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chalst

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About chalst

Freelancing ex-academic.

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    Comment #47945761

    Good link. I think it’s clear that he is the most corrupt president: while other presidents have been guilty of corruption, seeking money from foreign governments and firms via cry…

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    Comment #45603410

    Some parts of more recent versions of Darwin aren’t fully open source.

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    Comment #45603337

    You can run Windows on bhyve: https://wiki.freebsd.org/bhyve/Windows

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    Comment #45322065

    Homepage here: https://www.cheribsd.org/ which strangely doesn’t seem to link here: https://github.com/CTSRD-CHERI/cheribsd

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    Comment #44332099

    The case is strong for not depending on anything the Trump admin could have control of.

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    Comment #43811126

    Amateurs. Fortunately for them, the case is lost without their efforts.

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    Comment #43811110

    Why the disclaimer? We know that monopolies make bad platform owners.

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    Comment #43634616

    Students who do that risk submitting assignments that show they don’t understand the course so far.

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    Comment #42220325

    He’s on BlueSky, where I see Yoav already follows.

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    Comment #42220311

    > Thanks to whoever submitted. That would be https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=CharlesW aka Charles Wiltgen.

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    Comment #41345790

    Viruses that infect USB devices can compromise systems based on air gaps. Cf. eg., https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/air_gaps.html and https://www.schneier.com/blog/ar…

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    Comment #39869560

    The OP explicitly excludes training.

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    Comment #39810663

    Difftastic is text-based.

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    Comment #39810649

    You can be the one to create such a package…

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    Comment #39810578

    Yes, since magit allows a call-out to diff and difftastic can be supplied as a binary, but magit allows you to use ediff, and Emacs allows use of tree-sitter, so I don’t really see…

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    Comment #39810533

    Emacs has a git client, Magit, which can use ediff, the Elisp implementation of diff. Since Emacs is widely used for parsing, and can parse using tree-sitter, Emacs doesn’t seem to…

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    Comment #39710675

    I guess what you described, though unpleasant sounding, fitted the Czech Republic’s history. Perhaps that’s why hilbert42 liked it.

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    Comment #39709022

    The mugging scenario shows that there are risks associated with pairing removal, but the suggestion by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF [1] seems to deal with this particular issue. Are there any o…

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