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Yes. That very example shows why itis hard to write fast program in Ruby. It's not even the interpreter (which is slow), but it's that Ruby is pure magic. I was never able to under…

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Monorepos are underappreciated. - Dealing with cross-repositories changes is unproductive. - Relying on external servers (git / npm / whatever) is risky. - Visibility of what goes …

Essence: "A single associate assigned to a specific production line working between the production dates specified (12/14/2020 – 12/21/2020) was found to be using an improper torqu…

The counterpoint is valid (rising seas don't help), but then we have Saint Petersburg ([1]) that's literally build on top of swamps and occupies multiple islands. It has a first cl…

Amazingly, the chat example still works: $ ssh chat.shazow.net * prepperdev joined. (Connected: 35) [prepperdev] anyone here? :)

What are the limits for the number of layers? 176 seems like a large enough number to believe that a few thousands are a possibility. Is the tech any close to a bottleneck, or they…

That would be up to a specific OS to decide which guarantees on stack size limit would it like to provide. But I agree that it's a valid concern, and not all possible vDSO implemen…

vDSO is a good way to mitigate issues like these. It's also a better stable ABI than libc, and easier to maintain than pure kernel ABI (like Linux does), because nobody forbids the…

This is covered by their FAQ: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.html , Section 2.5 "Why not just use a subset of HTTP and HTML?"

What I meant is having markdown pieces within code regions in a text/gemini doc. Imagine a code review tool that tries to show a diff as text/gemini.

Gemini is a cool piece of simple tech. I had a genuine pleasure reading the spec: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/specification.html I've entertained an idea to build a set o…

Yes. I definitely had the vibe of 'Get the Facts' from the Microsoft Linux-smearing campaign circa 2004 ([1]). 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Linux#Criticism_b...

First of all, kudos for trying to find new ways to fund open source. Those are needed. This approach might work well for issues which require a lot of thought, but produce a simple…

Bloomberg maintains an excellent dashboard that tracks vaccination in the US and worldwide ([1]). It shows that California is one of the slowest states with only 37% of received va…

Excuse me? While my account is relatively young (13 days), it's not one day old. You can also look into my comments over this time. So, the accusation is clearly off.

snaps are tied to the proprietary Ubuntu store and they are not available on all of the Linux flavors. For instance, I don't see snapd on Alpine Linux: $apk search snapd $ Not cool…

I don't believe it's a joke. It still might be a deliberate lie (a random twit is not a real source of knowledge), but so far this is consistent with what we already know. See http…

Copying their requirements as text (original grammar preserved, including GB and Gb confusions). It's a good glimpse of what unlimited cloud budget does to companies. I quote: """ …

Recently, I migrated my personal dev laptop from Ubuntu to Alpine Linux. It took a day, but everything works now, including hidpi stuff. No big issues so far and I am in the proces…