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by wheybags 4y ago
I feel like I need to shout out aseprite here: https://www.aseprite.org/ It's a really good pixel art tool, but I think their licensing strategy is particularly interesting to the hn audience. The tool is open source,
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by wheybags 4y ago
I'm honestly fine with them. These posts are the reason this site gets to exist without needing some other more nefarious monetisation. Ads can be a lot worse...

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