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bitbang··on Polars 2.0
Replacement for jq: https://github.com/01mf02/jaq
bitbang··on Herdr: One terminal to rule them all
Yeah... Herdr. Used in thin client mode connecting to remote server.
bitbang··on Linux DAW: Help Linux musicians to quickly and easily find the tools they need
https://lsp-plug.in/
bitbang··on Is it possible to allow sideloading and keep users safe?
Devices should offer a local signing cert, where you can sign an app for that device only. Then make the app signing process enforce binding agreement that you assume all responsibility related to the app.
bitbang··on FCC bars providers for non-compliance with robocall protections
For anybody on an android phone,I highly recommend https://github.com/aj3423/SpamBlocker

It is highly configurable with every feature I've ever wanted but could never find for call filtering in the the app store. I've essentially set mine so that if the calling number is not in my contacts, or is not a number I've called in the last 90 days, the phone never runs and the call is sent to voice mail. But it supports lots of other mechanisms to filter with like regex, or how many times the number has called within a given timeframe.

bitbang··on The Polymarket users betting on when Jesus will return
That’s not what that means at all, your inserting modern values into the parable. In the culture of that time, the rich were viewed with high regard. The understanding was that if you were rich, then clearly you were in a favorable relationship to God because he was blessing you with wealth. With that understanding, the sentence that directly follows the parable makes a lot more sense: “When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished, saying, ‘Who then can be saved?’” A modern telling of the parable would replace the rich man with a monk who’s taken a vow of poverty to run an orphanage in a God-forsaken third world country. The parable was intended to portray an absurdly impossible standard to entry; the whole point being that human merit, status, or morality, regardless of however the cultural context may define that, does not afford one any distinctive advantage before God.
bitbang··on DuckLake is an integrated data lake and catalog format
Why is the footer metadata not sufficient for this need? The metadata should contain the min and max timestamp values from the respective column of interest, so that when executing a query, the query tool should be optimizing its query by reading the metadata to determine if that parquet file should be read or not depending on what time range is in the query.
bitbang··on New Tool: lsds – List All Linux Block Devices and Settings in One Place
Very nice, needs option for json/jsonl output.
bitbang··on The chroot Technique – a Swiss army multitool for Linux systems
I've done this to build custom RPi images. Way faster than trying to build on a low power ARM platform, and way less fragile than cross compilers.
bitbang··on Patience is a coping strategy, not a virtue
I have little patience for worthless studies that serve no purpose beyond a means of coping with time and effort sunk into a worthless humanities degree.
bitbang··on Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no root or containers
If I understand it correctly, landlock is an API used by an app to sandbox itself. The app itself controls the sandboxing. Bubble wrap is user space tooling external to the app, so the app had no direct awareness or control of its sandboxing. The scenarios each is intended for are orthogonal to one another.
bitbang··on The biggest blocker to LibreOffice adoption? LibreOffice (2023)
If your publisher requires word documents (or _any_ word processor format), you need to find a better publisher. I can understand if they prefer word for the text-copy, which is then pulled into a typesetting app. But to use that as the pre-press format is a terrible workflow. This isn't a limitation of LibreOffice, it's a limitation of not being competent in pre-press typesetting and publishing software.
bitbang··on DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing
This has been possible on Linux (Wayland + pipewire) for a couple years now.
bitbang··on What TeX Gets Right
Like sile
bitbang··on First Contact with SQLite
You need to look into duckDB.
bitbang··on Wendy's Wants to Start Uber-Like Surge Pricing in 2025
I foresee surge pricing for bricks...
bitbang··on My journey as a Christian software developer
It’s a little hard to answer a question so loaded with presupposition. It seems like you’re initially trying to frame your objection in terms of logic and reason, but your criticism is of the moral implications. My observation is that logical reasoning has little bearing on the divide between Christian and secular. There is no shortage of logical and illogical people in both camps. The objection, as seems to be the case here, is rarely on a rational level but rather a moral level. The idea of a moral authority that transcends humanity, by which humanity is to be judged is highly offensive. We naturally want to be our own moral authority. But if we are our own authority, who are you to determine what I should hold as “contradictions, inconsistencies, stretched truths, thinly veiled metaphor, lies...”? You’re objection appeals to the notion of an absolute objective authority on truth, while at the same time rejecting it.

If logical reason is truly what you’re interested in understanding the Christian world-view, there is no shortage of resources in the arena of apologetics. For easy reading you can start with something like Tim Keller’s two books, “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism” and “Making Sense of God: Finding God in the Modern World” or perhaps C.S. Lewis’s “Mere Christianity”. If you want something of a more academic grade: - “Christian Apologetics (2nd edition)” by Douglas Groothuis - “Reasonable Faith, Christian Truth and Apologetics (3rd edition)” by William Craig - “Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview (2nd edition)” by William Craig and JP Moreland

bitbang··on AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source
That was my immediate thought: the software is made publicity available to help add value to their product offering, but they plausable deniability in court and don't have to bear the burden of potential lawsuits or support.
bitbang··on 'Dead Sea Scrolls' at the Museum of the Bible Are All Forgeries (2020)
Not shocked that a biased commenter immediately tries to imply that MOTB is peddling lies without taking the time to find that the MOTB funded the research and analysis on suspicion of forgery and published the detailed report of the findings.

https://www.museumofthebible.org/dead-sea-scroll-fragments https://museumofthebible.cdn.prismic.io/museumofthebible/8ee...

bitbang··on Australia to ban engineered stone
Concrete isn't silly at all. (Google it) I actually prefer it to most of the other options.
bitbang··on Why America Is Out of Ammunition
All comments so far about small firearms ammo. Article has nothing to do with small firearms ammo. RTFA
bitbang··on Emacs and shellcheck
That language server automatically integrates shellcheck into its linter if shellcheck is present.
bitbang··on If You Want a Car This Heavy, You Should Pay Through the Nose
People you are talking to only care about image, they just buy into the macho image projected by marketing.

There are many tradesmen, farmers, etc who would love to buy one of the small trucks that used to be available. They are great for tossing tools into and going to fields, work sites, etc. But trucks with that wheel base now require an efficiency level that isn't feasible. Many have resorted to using UTVs in their place where it makes sense, but those can't completely fill the gap since they aren't street legal.

Regulations always have intended consequences.

bitbang··on If You Want a Car This Heavy, You Should Pay Through the Nose
This. Ignorant dweebs like the type who write for Slate fail to understand that the growing size of vehicles is not driven by demand, it's driven by EPA policy.
bitbang··on The Sad Bastard Cookbook
Asian food stores have lots of seafood related stock that is difficult to locate elsewhere. For instance, I'll use shrimp paste sourced from Asian food stores when making shrimp étouffée.
bitbang··on NYT: Are We the Baddies?
I'm generally not a fan of dragging politics into HN. But I often find genuine introspection like this to be interesting.
bitbang··on Sidebery – A Firefox extension for managing tabs and bookmarks in sidebar
I use Tree Style Tab extension in combination with Simple Tab Groups extension. Allows having multiple side panel tab trees I can switch between.
bitbang··on No One Is Happy About Diversity Efforts at Work
Some people can't seem to come to grips that trying to counter injustice with injustice only compounds injustice rather than cancelling each other out. Enforcing racial diversity for the sake of racial diversity is equally as racist as enforcing racial segregation for the sake of racial segregation. Changing the ends does not necessarily justify the means.
bitbang··on Roadmap to Vulkan for KDE window manager KWin
There already exists an opengl-to-vulcan shim driver (zink) that is better than most opengl platform drivers.
bitbang··on Instead of your Life's Purpose (2021)
So basically existentialism with bipolar disorder...
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