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by Sanddancer 9y ago
To the detriment of the end desktop. You end up with an angry fruit salad that completely ignores the user's color, font, size, etc choices, and tends to have accessibility problems as well. Cross-platform javascript is just plain bad.
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
I'd say put in an ODBC driver. It gets you support for a lot of databases right out the gate, especially if you keep things to a relatively simple subset. That way, someone already running a postgresql or mysql database can plug things
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
Those forces are actually pretty well behaved and can be readily measured and accounted for. Also, light sails have a order of magnitude less power, and the Pioneer Anomaly [1] was smaller yet. Space is probably the best place to test somet
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
You really don't want library code providing or dictating malloc behavior, that's how things like OpenSSL and Heartbleed end up happening. It may be slower, but dealing with the politics of a particular malloc can be uglier than j
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
The patents on the older ARM processors have expired in the past few years, so there are open implementations of the first few generations of architecture. AMBER [1] is one such project. http://opencores.org/project,amber
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
I grew up as the last oil wells in the South Bay part of LA were being brought down. I've been by the Tehachapi wind farm, the Mojave wind farm, driven past the Solar One/Two demonstration plant [1]. They all have an environmental
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
The smog generated by burning coal gives the air a rather obnoxious brown tinted reminder of human presence.
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
Mountaintop removal is still done pretty often because it's the economically cheapest way to do it, damn the economic, social, and environmental consequences of that action.
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
It's a pretty old chip, and there's a newer generation of Freescale stuff -- the e6500 -- with more cores, smt, pcie 3, etc. Plus, it's kinda expensive compared to other PPC boards. Even the Qoriq reference board is cheaper [
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
The article got the ethernet situation pretty much completely wrong. The MAC is on the PCH, not on the CPU die. It's not even new, either, dating back to the C200 chipsets of the Sandy Bridge era.
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
It depends on the type of USB audio device. USB MIDI devices, for example, use bulk transfers because they need reliable communications to handle things like sysex sends. Additionally, Ethernet, through the AVB suite [1] does have time rese
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
It may be a pain to only use one connector, but the protocol itself compared to a lot of external busses is a lot nicer. One of the big things ethernet gives is a lot lower latency. The ear is pretty latency-sensitive, with voice latency of
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
They offer support contracts at $99 for 100 devices, and an unknown per device discount after that.
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
John Cage's 4'33" is silence that is under copyright, and has been the subject of legal controversy. http://edition.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/23/uk.silence/
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
They said call and register your displeasure. That's far from harassment.
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
Not really basic. It's being designed as an urban delivery vehicle, so built for lots of starts and stops, carrying a half a ton of cargo, and be able to maneuver city streets. Those sorts of conditions mean you're going to need a
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
So use a cross-platform toolkit then like Qt, WxWidgets, Tk, etc. You don't need the bloat of a browser engine.
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
The biggest problem I have with discord is that the client is complete and absolute balls if you want to be in more than one group at once and keep up with notifications and the like. With IRC, my one client shows the activity of all of the
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
I think that's the biggest flaw with a lot of web-based chats. There's no flexibility in layout. With a chat app like pidgin, I can choose how things are laid out, set up notifications a lot easier, etc. Webapps tend to be a lot m
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
OP is arguing we should use boats for everything, including sending something across town. Realtime chat works a lot better for certain things, like troubleshooting, where having to wait around for a forum/email response may not be the
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
Forums fall apart when you're trying to do things like realtime debugging. With a chat client, I can leave a window open in a corner and keep an eye on it while doing other things. With a forum, that becomes a game of hitting refresh e
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
Slack gets a lot worse once you want to start dealing with two teams using it. With most IRC clients, I can have connections to multiple servers running, and able to see at a glance everywhere that there's activity. With Slack/Dis
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
It's absolutely possible in such a for the developer to make a fork. People can agree to change licenses, portions can and have been rewritten. Nothing keeps a license in stone. I'm referring to the GPL's "no other restr
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
That same treacherous developer can scoop up talent from a GPLed project too, such as the examples I gave. Sourceforge used to have a GPLed, but was brought closed, and the free version mouldered from disuse. Free software helped expand the
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Playing Street Fighter with your face – and kicking butt(cnet.com)
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
I'd argue the opposite, that GPL style licenses make it easier to hide things in black boxes these days. LLVM and Clang are under BSD style licenses, and even Sony has said that being an active contributor keeps things moving along [1]
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
It's more at risk because they have lost sight of what people want. Firefox muddled itself with a halfassed phone project, a programming language, etc, instead of making a good browser, while google poured efforts into making chrome fa
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by Sanddancer 9y ago
The static analysis stuff is something that is in clang's favor. Because of its architecture, static analysis is included, and can be run at compile time through a wrapper called scan-build [1]. So, to get static analysis, most of the
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
The Commodore 64 was also $595 when it was introduced, which, adjusted for inflation, is about $1500. The microbit, on the other hand, is about $20. The microbit also has 256k of flash memory -- in comparison, the 170k 1541 floppy drive cos
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
A concurrent GC running on a single processor machine is still going to pause. There are still other ways to get into situations where an attacker can cause the gc to kick in in ways where you can get information -- find a few CPU-heavy fun

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