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Re:Kaitai Struct: declarative binary format parsing language on Thursday October 23, 2025 @11:10PM (#45690342)
It hasn't improved that much, you need to know the final size and fill all attributes, there are no defaults, at least in Python.
Re:Kaitai Struct: declarative binary format parsing language on Thursday October 23, 2025 @10:59PM (#45690279)
The recent release of 0.11 marks the inclusion of the long awaited serialization feature. Python and Java only for now. I've been using it for a while for Python and although it has some rough edges, it works pretty well and I'm super excited for the project.
Hey! Could you provide feedback how it did work for you?
I'd like to know the names of all the ladies the character "Chinasky" fucked in the book "Women".

Should be more than 20 at least.

Re:Ask HN: Best tool for de-duplication of local files? on Thursday November 03, 2022 @08:21PM (#33459971)
I recommend rmlint. Had great experiences with it. Just run rmlint /your/dir, and get an executable script to remove all found duplicates.

https://rmlint.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Re:Out of the top fifty games on Steam, 70% work on Linux on Saturday March 13, 2021 @03:54PM (#26449903)
It would be more fruitful if you both mentioned your concrete specs/drivers/proton-version to compare experiences. Remember to check your game in protondb.com and contribute if you want.
Re:GNU poke 1.0 on Friday February 26, 2021 @09:32PM (#26282117)
https://ide.kaitai.io/ has a yaml syntax, and its online editor has tons of examples.
Re:“Location-Based Pay” – Who are we to complain? on Sunday February 14, 2021 @10:20AM (#26133066)
And please, read patio11's famous and log post about salary negotiation.
Re:Ask HN: Show me your half baked project on Saturday January 09, 2021 @03:14PM (#25704240)
Please do, real-life examples of systemd units are useful for learning.
There was a quote I couldn't find that said something like we are fortunate that millions of people share our same delusions/world-view that us and that kept us from the asylum.
Re:Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc on Monday January 04, 2021 @11:38AM (#25633700)
Finally! I'm eager to try this. I always wanted to control my keyboard lights to have 'analog' notifications and stuff[1]. Never bothered to check the windows apps with wine.

[1] I was thrilled when some dev showed on twitter that he reserved some key lights to CI build status.

Re:I got my first $50/mo customer on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @05:22PM (#23096466)
(offtopic/meta)

> Me and my girlfriend wanted to watch a movie on Netflix (...)I watched the film on Netflix.

I'm starting to notice this pattern a lot both in person and on the internet. How long until Netflix becomes a verb? It doesn't add to the story, but somehow people feel compelled to advertise the service they use.

Re:ESR banned from OSI over this email on Sunday March 08, 2020 @11:45AM (#22518592)
Thanks. This 'under attack' and 'us vs them' really sucks. It would be unwise to form an opinion of the whole thing without actually reading all of the emails. Yes, there are ad-hominem attacks in the email you quoted, and even if ESR was right in everything, probably not the best way to express it.

Anyway, at least this outrage brought the issue into attention, now I'm super curious about this matter.

I'm reading his side first here: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8609

Re:Clear Your Terminal in Style on Thursday March 05, 2020 @07:58AM (#22493133)
> Ctrl+L feels as convenient as c+Enter

I learned to hit Ctrl with my palms, and never looked back. Do you use your pinky? If so, I agree c+Enter is more convenient than ctrl+L.

Re:Please stop recommending Gitflow on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @09:16PM (#22490322)
It's turtles all the way down, my friend.
Re:Hitler Uses Kubernetes on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @06:02PM (#22303904)
An exquisite snapshot of a portion of current sysadmin times. It was about time this meme was born. Do I feel relieved or like I have to catch up given that I don't know 100% of the technologies mentioned? Mmm.
Re:13.3" full color ePaper display on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @10:19PM (#21998254)
If you wanna help hack the kindle: http://fread.ink/ Reminds me that my Kindle has been going strong for 7 years.
Would be great if you could use your own server, and that the server code was open.
Simulating the micro-environment is the tricky part. Humans go great distances and interact a lot with the world, and that, plus time, is what aging is, isn't it? Can you simulate all the different ways DNA can mutate?
Re:Echo Frames – Eyeglasses with Alexa on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @05:01PM (#21075416)
we are letting out of our control because it's more convenient. Nowadays to truly own your data, you have to go to great lengths, but the solutions are arriving, but probably not for the mainstream consumer any time soon.
Re:Echo Frames – Eyeglasses with Alexa on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @04:59PM (#21075403)
like in video-games, latency kills the experience. You want to have the lower latency from where you want something (e.g. listen to music) and when it actually happens.
Re:Echo Frames – Eyeglasses with Alexa on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @04:38PM (#21075137)
I'd rather see easy to use 3d printers and good designs that you can buy yourself and tweak if you want to.
Re:Echo Frames – Eyeglasses with Alexa on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @04:37PM (#21075119)
To all the people who don't like/freak out about their data being harvested: would you use such a device, if it is completely open (both hardware and software) and the data is under your control?
Re:California bans private prisons on Friday September 13, 2019 @12:37AM (#20959206)
On contrast, your ad hominem argument is not appreciated by me.
Re:Show HN: Browse Reddit in 3D on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @02:34PM (#20931608)
Congrats on shipping it! It worked nicely on my first try. I think this might be the feature for visualizing data, when VR/AR become mainstream.

Imagine this but with stylized graphics that respond to real-time data: you could see a popular post like some sort of concert with tons of people (the website visitors). Every comment made on the post can be also read from them in real time.

It's a way I wanted to browse the web for a long time.

Re:Microsoft’s Azure Kinect AI Camera on Friday July 12, 2019 @01:04AM (#20418338)
what about something like this (holoportation): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d59O6cfaM0
Interesting, thanks for the tip. Have you tried one of those to decide not to buy them? The 'open' in their name is encouraging. How far are we to train some sort of assistant that executes commands based on brain activity patterns, e.g. instead of shouting '<assitant-name> turn off the music', just think it and have it executed?
Whenever I read one of these articles/headlines, I wonder how/where can I get a device to measure brain activity. Some sort of fitbit for the brain (ideally with no connection to 'the cloud', of course).
Re:Robot uses machine learning to harvest lettuce on Monday July 08, 2019 @05:16PM (#20386843)
That is something I thing about frequently. On one hand, I think it's great to have self-sustaining homes/neighborhoods that require minimal manual repetitive work. Then I think that there are lots of people who know nothing but that. knowledge". If you lose the ability to adapt and learn (something we all probably do as we age), then you are left out.
Adding to all what been said, the first thing I do is to count the lines of code using cloc, and see the contributors list. There is generally one key person who has the most commits, so it's good to know that person philosophy and style. For example, for reading the redis source code, I learned a lot from its creator blog posts and the redis manifesto (http://oldblog.antirez.com/post/redis-manifesto.html). By the way, I love Redis' style.

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