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by zajio1am 4y ago
It is not incorrect in general, but it is kind of hack that may be incorrect in some situations (as it does not reflect change in system timezone), so it is not suitable for default behavior. Default behavior - use current system timezone E
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> If they are supposed to act locale-specific, then this "trick" simply leads to wrong results and should be avoided. These tools are definitely supposed to act locale-specific (e.g. '.' regular expression should matc
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Why it should be? The behavior is correct, /etc/localtime could change since last read so it is necessary to check whether old value can be used. The real problem is calling localtime() so often.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
There is evidence that opposition to new construction is not only from home-owners, but also from renters, due to economic ignorance: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/11/th...
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by zajio1am 4y ago
AFAIK many Mikrotik MIPS routers are big-endian. Also Ubiquiti Edgerouters based on Cavium Octeon MIPS CPU.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> The biggest problem is the like button. The like button is not only a bad metric - it's the worst possible metric But there is a real need for some kind of post rating/ranking (like like/dislike button, or explicit point
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by zajio1am 4y ago
From the article: "Hiscock's study, for example, the largest and longest longitudinal study done on sleep training, found sleep-trained children were no more likely to be insecurely attached to their caregiver at six years of age
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Which is sad, considering how bad is ESP32 documentation compared to other microcontrollers.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> I keep wondering how these civilizations might have developed if we'd discovered them in, say, 1900 instead of 1500s. Reality check: pre-columbian americans did not have iron metallurgy, in this sense they were thousands years beh
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Or they just say that they cannot subsidize their letter-delivering business from their package-delivering business.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> You are mistaken if ypu think your government is collecting less data than the euro government I am EU citizen and i think that my government is collecting much more personal data than necessary. Whether they would also share these dat
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> Oh dear, dear EU, please show some teeth on this matter, god help us if you do not. > The EU is the only place on earth having kinda sensitive big data/privacy laws and enforcements thereof Only for corporations, not for govern
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Well, by Popehat's Law of Goats, Jonathan Swift is just cannibal apologist ...
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> Use both, and use both halves of the keyboard If you're doing a combination like Ctrl F, use the right control key. If you're doing Ctrl-l, use the left control key. Coordinating both hands to press key combos seems much hard
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> People can just say they don't want to be talked to. That's how you "figure it out". Or they just don't want to be rude and would play along, even if they are not really interested in that talk.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Note that musl libc in Alpine Linux has significantly smaller default thread stack size than glibc (128 kB vs 8 MB), therefore software developed and tested with glibc can easily crash with stack overflow.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> During "Independence Days" his dad had to put a flag up in his store window. It wasn't optional. If he didn't do it, the police would stop by and ask why he didn't have a flag in his window. That seems like the
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Why not just link the official web: https://tomlehrersongs.com/ ?
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Instead of removing transponders, perhaps just randomize identifiers before each fly, so individual planes cannot be tracked?
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by zajio1am 4y ago
The same argument could be used about cars using roads or even pedestrians using sidewalks.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> The lack of empathy is incredibly depressing... My primary empathy is with end users, who could be empowered with AI-based tools to express their dreams and create graphics or software without need to pay professional artists or progra
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by zajio1am 4y ago
I am from Czechia, where many diacritic marks are used. CZ domain registry makes periodic surveys whether to allow IDN domains for .cz, and 'no' wins consistently with ~ 2/3 majority. See https://www.xn--hkyrky-pta
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by zajio1am 4y ago
No, distribution of non-free firmware is not ok, while interacting with firmware that is already there (e.g. from ROM or EEPROM) is okay.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> Because the FSF has an absolutely asinine definition of "free software" wherein any code that can be modified or updated is non-free, but if it comes from an untouchable ROM chip they can pretend it's still "free&qu
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by zajio1am 4y ago
While Dwarf Fortress is incredibly deep simulation, it is also filled with bugs and UI misdesigns, that makes playing it much more frustrating than playing e.g. Rimworld. Also, the simulation is very uneven, some parts are very deep, some v
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Using monopsonic position to keep costs as low as possible is a primary advantage of single payer healthcare. And raising healthcare payroll taxes is politically unpopular like raising any other taxes. No need to spread conspiracy theories
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> On AMD64 you can at least avoid check after each single instruction. So it becomes less expensive. How?
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by zajio1am 4y ago
And even if we ignore issues with too large working sets and only focus on memory allocations, then if some badly written program eats all memory, then running some OOM killer (who hopefully kills the offender) is better than keeping it run
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Discussions about overcommit are red herring for OOM situations. You could be fully within commit limit for allocated unreclaimable memory, and still be in effective OOM situation, if working set is larger than RAM.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> Alice's router is dumb. It sees traffic on port 1234, checks its NAT table, and sees that data is supposed to go to Alice. While in principle that is possible, in practice almost all home routers are based on Linux, and Linux netf

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