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by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 3y ago
Excerpt from an Onet article[1] about this: >Until a few years ago, rolling stock manufacturers such as Newag from Nowy Sącz and PESA from Bydgoszcz were able to dominate the maintenance market. It was mainly them who entered tenders for
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by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 3y ago
Interesting comments from a former IBM employee involved in the development of the PowerPC version of OS/2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20888274
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by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 3y ago
Those files implement the "new" file handle API, which replaced FCB (File Control Block) from MS-DOS 1.0. It's somewhat inspired by Unix file descriptors. It seems that "Unix" and "Xenix" were often used i
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by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 3y ago
This video isn't very informative. There's more information about the vulnerability here: https://comsec.ethz.ch/research/microarch/inception/
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by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 3y ago
The title is wrong. The chart shows the eurozone, not the EU.
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by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 3y ago
> basic things are missing from it like a string startswith. It was added in C++20: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string/starts...
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by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 3y ago
The main highlight of this release is the new OOP system: https://perldoc.perl.org/5.38.0/perlclass
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by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 3y ago
"Consistent x86 ISA" in that slide is clearly a dig at Intel. AVX-512 is still not present in the chips with E-cores.
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by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 3y ago
I think it isn't documented, but the console is a special case. The default mode of stdout is _O_TEXT. _write(), which is used internally by stdio, performs encoding translation if all of the following are true: - The current locale
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by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 3y ago
The author is mistaken about fwrite() being exempt from locale conversions on Windows. Here's a snippet to test this: #include <stdio.h> #include <locale.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <windows.h
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by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 3y ago
>They’re not. UTF-32 code units have a 1:1 mapping to USVs, surrogates are not valid. This is true, although very pedantic and irrelevant to the point of my comment. The distinction only matters when you're dealing with ill-formed s
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by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 3y ago
I'm not a fan of "everything you know about X is wrong" articles. Very often they try to present some little tidbit of knowledge as a revelation and mislead the reader in the process. In this case, the tidbit is: "graphe
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by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 3y ago
It's not unreasonable, although in the case of SHA-3 (Keccak), it's recommended to use KMAC. It pads the key and adds a domain separation prefix. Unlike HMAC, there's no double hashing. https://nvlpubs.nist.gov&#x2
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by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 3y ago
>Caddy cannot be found in the default repositories of Debian or RHEL. Debian 12 (bookworm) will have it: https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/caddy
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by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 3y ago
> Do MIME types in HTTP headers affect how browsers render content? You can test it with the following snippet: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http:/&#
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by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 3y ago
> That continent continues to deforest "In 2020, the EU had an estimated 159 million hectares of forests. Their area has increased by almost 10% since 1990 (145 million hectares)" https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat&#
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by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 4y ago
>PalmOS was already dead when the iPhone was launched. It was declining but not dead. Palm's swan song, Palm Centro, released in 2007, was a big success. They sold at least 2 million units[1]. According to AdMob, in terms of web tra
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by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 4y ago
You can see in the "About" window that it's based on Firefox 102.9, which is the latest ESR version. It masks the minor version in the UA string.
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by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 4y ago
I'm surprised the article doesn't mention BFS/MuQSS because it's also based on the EEVDF algorithm.
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by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 4y ago
Vanilla Civ 2 had the throne room, but it was removed in the Test of Time version.
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Product Liability Directive: More Bad News for Open Source(eclipse-foundation.blog)
3 points by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 4y ago|0 comments
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by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 4y ago
All the numbers in the chart have a decimal point in the wrong place. Washington Mutual had $307bn in assets[1] (not $30.7bn), SVB had $209bn[2] (not $20.9bn), etc. [1] - https://www.fdic.gov/resources/resolutions/
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by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 4y ago
In the previous thread, someone posted a video showing the process of the FDIC seizing the Heritage Community Bank in Chicago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIh6NEBL8BU It's pretty interesting.
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by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 4y ago
>Remember when Facebook (and Google, etc.) supported federated XMPP? Facebook's XMPP server wasn't federated. You couldn't use it to talk to people on other servers.
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by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 4y ago
You also need "-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release" (or some other value). Otherwise, it will use a toolchain-specific default, which often means "no optimizations and no debug symbols".
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by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 4y ago
>Captain Cook’s Bean Snail [...] Today, they live only in zoos. Sadly, the last member of that particular species died in 2016, in Edinburgh Zoo[1]. However, they had some success with other Partula snails[2]. [1] - https://is
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by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 4y ago
Excerpt from C11: "[...] errno which expands to a modifiable lvalue that has type int and thread local storage duration"
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by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 4y ago
I think the submission link should be replaced with this. The paper is much more informative and it's surprisingly easy to understand.
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by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 4y ago
>Not sure what would have happened if it went on for longer though. When I missed the payment they sent me this: "You can still use your account for now. If the subscription is not renewed soon, sending and receiving email will be d
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by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 4y ago
A screenshot from the author's website: https://www.durlej.net/res/vdesktop.png

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