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...can't you just configure your build system to compile those modules with pre-c23 standard?

MawKKeon Haskell error messages: come on

GHC is like a mathematican: unable to explain mathematical jargon without resorting to more mathematical jargon

Have you checked the display cable connections? I have a x240 and the connection to the panel has come loose twice due to bumping/dropping the machine. And I do mean the connection on the panel, not on the motherboard.

MawKKeon Clumps of human brain cells in a dish can learn to play Pong faster than an AI

Upgrade your gray matter, 'cause one day it may matter!

MawKKeon Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia

Whoa, thanks.

However, that link is totally in the wrong place, no wonder I could not find it. I just assumed there was no such link/button and always angrily removed the 'm.' from each URL.

MawKKeon If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big thing won’t matter

For iPad oh boy they sure added new niceties such as:

- Not being able to click a tab unless you drag it to the center of the tab bar

- Make a "drag a link/anchor into a new window" feature; except it triggers way too easily from ordinary scrolling, forcing you to spend the next 15-30 seconds figuring out how the FUCK do you close it with an non-obvious swipe gesture. Apparently buttons with "Close" or a big X are too complicated.

MawKKeon Tips For Making a Popular Open Source Project in 2021

Demos sure are important, however I would advocate using videos (.mp4) instead of GIF. That way you can pause and seek the video, to get better idea what's going on.

So many times I've come across demo GIFs/animated shell sessions that "type" at about 1000 characters a minute, and the animation loops over before I even had a chance to blink.

MawKKeon Meterorite chunk crashes into house, bedroom, pillow

My hypothesis is that her dog didn't necessarily observe the meteorite, but began to bark as a response to other barking neighborhood dogs who did see the flash.

MawKKeon Ask HN: Why does validating a user require 14000 files?

I wanted to remove the profile picture on my account, but could not find such button anywhere in the account settings. So instead of removing, I replaced it with a blank white square. I thought I was clever.

Instead, I got a strike on my account.

IIRC it takes three strikes and you're out. But if a strike is handed out due to such a silly thing, I wonder what the next silly thing is going to be?

Clearly I cannot rely on such a platform, considering I would likely NEVER get my account back. From that point onwards, I've tried to reduce my dependency on Google accounts as much as possible.

MawKKeon A quick and simple editor for cron schedule expressions

Related note: with systemd you are probably better off using its OnCalendar facilities. There is even a tool called 'systemd-analyze', which can be used for verifying the correctness of your OnCalendar timespec:

    $ systemd-analyze calendar "*:11/5" --iterations 3
      Original form: *:11/5                      
    Normalized form: *-*-* *:11/5:00             
        Next elapse: Mon 2021-08-30 23:21:00 EEST
           (in UTC): Mon 2021-08-30 20:21:00 UTC 
           From now: 47s left                    
           Iter. #2: Mon 2021-08-30 23:26:00 EEST
           (in UTC): Mon 2021-08-30 20:26:00 UTC 
           From now: 5min left                   
           Iter. #3: Mon 2021-08-30 23:31:00 EEST
           (in UTC): Mon 2021-08-30 20:31:00 UTC 
           From now: 10min left

MawKKeon Police find electronic signal-jamming device inside California home

you won the bet...by using a power source? :)

MawKKeon Apple iPhone charger teardown: quality in a tiny expensive package (2012)

Heh. If I plug an iPad charger in the "wrong way" (symmetric EU socket), I observe massive interference/hum via the 3.5mm audio jack. The hum disappears if I rotate the plug, or touch the metal backplate of the iPad.

MawKKeon New in Git: switch and restore

it is used for that purpose in many other tools as well (grep, for example)

MawKKeon Haiku Beta 3

I decided to try out Haiku last week. I was positively surprised how fast the whole process was. Installer loaded, system was installed and rebooted in about 20-30 seconds (not accounting for human I/O latency). And this was in a VM with SATA disk backing.

Makes you yearn for simpler times.

MawKKeon Fun with Unix domain sockets

I just tested this and it seems to work by default on Linux but not on FreeBSD. On both the address is configured as 127.0.0.1/8, i.e the whole block. Go figure.

This discussion [1] sheds some light on the matter, but does not fully explain the reasons for differing behaviour across OS's.

[1]: https://serverfault.com/questions/293874/why-cant-i-ping-an-...

MawKKeon Fun with Unix domain sockets

If you run tests through the loopback interface, you should be able to use any of the 127.0.0.0/8 addresses, instead of 127.0.0.1 (a.k.a ”localhost”). Each address has its independent port space, so you would avoid collisions/contention.

MawKKeon Twike

I guess what GP meant is that you can rent only whenever you need it, as opposed to 500/month for _every_ month you own?

MawKKeon Deurbanising the Web [pdf]

as in "it exists already"?

MawKKeon Use the 'tail' command to monitor everything

couldn’t you pause/unpause the stdout with ctrl-s/ctrl-q instead?

MawKKeon Chinese paddlefish, one of the world's largest fish, declared extinct

Last time similar topic came up (either here or reddit), someone posted this recording of a ”Kauaʻi ʻōʻō” bird [1] in which a male, apparently the last of its species, is trying to connect with a female. Reeally eerie.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDRY0CmcYNU

MawKKeon Improving Firefox stability on Linux

It does not really ask, it straight up bricks the whole browser session until you do.

But otherwise, FF has been really stable for years now

MawKKeon $1 Unistroke Recognizer (2007)

I believe it is a reference to the US dollar

MawKKeon Building a Distributed Turn-Based Game System in Elixir

From Finland: Through LTE I get served via 'fra' with ~60ms (as one might expect). However if I switch to Wifi I get 'hkg' with ~260ms?? Not exactly next-door :)

MawKKeon How to navigate directories faster with Bash (2015)

Another one:

  cdof () {
    cd "$(dirname $1)"
  }

as in 'Change into Directory Of"

Changes into the directory of a file. This is useful when you're doing complicated commands with long path names, but realize it would be easier if you were to cd into that directory. Use in combination with <Alt+.>. Especially useful if the filename component is long:

  $ pwd
  => ~/
  $ ls -l path/to/whatever/deep/somewhere/2021-04-22-filewithverylongnamefoobarbaz.xyz
  $ cdof <Alt+.>
  $ pwd
  => path/to/whatever/deep/somewhere

MawKKeon Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

To be fair, the client forces you to upgrade on windows too, although automatically. Which in windows-land is business as usual...

MawKKeon Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

Similiar issue with the browser client. I observed it eating away 40% cpu doing...nothing? I can't do anything else with my laptop If I want to be heard or understood by others

MawKKeon Lisp and the Web: Creating Web Apps Through Lisp and GCE

https://github.com/ashok-khanna/common-lisp-by-example/blob/...

Formatting queries like this is not a good idea at all. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_injection

MawKKeon Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today?

1) case in point: Windows 10 Settings

MawKKeon Obfuscated Tiny C Compiler

How do you know the person who designed that isn't in on it?

MawKKeon AMD vs. Intel vs. Nvidia: How Users Are Switching

No kidding. Few weeks ago 'apt upgrade' killed my X server and locked up the whole machine. I'm like 99.99999% sure it was the nvidia drivers.