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by PeCaN 10y ago
They dropped support for 32-bit hardware ages ago (3.8 was the last release with 32-bit support). That message is just in the release notes every time.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
I run Postgres, MonetDB, Redis, and Disque on DragonFlyBSD for various hobby projects. It's been extremely stable, easy to administer¹, and fast². Two of my favorite things: 1. HAMMER, and the upcoming HAMMER2, are very nice filesystem
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Matt's reply to that is a great (& amusing) example of a well-reasoned reply to a very bizarre comment. https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2003-Jul...
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by PeCaN 10y ago
While open-source is nice, if an editor doesn't support my keyboard I would just pick a different editor instead of patching core functionality in. It's not like there's a shortage of editors that let you use non-US keyboards
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Whoa, that looks quite slick. Thanks for your work!
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Yeah, but generally only when you're actually correct . If you're not, you look like an idiot. Apparently the parent hasn't heard of column-store relational databases (which are kinda great for time series). (I'm most f
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by PeCaN 10y ago
> assuming your server-side supports it, and most or all common frameworks do
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by PeCaN 10y ago
How so? <form method="post" action="..."> <input type="hidden" name="_method" value="DELETE"/> </form> has been the standard workaround since like… 2
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by PeCaN 10y ago
There are column-oriented relational databases for that. DB2 and SQL Server both implement columnar systems for OLAP-esque workloads pretty well, and I think Oracle has something like that as well. In the Free software space, MonetDB is pre
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Have you tried it? I use Emacs+SLIME+ClozureCL on Windows without problems. It mostly worked out of the box, I think I had to tell SLIME where to find ClozureCL but that was it.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Firstly, poor analogy—English is a much superior language to Esperanto in terms information density over seconds per syllable in addition to being more expressive (it's easier to talk about a wide variety of topics and abstractions).
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by PeCaN 10y ago
It's really not a particularly new feature, and I swear its existence pops up every time a paywalled article is posted. Lurk more?
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by PeCaN 10y ago
> I do let Firefox let the pages choose their own fonts. Well there's the problem. I suggested you uncheck that.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
HPE being HP Enterprise? Interesting, I hadn't heard that. When did they institute that policy? Good on them.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
That's just arguing semantics. Anything that sends keystrokes to a remote server gets labelled ‘keylogger’ by me, regardless of whether Microsoft is getting it or a random hacker in $FOREIGN_COUNTRY. And the rather invasive ‘keyboard a
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by PeCaN 10y ago
White-on-black is easier to read than black-on-white IMO. Also, if you're using Firefox you can go to Options ‣ Content ‣ Advanced (Under Fonts & Colors) ‣ Uncheck “Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections ab
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Pretty sure Microsoft is advocating piracy by bundling a keylogger with the consumer editions.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
It's okay, JavaScript is the new Java, complete with abuse of “patterns” and everything.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Sometimes faster, better ES6 support (to hopefully spur V8 to complete theirs), etc. Nothing big, but a little competition is nice.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Yes, it's a DRM-free pitch. I suppose “Keep your … proprietary code safe” could seem DRM-related but “full owner control” is an FSF-y anti-DRM catchphrase.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, unified virtual memory (while cool) doesn't really help get around the bottleneck of sending data to the GPU.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Maybe it's because I'm lazy and sloppy, but I'd rather the language catch type mistakes than having to write tests for that. Plus, domain modelling with types is nice in ML dialects.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
> Like every single other human being on this planet. It's a feature of our brains. In my experience, most of us don't move down to Belize to manufacture research chemicals and fuck underage women then get implicated in a mur
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by PeCaN 10y ago
To be honest, that's far from the worst feedback you could get to a “JavaScript version of Tor”.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Going by forum posts McAfee made—it's questionable whether or not he was trolling (he was for sure at one point wrt bath salts) but it's also somewhat likely he's into stimulants and sex.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
PowerShell can access ADS easily, so presumably there's something in .NET for that. e.g. Get-Content -Path foo -Stream bar
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by PeCaN 10y ago
While you're right, sometimes people (mis)use it to avoid hiding the constants. O(2) is a weird one, but say O(5n) can be useful, if not technically correct. I guess O(2) is vaguely useful wrt Cuckoo hashing and filters to denote the 2
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Not just you. Age-wise I suppose I'm part of the ᶜʳⁱⁿᵍᵉ ‘New Guard’ ᶜʳⁱⁿᵍᵉ, but I consider email + IRC to still be really hard to beat in terms of low barrier to entry.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Yeah. That's why I don't say it's a failure condition for a stack-allocated object to overflow the stack. Notice my parent comment said: > Constructors are resource allocation, so they can always fail. Which is false.
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by PeCaN 10y ago
Somehow tens of thousands of people from the 60s to the 90s managed to learn asm, so I highly doubt that's the direction the cause and effect goes. Assembly isn't particularly complicated, just tedious.

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