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Huh, a majority of Indians aren’t vegetarian. Don't spread FUD.

IIUC, safari and other essential OS components are mounted on a read-only volume. The installer has to perform special shenanigans to update it.

a site I would be interested in is: “papers a hacker would be interested in” (aka papers you could nerdsnipe someone with) which is unfortunately not what this website seems to be.

Eee hardly a practical use… blockchain things.

Why would anybody use the Outlook app on iOS as opposed to the built-in one?

Thanks! I was planning to reach out to the folks at SIGCIS already :)

As for your point about specific features, I plan to treat this as a STS-esque project. TLDR: de-emphasize linear models of technology development. Besides, I feel that the history itself would be useful to other practitioners.

Can I have your email if that’s okay with you? Or you can drop me a line (rk@rishav.io) and I’ll reach out to you within a couple of days. Thanks a bunch!

You’re correct, but I expect that the need to invent those features arose with limitations in existing systems (those that were just plain text content or non-web, as you say).

I’m tentatively looking to begin with BBS (potentially CompuServe), but I’m willing to go back as far as needed to paint a comprehensive picture.

This is also one of the bits I’m having difficulty with — what was it like to actually use these systems? For instance, how did one even maneuver the process of posting on CompuServe or on Usenet?

I’m somewhat familiar with how git works. In my understanding, a commit is just a blob combining the commit information and a tree blob, hashing them together to create a commit id.

This design doesn’t preclude the usage of additional information in the commit blob that isn’t used to compute the hash.

(Think for example how file access times do not affect its hash)

I feel the commit data could be extended to include some metadata that isn’t used to compute the hash. GitHub could then make use of this data to populate whatever.

(Not sure if such a field already exists in the commit blob)

The Gaussian would be a more natural way to model latency variation IMO.

openwrt offers this. Another reason to install it whenever you can!

Fair argument but I don’t see why training should inherently be unpaid.

In fact, I don’t see why the ability to have a good standard of living should be predicated on your profession in the first place.

The fact that engineering training is… unpaid as you say seems to put people who cannot afford to not make money for rent, food, etc. at a clear disadvantage. Those already rich (and able to afford unpaid training) would just get richer if they are paid more than an “untrained” worker.

Whoa that’s a cool trick!

It’s important to note, however, that sshfs has been archived by its creator. What this entails with regard to the future of the project is uncertain though.

I think it’s certainly a myth that an engineer’s profession is “inherently harder” than a coffee brewers.

In my opinion, people who would like to study engineering would do so not so because of what they are paid (the situation today), but because of their genuine interest.

On further reflection, it seems ludicrous to believe that that hardest professions are the most paid. The average CS job pays obscenely well, but is relatively trivial. Primary healthcare providers, essential services workers and so on are severely underpaid.

We use Citrix too. Your choice to call it pretty good is interesting…

No. I need to remote into a desktop from my laptop to WFH… which seems unusual to me?

This is more on the banal side, but I just interned at a place with some weird restrictions — Windows machines, you have to remote into them if you want to WFH… stuff that really hampers my productivity.

I’m going to get this stuff sorted out beforehand before working anywhere in the future.

fwiw: the App Store also prohibits JITed code or in general code pulled in after app publishing. I guess the idea is that (at least in theory) that Apple sees all code that an app runs.

I’m primarily a Python dev but I’ve been recently working on a React codebase. One of the things that’s been driving me insane is how the default way to import things is without a namespace, aka:

`import {foo} from ‘bar’;`

This makes reading code really really hard as I can’t tell where some symbol is coming from.

There also seems to be a general aversion against using classes to model types. Instead we have a host of functions that manipulate JSON/dataclasses, which means business logic is scattered around 10 different places!

Please remove the strip-ey overlay you have, it makes the text actively harder to read.

Wouldn’t people working on Asahi right now write their own GPU drivers?

Crossover is proprietary. Pure Wine cannot run x86 apps on ARM if I understand correctly.

Could you elaborate on where the btrfs snapshots come into play? I use rsnapshot on a plain ext4 fs and it’s pretty slow (lots of small files).

Can recommend Keepassium for macOS/iOS. Just works™.

Has anybody done this for Python?

I don’t see how being multiethnic makes Russia or Iran not have national identities (the requirement for being a nation state).

Pretty sure that circumcision reduces chances of HPV significantly.

You can statically link LLVM, no problem.

In fact, you never have to call any binaries specifically; just do it through code and everything should link at compile-time and become one big binary.