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elitepleb··on C++ Modules: Packaging Story
https://xrepo.xmake.io does a decent job at that, but then you're stuck with a modern "build system" too
elitepleb··on X.org Alternatives? MicroXWin, Wayland, Y, DFB, Xynth, Fresco, etc. (2009)
see also: https://arcan-fe.com
elitepleb··on Noiszy: A browser plugin that creates meaningless web data – digital “noise.”
https://adnauseam.io - clicking ads, so you don't have to.
elitepleb··on That people produce HTML with string templates is telling us something
it wouldn't be such a big deal if accidentally poisoning it with JavaScript wasn't so dang dangerous

77 years since Von Neumann, and we're still stuck holding our instructions in the data

elitepleb··on Erlang/OTP 26 Highlights
>functions can now be defined directly in the shell

Finally, Joe can stop rolling in his grave, as newbies will no longer have to ask why Erlang forms are not possible to express in the shell.

See the "Funs and defs are not the same" section from https://joearms.github.io/#2013-05-31%20A%20week%20with%20El... for details

elitepleb··on Sōzu – HTTP reverse proxy in Rust for immutable infrastructures
looks like it does the same thing as caddy, taking config changes from a socket

probably the same way as nginx http://nginx.org/en/docs/control.html#upgrade

elitepleb··on The Io Language
those are sections to click

https://iolanguage.org/about.html

https://iolanguage.org/guide/guide.html

https://iolanguage.org/tutorial.html

elitepleb··on Sam Zeloof and Jim Keller start a new semiconductor fab
the details: https://mobile.twitter.com/szeloof/status/154993704406717235...
elitepleb··on We need a textodon (text-only Fediverse hub)
check out https://microblog.pub/
elitepleb··on Ask HN: Best practices for self-healing apps?
consider OTP with it's "let it crash" design there's a nice go port for that: https://github.com/ergo-services
elitepleb··on Buy hi-resolution satellite images of any place on earth
Had to switch browsers on desktop for it not to show: "SkyFi on mobile is best viewed on our app."
elitepleb··on Ask HN: Is there academic research on software fragility?
Apache isn't known to be the most user friendly, instead consider caddy[0], where a full featured web proxy/fileserver can be as easy as:

example.com { reverse_proxy localhost:9000 }

[0] https://caddyserver.com/docs/getting-started

elitepleb··on Ask HN: Why the Linux Kernel doesn't have unit tests?
https://kernel.org/doc/html/latest/dev-tools/kunit/
elitepleb··on Ask HN: Programming without a build system?
https://web.archive.org/web/20210204050841/http://www.iq0.co... implements the same idea
elitepleb··on Movim – A decentralized social platform built on XMPP
crawl from https://gitlab.com/bluesky-community1/decentralized-ecosyste...
elitepleb··on Redbean web server debugging with ZeroBrane Studio
absolutely loving your work on https://github.com/pkulchenko/fullmoon and redbean, keep it up!
elitepleb··on Fediverse
there's a project brewing hoping to do just that by july https://liberapay.com/Revolver
elitepleb··on Cloudant/IBM back off from FoundationDB based CouchDB rewrite
So what's the deal with the unpopularity of CouchDB?

It's seems like a compelling database, but i've yet to run into it in the wild.

elitepleb··on Single binary executable packages
αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblεs are this and more

https://justine.lol/ape.html

elitepleb··on SikuliX – Automate what you see on a computer monitor
So does sikulix, via tesseract, out of the box.
elitepleb··on Programs that have saved Hacker News 100+ hours by automating repetitive tasks
For me it's (sikulix)[http://sikulix.com/]

An underappreciated amalgamation of java robot, opencv and Jython has literally automated away thousands of inane man hours for me and some clients.

elitepleb··on The Fireless Cooker That Feeds
A great way to cook rice when electronic assistance is unavailable.
elitepleb··on Poll: Is the leetcode grind necessary to land a high paying remote job?
Skip the service, don't skip over the theory, the handbook ought to be enough https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf Just be useful.
elitepleb··on Ask HN: Where are you getting your money's worth?
Case in point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29514359
elitepleb··on A Lisp Interpreter Implemented in Conway's Game of Life
Here's a nice writeup for that https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2020/digital-logic-game...
elitepleb··on From macOS to Arch Linux
Upstream breaks your stuff, you roll into the incompatible release, getting to fix it yourself.

There's no fixed release schedule that promises total compatibility at the cost of running years old releases.

elitepleb··on Django 3.2
At some point using Django just makes more sense.

No need to reinvent the universe for bigger jobs.

elitepleb··on Intel NUC as a back end for development
a GPU leaves the mini territory, and turns it into a small form factor due to the power requirements.

You'd have to build one yourself from parts, or order one custom from a non EOM company.

Since most OEM small form factor pc's skimp on the PSU and vertical space heavily.

elitepleb··on Audio over Bluetooth: most detailed information about profiles and codecs (2019)
You just get some hardware that can monitor the traffic like greatscottgadget's ubertooth one.

As for recreating the audio, you'd have to deal with capturing the key exchange handshake and cracking it.

elitepleb··on Using Ghidra to Reverse Engineer Super Monkey Ball for GameCube
https://beginners.re/
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