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Month: February 2022

Most efficient random integer generator by random bits consumed

February 23, 2022March 26, 2022

Discovered in 2013 by then-UPMC-student Jérémie Lumbroso, and independently re-discovered by an Apple programmer last Fall (with much ado on Twitter and Hacker News), the basic idea is as follows: Take your (infinite) random bitstream as the binary digits of random $r\in\left[0,1\right)$…

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Clearing the DNS cache on Ubuntu 20.04

February 22, 2022March 8, 2022

Yeah, lots of people out there saying "leenucks doesn't have a dns cache!!1!" — well, recent versions of Ubuntu do ootb, and just restarting NetworkManager doesn't clear it for some ungodly reason… flush it with sudo systemctl restart systemd-resolved

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A very tiny bitmap font

February 15, 2022April 15, 2022

Could be useful for very small LCD displays, or for fitting an entire movie script on your monitor at once. TODO: convert to OpenType Bitmap…

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mcomix system-level requirements

February 14, 2022March 8, 2022

Say you don't want sweeping system changes for something idiosynchronous like an unstable build of a comic book viewer…

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X25519 original specification

February 12, 2022March 26, 2022

Adapted from the original specification

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The "real way" to run X11 apps as another local user

February 9, 2022March 8, 2022

xhost +si:localuser:$someoneElse

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