ylyn

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by ylyn 5y ago
> Point 6: I've read this sentence several times but seemingly you opened an executable in a text editor and that somehow broke your build process? Or something? Was it write-locked by the editor? I can't imagine how you got to
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by ylyn 5y ago
Huh? You know you can tweak the energy-performance bias for Intel CPUs and all that on Linux right?
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by ylyn 5y ago
Well I'm someone who hacks on Linux for a living. What do I do now?
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by ylyn 5y ago
If enough people want it, it will happen.
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by ylyn 5y ago
> also lowers the ceiling on excellence > I never EVER have to check the type of a variable at runtime. > I always know its type just by looking at its name I guess you've only ever written web backends and menial things like
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by ylyn 5y ago
This is so complicated. I did this with a Minecraft plugin that would schedule a systemd shutdown in 30 minutes when the last player disconnects, and cancel the shutdown if a player connects. Then a simple webpage that sent an EC2 API reque
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by ylyn 5y ago
Well, if we're not aware of it and we don't take steps to stop these techniques, malicious people will use it to their advantage.
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by ylyn 5y ago
> They made these changes No, they're just describing the new features... that does not mean GitHub actually wrote these features.
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by ylyn 5y ago
Unit tests are not the only way, or the best way, to test software.
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by ylyn 5y ago
Git is very simple. It's the UI that is a bit messy. C++ is by no means simple.
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by ylyn 5y ago
I never thought Linux could become any more monolithic. But somehow it is! (Not that it's a bad thing.)
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by ylyn 5y ago
It is not. This is how it works in Singapore Your employer reports your income to the tax authority. They send you a tax assessment, including any reliefs they think you are eligible for. If it's correct, you just pay the amount. Other
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by ylyn 5y ago
Compare the t in 'stellar' vs the t in 'tell'.
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by ylyn 5y ago
It seems like there are some cases where Windows accepts a password hash for authentication as a user though. So by having the hash of an administrator, you can escalate privileges. I don't think there are such cases in Linux.
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by ylyn 5y ago
Bash is a relatively small C program. Python is a huge beast compared to Bash.
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by ylyn 5y ago
> What's odd is that detection of headphone jack worked in every distro and DE I've ever used (currently Arch Linux with pulseaudio and Gnome 3 on Wayland) This needs the kernel driver to get it right. It doesn't depend so
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by ylyn 5y ago
> My guess is that you're not getting your own airpods back, but someone else's. I guess reading the linked site before commenting on it is no longer in fashion. They clearly state that they send you a new (or refurbished rathe
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by ylyn 5y ago
The British royal family had very little to do with that incident. Yes, the monarch is the de jure head of state, but again in practice she delegates all decisions to the GG.
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by ylyn 5y ago
It's under a folder called "scripts/ci". All the script does is upload debug symbols to Sentry so that it can decipher crash traces. When exactly do you think it is run?
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by ylyn 5y ago
It's a CI script to upload debut symbols to Sentry. GPC is being really misleading.
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by ylyn 5y ago
I wouldn't even call it a side effect. It's part of a normal immune response. Don't you notice your heart rate increase when you catch a flu?
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by ylyn 5y ago
Do you have evidence for your claims?
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by ylyn 5y ago
Fuzzing is probably the most likely, but even then..
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by ylyn 5y ago
> Isn't that against Github rules? No. There is no rule against proprietary code on GitHub. > And doesn't that mean the 150 forks (republishings) are in legal danger? No. If you actually read the INRIA license: > The Lice
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by ylyn 5y ago
This has not been my experience at all. Then again, I only use 5 of all the plugins available.
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by ylyn 5y ago
A 1700X is quite a bit more powerful than the i5-8250U in the author's Chromebook. Probably around 2–3x the overall speed.
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by ylyn 5y ago
This person's project competes with Repl.it in the same way someone doing Nand2Tetris competes with Intel (a bit exaggerated, but the point is there).
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by ylyn 5y ago
> it was worth to sacrifice 3000 lifes for 30 years of stability. No one knows what China would be like now had the CCP acceeded to the students' demands and liberalised. Taiwan ended their long period of martial law around the same
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by ylyn 5y ago
> I think fighting the compiler for a likely-correct program in the end is a better alternative than understanding why the program failed with this given input and not with another In my experience (having TAed a CS1 course) I think it i
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by ylyn 5y ago
> if the next Korean president will be a gullible populist (which is now a close probability.) Is it? Anti-CCP sentiment is super high in Korea now. And it seems like the right-wing parties are capitalising on that.

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