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New comment by FreeFull in "State of Text Rendering 2024"

FreeFull — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 12:35:10 +0000

If you click the Google Docs link at the top of the document, you can then export it to html/txt/pdf.

New comment by FreeFull in "Neofetch developer archives all his repositories: "Have taken up farming""

FreeFull — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 13:15:14 +0000

In case anyone is looking for alternatives, there's a well-maintained fork of neofetch called hyfetch. There's also a neofetch clone written in C called fastfetch.

Salami Slicing Tactics

FreeFull — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 11:11:42 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salami_slicing_tactics

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40727108

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New comment by FreeFull in "Show HN: Collaborative ASCII Drawing with Telnet"

FreeFull — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 15:16:41 +0000

Using shift for erase isn't a great choice. In many terminals, holding shift prevents mouse input from going to the running program, and instead allows you to use the terminal's text selection functionality.

New comment by FreeFull in "Forested wetlands are missing from maps"

FreeFull — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 13:29:19 +0000

The problem is that the Sun is significantly brighter now than it used to be back then, so the amount of heating from the same amount of methane/co2 is proportionally more now too

New comment by FreeFull in "Things I won't work with: the higher states of bromine (2019)"

FreeFull — Thu, 16 May 2024 17:24:24 +0000

On the other hand, HF is great at dissolving glass (silicon dioxide), which is something that most other acids won't do.

New comment by FreeFull in "Things I won't work with: the higher states of bromine (2019)"

FreeFull — Thu, 16 May 2024 17:20:44 +0000

I guess accidentally getting tardigrades inside your mouth isn't anywhere near as bad as getting concentrated sulphuric acid in your mouth.

New comment by FreeFull in "Fastest rate of natural carbon dioxide rise over the last 50k years"

FreeFull — Wed, 15 May 2024 13:53:03 +0000

The increase of temperature also causes the release of methane, which is a much stronger greenhouse gas than CO2.. Things aren't looking great

New comment by FreeFull in "X.org on NetBSD – The State of Things"

FreeFull — Mon, 06 May 2024 10:08:36 +0000

There's nothing that forces a Wayland compositor to be written in C. I've seen ones written in C++, Zig, and Rust, but you could really use any language as long as you can still call the appropriate system/kernel APIs

New comment by FreeFull in "Losing My Hands"

FreeFull — Fri, 03 May 2024 11:54:06 +0000

I strongly doubt that it'd be purely psychosomatic.. Spending 14 hours a day hammering away at a keyboard will physically damage your wrists.

New comment by FreeFull in "Hyprland Crash Course"

FreeFull — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 23:09:50 +0000

That's possible with Niri, with its center-focused-column and default-column-width settings. It's not a traditional tiling WM, though

New comment by FreeFull in "Why does an extraneous build step make my Zig app 10x faster?"

FreeFull — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 12:17:07 +0000

You can easily hit a similar problem in other languages too. For example, in Rust, std::fs::File isn't buffered, so reading single bytes from it will also be rather slow.

New comment by FreeFull in "Thoughts on the Future of Software Development"

FreeFull — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 14:01:57 +0000

Presumably, the AI would have access to just do all the git and web server stuff for you.. The bigger problem I see would be if the AI just refuses to give you what you ask for.

Person: I want A

AI: Here's B

Person: No, I wanted A

AI: I'm sorry. Let me correct that... Here's B

.. ad nauseum.

Or alternatively:

Person:

AI: I'm sorry, I can't do that

New comment by FreeFull in "GIMP 2.99.18: The last development preview before 3.0"

FreeFull — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 12:24:01 +0000

How would that work for having a layer larger than the image?

New comment by FreeFull in "Useful Uses of cat"

FreeFull — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 01:31:55 +0000

That doesn't work for the first step though, where you want to print the file to stdout without processing it in any way

New comment by FreeFull in "If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least do nothing correctly"

FreeFull — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 19:58:19 +0000

You could still offer the mocked APIs, but have them be opt-in. Also, having the compiler throw an error doesn't mean that an older, already compiled executable won't work.

New comment by FreeFull in "If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least do nothing correctly"

FreeFull — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 19:51:12 +0000

As far as alternatives to what the article suggested go, I think the ideal solution would be to have a compile-time error, so the developers never even get as far as having their printing code try to run on the Xbox. And since it's a compile-time error, there doesn't need to be any kind of runtime error handling or cost either.

New comment by FreeFull in "Too dangerous for C++"

FreeFull — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 00:17:13 +0000

Not every program that's written will even be multithreaded, and there's a significant cost to using atomic operations when you don't need them. What is the disadvantage of having non-atomic Rc be available?

New comment by FreeFull in "Slint GUI Toolkit"

FreeFull — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 11:20:48 +0000

The Qt licensing model is actually a bit less restrictive, since Qt is distributed under the LGPL, and Slint is full-fat GPLv3

New comment by FreeFull in "Damn Small Linux 2024"

FreeFull — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 17:18:14 +0000

It would be rather difficult to fit any newer linux kernel onto a floppy, together with all the other software.