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Is evaluation lazy in TypeScript ? For me, one of the most important features of a configuration language is the ability to directly refer to other values of the configuration, and…

In magnetic confinement reactors, the runaway neutrons collide with the reactor's shielding and can make it radioactive by neutron activation. I don't know if it's the same for ine…

It's not even paranoia. He wants to present reasons of his actions, and the judicial authorities won't allow that, and are not even really hiding it.

I prefer calling a graph "colored" rather than "with a labeling of the graph’s vertices with labels such that no two vertices sharing the same edge have the same label". Sometimes …

Oops, it was not on nqueens, but on deriv. > Finally,Java performs best on this benchmark; we can see whilerunning the benchmark that it can run the G1 collectorfully concurrent on…

Java being faster on nqueens shows an interesting result : GCs can actually make code "faster", by moving some work to another core. It's possible this could still be done with the…

What is Amazon's interest in this ? I hope this is good news for the Blender Development Fund, but I'm scared of the possible consequences. I suppose we may end up seeing Blender C…

I'm using this setup, and I still get cookie/ToS banners all the time, especially using Google (I think I'm accepting their new terms of service 4/5 times each day).

This is exactly what I thought 3 years ago when a dentist told me that it was very important for me to get rid of my wisdom teeth, because loss of enamel meant that they were very …

It depends on many factors (teeth being devitalised, expected complications during the surgery, and other non-teeth related factors as well). Some people do get a local anesthesia …

I was mistaken, file metadata is indeed encrypted.

Oh it seems I was mistaken about that. ZFS does encrypt enough metadata indeed. Sorry for the noise.

Yes, and there's another downside to that : it makes me lose the other ZFS benefits (raidz, mirroring, some level of performance).

I find it very unfortunate that file metadata is not encrypted : if you need this to be encrypted, you need to stack LUKS on top of ZFS, and you lose many of the benefits of ZFS (p…

> The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) defines the directory structure and directory contents in Linux distributions.[1] It is maintained by the Linux Foundation. https://en.wik…

As said by the other commenter, most of these patches are caused by NixOS not using the FHS (except for /usr/bin/env), which can be considered as a good thing in itself. In an idea…

There are lots of things to be said about Nix and NixOS, and many of these things have been mentionned in this page, but there's one thing I really like with Nix : the fact the the…

Steam itself works pretty well, but I've had many games just inexplicably segfault on startup. It's weird because I get the same segfault: - using steam-run - in a FHS user environ…

Is the ballot for olympian medalists public ? What are the incentives for someone not to vote 99 for the candidate he wants to win, and 0 for all others ?

The page you linked takes 8s to display on my browser, even on subsequent reloads, just because I don't allow third-party scripts. It also has no displayed images, for the same rea…

EUC-KR doesn't improve much with LZMA (2% over UTF-16), but is better with gzip-9 (10% over UTF-16). I haven't studied this extensively, just did a few tests when waiting for it to…

An interesting - but not surprising - thing about this is that compression algorithms can be more efficient on wider representations of numerically-high code points (e.g, for some …

My main gripe is that JS is required to view the website. It doesn't work on my mobile phone (which is rather old, I admit), and it takes a huge amount of CPU time to load on my X6…

This site cannot be viewed without third-party JavaScript enabled (it shows a blank page on both Firefox and Chrome), and this is happening more and more on HN links. I think it's …