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by Elv13 7y ago
> have pre-defined layouts, which (for me at-least) create more confusion than value. The reason (at least for AwesomeWM, but DWM too) we use pre-defined layouts is because you can (and should) pass your own functions for each tag/w
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by Elv13 7y ago
Most hardware these day is designed for Linux first, then ported to Windows. Linux has a dominant market share in servers, IoT and mobile. While the Android kernel (and it's "drivers") isn't really Linux anymore, it usua
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by Elv13 7y ago
> Sound like a strange place to have a captcha indeed. What information is needed in the form to submit it? Does it validate stuff that an attacker might want to scrape? I guess they added it for a reason. In the past, I used curl to get
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by Elv13 7y ago
> what your electric bill is, I am in Quebec, power is cheap to the point of this being irrelevant. Heating is also required a large part of the year (including until yesterday because the weather has been horrible so far this "summ
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by Elv13 7y ago
Canada did switch from "for profit" health care to universal one in the 60's. Of course the doctors were furious, but it worked, eventually. Same thing for electricity in Quebec in the 40's. Same thing from prying the ed
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by Elv13 7y ago
Those motherboards have nothing to do with ATX. The rackmountable "blades" are 19" wide and ~24" long. They use redundant custom "jet engine" PSU with custom connectors. Even their PCI-E isn't standard.
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by Elv13 7y ago
Going from "more efficient" to "most". That would be the assembly `asm("JMP *%eax")` instruction or something like it.
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by Elv13 7y ago
We have this setup at my local hackspace in Montreal. Most HAM folks have not been very active in the last few years and the Twitter API changed so the teletype monster is now quiet again. I guess the IRC module could still work if someone
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by Elv13 8y ago
> or did they? Yes, they used the Latin word with the closest meaning. It is the same etymology as "order" in English. They come up with a lot of official words for things, but in the streets a lot of them are ignored. Some sti
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by Elv13 8y ago
Well, I would say that the complexity of complexity is exponential. In the aerospace industry, to get that last percent of a percent, 2 completely independent implementations of everything are used. Then to get another decimal, you add 2 mo
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by Elv13 8y ago
You cannot port a Window Manager to Wayland. You rewrite a WM for Wayland. (disclaimer: Co maintainer of AwesomeWM here, we are doing it by merging with the Way-Cooler project)
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by Elv13 8y ago
Well, actually, most compiz features were first show in WinHEC 2003. Novell copied the demo 3 years later with the misguided XGL implementation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0idaN0MY1U The funny thing about XGL is how a
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by Elv13 8y ago
I worked on a project called GNU Ring ( https://www.ring.cx ) and we used a blockchain for the distributed name service (match strings to crypto signatures). By default there is a name server, but if you really, really care about
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by Elv13 8y ago
With either the proper EFI files in the partition or grub already installed in the EFI/MBR: yes, it will boot.
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by Elv13 8y ago
Fun fact: You can copy/paste a whole linux system as long as `-a` is passed to copy. Also, if you like copy/pasted Linux apps, there is the `AppImage` project that provides such a format and its tooling is rapidly improving. It is
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by Elv13 8y ago
I did the exact same mistake at the same age. That was my first and last PCB. Until yesterday that is. I bought one of these 100$ Chinese PCB milling machine. It "works", I guess. I mean, wont do BGA or any fine print anytime soon
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by Elv13 8y ago
Well, it depends how you view it. > Does anyone here use <s>ReactOS</s> WINE as a productive system? Yes: a lot. More recently Valve started to ship Windows games on Linux and macOS based on it. > Does anyone here use
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by Elv13 8y ago
And thanks for keeping working on it ;) After having this problem in GNU "high priority" list for a decade, it's nice to see this thing exist. My comment was more about the initial "make it happen" part. To me, `rr`
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by Elv13 8y ago
I can't have enough thanks to Mozilla for funding the development of this. This tool works wonderfully and is a time saver when debugging hard to reproduce issue or issue that happens only in the Nth iteration of a method call. In RR,
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by Elv13 8y ago
(disclaimer: I am a sponsored KDE5/KF5 dev) > Isn't it convenient to develop the whole app GUI in QML/QtStudio and use HTTPS to communicate to a backend without using any kind of pointers It /can/ be done, but al
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by Elv13 8y ago
The old QtDesigner was simple enough. If you want to create classic desktop applications, use it. QML is closer to a game engine than a widget toolkit. It is intended to provide an easy way to animate everything and create custom looks. It
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by Elv13 8y ago
Right now this is less and less "important". QtQuick.Controls2 fill that niche a bit, but it isn't the point. To them, the world has moved on. Web apps have zero consistency and people prefer them. There is also little money
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by Elv13 8y ago
Looking at the existence of caches in our CPUs and computers (and all CDNs), I conclude that the 80/20 rule apply to dish washing! (/s) But really, it might just be that people use 20% of their dish-washable objects 80% of the tim
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by Elv13 8y ago
> but is the term ABI new No, it is age old. The thing is that it is only "a thing" to embedded native developers and library authors. The general concept is that the programming language "API" doesn't define how
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by Elv13 8y ago
Next: All you need to do to make the next billion $ movie is your imagination, literally (and a 100m$ helium cooled MRI machine, and 25$ worth of AWS credits).
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by Elv13 8y ago
> Also, there's a counter-argument to this, that writing non-garbage-collected code might result in security bugs (to do with memory management). That's falacy. Don't mix "fully manual memory management" with &qu
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by Elv13 8y ago
(assuming it is not /sarcasm) The data is not stored in punch cards, the programs are/were. The data is/was stored in tapes or in tape emulators. Storing data on cards would make random access wayyyy too slow (the operator wo
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by Elv13 8y ago
> pay premiums. When you buy the self driving car, the manufacturer has to put a lifetime insurance on the car. It's baked in the retail price unless they decide to rent you the right to use your own car (that wont be good press).
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by Elv13 8y ago
True, but that's not the marketing they want. And the market segment that buys these things are very sensitive to this mythical image. "True" trucks is a selling point, not a liability for that crowd. When they sell a pickup
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by Elv13 8y ago
Also, pickups most probably wont ever be "designed" to be self driving cars. They may have that has an option in the distant future. But given they are (supposed) to be farm/woodland/workhorses vehicles, they will stay m

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