LoganDark

#!/bin/bash
# macOS Mojave build >18A326g has a nasty issue.
#
# Basically, loginwindow likes threads. It's so passionate about threads that
# it will continue to collect threads endlessly. Now, the problem with such a
# process collecting so many threads is that, as the owner of all processes
# running under your account, if the process crashes, say goodbye to most of
# macOS.
#
# Well, this is exactly what happens. loginwindow freezes at 4096 threads and

edolstra

This document contains some ideas for additions to the Nix language.

Motivation

The Nix package manager, Nixpkgs and NixOS currently have several problems:

• Poor discoverability of package options. Package functions have function arguments like enableFoo, but there is no way for the Nix UI to discover them, let alone to provide programmatic ways to

timvisee

Falsehoods programmers believe about time

This is a compiled list of falsehoods programmers tend to believe about working with time.

Don't re-invent a date time library yourself. If you think you understand everything about time, you're probably doing it wrong.

Falsehoods

• There are always 24 hours in a day.
• February is always 28 days long.
• Any 24-hour period will always begin and end in the same day (or week, or month).

SilverCory

Type Asset:

  {
    "id": 123123123123,
    "name": "asset_key",
    "type": 1
  }

• ID: The ID of the asset

gboudreau

Generating Authy passwords on other authenticators

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*update: TBC, but this new might affect how easy it is to use this technique past August 2024: Authy is shutting down its desktop app | The 2FA app Authy will only be available on Android and iOS starting in August

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This gist, based in part on a gist by Brian Hartvigsen, allows you to export from Authy your TOTP tokens you have stored there.
Those can be "standard" 6-digits / 30 secs tokens, or Authy's own version, the 7-digits / 10 secs tokens.

kvark

Achieving warp speed with Rust

Contents:

• Number one optimization tip: don't
• Never optimize blindly
• Don't bother optimizing one-time costs
• Improve your algorithms
• CPU architecture primer
• Keep as much as possible in cache
• Keep as much as possible in registers

hediet

type StringBool = "true"|"false";


interface AnyNumber { prev?: any, isZero: StringBool };
interface PositiveNumber { prev: any, isZero: "false" };

type IsZero<TNumber extends AnyNumber> = TNumber["isZero"];
type Next<TNumber extends AnyNumber> = { prev: TNumber, isZero: "false" };
type Prev<TNumber extends PositiveNumber> = TNumber["prev"];

gcanti

Technical overview

A basic Option type

// Option.ts

// definition
export class None {
  readonly tag: 'None' = 'None'

wavezhang

wget -c --no-cookies --no-check-certificate --header "Cookie: oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie"  https://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/12.0.2+10/e482c34c86bd4bf8b56c0b35558996b9/jdk-12.0.2_linux-x64_bin.tar.gz

HaleTom

#!/bin/bash

# Tom Hale, 2016. MIT Licence.
# Print out 256 colours, with each number printed in its corresponding colour
# See http://askubuntu.com/questions/821157/print-a-256-color-test-pattern-in-the-terminal/821163#821163

set -eu # Fail on errors or undeclared variables

printable_colours=256