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invernomut0··on Interactive SQLite Documentation: Experiment with Queries in Real-Time
It seems interesting but I think I prefer to keep another tab with https://www.db-fiddle.com/ to experiment with the syntax.
invernomut0··on Breaking free of plastic pollution
You're forgetting dioxins and other pollutants resulting from burning various materials, especially plastic.
invernomut0··on Ask HN: Are new ThinkPads still worthy?
I have a T14s with AMD Ryzen 7 and everything works on linux apart the fingerprint reader.

Battery life is very good and you have great linux support (including battery charge customization and other options with TLP) It's light, you have a good choice of ports (USB A, VGA, USB C) I think it's still a safe choice especially in the AMD variant wrt the other linux laptops.

invernomut0··on Ask HN: Do you donate money to open source?
I donate regularly using github sponsor and occasionally directly to projects I use.
invernomut0··on Trader Joe’s $2 wine became a best-seller
I think that wine connoisseurs can distinguish between a 2$ wine and a 20$ or more wine. The problem lays in rating two wines in the same price range, in that case preferences become personal tastes because differences are very difficult to assess. When you drink very cheap wine the defects are quite easy to perceive.
invernomut0··on New bike chain claims to be faster, more durable
How does it compare with the rohloff system?

Anyways it seems to be significantly more expensive thus I don't think it will become widespread.

invernomut0··on Show HN: Feediary – RSS reader with zero tracking and zero ads
I like Reeder[0] and I use it since some time without problems.

[0]http://reederapp.com

invernomut0··on Writing a Simple Linux Kernel Module
Some years ago I was working on an embedded platform with two processors connected via ethernet, one handling data and most of the application load, the second one handling some automotive buses (CANbus and ARCnet). I wrote a kernel driver to expose raw data coming from the ARCnet to userspace applications in the most transparent way. So I labeled data coming from the second cpu with an unused ethertype, I changed the ethernet driver to inspect the ether type of the incoming data and send it up inside the network stack as if it was received from a certain fake ARCnet device. The fake ARCnet device was a dummy module that allowed userspace to receive that data via normal sockets. Probably it could be done in a better way but it was quite simple and it worked well.
invernomut0··on Italy’s rarest pasta
Some of the dialects are so far apart that they are actual languages distinct from Italian. If you search in the ISO list of languages[0] you can find neapolitan, sardinian as distinct languages different from italian.

[0]http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/English_list.php

invernomut0··on The Dutch Reach: Clever Workaround to Keep Cyclists from Getting “Doored”
If you ride a motorcycle even following the speed limit and you fall, even if you don't hit any vehicle you are risking: - hitting the ground (front or back) so having a concussion or smashing all your teeth - hitting sidewalks or guard rails Moreover the helmet lowers the noise given by air flowing, helps you see better at sunrise/sunset, protects you from insects. I think there's no good reason to avoid wearing an helmet while riding a motorcycle.
invernomut0··on OpenBSD binpatches and package updates
Maybe you don't want / you do not have the chance to have sources and build tools installed on your production server and you trust mtier to build the patched sources for you. I find it very useful.
invernomut0··on Why I’m Suing the US Government
I think he could be supported by EFF since they have released a press release.
invernomut0··on ABI vs. API (2004)
I think you should indicate that this is a off-topic discussion from 2004 debian user mailing list somewhere in the link title.
invernomut0··on Electric race cars that look like Formula 1, but are eerily quiet
These cars just look like some kind of Formula cars but there are some of important differences: - first for now all cars are more or less the same (there's no research competition behind motors or aerodynamics like in WEC or F1) - the race rules are not so meaningful to me: changing cars in the middle of the race doesn't add to the fun, why not doing 2 shorter races? I see it as a minor low budget futurist racing series to exploit the "electric motors" trend in automotive.

Real investments go to WEC for technology or to F1 for PR and brand strength.

Things might change when teams will have the chance to customize their cars more (mainly motor, batteries)

Edit: they race in very nice locations anyway, that's the only cool thing about the series :p

invernomut0··on BrewDog’s open-source revolution is at the vanguard of postcapitalism
Do you think that beer recipes are not dependant on the brewing equipment you are using?

I don't think it is easy for everyone to take the recipe and replicate it.

I also don't think you can easily use the recipe with homebrewing equipment and obtaing the same output, maybe it could be done with professional scale equipment but I am not sure.

To me is a nice marketing stunt aimed at the homebrew community.

invernomut0··on Repair is a Radical Act
You can pay someone to repair your stuff and make the local economy grow instead of dumping and buying a shiny new toy from a big corporation.

Buying new is often not optimal since the stuff you buy istantly is worth something like 20% less from the moment you buy it.

You pay to avoid the risk of buying an used object, for example, but I'm not sure that buying new is the more efficient choice every time.

invernomut0··on A Polynomial Time Bounded-Error Quantum Algorithm for Boolean Satisfiability
Note: This century started in 2000, not one hundred years ago.
invernomut0··on Doas – Dedicated OpenBSD application subexecutor
Exactly. That's why they've written doas and they do not rewritten the whole OS in Rust :)
invernomut0··on Doas – Dedicated OpenBSD application subexecutor
Why rewrite all the operating system utils when you can just refine the existing ones and improve the OS exploitation prevention mechanisms? If you rewrite you'll add bugs and you need a lot of competent developers to rewrite everything (which is the same reason OpenBSD doesn't provide official binary updates for base packages IMHO). Plus, you can't benefit from upstream improvements since you rewrote everything.
invernomut0··on Greeks Reject Bailout Terms
Making economic decision that cut growth chances in the near/mid future doesn't help to lower the GDP/debt ratio, and that's why the recent reforms asked by the EU failed in improving Greek economic status.
invernomut0··on Ask HN: How do you familiarize yourself with a new codebase?
I think you should also check out cscope, it can search for struct definitions and function calls easily (better than just grepping text or using ctags).
invernomut0··on What F1 Cars Would Look Like if F1 Got Its Act Together
F1 cars race for 1.5 hours, LMP1 race for 24hours, at a pace that is 5seconds slower than an F1. They could go much faster but the race is won by the driver which races longer, not by the fastest lap. Moreover the WEC cars integrate different accessories (e.g. pistons to lift the cars during pits) that increase weight. F1 will always be faster because the race has a different target. The problem is that endurance races advance technology that gets ported to everyday cars, F1 doesn't (but this is matter for another discussion).
invernomut0··on Why I dislike systemd
You can also add 'crontab -e' and much other examples of commands that wrap an editor call already exising in linux userspace.
invernomut0··on Seriously, we need multi-column editors
How to do it using vim: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5131205/how-to-edit-text-... Seriously, just google it :)
invernomut0··on C99 tricks
I write C code (not always C99) for automotive/racing.
invernomut0··on GnuPG 2.1.2 released
Yep, let's hope the project gets in a better shape thanks to all these funds.
invernomut0··on C++ patterns using plain C
I remember something implemented as GCC extension (the cleanup variable attribute) but I never used it so I can't judge if it's really what are you searching for.
invernomut0··on CGrep: a context-aware grep for source codes
e.g. $ cgrep -r --header "stdio.h" to search recursively for headers

$cgrep -r --identifier VARname to search for a variable

etc..

invernomut0··on TinySSH is a small SSH server using NaCl, TweetNaCl
Rob Landley doesn't seems to be too excited about it http://www.landley.net/notes.html#31-03-2014
invernomut0··on Every Gmail message to be encrypted
The news title is misleading, IMHO. Saying "Every Gmail message to be encrypted" made me dream about gmail allowing gpg encryption instead of only forcing https connection to be active.