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nullifidian

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    Comment #46959872

    I should have converted it to $' ', yes. It was posix shell compliant this way tho. (probably written when I knew more python than bash).

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    Comment #46923220

    >installing many packages The issue is HOW MANY. This simple utility is in the 100-200 range, Zed editor is in 2000+ range. C/C++ software you find in distros is not only stabilize…

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    Comment #46910051

    I would rather check urls with the following method: echo -e -n "https://іnstall.example-clі.dev" | python -c 'exec("""import sys, unicodedata\nfor ch in sys.stdin.read():\n try:\n…

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    Comment #46476383

    >Chechnya So they invaded their own internationally recognized territory. Wonderful. By that standard Ukraine invaded Donbass after they declared themselves independent of Ukraine.…

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    Comment #43951817

    I've been using "quasi-monopoly".

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    Comment #43445228

    If there had been something like this standardized in Markdown from the start, it might have had a chance for wide adoption. Right now, learning to see and use LaTeX math as easily…

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    Comment #43152618

    This reminded me of the anti-theming sentiment in the gnome developer community https://stopthemingmy.app/

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    Comment #43021523

    >Nvidia would be willing to cut into its margin to provide Why would that be optional on a top of the line GPU that requires it? NVIDIA has nothing to do with it. I'm talking about…

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    Comment #43016913

    >Because no PC power supply has a 24V rail Servers with NVIDIA H200 GPUs (Supermicro ones for example) have power supplies that have 54 volt rail, since that gpu requires it. I can…

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    Comment #42757838

    >which obviously fall out of scope of the First Amendment. It obviously doesn't. That would mean the US Government can ban all foreign press, just by designating countries as "fore…

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    Comment #42742023

    >What does this have to do with the First Amendment? Because obviously changing the owner-editor of a media outlet has everything to do with their editorial policy. The SCOTUS just…

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    Comment #42430219

    Tiktok algorithms could be considered a form of editorial position(be it foreign government influenced one, or just the type of content they elevate / not remove), and in this sens…

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    Comment #41658875

    >Rust does not have a culture of "microdependencies" It absolutely does by the C/C++ standards. Last time I checked the zed editor had 1000+ dependencies. That amount of crates usu…

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    Comment #41655397

    Some amount of the risk from the "dependency jungle" situation could be alleviated by instituting "trusted" set of crates that are selected based on some popularity threshold, and …

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    Comment #41572186

    It's somewhat similar to 'recoll' in its functionality, only with recoll you need to index everything before search. It even uses the same approach of using third-party software li…

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    Comment #41345910

    "Vladislav Davankov" is a token "liberal". He's supposed to make such statements. Nothing that is uttered by Duma members is worth any consideration -- it's a complete theater.

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    Comment #41204461

    >given the age of this series It's from the Jul 2019. Not very old. CPUs from the early 2010s, with enough ram, are still perfectly usable for light browsing and text editing tasks…

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    Comment #40941196

    I tried compiling mandelbrot.c (single threaded one) from the benchmarks game and execution on jslinux took 12 seconds, while webvm completed it in 1.2 sec. The host takes 0.03 sec…

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    Comment #40717815

    >Nobody can do anything and Russia is lost and has become North Korea. I don't believe that. >seems Can you not sanctimoniously and arrogantly teach people, who actually live in it…