Ralith

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by Ralith 14y ago
> microsoft would charge us tens of thousands of dollars to re-certify the game. That seems like a decent ballpark.
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by Ralith 14y ago
Not at all. It's completely feasible to perform mutual exclusion in a cron script, just as it's completely feasible to make the same error you did in C. It's got next to nothing to do with the environment.
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by Ralith 14y ago
If it matters that your cron jobs not run simultaneously, you need to use a mechanism that actually ensures that. This is not getting "more complicate," this is the absolute basics of effective concurrency. Your example will fail if two job
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by Ralith 14y ago
What exactly did you expect them to do about it? For a client-side tool to establish a plain FTP connection, it needs to possess authentication credentials.
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by Ralith 14y ago
That's an observation.
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by Ralith 14y ago
Do you have a link to the report? I'd be interested to read the discussion.
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by Ralith 14y ago
He's a programmer. I think he wants his keyboard to be not completely crap, too.
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by Ralith 14y ago
You expect it to have the absolute latest class of CPU, launched only a month ago, or better ? Just what do you have in mind?
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by Ralith 14y ago
I run Arch on my 9-cell-equipped T430 and get ~8 hours with wifi, reasonable screen brightness, and light load. That's very close to the advertised life.
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by Ralith 14y ago
Why do you think that? It lacks most of the killer features.
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by Ralith 14y ago
Citation? I buy all sorts of things that don't do anything until you configure/assemble/connect them.
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by Ralith 14y ago
So put it behind a big scary warning, maybe even in a different section of the site.
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by Ralith 14y ago
Why do you assume it's so "super-special"? I doubt they'd have the rights to call it Ubuntu if it didn't have the standard package manager configuration pulling updates from Canonical.
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by Ralith 14y ago
T430 here. Great machine, but the intel wifi drivers for the 6300 chip are unusably buggy at the moment.
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by Ralith 14y ago
> by definition it will be extreemly brittle By what definition? Because according to Wikipedia, it's just the opposite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerographite#Structure_and_pro...
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by Ralith 14y ago
> Pressure-sensitive aircraft wings? Car seats that know what their occupants weigh? Both of these things are pretty easy and cheap to do with existing technology.
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by Ralith 14y ago
I am certain it's easier than you are imagining. Try it!
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by Ralith 14y ago
If you RTFA, you see there's a video of them sitting on a table in regular atmosphere. You'll also see that it's just basically a very fine carbon hairball. They're obviously measuring the density of the thing itself, and not the air that h
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by Ralith 14y ago
Your future self asked me to tell you to spend less time reading HN and start building more stuff. And also, finish your projects and focus!
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by Ralith 14y ago
Send it to them!
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by Ralith 14y ago
So one in one thousand positive results is legitimate. How is this tool remotely useful?
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by Ralith 14y ago
So one in a million healthy blood cells will register as cancer, while the expected frequency of true positives is around one in a billion. Maybe I'm still screwing up the statistics, but doesn't that mean that the results of testing cancer
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by Ralith 14y ago
The article state that they gave notice, and that Apple hasn't done anything yet. It's interesting to see what Apple bans from the app store without a thought, and what they're reluctant to do anything about.
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by Ralith 14y ago
Relax, it was just bad word choice.
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by Ralith 14y ago
They've been hired to work on their respective libraries and publish the code openly? What's Valve getting out of that?
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by Ralith 14y ago
Wayland can't do anything about drivers. Gallium3D, and manufacturer support for it, might. Most of all, though, if Valve starts supporting Ubuntu as a first-class platform, they might be able to put pressure on GPU manufacturers to improve
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by Ralith 14y ago
> You can run many instances of a dedicated game server (roughly in the hundreths mb of ram usage) on the same OS, or through virtual machine so it could be moved. As this very blog post explains, Valve's dedicated servers have always s
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by Ralith 14y ago
He means that a closed source platform isn't exactly conventional open source collaboration. Sure, it might be a boon anyway, but that doesn't make the rhetoric accurate.
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by Ralith 14y ago
> we gain more than we lose What do you gain? As far as I can tell, there is only loss. > the need for flexibility that drives Haxe, and you aren't gaining additional flexibility from bytecode. Exactly what flexibility does this pro
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by Ralith 14y ago
They're working with Canonical to make sure that it's well supported, and they chose them because Ubuntu in particular is focusing on making Linux for the mainstream. In this context, "supported" on a particular platform doesn't mean "can r

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