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strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance

We’ve always found strace useful but somewhat hard to work with. Its output is often inscrutable, it’s hard to follow subprocesses or threads, and if you wan...

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Why Janet?

I never thought it could happen to me. I mean, parentheses? In this day and age? But for the past couple years, my go-to programming language for fun side projects has been a little Lisp dialect called Janet. (print "hey janet") I like Janet so much that I...

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Programming

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How to install SmartOS on a datacenter machine

This blogpost documents how to install SmartOS in a datacenter machine, with no remote KVM neither physical access. SmartOS used to need a CD, DVD or USB pendrive to boot the Hypervisor (saving hacks

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The art and engineering of Silpheed

The 90's was a decade of considerable improvement in the world of video-game consoles[1]. Each new model brought advanced processing power and better graphics without compromise.

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Hating AI is good, actually

LinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice.

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GitHub - c0deJedi/nbd-vram: Use your NVIDIA GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux. Built for laptops with soldered memory and no upgrade path. If you have an RTX card sitting there with 8GB of VRAM and you're getting swapped to SSD, this puts that VRAM to work

Use your NVIDIA GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux. Built for laptops with soldered memory and no upgrade path. If you have an RTX card sitting there with 8GB of VRAM and you're getting swapped to SSD, this puts that VRAM to work - c0deJedi/nbd-vram

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