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mahkoh

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    Comment #48024255

    Because foo might call process::abort().

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    Comment #47913284

    You're a single parent. Through divine intervention you know that your 5 year old child has already pressed the red button. Are you going to press the blue button and risk your chi…

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    Comment #47482879

    I doubt there is anything incorrect there. See the note here: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/docs/book/Message_XML.html#a...

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    Comment #46711512

    WebGPU seems to be enabled by default in chromium 144 on linux at least on AMD GPUs.

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    Comment #46330705

    The point of disabling overcommit, as per the article, is that all pages in virtual memory must be backed by physical memory at all times. Therefore all virtual memory must reserve…

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    Comment #46280130

    >Back when I was writing xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland, I had to use a few dbus protocols (xdg portals run on dbus) to implement some of the communication. If we go to the portal doc…

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    Comment #46222208

    VESA makes you pay $5000 to get legal access to the DisplayPort standard. That is not the issue here.

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    Comment #42998359

    a can be a vector of booleans.

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    Comment #42991396

    The author frames his post to be about education: please correct them for me. The misinformation has been around for 20 years But his education will fail as soon as you're operatin…

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    Comment #42990854

    So, if you ever see somebody proposing this float a = mix( b, c, step( y, x ) ); The author seems unaware of float a = mix( b, c, y > x ); which encodes the desired behavior and al…

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    Comment #42974105

    That assumes that Apple's shareholders believe that Apple's privacy reputation (relative to other companies) is more valuable than access to the UK market. All evidence that I have…

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    Comment #42961361

    The problem with asciidoc is that it doesn't support nesting. Markdown allows you to nest constructs as much as you want using syntax that are easy to use for both humans and docum…

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    Comment #42609078

    >Another one is I could not find a benchmark with io_uring - this would confirm the benefit of going from epoll. One of the advantages of io_uring, unrelated to performance, is tha…

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    Comment #41709123

    C-f thread 0/0 We shouldn't hope for the impossible.

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    Comment #41549174

    I've had a few hard crashes (system freezes completely, ssh does not work) over the last two weeks on 6.10.x kernels. I am hoping that it is https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/…

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    Comment #41532494

    >The in-memory representation of bit fields is implementation-defined. Therefore, if you’re calling into an external API that takes a uint32_t like in the example without an explic…

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    Comment #41409293

    0.2 and 0.4 are different "major releases" of rust crates as you say. The major release is determined by the first non-0 component in the version number. The issue is that debian a…

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    Comment #41399430

    If control flow statements don't require parentheses to be parseable, doesn't that mean that it is the parentheses that are completely unnecessary?

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    Comment #40805770

    Provenance might be used as justification now but the actual rules are simpler and stricter. After freeing (or reallocing) a pointer, the application must not inspect the pointer v…

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    Comment #40327404

    >IPv4 only. You'd think that sites choosing wireguard would have a more modern setup and might make heavy use of (self service) ULAs.

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    Comment #40225633

    The linked PoC requires that the attacker already has root so that it can disable the default ptrace protection.

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    Comment #40106595

    Adding the following to your local systemd.network configuration file should resolve the issue: [DHCPv4] UseDNS=false [DHCPv6] UseDNS=false But you will have to type the IP of the …

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    Comment #39951484

    Early linux versions as a git repository are available here: https://archive.org/details/git-history-of-linux

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    Comment #39849999

    See https://www.swift.org/platform-support/ for a list of supported distributions. You seem to have hallucinated that I said that swift cannot be made to run on other systems. You …

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    Comment #39849507

    >Isn't it good that now there is an alternative to C? Rust has had endorsed language bindings for GTK for a long time: https://www.gtk.org/docs/language-bindings/rust Some official…