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cylemons··on Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake
His point is keep an archived sha1 version of the repo and an active sha256 version.

That way an old commit with a message having a sha1 can reference the archived version, and new commits reference the active version.

cylemons··on I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea
Worked for me
cylemons··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
You can close the door without screwing over people that are already in the process
cylemons··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
The Commission cannot withdraw directives?
cylemons··on Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries
Windows doesn't even have a concept of a loader binary right? I think its hardcoded into the kernel/win32 itself.
cylemons··on European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage
Also the sideroads intersecting each other usually don't have traffic lights which is good for low traffic but bad for high traffic.

What they would do in that case is close off one the roads so traffic flows smoothly through the other one

cylemons··on Steam Machine launches today
To clarify, the loot boxes in Roblox are game specific. The platform itself just has the catalog where you buy stuff directly

But still, Roblox should do a better job regulating the games on its platform

cylemons··on Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability
Yikes, does that mean each dev has terabytes of stuff on their machine?
cylemons··on Moving beyond fork() + exec()
In the manpage for vfork, Linux in particular

> As with fork(2), the child process created by vfork() inherits copies of various of the caller's process attributes (e.g., file descriptors, signal dispositions, and current working directory); the vfork() call differs only in the treatment of the virtual address space, as described above.

so it seems Linux does define the behavior of vfork, but if you rely on it, your code won't be portable to other POSIX systems

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/vfork.2.html

cylemons··on Moving beyond fork() + exec()
> If you're not overcommiting, that fork will fail, because total memory consumption will be 1200 MB which is more than 1GB. That somewhat restricts program design.

Does this accounting apply to vfork as well?

cylemons··on Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says
> 69% of those who got green cards through marriage to US citizen spouses

Nice.

cylemons··on We don't know why Malawi is poor
As a non Malawian no, but I do think its important to ask what the local sentiment of their country is.
cylemons··on I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left
Now that makes sense, so its legal because the contributors can still access their code
cylemons··on I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left
> If you actually look at the redis code base the majority of it was written by people who never worked for redis.

Thats a really big deal, how did they legally managed to do the license change? I was under the impression that only works if the original owner is the doing most work

cylemons··on Email could have been X.400 times better
Apperantly the AKID and SKID extensions are used instead these days
cylemons··on Email could have been X.400 times better
TCP still works this way?
cylemons··on Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'
VK_KHR_buffer_device_address has 91.3% support

and

VK_KHR_variable_pointers has 98.66% support

looks good to me

cylemons··on The RAM shortage could last years
When I personally use chatgpt and friends, I am not seeing any slowdowns or anything, meaning that their servers can handle the loads just fine. So then, why are these companies spending so much building new capacity if the current capacity is enough?
cylemons··on Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction
Microsoft itself is 73% owned by institutional investors, so more of the same really.

see: https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/msft/instituti...

cylemons··on Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them
Yeah why is this so common in .NET?
cylemons··on Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'
Whatabout the extensions? is it widely supported
cylemons··on Investigating Split Locks on x86-64
You mean the locking would be done in software?
cylemons··on Investigating Split Locks on x86-64
I assume to save on resources, even if your algorithm is not much more taxxing on silicon, maybe the designers at intel and amd just didn't think optimizing split locks was worth it
cylemons··on Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator
Biggest pump and dump in history
cylemons··on How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
> chat.agent.maxRequests

"Maximum number of requests that copilot can make using agents"

I don't get how this setting is relevant?

cylemons··on How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
There is a limit on how much copilot can do in one request, pretty generous but after some time vscode will say "this request is taking very long, do you want to continue" and that would count as a seperate request
cylemons··on How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
I guess Microsoft wants us to think about all these copilots as a single product.

Like, "the copilot in visual studio", "the copilot on github", "the copilot on office" etc.

cylemons··on Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains
This a toolchain issue rather than OS issue. This wounldn't have been a problem if gcc/clang just took a --stdlib-version option and built the executables linking to that version of glibc or equivalent.
cylemons··on Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents
Even from a quality of life perspective, imagine having an SFH in city center that is within walking distance to shops, job, activities etc.
cylemons··on Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents
Also living standards, ancients houses are dead simple and today could probably be built with usd 5k-10k in a couple months. But most people wont accept a home with no electrity, no lights, no AC, no indoor plumming, etc.
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