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Notice how both dB and octave are ratios, but for some reason for frequency ratios we don't use bels or decibels. An octave is a ratio of 2, a bel is a ratio of 10.

I mostly use it as a replacement of a search engine and exploration, mostly for subjects that I'm learning from scratch, and I don't have a good grasp of the official documentation and good keywords yet. It competes with searching for guides in traditional search engines, but that's easy to beat with today's SEO infested web.

Its quality seems to vary wildly between various subjects, but annoyingly it presents itself with uniform confidence.

The current architecture is wayland based, with weston and an RDP backend, and the Windows host running an RDP client. X11 apps run on Xwayland within WSL2, so ultimately rendered on the same RDP client.

Issues shouldn't really live in the same source tree, IMO. But AFAIK there are forges that keep the issues in the same repository, just not in the same tree of commits that the source tree has, git notes style.

Isn't the issue that some people work around MOT decibel limits? After all they only need to pass the decibel limit on the MOT test, and not on the road in regular use.

The engineering solution approach doesn't seem to be fundamentally different to speed cameras.

Would the female trees do that if there weren't any male trees around?

Some tricks that worked for me in the past:

1. use rr for debugging your binary wheel, you can set up watchpoints, and reverse step/continue from the segfault.

2. compile and run your wheel with sanitizers (ASAN, UBSAN).

I rarely use valgrind so I can't comment on that.

Isn't mypy extensible with plugins?

> Usually, the calls were via some abstract interface with a single implementor

What's described here is over-generic code, instead of KISS and just keeping an eye on extensibility instead of generalizing ahead of time. This can happen in any paradigm.

If you can generate a sequence of independent fair coin flips of indefinite length (this is a big if, but hold that though), then you can effectively generate a true real number uniformly from the unit interval. What you can't do is to access all of its digits all at once. But to correctly round it to a value representable in a given floating-point representation you don't need all the digits, you only need enough digits to decide whether the number falls into an interval where all reals round to the same value.

As for generating independent fair coin flips of indefinite length, none of the PRNGs qualify.

Generalizing this to arbitrary intervals, not just [0, 1) looks tricky. Just scaling and shifting a perfect uniform result from [0, 1) doesn't result in a perfect random floating-point number.

That looks kinda the same end result as the fixed point method, but possibly cheaper to execute.

If you don't want to be an employee then don't sign an employment contract.

I don't see any LibreOffice related processes on my Debian machine, but I have it installed. Does it do that on Windows only, or distros disable this by default?

But Linus broke the kernel for gcc<15, a CI would have surely caught it.

And Linus is usually much more critical in what gets into master when it comes to other people's contribution, let alone into an RC.

An allow-list would probably suck for local development for users that do have a valid license.

There is a large range of permissive licensing between public domain and "fonts that cost money". Free as in freedom Linux distros ship a sizable set of fonts, and I'm sure most of them are licensed permissively.

Pixels displayed on CRT displays are not squares, but they are not infinitely small dots either. They are much less well-defined blobs, that even overlap with each other.

There is also the complication of composite video signals, where you can't treat pixels as linearly independent components.

> The growable array type ("vector" following C++ parlance) lacks the bifurcated reservation API meaning it has the same problem as Bjarne's std::vector - but it's 2025 people, just because C++ made this mistake last century doesn't mean you need to copy them.

What's "the bifurcated reservation API"?

It's a good example of what happens when a copyright is expired.

Naively I thought that one value proposition of SPF, DKIM and DMARC is that reputation shifts from based on IP to be based on domain, once you set these up correctly. So as long as you can maintain a good reputation for your domain and have SPF, DKIM and DMARC correctly set up, then you can host your SMTP server at any IP and your emails will get delivered.

I wonder why it doesn't work this way.

bug: when playing back an Nx16 pattern, and switching, then when rolling to the next pattern the very first beat is played from the previously played pattern instead of the current one.

They don't roll over to the next 16 on playback automatically, which makes this very awkward.

Both the dark and the light themes look perfectly readable to me, and I'm rather nitpicky on contrast.

I prefer python there, although we do test/deploy on Windows too, so it's nice to have a common python script for Windows and Linux CI. Not interested in making bash work on Windows or scripting in powershell. And although it's a lot more awkward to use python than bash for invoking subprocesses, it's nicer in most other ways.

Then there is mkv/webm, where strictly speaking you need to implement at least part of an EBML parser to distinguish them. Possibly why no other file format adopts EBML, everything just recognizes it as either of mkv or matroska based on dodgy heuristics.

What IPC mechanisms exist between sqlite processes accessing the same database, other than file locking and some atomic IO operations ensured by the OS.

If you send through a MUA (like Thunderbird) that uses Gmail's SMTP then Gmail do expose your IP address. Most other email providers do the same.

> Under normal circumstances your email client (MUA) connects to your email service provider (MTA), which then sends the email to the MTA of the recipient. So the IP of your MTA (email hosting service), not your MUA (your computer) is exposed.

This is incorrect, most email providers' MTA includes the MUA's IP address in the headers.

It still does, just tested it.

You don't have IPC for sqlite, do you?