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by ObscureScience 5y ago
I agree with this. I don't use Linux because of its architecture, but because it provides me the environment I appreciate, on the platforms I want to use, under the terms I can accept. The BSDs are close to the mark, and I would consid
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by ObscureScience 5y ago
I don't think Plan9 "failed" because of any technical reason, such at failing to realizing over ambitious goals. It was a research project which worked out very well from what I can see.
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by ObscureScience 5y ago
It's Wine running on Linux (which I gather from a quick look is not the actual kernel, but an minimal self written stub enough to run Wine. Is this correct?) which itself is running in an emulator, compiled into binaries for Window, M
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by ObscureScience 5y ago
Too me, pumping water seems like a pretty good solutiuon. If you are located on the coast, and can move let's say a million tons something like 100-200m up, that's not trivial and doesn't seem that impractical.
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by ObscureScience 6y ago
I wouldn't say it's ridiculous. This is generally how a scientific study is done. One "object" per study. An article like this is not made to stand alone and should in general not be used for non-science purposes, such a
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by ObscureScience 6y ago
That's interesting, I have been under the impression that Scala and Clojure has been limited with this optimization because of JVM.
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by ObscureScience 6y ago
It would have been cool if Limbo/Dis would had gotten more attention at the time. To me it looks like a more promising base, and was released the same year as Java. I can't at the moment find under what terms it was released back
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by ObscureScience 6y ago
I would have love something like 2160 × 1440 (3:2 aspect ratio), but then they'd likely not have included a numpad.
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by ObscureScience 6y ago
What's the state of tail call optimization on JVM nowadays?
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by ObscureScience 6y ago
That's true, but I you really don't need the computational power, you might want to have that well defined limited semantic to either not accidentally shoot you in foot (the least important), or being able to statically verify it&
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by ObscureScience 6y ago
I'm not invested in this feature specifically, even though I always enable it. I'd rather have a general way of scaling the ui and reducing padding/margins. So I hope it's removed for architectural reasons, not to preven
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by ObscureScience 6y ago
I assume you're joking... I've never heard of lossy compression in this kinds of formats, as there's no general way to determine what can be discarded without affecting the utility of the data. There's no such option in
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by ObscureScience 6y ago
Is not the Pony c-ffi, while allowing theoretically the same unsafety, more uncontrolled than rust's "unsafe"? As in the latter case, as I have understood it, you get all the normal rust type checking, except for some pointer
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by ObscureScience 6y ago
That's how I always seen it described. Not high performance as in low level signal processing, but as in server software. I would think of it like an alternative to Go (and Erlang), but with more focus on performance, safety and more f
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by ObscureScience 6y ago
It would be pretty short-sighted to reward such an individual.
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by ObscureScience 6y ago
They don't have processes. Only threads.
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by ObscureScience 6y ago
A command-based interface is one alternative, either a text box or voice control (Siri/Cortana/Alexa,Google assistant etc.). But it's always something you sacrifice. In that case I think it's overview, especially when mu
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by ObscureScience 6y ago
Im not of the opinion that we've found the "best" user interface. I think the biggest hurdle is that "best" is so different to different people. One part is familiarity, as many power users know, your setup would be
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by ObscureScience 6y ago
I did all the time in the Android 2.x era. But it still works well, with the big caveat that there has always been hassle to use a Xserver on android. As far as I know there's no wayland app. Also there is lacking progress on integrati
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by ObscureScience 6y ago
That also depends on how the libraries are structured. As far as I know, if you were to successfully link in glibc, that would include the entirety of it, however musl libc is structured so only the parts (at function level?) are linked in.
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by ObscureScience 6y ago
As of now I think it is, but it should be fixable. Something like Oasis might spur interest (and possibly a framework) for such work.
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by ObscureScience 6y ago
As an addition, I've been trying their qemu image, and similar to an older, similarly radical distro "rsld" (the old release which was graphical), it's usable in qemu, with kvm disabled, to get a snappy graphical environ
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by ObscureScience 6y ago
I think it's awesome. This is likely another of those passion project that, might draw in some overzealous on-watchers, not really become anything usable in the end, but still be incredibly valuable for the greater ecosystem. It points
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by ObscureScience 6y ago
An article doesn't have to be a summerization. This is more of a personal story, albeit on a technical issue. And I'm pretty sure it's not just "noobs" that focus that much on customization, but of course their atte
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by ObscureScience 6y ago
Still Windows 8 boots faster for me. A clean installation is 2 seconds from bios to login (not hibernated, but "fast startup"), and perhaps 5-6 seconds for windows 10 (also with fast startup enabled, which it is on both on a defau
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by ObscureScience 6y ago
I have no insight in the compiler, but wouldn't this be optimized away?
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by ObscureScience 6y ago
To me it's always been win2k, win 7, win 10, win 98. In tthat order. I've been using win2k rather than windows xp when I need legacy application support, though you might need to jump through some hoops for XP compatibility and dr
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by ObscureScience 6y ago
I absolutly agree, and it's something pretty much no reporter or goverment spokesperson mention. Also, even though it's talked about, there is absolutely risk of death and misery greater than the disease if economics are not consi
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by ObscureScience 7y ago
Being entitled doesn't mean "I should have anything I want without giving something up". It means that I believe that I have "payed" for this in some way. You may be delusional for believing it, or overvaluating you
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by ObscureScience 7y ago
Someone beat me to posting it. Have you tried the search though? Works pretty well, I usually sort by date.

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