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agapon··on The man who coined the word "robot" defends himself
Interesting that in Ukrainian робота and праця are synonymous. Although, some derived words are different in meaning. Like робітник is a worker but працівник is an employee. I see in another comment that the same is true in Polish.
agapon··on C23: A Slightly Better C
Those are not trigraphs, of course.
agapon··on OpenBSD Workstation Hardening
It does have WSDISPLAYIO_SETSCREEN ioctl, though. So, it's possible to write chvt equivalent for the OS.

https://man.openbsd.org/wsdisplay.4

agapon··on Nokia Bell Labs Is Moving to Helix in New Brunswick
Hoes Lane!
agapon··on FreeBSD 14.0 Delivering Great Performance Uplift
Minus hibernate, of course.
agapon··on Leaving Twitter
Boosting some accounts and "deboosting" others. Disappearing likes. Yeah, all cool features, free speech absolutism at its best.
agapon··on USB-C head-to-head comparison
Something like this? https://hackaday.com/2023/08/11/usb-c-cable-tester-is-compac... https://www.tindie.com/products/petl/usb-c-cable-tester-c2c-...
agapon··on Should you be scared of Unix signals? (2016)
A portable way to do this could be with sigtimedwait or sigwait plus sigpending or multi-threading.
agapon··on A.I. and the Next Generation of Drone Warfare
> Isn’t Turkey the main provider or drones to Ukraine?

No.

agapon··on Transcript of taped conversations among German nuclear physicists (1945)
If anything united Nazis and Soviets it was their anti-democracy hating. Which was the ground for Soviets providing material support to Germany, training to German officers, etc.

Right?

agapon··on FreeBSD at 30: Its secrets to success
DragonflyBSD design is definitely not without merits.

But FreeBSD took the mainstream approach.

agapon··on The quest for a simple smartwatch
Amazfit has nothing to do with Amazon, though.
agapon··on Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present (2003)
Hmm, section 4 https://www.cpushack.com/CPU/cpu4.html is empty?
agapon··on Do high interest rates fix high inflation?
I think that the elections were the main reason for that financial / economic policy.
agapon··on OpenBSD cron(8) now supports random ranges with steps
You don't have to create a script, running a command under flock is still a one-liner in crontab.
agapon··on De-dollarization is happening at a ‘stunning’ pace
What's wrong with the US role in Korea, exactly?
agapon··on The Disappointment of 5G
Yeah, because it was before smartphones (phones having "normal" internet access, full featured browsers and all other things being done on top of that). A lot of effort was spent on things like Broadcast and Multicast Service (BCMCS), etc back then.
agapon··on Grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump
You can say approximately the same about the Stalin's USSR when Beria was the most feared man. But just after Stalin's death Beria was promptly executed and the military played the major role in that.
agapon··on Asteroid lost 1M kilograms after collision with DART spacecraft
Depends on how deep you dig.
agapon··on BASF to cut 2,600 jobs as energy crisis hits German industry
You know what worries me more? The Eurovision expansion! Look, they even took over Australia.
agapon··on Night Train Map with all regularly served night train destinations in Europe
No night trains to / from Baltics?
agapon··on A global addiction to plastic is turning into an environmental disaster
"shopping bag on wheels"
agapon··on Fedora now has frame pointers
Yes, and that base pointer gets pushed on the stack when a function call is made. And that allows to accurately restore stack frames to get the backtrace. So, not sure what's funny.
agapon··on Nolibc: A minimal C-library replacement shipped with the kernel
Surely, POSIX / libc / notion of system calls predate what you consider to be "the kernel". There are many, and there have been even more, kernels and OS-s.
agapon··on Economics Drives Ray-Gun Resurgence
> What could you do short of nuclear strikes to get past a wall of lasers taking out all of your missiles and vehicles?

Lasers.

agapon··on Reverse engineering a neural network's clever solution to binary addition
Very interesting. But I missed how the network handled the overflow.

Spotted one small typo: digital to audio converter should be digital to analog.

agapon··on A Visual Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding
I just use zerotier, no need to own / set up a VPS. But if I wanted to have all components under my control, then I'd do the same thing as you.
agapon··on Secretary Granholm to announce major scientific breakthrough by DOE [video]
Wright brothers make a first flight and people are like, can your airplane carry one hundred people to the other side of the Atlantic? No? Meh.
agapon··on Caterpillar offers phone with built-in FLIR camera
There are such batteries, I saw them on Aliexpress. They are not cheap, though.
agapon··on Are We Prisoners of Geography?
Thinking is good, but why "think" when you can just check the facts? Follow your own advice on hard data.
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