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In Perl -> is the dereference operator, similar to C. So when you see $a->[2]{"bar"} then $a is an array reference where each item is a hashmap. But with $a->[2]->{"bar"} then $a i…

And that's why it is best to avoid GPU-acceleration unless you truly need it. GPU drivers have always been full of bugs and will always be, since modern GPUs are ridiculously compl…

The standard flag package in Go also supports GNU style flags. https://pkg.go.dev/flag#hdr-Command_line_flag_syntax

Good to know there are other solutions than Cloudflare to block those leeches.

I love Go's letter casing. It's such a neat way to remove cruft.

There are usage statistics of most IRC servers and channels on https://netsplit.de/networks/top10.php

Gloriously useless :)

It's an electron app, so I guess at least 1GB of RAM.

I love this article! It is not the first time I hear the bad reputation of aspartame is unfounded. AFAIK, there was only one study which said aspartame was dangerous: they fed a ra…

message to OP: you see? All you had to do is create some drama and now people are interested in you :)

Why indeed! Recent versions of GNU cat (and other coreutils) include those optimizations. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src/cat...

If you wanted to have 2 redundant hosts, you could use something like GlusterFS for the replication. I have only tested it with XFS, but apparently it supports ZFS now: https://glu…

On Linux with glibc, ldd -v will give you similar information, though less pretty of course.

> No one cares how big it is. A lot of people care, especially Linux users. > Disk space is still cheap on end users machines. Not cheap for everyone.

> Neither Flatpak nor Snap have increased memory usage because of containerization. Yes it does, because you end up loading multiple versions of the shared libraries. There is also…

Don't remove it. Please. I'm begging you ;_;

So what? Just because IPv6 does does not solve all the problems in networking it's trash and we should abandon it? No thanks. Where I live, ISPs are starting to share IPv4 addresse…

Easy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crt0

We simply put all the team's keys in an S3 bucket. Each server regularly syncs the bucket and updates the authorized_keys file.

Too bad the FCC does not think about space pollution. The astronomers were already very fed up with the Starlink constellation interfering with their observations, now they will ha…

This looks a lot like what France Press did in 2007: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_News#EU_copyright_and_d...

This is fantastic news! I'm glad perl 5 is evolving again.

Oh. I was expecting someone to post the original APL paper here.

"the industry consensus is that 5G will double to triple energy consumption for mobile operators" - https://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/5g-base-stations-use-a-l... Needless to say …

Nice to see we're going back to simple counters like in the 90s.