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Not exactly a Chinese dialect, but Vietnamese calls tomatoes "cà chua": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/c%C3%A0_chua .


Are the Vietnamese and Chinese languages related? Or perhaps one of the two cultures was introduced to that fruit by the other, and thus preserved the name?


China ruled Vietnam for a thousand years (111 BC–939 AD) so I'm sure there was some linguistic cross pollination.

Though tomatoes come around long after that period...


Not related at all in recent history and I have no insight on the etymology links but Vietnamese used to be written in a mix of original Vietnamese Chinese-style characters before they changed to a Latin alphabet with Colonialism and Communism so there was definitely contact.


Thank you


So the loop unrolling must have increased the resident code size quite considerably, on the order of two to three hundred kilobytes?


That and a TCP/IP stack.


Try ~crappy~ regular headset microphone and/or whistling for some basic edge cases :D

It worked quite well to start with, but then after a few bars deteriorated to mostly outputting pauses, and a stream of short notes (without pauses) when singing legato. Could be due to the aforementioned microphone, or is there some internal state that does not get cleared up when one clears up the score? I tried twiddling some of the variables that seemed related, but no noticeable improvement.


The QR code it shows is quite fancy, better user experience than taking a photo and trying to OCR it ... especially if the beginning of the oops has already disappeared and no tty scrolling is available (any more).

Also gave me a good laughter, since I didn't know this existed and that it was even enabled on my system.


I should have known this exists, yet I didn't. Thanks for pointing it out.

This seems to be a direct link to a web form to report (in English): https://eservices.traficom.fi/ContactForms/form/haavoittuvuu...

In particular, note that all the fields asking for personal information disappear if you select "Yes" in "I am submitting an anonymous tip" field.


Just to play devil's advocate, couldn't sending zero-day exploits to a foreign nation's intelligence service potentially cause the sender significantly more trouble.


Finland is a NATO country, so for most people on this site you would be sending it to a government agency of an allied nation. Punishing that would make it look like you don't trust your allies

The other angle is that you are obviously doing it in good faith, on the assumption that they will try to work with the vendor to fix and responsibly disclose the vulnerability


It depends on the country apparently:

"Israel reached out to US hackers for ‘Zero Days’ tools" - https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-reached-out-to-us-hacke...


Because... your home country or affected company could consider it espionage? Sounds like a stretch.


Just to play devil's advocate

Why?


Because information asymmetry benefits those with the information. If the devil understands your argument, and you don't understand the devil's argument, the devil will have information advantage.


Not everything in life deserves to have both sides aired.

For example, the Internet giving every crackpot wingnut on Earth an equal voice with scientists is how we end up with measles outbreaks.


it's a good question


1992 and 1993 are argued in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48136937.

Article mentions:

> That this approach works was demonstrated during last summer's coup in the Soviet Union.

I don't think it can mean anything else than the coup attempt in August 1991.


Isn't it a hub for human trafficking, in particular for pornography and other exploitation/abuse? I have no data on this, only anecdotal evidence from people who have done social work there. If true, it's perhaps less surprising to see also related technology originating from there as well.


Human trafficking for porn is fake news. No such thing exists.

As for exploitation/abuse - sadly yes, this place is full of prostitutes and they look like they aren't doing it willingly :/ this is truly a dark side of this place.

But it has nothing to do with porn business. That is a high tech niche, that is a major source of employment and GDP (at one point, PornHub parent company was the biggest corporate taxpayer in Cyprus), and of course none of the actual women are here. Porn companies are held in high regard because they make up probably the most ethical niche among foreign owned, high value businesses.


No way, bro! I'm no longer an editor, though.


Thanks for pointing this out, to me it seems quite a good response.

I wouldn't mind opt-in telemetry, but possibly the participation rate would be too low to make use of it.


My issue with telemetry is that 99% of software ends up not using it. Why have it? And definitely don't have it by default. Your users will come tell you what they want, making telemetry useless, especially when it's an OSS project you're mostly building for yourself.


Except that telemetry can give you more complete (and foolproof) information than what users report. But yeah, that could also be solved by having debug info that users can attach to their report, the app doesn't have to "call home" for that...


I agree, but it's a cost/benefit thing. Most OSS projects aren't big enough to do anything with the telemetry, so you're just paying in goodwill for no reason.


Opt-in via extension, fine. Opt-in via flag, unreliable. The spyware code should never be anywhere near the main codebase.


Hey, I tried to import Linux kernel master branch from https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin... to pgit. My laptop is not the beefiest (some Ryzen 7 with 16G RAM and about 300G disk free), so that did not quite work. It died when trying to rebuild indexes (after bulk import), due to Postgres running out of disk space.

I guess this could have been expected, but it didn't quite occur to me since plain git has had no issues with that repository. Either way, the import process was quite slow: the failure happened after 3h30m. I'm not sure if it would be possible to speed it up, or estimate resource consumption ahead of time and warn the user? The laptop also had gone almost 2G into swap at some point, so there was quite a bit of memory pressure as well, but I don't quite know at which point this happened.


haha, great that you tried! i also imported it multiple times now and it does work. but it's huge. the times actually match quite well, i also had around 3 hours, i'm surprised you managed to do it that fast actually. so yeah, i'm currently working on multiple things to improve the speed for importing and then also for analysing the kernel. but that will be something for the next post. stay tuned! as a quick teaser: it imported the 123GB uncompressed master branch into 2.98 GB pgit actual data while git aggressive puts it into 1.95 GB. but keep in mind, pgit was never meant to beat git in any terms. it really started as a demo XD


Ok, cheers! I occasionally need to investigate older releases and compare to out-of-tree things, and was thinking pgit might be of help there. I put up a reminder for myself to check pgit again next time I need to do that sort of stuff!


Sounds great! Yeah i have been working on a 3 layer cache in pg-xpatch so its not only in-memory cache but a little more sufisticated and hopefully uses less ram... haha. but its still not quite what i want.


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