Samee Zahur

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James Earl Jones Dead: Darth Vader Voice, Lion King Star Was 93

James Earl Jones, the distinguished and prolific actor in films, TV and theater known for providing the voice of Darth Vader in "Star Wars," has died.

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I will out myself as a Manjaro user. The amount of hate for this distro in the comment thread took me by surprise: https://youtu.be/H3jFF-6EdVY?si=pKU3GQjkJX3uIBko

But I don't feel like reinstalling OSes right now. If anybody has tried something else with semi-frequent upgrades, I'd appreciate it. I seem to remember gcc versions lagging behind on most Debian-based distros.

Linux Distros Explained By An Idiot

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I've been using the `fish` shell for a year, and I just found out about `prevd` and `cdh`  

https://fishshell.com/docs/current/cmds/prevd.html

prevd - move backward through directory history — fish-shell 3.7.0 documentation

@Sheril "The Midnight Library: A Novel" by Matt Haig. Also "Every Tool's a Hammer" by Adam Savage.

TIL that the ppc64 (PowerPC 64-bit) architecture overloads 'or r1,r1,r1' (and the same using all r6 or r2) to change the (hardware) priority of your thread. This came up in a Go code generation issue, and Raymond Chen mentioned it in passing in 2018.

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/57741
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180809-00/?p=99455
Also see the discussion in this PDF: https://student.ing-steen.se/unix/aix/redbooks/sg245768.pdf

runtime: performance regression due to bad instruction used in morestack_noctxt for ppc64 in CL 425396 · Issue #57741 · golang/go

What version of Go are you using (go version)? $ go version latest Does this issue reproduce with the latest release? yes What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)? go...

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Oh look, even tracking pixels have alt-texts friendly to screen-readers.

Context: I always disable autoloading of images in emails. So this is how my email was rendered.

@JoeJulian @atoponce Yeah, my guess would also be that it applies to the label itself, and not the drink. But IANAL
@matthew_d_green @filippo Q: what kind of latencies do you reckon would be tolerable for these applications? I spent most of my time in grad school making these protocols more practical, so I'm curious!
@regehr this feature is often a sufficient reason for me to set my projects to require at least C++17, and not support older standards.