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by xyproto 3y ago
Island of Dr. Brain works well in ScummVM!
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by xyproto 3y ago
That would be something!
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by xyproto 3y ago
gccgo + upx can reduce the size of Go executables considerably, usually below 1M.
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by xyproto 3y ago
Sure, but Go has a good system to avoid this, with go.mod and go.sum.
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by xyproto 3y ago
Old C projects are very often troublesome to compile on a modern system with modern libraries. Source: Arch Linux package maintainer for 10+ years
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by xyproto 3y ago
You can look at "if err == nil" and tell what is going on, but who knows which layer of exception handling will catch that "throws".
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by xyproto 3y ago
Pretty balanced article, but I think it skips over the (for me) main points of using Go: * Go was developed within Google, mainly as a response to C++ projects that had grown unwieldy, in terms of dependencies and compilation speed. As a re
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by xyproto 3y ago
It's not my native language either. Sorry if you felt made fun of.
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by xyproto 3y ago
> You seem to have some really wired brief here, get some help I say. I googled "wired brief" and this is what I found: https://www.ebay.ca/itm/303994118271
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by xyproto 3y ago
No. Self driving cars are better now. In addition to this, Cities are more open to changing which rules cars should follow. The effects of climate change are more visible, and the effects of polluted air are better known.
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by xyproto 3y ago
If a city banned all manually driven cars and allowed only self driving cars, the number of car-related deaths would drop to almost nothing. Goods could also be transported more efficiently. The technology to achive this exists right now, L
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by xyproto 3y ago
Can you give an example of a log message that would not fit typical logging levels? (Info/Debug/Error etc)
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by xyproto 3y ago
This is an emacs-centric world view and many of the same arguments applies to open source software in general.
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by xyproto 3y ago
Sometimes people ask questions like "how do I shoot myself in the foot and still have a working foot", though. Questions are not always reasonable. A question is not always "pure" either, but can embed incorrect assumpti
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by xyproto 3y ago
Established companies that are not startups typically provides more guidance, but also less freedom. They may also offer more pay for the first couple of years, until and if the startup becomes a success. You have to have some tolerance for
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by xyproto 3y ago
> I’m thinking those numbers will make for a handsome table in a soon-to-be influential arXiV paper, either when those Qualcomm AI researchers step off the plane from Italy, or someone in an LLM hacker channel figures out biblatex, which
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by xyproto 3y ago
Usually when people feel like this, it is because the text has been generated by a LLM.
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by xyproto 3y ago
Create a computer game about a small island with 100 people, with each person being politically aware, with llama2.c being their brain. Then you can simulate politics for a thousand years and see what happens. For instance.
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by xyproto 3y ago
How come the performance is so smooth?
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by xyproto 3y ago
Finding solutions that work well for people with ADHD is also likely to have the added bonus of making everyone less stressed.
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by xyproto 3y ago
So the security is reduced from one of the pretty good PGP algorithms to just the user's password?
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by xyproto 3y ago
> you’ll upload your private key to our servers and you’ll like it! What's the point of PGP if the e-mail company has the private key? Just security as the e-mail is being sent over the network + signature verification? Sharing the
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by xyproto 3y ago
People can do both, though: drop unnecessary rides and also have the safest seats.
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by xyproto 3y ago
No, after 12 years of maintaining official Arch Linux packages, I am proud that they chose Arch Linux as a foundation for the Steam Deck.
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by xyproto 3y ago
Arch Linux, btw
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by xyproto 3y ago
End users can stay at old versions and old distros for as long as they like. Most users can benefit from security updates, though. They might also (maybe) get better performance, new features and a smoother user experience.
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by xyproto 3y ago
Then the protocol changes from X to Wayland, python changes from 2 to 3, gtk changes from 2 to 4 and systemd replaces core services...
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by xyproto 3y ago
Poor man's defer
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by xyproto 3y ago
Some restrictions aids performance, but checking that pointers have not run wild like elphants in a porcelain shop requires extra checks, which takes time.
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by xyproto 3y ago
It's the anti-Alpine, in terms of GNU-ness.

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