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Re:Tcl/Tk 9.1 Released on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:46PM (#49897373)
excited to see a work of zutty lineage, it's a massively underrated terminal, but please clank something meaner and leaner that an agent can manage to get built in less than 128k tokens, x11 would be appreciated too
Re:Social Animus on Thursday May 28, 2026 @08:15PM (#48317333)
this plead somehow hits all the wrong notes and reinforces why they're in this situation to begin with, i still hope the author finds their footing, but it won't come without some soul searching
Re:Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban on Thursday February 19, 2026 @07:50AM (#47073211)
Re:Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua on Thursday January 29, 2026 @03:45AM (#46807451)
it has a feature to output such files, see https://github.com/xmake-io/xmake?tab=readme-ov-file#generat...
Re:Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua on Thursday January 29, 2026 @03:25AM (#46807284)
the command file generator is usually last to blame for a slow compile, making it output a cmake/ninja/make project would not speed up a poorly structured compilation tree at all
Re:WebDAV Isn't Dead Yet on Saturday October 25, 2025 @05:23PM (#45707086)
consider versitygw or s3proxy
Re:Forth: The programming language that writes itself on Sunday October 19, 2025 @11:45PM (#45640041)
frankly it's a miracle any of them scaled at all, such popularity mostly comes down to an arbitrary choice made decades ago by a lucky vendor instead of some grand overarching design
Re:S3 scales to petabytes a second on top of slow HDDs on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @08:50AM (#45359580)
Any of them will work just as well, but only with many datacenters worth of drives, which very few deployments can target.

It's the classic horizontal/vertical scaling trade off, that's why flash tends to be more space/cost efficient for speedy access.

Re:About the BLOBs in Ventoy on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @08:44AM (#44811225)
citation needed
Re:Welcome to the IPv4 Games on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @05:21AM (#44795938)
a simple proof of the opposite is that no one's yet to exploit any of the untaken ranges that way
queued messages stay around in the mailboxes, so no state is lost, but don't get migrated/transformed/versioned via the appup mechanism, unless you opt back into it via libraries for it like https://github.com/ausimian/castle
Elixir removed a jankier https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/sasl/appup.html mechanism that defined how state is upgraded or downgraded, while watching a directory and recompiling a module automatically or manually from the repl is still common
This Nil is not a Null, and is only used as a sentinel value to return an error value. And unlike lua, indexing into an unasigned value will not return nil, but throw an exception like index_error.
Running arbitrary user code in IOT systems safely like https://tasmota.github.io/docs/Berry/#rules

It's still receiving maintenance from contributors, but these sort projects reach a stable maturity and stay there for years fulfilling their use case.

Re:Stop killing games and the industry response on Sunday July 06, 2025 @11:00AM (#44481318)
There's fewer games to vote on every year, as conglomerates like Microsoft out vote your wallet a billion times over every time they buy a game studio to embrace, extend and then extinguish.
Re:IETF setting standards for AI preferences on Saturday March 22, 2025 @01:05PM (#43447130)
DNT: AI
Re:Migrating Away from Bcachefs on Thursday January 23, 2025 @06:26PM (#42809113)
Debian would compile dependencies with versions lower than specified in the project, reintroducing bugs that users would blame upstream for, https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Orphans-Bcachefs-Tools
Re:Button Stealer on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @01:13AM (#41042726)
Re:FrankenPHP: Modern PHP App Server on Thursday May 30, 2024 @03:39AM (#40521146)
this runs caddy (another famous reverse proxy) for you
not too dissimilar an idea from Tom Duff's com executable https://web.archive.org/web/20210204050841/http://www.iq0.co...
using Qualcomm for wifi6 is mainly the reason why, their SDK is very picky, and kept out of tree on purpose
Re:Chasquid – SMTP server focused on simplicity on Sunday December 03, 2023 @07:21PM (#38512255)
and https://maddy.email/ is built with a similar spirit
>it should be able to do that job just fine even if you keep throwing lots of packets at it, right?

there's circumvention techniques that abuse the fact that they can't: https://upb-syssec.github.io/blog/2023/record-fragmentation

the intentionally terrible speeds are decided by software heuristics, so antisocial limits are fought with antisocial techniques, with continued brutality being enough to skip the slow deep packet inspection path via force

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