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> Because initramfs is just a (mostly) normal Linux system, that means it has its own init PID 1. On Arch, that PID is in fact just systemd. Debian has (or had; at least my Devuan …

I wouldn't even expect it on newly created stuff without the -p flag. Normal cp doesn't do it.

> 3) Google is biased towards sites that cover a topic earlier than others. > I’ve seen pages that are still top 3 for a particular competitive query years later, simply because th…

Process substitution and calling it file redirect is a bit misleading because it is implemented with named pipes which becomes relevant when the command tries to seek in them which…

> Or is there some particular criteria an init system needs to satisfy to be included, that systemd doesn't satisfy but the others do? Reading the first sentence on that page was t…

> Data centers are built with redundant network connectivity, backup power, and fire suppression. [...] The question is their relative frequency, which is where the data center is …

I was curious if they optimized the download. Did it download the 'optimized' ~150 GB and wasting a lot of time there or did it download the ~20 GB unique data and duplicated as pa…

At least Prosody implements BOSH (xmpp over http) and communication over Websocket. https://prosody.im/doc/setting_up_bosh https://prosody.im/doc/modules/mod_websocket But I never …

It is apparently also hard to maintain over time. I heavily customized my Firefox and Thunderbird and it is annoying how often GUI components which should be equal (e.g. toolbar bu…

> I understand that search bar position is not changeable by theming, It is changeable. With enough dedication you can go a long way just with CSS. In this case it is even rather e…

Also > it is also not possible to theme the settings areas. I don't see a reason why this should not work. If by settings area the author means the settings page which in modern Th…

Don't know what exactly PostCSS is but with a JavaScript addon it would probably be wiser to inject the custom css directly into the shadow dom instance if possible and avoiding su…

> Also, note that some areas of ThunderBird are rendered outside of the influence of userChrome.css in a "Shadow DOM" - as such, it is not possible to fully theme all elements of T…

> The service required is DNS not ping. ping 1.1 is short and easy to remember. Since I'm not using Cloudflare DNS, ping is actually the service I require :D

Bash is slower than other POSIX compatible shells but once you start running external commands for any substring or replace operation you loose much of this performance edge since …

Just last week I had again some PDFs Okular could not open because of some more uncommon form features.

(A)PNG supports semi-transparency. In GIF a pixel is either full transparent or full opaque. Also while true color gifs seem to be possible it is usually limited to 256 colors per …

A PiTest blog post [1] mentions an interesting article [2] on how mutation testing is (or was) used by Google. If I remember correctly, instead of overwhelming the developer with t…

Arrays are fast and ArrayList is like a fancy array with bound check and auto grows. Only the grow part can be problematic if it has to grow very often. But that can be avoided by …

Since most things in Java are handled by reference, including Strings there should be not that much memory overhead. From a quick look I could not find any actual line duplication.…

And since benchmarking is hard is also has a helper to actually "waste" time. [1] The implementation [2] might give an idea that it is not always trivial to do nothing but still ap…

for(int i=0;i https://github.com/MayankPratap/Samchika/blob/ebf45acad1963d... "do nothing" is correct, "again and again" not so much. Java caches the hash code for Strings and sinc…

My biggest annoyance with FastCGI is the ambiguity between FastCGI Server, FastCGI Application and FastCGI Proxy in documentation and articles. To give some examples what I mean: -…

Why wake up if your condition is not yet met? The wait timeout is the time after it should continue if it was not notified. It is meant to be waken up as soon as possible by a noti…