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New comment by filmor in "Counting Fast in Erlang with:counters and:atomics"

filmor — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:10:48 +0000

Already existed when it was first merged: https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/fefb5d039e87ff7137e78b3...

Atomics were introduced a while before `counters`, maybe you remember a custom implementation on top of that?

New comment by filmor in "Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company"

filmor — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 06:54:26 +0000

Gentoo doesn't "exist" because it is necessary to have an alternative to systemd. Gentoo is simply about choice and works with both openrc and systemd. It supported other inits to some degree as well im the past.

New comment by filmor in "Text-based web browsers"

filmor — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 07:15:35 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)

It is a simpler web and requires a separate browser or a plugin. It's difficult to find resources on it nowadays because of Google Gemini...

New comment by filmor in "Gentoo Linux 2025 Review"

filmor — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:34:16 +0000

Not its forum, there was an unofficial wiki that disappeared due to issues with the hoster in 2008. There is an official wiki nowadays.

New comment by filmor in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

filmor — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 15:37:14 +0000

The RE5 is operated by National Express. You have not been kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn.

The connection in question is probably https://bahn.expert/details/RE28521/j/20251224-a0049123-9494....

According to this page, it actually did stop at Troisdorf (though, that doesn't have to be correct). I don't see why they should have been able to stop at Neuwied but not any of the stations in between. Most of them are possibly too small, as the RE5 is quite long for a regional train, about 200m. The usual "RE" on this track, the RE8, is only about 110m max. Bonn-Beuel should have worked, though.

New comment by filmor in "Parrot – type-safe SQL in Gleam, supports SQlite, PostgreSQL and MySQL"

filmor — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 07:06:29 +0000

Static typing. Elixir already has strong typing (no implicit conversions).

New comment by filmor in "Gentoo AI Policy"

filmor — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 05:29:13 +0000

I haven't. The Nix language makes no sense to me and there is still nothing akin to useflags. I don't want to override a bunch of packages just to make my system not pull in (e.g.) UI libraries.

New comment by filmor in "Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable"

filmor — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 10:56:52 +0000

If you have a FP3, did it never fall down, throwing its battery out? I had that happen a few times to me in the past and I always wished for a tiny bit more "grip" on the battery. I would guess that I'm not the only one.

New comment by filmor in "Bzip2 crate switches from C to 100% Rust"

filmor — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 05:33:35 +0000

Rust can absolutely link to Rust libraries dynamically. There is no stable ABI, so it has to be the same compiler version, but it will still be dynamically linked.

New comment by filmor in "A Pokémon battle simulation engine"

filmor — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 11:02:54 +0000

It is written in zig.

New comment by filmor in "Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room"

filmor — Thu, 15 May 2025 21:24:22 +0000

"mit" is followed by dative in German. In Latin, ablative and dative are very close and which is very close, a lot of forms are indistinguishable.

That doesn't change anything else you said, though :)

New comment by filmor in "Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the first month on record"

filmor — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 12:24:44 +0000

Both of them can be trivially downregulated.

New comment by filmor in "Hydrogen vs. Battery Buses: A European Transit Reality Check"

filmor — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 11:11:32 +0000

How is that efficiency calculated, respectively?

New comment by filmor in "Neutrinos' maximum possible mass shrinks further"

filmor — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 11:30:37 +0000

Others have explained it already, but just to make this clear: The mass is not expressed in volts but in "electron volts" that is a different unit in the same sense as "watt hours" is a measure of energy and not time.

New comment by filmor in "BS 1363 British Plugs and Sockets"

filmor — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 04:21:29 +0000

That unintuitive setup is a common child safety measure. It's not part of the socket design, the construction is usually an inlay.

New comment by filmor in "Germany's 'Deutschlandticket' helps environment – study"

filmor — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 21:58:31 +0000

You only need some official document (ID card, passport, whatever) that matches the name and birthday. If you are a tourist, you must have a passport or ID card close by anyhow.

New comment by filmor in "Germany's 'Deutschlandticket' helps environment – study"

filmor — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 21:47:03 +0000

I just stayed with the app that I used for my old monthly ticket (mobil.nrw) and it allows paying with Paypal.

New comment by filmor in "Zasper: A Modern and Efficient Alternative to JupyterLab, Built in Go"

filmor — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 16:53:01 +0000

It currently hard-codes launching ipykernel, right?

New comment by filmor in "Show HN: Keypub.sh – OAuth for the terminal using SSH keys"

filmor — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:17:38 +0000

- TOFU: Trust on first use (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_on_first_use)

- SSHFP: SSH FingerPrint record in the domain name system (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSHFP_record)

- MITM: Man in the middle (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack)

New comment by filmor in "Cybertruck's Many Recalls"

filmor — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 09:03:03 +0000

There is a whole section in James May's review where he is confirming with a steel ruler that the surfaces are slightly convex :-)

https://youtu.be/CQzYhMDNLPA?t=216