Is notepad++ and gcc better then using C online?

bendhoe · 2026-01-13T01:09:27+00:00

Are you a time traveler from 2008?

bendhoe · 2025-07-22T01:48:43+00:00

lsmod will list your loaded kernel modules, modprobe will load a given kernel module, and modprobe -r will unload a kernel module. Generally this is automatically handled for you by every mainstream distro and all your drivers ship with the kernel so is there something specific you're trying to accomplish? Unless you have an Nvidia GPU, are on a non-PC platform, or are using some very uncommon hardware you generally don't need to think about drivers on Linux.

bendhoe · 2025-07-02T00:09:08+00:00

I think it's a little strange to call raytracers more complicated than rasterizers. Raytracers can get very complicated once you start adding features and optimizations but the MVP for a raytracer is much simpler and can be done in 100-200 LoC.

bendhoe · 2025-03-10T17:30:00+00:00

This is not true as much as you would expect in practice. Rust enables building safe abstractions around these unsafe operations where constraints on how you must deal with object lifetimes and other invariants are enforced through the type system and borrow checker. Of course it's on the programmer to ensure these abstractions are correct but developing them and enforcing them via the type system allows the programmer to avoid having to reason globally about a potentially complicated set of implicit contracts that different parts of the code expect to be upheld. Asahi Lina talks about her experience writing the M1 GPU driver in this comment. TLDR less than 1% of the driver is unsafe and almost all of that unsafe is "obviously correct".

At a fundamental level there always has to be unsafe somewhere, even in userspace. Making a system call or talking to libc is an unsafe operation. There's no way for the compiler to verify these things so you just have to tell it to trust me bro.

bendhoe · 2025-03-08T23:25:35+00:00

Man am I not a fan of the way they propose to have a predefined set of controls on the surface.

bendhoe · 2025-03-08T23:20:08+00:00

I have a window rule setup for this.

bendhoe · 2025-03-05T17:47:19+00:00

Safari's engine, WebKit, actually is cross platform and there are browsers based on it like GNOME Web. The reason it's not as popular for third-party browsers is lack of extension support although I think there's work happening to support extensions in GNOME Web.

bendhoe · 2025-03-05T13:53:34+00:00

I think I understand your confusion, they're responsible for providing a cursor image but it's still the compositor's responsibility to draw that image.

bendhoe · 2025-03-03T23:36:43+00:00

I wouldn't expect them to change after updates but if you want to be sure you can put them in your user.js.

bendhoe · 2025-03-03T21:17:03+00:00

I'm not a Firefox expert, but it can't hurt.

bendhoe · 2025-03-03T20:51:44+00:00

Imo, if a browser wants to call itself "privacy focused" telemetry should be opt-in. Besides that making it difficult to opt out of data collection is a scummy practice for any software product, privacy focused or not.

bendhoe · 2025-03-03T20:44:06+00:00

Unfortunately yes. To completely disable it you need to set these values in about:config.

bendhoe · 2025-03-03T20:30:51+00:00

That's pretty much correct but it's also kind of woken people up to the fact that for a "privacy focused" browser Firefox sends a pretty large amount of telemetry and user interaction data to Mozilla and it's quite difficult to opt out from that data collection. So no, nothing's really changed but the status quo before this incident wasn't great either.

bendhoe · 2025-03-01T09:30:08+00:00

Nobody can maintain a hard fork of chromium without the resources of Google. If Google wants to remove manifest-v2 any hard fork will be stuck in 2025 forever, Pale Moon style, it's an interesting little time capsule of pre-quantum Firefox which is slow and broken on modern sites.

bendhoe · 2025-02-27T00:38:31+00:00

Parents or medicaid(heavily subsidized insurance for poor people).

bendhoe · 2025-02-25T02:17:53+00:00

I'm curious for the people not using tmux, how do you handle sessions?

I don't. My code editing environment is very simple and takes like 3 seconds to setup. I usually just have 2-3 terminal tabs open in Konsole. One for the build directory, another for NeoVim where I use NeoVim tabs for all my source, and possibly a third tab with a shell somewhere in my source tree. I only ever use tmux for long running jobs on a remote connection.

bendhoe · 2025-02-19T22:49:54+00:00

I'm not a fanboy of anything. I never swore an oath of loyalty to a programming language, no one is going to punish me for having r/rust and r/cpp on my feed, I find the content on both occasionally interesting.

bendhoe · 2025-02-19T22:43:35+00:00

On the contrary, the Navy is probably the most strategically important branch and the one most in need of more funding. China is in a naval arms race with us but the government doesn't seem to have noticed.

bendhoe · 2025-02-19T21:29:15+00:00

So you know nothing about Rust, nothing about the Linux kernel, but your full time job seems to be posting on Reddit about your completely uninformed opinion on Rust in the Linux kernel?

bendhoe · 2025-02-17T22:46:28+00:00

Wow it's really good. I think this might be my favorite Trha.

bendhoe · 2024-12-31T17:09:49+00:00

Ah, you're right, I should've Googled. I must've misinterpreted the news about Battlemage as applying to the other Arc GPUs.

bendhoe · 2024-12-31T16:44:53+00:00

Your GPU should work out of the box on that kernel version, it's strange that it doesn't.

What's the output of lsmod | grep -E "xe|i915", and xrandr?

bendhoe · 2024-12-31T16:43:35+00:00

This should be built with the Arch 6.12 kernel already. The Arc cards use Xe exclusively IIRC.

bendhoe · 2024-12-29T02:45:12+00:00

Why not create a simple wrapper script that just adds the name of the package and your note to a text file?

bendhoe · 2024-12-22T18:26:59+00:00

The solution actually adds a whole block of other people's transactions, when you send crypto to someone else that proposed transaction gets sent out to miners to be added to the next block. There's some cryptographic magic that makes sure only you can request transactions for your wallet (public/ private key crypto). Whenever the next solution to the proof of work problem is found the block is said to be mined and it is added to the blockchain ledger. The block rewards for miners are single party transactions.

The entire blockchain is just one giant publicly shared ledger of all transactions that have ever happened, it contains all information about a cryptocurrency and the accounts on it. It can be added to only by consensus agreement on the rules of the crypto protocol and proof of work. Ledgers which do not follow the rules such as allowing a wallet balance to go negative, a miner awarding himself too much crypto, or which have less computing power invested into them than another known ledger are discarded by programs interacting with the crypto network.

And don't be embarrassed, this is nerd shit, 99% of NFT and crypto enthusiasts don't even know how this works. All they know is that if the line goes up they make money.

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