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This is what I see on a linux machine with only 6GB of ram: https://blog.imraniqbal.org/ram/

(TL:DR OOM errors and the kernel starts reaping processes)

Just seems so odd as I remember playing gta vice city on a pentium 3 with 128mb of ram and now I need 6GB+ to just browse the web

imran-iqon European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries

The samsung galaxy s5[0] had a easily replaceable battery while keeping its waterproof rating

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0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S5

imran-iqon Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity (2018)

> Java isn't more scalable, stable or simple than any other solution, that's Java consultancy bullshit.

Twitter would disagree[0].

> We now have the capacity to serve 10x the number of requests per machine. This means we can support the same number of requests with fewer servers, reducing our front-end service costs.

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0: https://www.infoq.com/articles/twitter-java-use/

imran-iqon TimL: Clojure-like Lisp dialect that runs on and compiles down to Vimscript

This reminds me of a vim koan[0]:

> Master Pope once dreamt he was an Emacs user. When he awoke, he exclaimed:

> “I do not know if I am Tim Pope dreaming I am an Emacs user, or an Emacs user dreaming I am Tim Pope!”

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0: https://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/vim-koans/

imran-iqon I have resigned from all roles in rustlang, effective immediately

Allegedly this isn't the first time something like this has happened[0].

Just feels like more open source drama tbh.

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https://twitter.com/__phantomderp/status/1662235332375347202

imran-iqon 418 I'm a teapot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_Text_Coffee_Pot_Control_...

Started off as an April's fools joke, people liked it enough to keep it in.

imran-iqon Google open-sources Rust crate audits

> For all the stories about malicious packages on PyPI and whatnot: I can't recall ever seeing a story about "misspelled packages caused us problems in production".

https://medium.com/@alex.birsan/dependency-confusion-4a5d60f...

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26087064

imran-iqon How much memory do you need to run 1M concurrent tasks?

Don't be that guy.

https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Atokio-rs%2Ftokio%20unsafe...

imran-iqon PyPI new user and new project registrations temporarily suspended

It's only a matter of time until it happens to other systems too. Take rust for example where folks can install software via `cargo install <global name package>`. Top that off with fact that during compile (as an attacker) you have full access to your victims computer[0].

Python just happens to have more popularity for now.

I think golang gets this right where you need the full package name to have it be usable with get/build/install commands.

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0: https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/build-scripts.html

imran-iqon Zig now has built-in HTTP server and client in std

You've actually described what true TDD is, you test requirements which leaves you free to change your implementation without fear that you have broken anything. Also (as you have pointed out) makes writing a faster implementation much easier.

imran-iqon 20 Years of Gentoo

Good news! One of the Google Summer of Code projects for Guix is indeed adding something similar to the USE flags (called Parametrized Packages)[0]

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0: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2023-05/msg001...

imran-iqon Show HN: A little web server in C

Isnt it in the book? https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/ch20-01-single-threade...

imran-iqon Steam Now Offers 90-Minute Game Trials

And only 25% have gotten `Champion of Terraria` which means about 2/3rds of players did not reach the "end" of the game. That is inline with the linked article which states:

> “Statistically, most players don’t finish games. We’ve all seen numbers that say something like a third [do finish games], on average," Rouse III said later in the presentation.

Note: I do not play terraria and am assuming moon lord is the end game boss from here: https://terraria.fandom.com/wiki/Moon_Lord

imran-iqon Steam Now Offers 90-Minute Game Trials

This already happens. Most people do not complete games[0]. You can verify by checking out the achievements for various games. This already leads to games having fun beginnings but lacklustre end games

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0: https://www.ign.com/articles/2014/03/17/gdc-most-players-don...

imran-iqon Steam Now Offers 90-Minute Game Trials

Honestly if you are running any game on your system, you do not really care about security (because most game devs don't care about security, just performance). https://secret.club/2021/04/20/source-engine-rce-invite.html

imran-iqon GitHub Incident

Skype was also horribly insecure and leaked your IP which was a cause of a lot of folks in esports getting DDoS'd from it[0].

0: https://blog.destiny.gg/protection-from-ddos-attacks/

imran-iqon Kids who get smartphones earlier become adults with worse mental health

How many police brutality cases would we have never known about if not for smartphones?

imran-iqon Functionality that has been deprecated in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Except most major distros have been shipping with wayland as the default for a while now. X has been considered deprecated from a long while now (at least 2019) when all the devs went to go work on wayland

imran-iqon Functionality that has been deprecated in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

The wayland devs ARE the Xorg devs. They all decided that Xorg wasn't worth maintaining because it has too much legacy baggage[0]. The rest is just a bunch of entitled whining users that dont like change.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(protocol)

imran-iqon Horrible Code, Clean Performance

That's why TDD is about testing requirements and not implementations. The problem is most people dont know what TDD is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ05e7EMOLM

imran-iqon Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to more users

To add on to this, why can't the browser just lie to the website but retain my local settings as is

imran-iqon Dark Patterns in Substack

You can report them here: <https: //www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/030.nsf/frm-eng/MMCN-9EZV6S>

I've done it a few times, its suprisingly quite nice. They generate a unique email you can forward the offending message to

imran-iqon Microsoft tests Windows account menu error badge when Microsoft Account not used

> I had to restart my installation process with Internet disconnected.

No way! Thankfully I went for windows 10 which did not need me to unplug the internet (just a hidden option down to the side), but that's just awful.

imran-iqon Microsoft tests Windows account menu error badge when Microsoft Account not used

> It depends on what my needs are.

Unfortunately Microsoft/windows does not care what your needs are, it only cares about data collection and ads.

I recently had to install windows in a vm because I could not get adobe reader working through wine. The install process was awful:

* Dark pattern to try and force me to login with a MS account during setup

* Majority of setup steps pertain to data collection and/or ads

After setting it up, I had to open up edge to download and install adobe reader, once again

* Nags me to login to an account

* Most if not all setup steps are about ads and data collection

All for the sake of filling out some pdfs. I am truly grateful that Valve is pushing proton as it makes me (almost never) have to leave linux.

imran-iqon Gitlab loses one-third of its value after company issues weak forecast

also free private repositories, the github free tier used to be very lacking to say the least

imran-iqon WezTerm is a GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator written in Rust

Just the thing I was missing. Thank you

imran-iqon WezTerm is a GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator written in Rust

I've only had the issue on macos, konsole on my linux box works fine. I've stuck with kitty though cuz it works great on both linux and macos and I love the url opening feature as mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35140206