Delmania

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by Delmania 11y ago
> many people support this distinction Really? Maybe I travel in the wrong circles, but most of the time this comes up most people just roll their eyes. Also, that blog post is terrible, and highlights why the FSF fails so miserably at i
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by Delmania 11y ago
First, the whole GNU/Linux "debate" is nothing more than RMS's ideology getting in the way. Linux refers to a class of operating systems that are mostly POSIX compliant. The fact that the GNU project has implemented a
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> Tell me again why well-off American programmers continue living in that country without the most basic of human rights? My family. I have a dream of moving to Iceland, Norway, or Sweden and becoming an expatriate. My wife and childre
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by Delmania 11y ago
That's because while VSCode works on Windows, it's primarily aimed at people who are on OSX or Linux. Windows users have access to Visual Studio.
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This, in so many ways. I'd be considered a Microsoft schill, and even I don't like that idea. Microsoft needs companies like Apple, Google, and JetBrains to keep them from getting complacent.
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> Anyone who downvotes replies like this is displaying ignorance of Microsoft's pattern of behavior through their entire history. And you, like many people are overplaying the power Microsoft has in order to play your own game of FU
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> I feel MS is forcefully getting into OSS ground and may damage the freedom we have enjoyed. And how exactly are they going to do that? The last I checked, I could download a distro that was completely independent of anything related t
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by Delmania 11y ago
It seriously helps when citing articles like this you actually take the time to read the proposal and the response. The British gov't was proposing to move to only ODF to the exclusion of OOXML. Here's a quote from the blog post:
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by Delmania 11y ago
> Here's what I think. People are being overly alarmist and it's driving policy. Nature goes it cycles, on the order of maybe hundreds or thousands (or more) years. It's been way colder in the past than it is now, and it&#
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>Yea, I think they are going after developers who use OS X because it is UNIXy It's a bit more than UNIXy, (the proper term is Unix-like), it literally is UNIX. It meets the UNIX 03 specifications . Also, the motivations for these m
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by Delmania 11y ago
When I say OX is literally UNIX, the emphasis is on the word 'literally'. To be classified as a UNIX system, meaning that an OS maker can use the UNIX trademark, the system have to be certified by the The Open Group. BSD was UNIX
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by Delmania 11y ago
It's a lot more than that. When Cygwin is built, the translation between to POSIX is handled via Cygwin.dll with the various tools recompiled against that file. This version is taking the native Ubuntu binaries and executing them dire
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See here: http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/03/ubuntu-on-windows.htm... > Microsoft research technology to basically perform real time translation of Linux syscalls into Windows OS syscalls
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I knew that, but I left it out because I don't consider it consumer-grade. It's not something you'd find on a PC you'd buy at Best Buy, Tiger Direct, Amazon, etc, nor is it something you'd give to a non technical u
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by Delmania 11y ago
Neither FreeBSD nor NetBSD have been submitted to the Open Group for certification, and are thus considered "Unix-like". When I say OSX is literally Unix, I mean it has passed certification and can legally use UNIX trademark.
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by Delmania 11y ago
> I got a Mac primarily because of its linux side, but it is actually Linux. No, it's not. OSX is literally UNIX. OSX is based off Darwin, which is based off BSD.
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Cygwin translates calls to Windows via cygwin.dll. It works well for the most part, but in some corner cases, it doesn't work so well.
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Drivers. There are a lo of device drivers written for the Windows kernel that would need to be updated.
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> But I doubt Microsoft ever gets any closer to unix-like systems than Apple is. I'm confused by this comment. OS X is literally UNIX. In fact, I think it's the ONLY UNIX system available to consumers.
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by Delmania 11y ago
Making contentious comments is fine, the problem is you have to back them up with anything solid. The basis of your argument is that Visual Studio is overkill for writing web applications. That has nothing to do with ASP.NET and more to do
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by Delmania 11y ago
If you're only using Emacs for OrgMode, my answer is an resolute, "No". You're far better finding a tool that fits in with your current workflow. The last time we had a post about Emacs, I wrote a rather long winded res
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by Delmania 11y ago
It depends on the method. I don't think I've ever met someone who likes condoms, and IUTs can be painful if something happens (personal experience). The only method I can think of would be birth control medication, which I know
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> Second, a lot of people actually like reproducing via sex. This is something I thought of. We're biologically engineered to desire sex, and most forms of birth control deprive the pleasure we get from the act. Unless you're
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I'm struggling to find the right way to disagree with this. On one hand, we do know the downsides, provided there is no immunization. We don't develop the antibodies needed to fight the disease, and we're at greater risk for
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Which one? Gattaca?
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> The question is not how do we create living-wage jobs for the American worker, the question is how do we get the American worker to quit his job and start a business Quite a bit, to be honest. Think about the response on social media t
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> And then the uncomfortable details emerge: that it's not a matter of faster processors, more memory, or even more advanced programming models: that there is still some fundamental aspect of real, human-like, or even animal-like in
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> Tay has been built by mining relevant public data and by using AI and editorial developed by a staff including improvisational comedians. For people remarking about her choice of words (fam, zero chill), that last line is relevant.
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This is something I struggle with. A part of me just wants to put my brain on autopilot and simply let my manager tell me what to do. That usually doesn't end well for me. However, I realize that people who want less responsibility an
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by Delmania 11y ago
The industry made 3.3 billion, of which the vast majority is controlled by 2 groups. That's enough to form a lobby.

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