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by xcdzvyn 2y ago
I completely understand the desire to not implement such things, but I also understand why they exist. Unfortunately, perhaps due to a mixture of elitism, protectionism, and market dominance, writing cross-platform software in any capacity,
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by xcdzvyn 3y ago
In what way do you feel Nix doesn't achieve this? Because software can still ultimately rely on system state? I'd contend Nix is the best package management system yet, and while its certainly complex, much of that complexity only
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by xcdzvyn 3y ago
I'm not sure I'd describe FFmpeg's CLI as "too good"
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by xcdzvyn 3y ago
Not at all, I just have WebGL disabled by default. I wasn't sure if the entire page was being rendered through it, that's all :)
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by xcdzvyn 3y ago
Curious because your static landing page requires WebGL - what's your FE stack?
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by xcdzvyn 3y ago
Their claim that let s1 = String::from("hello"); let s2 = s1; println!("{}, world!", s1); is in fact safe code would suggest they indeed don't have much concern for thread safety.
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by xcdzvyn 3y ago
My concern with Pack obliging me to compress is that compression becomes less pluggable; I'd much rather my archive format be agnostic of compression, as with tar, so that I can trivially move to a better compression format when one in
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by xcdzvyn 3y ago
With all due respect, I find it hard to believe the author stumbled upon a trivial method of improving tarballing performance by several orders of magnitude that nobody else had considered before. If I understand correctly, they're sug
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by xcdzvyn 3y ago
Looking over the Readme, this sounds a lot like Zig. What languages have you taken the most inspiration from?
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by xcdzvyn 3y ago
I don't have any skin in this game, but I personally think "Your relatively long thoughtful reply is wrong; source: this paragraph a glorified Markov chain threw together" is really offensive. I would have zero interest in en
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by xcdzvyn 3y ago
A web server?
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by xcdzvyn 3y ago
Interesting, so the docs are better than Nix'? I've been meaning to finally figure out LISP, I'd be willing to use this as an excuse!
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by xcdzvyn 3y ago
I thought about taking a shot at it but I thought it'd seem childish. My impression is: 1. Visit the website 2. Hit "Install" 3. There's some confirmation screen apparently, press "Install" again 4. Verify your
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by xcdzvyn 3y ago
Most of these steps apply to installing an Android app from an Untrusted SourceTM for the first time. Half of these steps are fluff added for the sake of a clickable title. There are problems with Apple's proposal. This is not one of t
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by xcdzvyn 3y ago
I assumed it'd be something about the number of recent significant events that the Simpsons "predicted"[0]. [0] https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/the...
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by xcdzvyn 3y ago
Strongly agree here. VS Code extensions with the audacity to download and execute random binaries are particularly pleasant on my NixOS system, where these binaries simply don't work.
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by xcdzvyn 3y ago
I think we've concluded the best outcomes in technology come from not forcing guardrails on people. You should be able to ask an LLM to pretend to be Hitler, and if you don't like that - don't! >Maybe there's a midd
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by xcdzvyn 3y ago
This was downvoted but I think it's true. I find it way easier to throw something together in a raster editor than e.g. Inkscape. I want to draw. With pixels. Not huge bezier curves.
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by xcdzvyn 3y ago
I see Talos only supports XFS, what potential reasons could they have to prefer XFS to competitors? I've always struggled to compare filesystems fairly. My justification for ext4 is just that everybody else uses it :)
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by xcdzvyn 3y ago
I nodded off watching this great Michael MJD video unboxing and setting up an original WebTV last night[0]. He plays around with an ongoing project to reverse-engineer and re-implement WebTV servers for self-hosting[1]. [0] https:/&#x
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by xcdzvyn 3y ago
I'm almost the opposite. If I had to use Linux with GNOME, I'd just use macOS instead. The Linux desktop needs a shtick. Maybe when desktop cubes make a comeback we can make peace :)
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by xcdzvyn 3y ago
>murdered That is an utter fabrication. >Police in the Tulsa suburb have not released a cause of death but said this week that the teenager did not die as a result of injuries from the fight.
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by xcdzvyn 3y ago
This page taught me Zig not only has _an_ implementation of Kyber, but an implementation of Kyber in the stdlib. There's also ECC, numerous hashes, stream ciphers... impressive!(?)[0] [0] https://ziglang.org/documentati
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by xcdzvyn 3y ago
It's been disheartening to see the degradation of desktop computing because of the shift to "mobile first". That AI UI designer (Aiuzard?) doesn't even know what a "desktop program" is. Everything's expect
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by xcdzvyn 3y ago
> Smalltalk and Lisp machines Lest we mention Plan 9!
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by xcdzvyn 3y ago
It's seemed a little odd to me, particularly given Linus' attitude of "never break userspace", that so many high-profile projects decide to break backwards compatibility almost for the sake of it (particularly GTK/G
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by xcdzvyn 3y ago
Even if that wasn't directly targeted at me, I'll elaborate on my concern: That it's possible to interpret the AGPL both ways (that the prior hack is legal, and that it is not), and that the project author could very well bel
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by xcdzvyn 3y ago
> you could trivially get around the AGPL by using https services to launder your proprietary changes. This is a very interesting proposition that makes me reconsider my opinion of AGPL.
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by xcdzvyn 3y ago
Wow, CSS elitism is a new one. Sure, CSS is hard and Tailwind makes it easier. God forbid people choose the tool with better DX.
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by xcdzvyn 3y ago
You are right that there are software bugs that aren't memory bugs. Now as GP was saying, Rust inherently mitigates a great deal of generally serious software vulnerabilities, which is great, even if it doesn't mitigate anything e

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