Monthly Shaarli
February, 2025
A site dedicated to Geometric Algebra courses, libraries, discussion, etc.
My notes on Geometric Algebra: https://shaarli.lain.li/shaare/OGClBA
The author studies the reproducibility of the ~100k packages on nixpkgs and found an impressive 91% bitwise reproducibility rate in in the most recent release of nixpkgs. The post discussed the main reasons for unreproducibilities: embedded dates, embedded uname outputs, embedded environment variables, embedded non-deterministic build ids.
A blog dedicated in explaining obscure and seemingly-magical code snippets. Like the submissions to IOCCC contest.
The "Wats" for Nix language. Also see https://md.darmstadt.ccc.de/xtNP7JuIQ5iNW1FjuhUccw.
Linux audio streams are supposed to be suspended on idle to allow the hardware sink to power-off for power efficiency. However, Firefox expect the callers of AudioContext to explicitly suspend the context, which most developers don't bother. The author developed an extension to automate this. Now it explains why Firefox always shows up in pavucontrol's "playback" tab. TIL powerstat
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