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iambvk

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About iambvk

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    Comment #48854958

    I like this approach. Thank you. Would it work if a user's device that is already connected to the VPN, but has custom DNS override to say 8.8.8.8 ? How can I allow my users to be …

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    Comment #48622137

    There used to be a Debian Live iso builder website for building custom Debian Live isos. It probably is discontinued, I can't seem to find it anymore.

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    Comment #46042853

    Only looked at the first two examples. No language can save you when one writes bad code like that.

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    Comment #45889739

    Thank you.

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    Comment #45889690

    > No, it does not always crash. Can you give me an example that I can reproduce?

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    Comment #45889603

    > No. It's undefined behaviour, it may do anything or nothing. This is clearly nonsense.

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    Comment #45882427

    Doesn't null-pointer-dereference always crash the application? Is it only an undefined-behavior because program-must-crash is not the explicitly required by these languages' specs?…

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    Comment #45882132

    What is the justification to call `Null pointer dereference` as a memory safety issue?

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    Comment #45854194

    My favorite monospace font is "Ubuntu Mono" for ages. As an engineer, I like to see -- for the lack of better word -- some taste instead of characters being too formal and too symm…

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    Comment #45476385

    This is a necessary condition for CBDC goals (now being marketed as Stablecoins).

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    Comment #45095192

    I am actually more interested in removing/reducing even more features from Go than adding more features.

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    Comment #44889746

    Is anyone able to get streaming audio to text conversion working with whisper.cpp? I tried several times to get this into a reasonable shape, but all have been failures. If anyone …

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    Comment #44607057

    Peter does this every few months on Hackernews.

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    Comment #44510483

    I am not a sysadmin -- so I keep forgetting the command to see logs cause I only need it once every 3 months. So, systemd change is a pain for me.

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    Comment #43669081

    IMO there is another level in between 3 and 4 where config file allows for cross referencing among config values, forming a graph. foo.password = xxx bar.password = yyy wifi.ssid =…

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    Comment #42784392

    Yeah, they sure forget their faults fast. The amount of hatred Dems showed openly during 2016 election run was truely something special.

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    Comment #42594870

    I am working on implement on-disk B+Tree for the last few months. Man, keeping the on-disk state consistent with proper locking is a real challenge -- specially when we want to avo…

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    Comment #42538072

    > The total hosting cost for the conference was USD 42.92 + tax and the BBB testing in the lead-up to the conference was USD 3.11 + tax, so a total of USD 46.03+tax. The web node a…

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    Comment #42519758

    Cool. Thanks.

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    Comment #42519593

    Does this support the non-standard key-press, key-release, etc. events proposal by kitty project? They are necessary for nicer terminal UI projects.

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    Comment #42257774

    Thanks for this information. I wasn't aware that using 64-bit ints makes such a big difference in performance. Thank you.

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    Comment #42250042

    Golang folks, after looking at the code, I am surprised and don't understand why Go version is slow compared to C/C++/Rust. Can anyone please explain? Thank you.

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    Comment #41025074

    What are the downsides of just adding new methods on the `Config` structure? func (c *Config) WithFizz(...) {...} func (c *Config) WithBazz(...) {...}

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    Comment #39322887

    > ...since they can't be bothered to write the 3 lines of code... They actually think saner devs have not-invented-here syndrome :0

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    Comment #38810278

    It is: two writes for write ahead log vs. log-n (tree-height) writes for CoW