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xuhu··on Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone
Vertical keyboard allows using the phone with one hand.
xuhu··on Fedora Optimized Binaries for the AMD64 Architecture
From the article: "For some of the numerical or cryptographic code there are noticeable gains and it seems to be worth the effort to provide optimized code. This also makes Fedora more attractive to people interested in optimization."
xuhu··on IDEs we had 30 years ago
Is there an efficient way to do "Find in files" from a vim or vscode instance running locally and editing+compiling remote files via ssh ? Preferably something that runs instantly for 1 GiB repos ?
xuhu··on Reindeer sleep and eat simultaneously
You can contact the website operators, but they will probably suggest you install an ad blocker so that the page loads correctly.
xuhu··on Apple wins bid to pause Apple Watch ban at US appeals court
Would it be far fetched to hope that Apple could introduce a jailbreak mechanism in the Apple Watch for the purpose of providing users the option to enable and use all photodiodes for the pulse oximeter ?
xuhu··on The Walk and Talk: Everything We Know
It's 100km per week, or 14km per day. At a 6km/h pace it amounts to a 2h20m walk each day.
xuhu··on String pinsetters are upending bowling
I'm halfway through the 3D pinsetter video on YouTube, that thing should be required watching for any EE or CS student.
xuhu··on Police have undermined the promise of body cameras
Many officers take a step back when things heat up beyond "papers please". No one ever got fired for doing that. If an officer escalates, it's because their inner voice says "come at be bro".
xuhu··on VMware transition to subscription, end of sale of perpetual licenses
"-- Written in my leased BMW Series 7 with subscription warmed seats. These things don't pay for themselves you know."
xuhu··on Waveterm
I've never seen 'ditch' being used in a flattering context.
xuhu··on Public Domain Day 2024 Is Coming: Here's What to Know
The Front Page (the Broadway play) will also enter the public domain in 2024, even though it's hard to imagine a better adaptation than His Girl Friday from 1940.
xuhu··on It's the future – you can stop using JPEGs
And the blue shirt in the lower left corner. In webp-65% all the texture detail from the other versions is lost.
xuhu··on Candela P-12 taking off – Electric hydrofoiling passenger vessel [video]
More like the logs are vulnerable to the hydrofoils. Those vertical wings look like they can slice anything in half.
xuhu··on We Automated Bullshit
> it doesn't matter at all if it's always right or only 80%

People get fired every day for pasting code that is 80% right and worked on a couple test-cases.

xuhu··on Why does unsafe multithreaded std:unordered_map crash more than std:map?
From the article: std::map inserts are O(log n) while std::unordered_map inserts are O(1) and rehashes are O(n). Concurrent rehashes have a high chance of crashing, but I don't see how it follows that overall unordered_map crashes more than std::map.

Maybe it's beacause std::map tree nodes don't get reallocated while unordered_map hash buckets do ?

xuhu··on What does and doesn't matter about Apple shooting their October event on iPhone
Wedding photography costs $600 to $1000 over here, the equipment is typically 4 to 8 years old and costs about $1500 (body + 24-70mm lens + flashes, MPB.com prices).
xuhu··on FFmpeg is getting multithreaded transcoding pipelines
Not a video encoding expert, but for live streams you can't merge the output until you process all the N parts, so you introduce delays. And if any part of the input pipeline, like an overlay containing a logo or text, is generated dynamically i.e. not a static mp4, it basically counts as a live stream.
xuhu··on Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoying YouTube message
It sure is. I'm still watching their ads on every other site, but youtube ads for gambling and soda that interrupt while I'm watching someone talk about Bezier curves ? Na-ah.
xuhu··on The Curse of Dialup World
I've read this part three times now and still can't tell what the Excel spreadsheet was used for.
xuhu··on Facebook/Meta blocks accounts for posting link to EFF privacy tips
And in every user-hostile campaign there is a checkbox that needs to be ticked: can we make it look like incompetence ?
xuhu··on Visual Node Graph with ImGui
Aligning related nodes regardless of the arcs between them is a big plus, and if ML can infer that automatically from case to case, it's probably worth considering using it for layout.
xuhu··on Linux from Scratch Version 12.0
Installing LFS is a ritual, a manifestation of the belief in free software. In order to affirm allegiance to the corporate world, installing Windows 11 with all telemetry enabled and an online account might be more appropriate.
xuhu··on FreeBSD 14.0-BETA2 Now Available
Apparently the release notes list is here: https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/RELNOTES
xuhu··on Yazi: Fast terminal file manager based on async I/O
In 1991 dos navigator had an integrated file manager and editor like no other console file manager has: you could alt-tab and copy/paste from editors into shell commands interactively.

In 2023 I still need two extra terminals for vim and for bash. And text selection is mouse-only.

xuhu··on Unix Domain Sockets vs Loopback TCP Sockets (2014)
With pipes, the sender has to add a SIGPIPE handler which is not trivial to do if it's a library doing the send/recv. With sockets it can use send(fd, buf, MSG_NOSIGNAL) instead.
xuhu··on Double Commander – Changes in version 1.1.0
I wish bash had a way to pop up a tree view that let me select the source or destination for a command (like tar or sftp or anything). And remember the locations for these two trees (source & destination) independently.
xuhu··on AWS Icon Quiz
Not a fan of either, but Azure icons look like actual things: http://code.benco.io/icon-collection/azure-icons/

The AWS icons seem procedurally generated based on a hash of each concept's name.

xuhu··on Intel's GPU Drivers Now Collect Telemetry, Including 'How You Use Your Computer'
How do you turn it off after the drivers are installed ?
xuhu··on On the future of free long term support for Linux distributions
Meanwhile a lot of boxes are still on RHEL-6 point releases that use linux-2.6. Not even those will be gone in 10 years.
xuhu··on DHCP is not blocked by ufw/iptables
Distinct socket types for monitoring vs receiving/sending.
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