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Comment · 1 year ago
In Perl -> is the dereference operator, similar to C.

So when you see

    $a->[2]{"bar"}
then $a is an array reference where each item is a hashmap. But with

    $a->[2]->{"bar"}
then $a is an array reference where each item is a reference to a hashmap.
Comment · 1 year ago
And that's why it is best to avoid GPU-acceleration unless you truly need it.

GPU drivers have always been full of bugs and will always be, since modern GPUs are ridiculously complex and designed for speed rather than reliability.

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Comment · 2 years ago
Good to know there are other solutions than Cloudflare to block those leeches.
Comment · 2 years ago
I love Go's letter casing. It's such a neat way to remove cruft.
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Comment · 2 years ago
Gloriously useless :)
Comment · 3 years ago
It's an electron app, so I guess at least 1GB of RAM.
Comment · 3 years ago
I love this article! It is not the first time I hear the bad reputation of aspartame is unfounded.

AFAIK, there was only one study which said aspartame was dangerous: they fed a rat with a HUGE amount of it (like way more than a human could consume, in proportion) and the rat got ill or died I don't remember. That "study" was obviously flawed yet the media kept talking about it everywhere.

At that point, it wouldn't surprise me if the sugar industry is behind this.

Comment · 3 years ago
message to OP: you see? All you had to do is create some drama and now people are interested in you :)
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Comment · 4 years ago
On Linux with glibc, ldd -v will give you similar information, though less pretty of course.
Comment · 5 years ago
> No one cares how big it is.

A lot of people care, especially Linux users.

> Disk space is still cheap on end users machines.

Not cheap for everyone.

Comment · 5 years ago
> Neither Flatpak nor Snap have increased memory usage because of containerization.

Yes it does, because you end up loading multiple versions of the shared libraries.

There is also the memory used by the flatpack/snap daemons. Snapd is quite big since it is written in Go.

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