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arcxi··on Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster
and compare it to all the times breakthrough is made by iteration
arcxi··on The Most Mario Colors
there has been a revision/sequel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ddmjcy3lEs

also the results of these findings could be combined, from the glimpse of it for the "super mario" series specifically BGYRG is a more prevalent color sequence, while RGYBG is more common among sports spin-offs

arcxi··on Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past the Steam Deck
Minecraft famously runs on anything. Roblox works through Sober. Genshin Impact and Rocket League both run through Proton.

The rest have kernel level anticheat, unfortunately.

arcxi··on Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages
until very recently TF2's servers were infested by bots which kill you in one shot across the map. changing the server wouldn't help because they were on every server. this quite literally made the game unplayable for years.
arcxi··on Is My Blue Your Blue?
the real question is whether orange is red or yellow
arcxi··on Ladybird browser to start using Swift language this fall
1. "it" does not distinguish between animate and inanimate nouns:

The baby grunted again, and Alice looked very anxiously into its face to see what was the matter with it. — Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

But he [Jesus] said to them, "It is I; do not be afraid." — John 6:20

2. gender distinction is artificial because it's not based on anything real, rather it's based on whether the "vibes" that a person (or an inanimate object in European languages) that you're referring to gives off are more feminine or more masculine. this "redundancy" creates all sorts of trouble for folks who are not comfortable with the "vibes" society assignes them with a particular gender at a given moment. the problem here is not that the speech is lossy, but that this particular "feature" of language demands that you convey the person's identity when it's almost always irrelevant in a way that's exclusive to gender (thank God nationalism wasn't invented when the language was forming)

arcxi··on Age is a simple, modern and secure file encryption tool, format, and Go library
I made a tiny shell script that combines tar+age, you may find it useful for simplicity

https://github.com/arcxio/urn/blob/main/urn

arcxi··on Age is a simple, modern and secure file encryption tool, format, and Go library
sign&encrypt does not protect you either, and asymmetrical encryption is authenticated if you keep your recipient key a secret. see https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/age-authentication/
arcxi··on CrowdStrike fixes start at "reboot up to 15 times", gets more complex from there
CrowdStrike is ran in userspace on macOS, and usually in an eBPF sandbox on Linux (as comments in the linked thread say). there is no way to prevent CrowdStrike from fucking up the kernel on Windows - and this is a Windows bug.
arcxi··on CrowdStrike fixes start at "reboot up to 15 times", gets more complex from there
> Literally every OS allows you to install 3rd party kernel modules or plugins

I know for sure at least macOS and OpenBSD don't

arcxi··on Multiple airlines disrupted due to Microsoft Azure outage
if they'd used crowdstrike on linux they wouldn't be hit with BSOD bootloops now
arcxi··on Multiple airlines disrupted due to Microsoft Azure outage
nobody is forcing these companies to depend on MS products and services
arcxi··on Python with Braces
>The white-space suppressed diff is a useful tool for comparing programs when some sections of code have changed indentation but are otherwise the same; yet we cannot rely on it if we are using Python.

yes, because in Python two programs with different indentation are not the same. what's the problem that you can't use tools intended for code without significant whitespace with code in Python?

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