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yx827ha

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About yx827ha

Rock solid APIs!

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    Comment #47948164

    The nix crate provides the safe wrappers. https://docs.rs/nix/latest/nix/fcntl/fn.openat2.html

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    Comment #46444349

    Check out `zig cc`. It let's you target specific glibc versions. It's a pretty amazing C toolchain. https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-replace...

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    Comment #46263659

    I've been using this UI git diff add script for years: https://github.com/ismell/diffadd I think it works better then the TUI. Surprised something like it hasn't landed in upstream…

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    Comment #44323770

    If you are sensitive, I would recommend getting an Opple Light Master. It's a tiny and cheap flicker meter.

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    Comment #44323724

    I tried their healthy bulbs years ago and they were terrible. I've avoided the brand since then. I think they have done discontinued the healthy line.

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    Comment #44323692

    Thanks for the link! I bought a moto g power 5G - 2024. It has an LED screen. I've been using this line of phone for years. It's morning fancy, but at least I can actually look at …

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    Comment #43556191

    Just to add some more context. Zig cc is a wrapper around clang. It can handle cross compiling to specific glibc versions. See https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-…

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    Comment #43442377

    Fastmail's masked emails are great! I honestly very rarely give out my "real" email. Usually when I sign up for something I create a masked email, or if I need an email on the spot…

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    Comment #42734409

    That's how ChromeOS does it. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iO6cb90WiQ4

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    Comment #42641829

    Depthcharge (the bootloader) also supports net boot via tftp. You would need to build it yourself and flash it to the SPI. It's a great feature when iterating on the kernel. https:…

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    Comment #42641766

    If you ever need help hacking on your Chromebook ask on the chromium-os-dev mailing list. I'm sure someone could help you get CCD working. https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/…

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    Comment #42602157

    I agree, Tailscale FTW! You didn't even need to integrate it with docker. Just add a subnet route and evening just works. It's a great product.

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    Comment #42559025

    Why does the site hijack the back button!? It wouldn't let me get back to hn.

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    Comment #42555454

    It's in the works. https://opentitan.org/

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    Comment #40270334

    I bought a CURB Energy monitor about 6 years ago. Does anyone know if it's possible to flash open source firmware on it? It only has a cloud integration, but I would really like to…

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    Comment #39151890

    You should check out the ChromeOS Bazelification project[1]. It has those exact same goals. Not all packages are reproducible though because they embed timestamps. [1]: https://chr…

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    Comment #38806227

    > Coincidentally, I just published a tool to manage unprivileged chroots for testing ebuilds. You should check out what ChromeOS is doing. They are using bazel to execute ebuilds i…

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    Comment #38519192

    If you want something similar, check out Gerrit: https://www.gerritcodereview.com/ It's open source and used by Android and Chrome.

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    Comment #35213153

    This sounds like something the Keywords Generic Initiative could help with. Maybe create a ?sleep keyword. https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2023/02/23/keyword-ge...

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    Comment #34181845

    Don't forget about: declare -i i i+=1

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    Comment #33372507

    I would recommend you read: PEMF - The Fifth Element of Health - https://www.amazon.com/PEMF-The-Fifth-Element-of-Health-audi... It talks about how our cells are little capacitors …

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    Comment #32203748

    Some devices do have soldered down eMMC storage, but others have M.2 slots for NVMe storage. The later can be easily upgraded. Some of the newer AMD Chromebooks have an eMMC to NVM…

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    Comment #31537520

    You should check out https://sowilodesign.com/blogs/blog/how-to-use-bifrost-with-... They offer a high current adapter for the Phillips Hue Light Strip so you can have large and br…

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    Comment #30786290

    On ChromeOS, our root of trust is actually the SPI ROM. We allocate a RO section of the SPI ROM that is controlled with the write protect pin. This RO section contains a full copy …

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    Comment #21661992

    It might be the flicker. Most LED lights I've found have pretty bad flicker: https://youtu.be/eWut5Qx6mkM?t=285 Phones are pretty bad too. Check out the Nexus 5x vs Pixel 3: https:…