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gforce_deon Why can't HTML alone do includes?

The minified version needs ~51 kilobytes (16 compressed):

  $ curl --location --silent "https://unpkg.com/htmx.org@2.0.4" | wc -c
  50917
  
  $ curl --location --silent "https://unpkg.com/htmx.org@2.0.4" | gzip --best --stdout | wc -c
  16314

gforce_deon World's largest '100 per cent electric' ship launched

For 1500 passengers and 30 MWh (i expect they dont arrive 100% empty) this is 20kWh per person. If they travel 80 kilometers, thats 0.25 KWh/person/kilometer. Sounds OK to me (all values are guessed).

gforce_deon Signal Carnival

My first reaction too, but...

gforce_deon How Big Is VMS?

You have not seen it, but there are vendors selling such stuff since ~20 years. Google for linux + hardware + cpu hotplug or memory hotplug. The PCI bus helps here.

gforce_deon AMD launches Gaia open source project for running LLMs locally on any PC

https://github.com/amd/gaia

"OS: Windows 11 Pro/Home (GAIA does not support macOS or Linux at this time, ..."

gforce_deon Cloudflare: Please make your Emails readable in plain/text

Dear hard working cloudflare sysadmin,

above is a mail which was send to me as text/plain attachement. Please escalate that issue: This E-Mail is nearly unreadable!

Please make sure, that further E-Mails are send better readable, especially, if you want that people read E-Mails.

Please also send me the internal ticketnumber. I will be onsite during summer, and will check the progress.

Thanks in advance, Bastian Bittorf / greeting from germany

gforce_deon OpenWrt Community question: What do you want to see in OpenWrt?

Of course this possible and working:

https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/roaming

Follow the usteer path.

gforce_deon Hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool

At least it gives some numbers and point in a direction:

  $ hyperfine --warmup 3 './hello-world-bin-sh.sh' './hello-world-env-python3.py'
  Benchmark 1: ./hello-world-bin-sh.sh
    Time (mean ± σ):       1.3 ms ±   0.4 ms    [User: 1.0 ms, System: 0.5 ms]
  ...
  Benchmark 2: ./hello-world-env-python3.py
    Time (mean ± σ):      43.1 ms ±   1.4 ms    [User: 33.6 ms, System: 8.4 ms]
  ...

gforce_deon How JPEG XL compares to other image codecs

you are right, i changed it to "acceptable visual changes".

gforce_deon How JPEG XL compares to other image codecs

Something seems wrong im this article. The side-by-side comparison shows 4 formats:

  · Original PNG image (2.6 MB)
    · Name "high_fidelity.png", but in fact 298.840 bytes and format: JPEG
  · JPEG XL (default settings, 53 KB): indistinguishable from the original
    · Name "high_fidelity.png.jxl.png", but in fact 3.801.830 bytes and format: PNG
  · WebP (53 KB): some mild but noticeable color banding along with blurry text
    · Name "high_fidelity_webp.png", but in fact 289.605 bytes and format PNG
  · JPEG (53 KB): strong color banding, halos around the text, small text hard to read
    · Name "jpeg_high_fidelity.jpg", but in fact 52.911 bytes and format JPEG

The comparison does not make any sense, everything is just wrong. Also when encoding the large original PNG image to AVIF, it has only 20.341 Bytes with no visual change, see: http://intercity-vpn.de/files/2024-10-27/upload/

gforce_deon Docusaurus – Build optimized websites quickly, focus on your content

It says "optimized", but those pages seems to be very slow. First try on the showcase(!) gives only 55% on performance:

https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-eightshift-com/c5vu...

gforce_deon Shortwire: The smallest VPN that connects two computers via the Internet

see: https://github.com/dswd/vpncloud

gforce_deon Ask HN: What are you using to parse PDFs for RAG?

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrieval-augmented_generation

"Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) is a type of information retrieval process. It modifies interactions with a large language model (LLM) so that it responds to queries with reference to a specified set of documents, using it in preference to information drawn from its own vast, static training data."

gforce_deon All I want for Christmas is 1TW of solar deployed annually

1 TW needs an area of 173 x 173 Km = ~30.000 Km².

These are 0.02% of the earth landmass.

Values are like this, when calculating conservative: 1 KWp needs an area around 10m². For enough maintenance distance multiply by 3 = 30m².

  => 1 Megawatt = 3 * 10m² * 1000 = 30.000m².
  => 1 Gigawatt = 3 * 10m² * 1000 * 1000 = 30.000.000m².
  => 1 Terawatt = 3 * 10m² * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 = 30.000.000.000m².

Square root of 30.000.000.000m² = 173205m = 173Km. According to statista.com, the total earth landmass is 149.000.000 Km², so 30.000m² are 0.02% auf 149 million Km².

gforce_deon The early days of Linux

"That year (1995) was also when Linux was first ported to a new architecture by Linus. He'd been given a DEC Alpha machine."

This is not fully correct: The first port ever was on Motorola M68k in 1993 for the Amiga platform.

https://www.tech-insider.org/linux/research/1993/0915.html

gforce_deon Major torrent sites are currently exposing details of their operations?

it is 'Widevine'

gforce_deon Ask HN: What is the coolest thing you have seen done with a bash script?

If done right, a script can run everywhere, so shameless selfplug, a game:

https://github.com/bittorf/shell_snake

There is also a tetris.sh lying around somewhere...

gforce_deon Nsh, a unified router style CLI for OpenBSD

This is what OpenWRT with the (u)nified (c)onfiguration (i)nterface aims:

  uci show

This outputs text, which is your full config.

https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/base-system/uci

gforce_deon Colodebug: a simple way to improve Bash script debugging

  "Stick to portable constructs where possible, and
   you will make somebody's life easier in the future.
   Maybe your own."

gforce_deon Colodebug: a simple way to improve Bash script debugging

no problem, just do it 8-)

gforce_deon Colodebug: a simple way to improve Bash script debugging

what seems possible is:

  #!/bin/sh
  
  alias :=mydebug
  mydebug() { printf '%s\n' "$\*"; }
  
  foo=1
  : this is a debugable comment
  bar=2

gforce_deon Colodebug: a simple way to improve Bash script debugging

I see 2 problems here:

major: it does not work on POSIX shells, because ':' is not a valid function name and

minor: the function itself should be changed to use the builtin 'case' instead of the bashims [[ ... ]]

gforce_deon Systemd: The Good Parts

whoever maintains the comparison of init-systems at https://skarnet.com/projects/service-manager.html should include OpenWRT's 'procd'