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by a_nop 3y ago
I thought Wayland was supposed to save the Linux Phone, not the Linux Desktop?
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by a_nop 3y ago
Unicode was absolutely a good change, the burn was the execution
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by a_nop 3y ago
They kind of burned a breaking major version transition for no good reason with 2-to-3, now they are prefacing a major change with "it won't be like 2-to-3". It sounds like they may be maintaining two operating modes in CPyt
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by a_nop 3y ago
I imagine they'll keep pushing this back until a) a catastrophic accident impacts many people or b) civilians are going to space in more significant numbers.
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by a_nop 3y ago
Getting press and attention, as seen here, for better or worse.
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by a_nop 3y ago
Aside, one of the best hacks for networking without a smartphone is a small notepad and a pen in your pocket. Write things down for yourself and others e.g. phone numbers, addresses, email addresses, reminders.
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by a_nop 3y ago
People get along fine without accounts in FAANG. You don't even need an account to use many Google services.
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by a_nop 3y ago
Supplying the array length to such a summing function is not a big deal. The compiler is not likely to handle this poorly. Probably gets inlined. If the syntax is the problem, yeah, if you want first class data structures you might not like
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by a_nop 3y ago
A-10's replacement is drones, says the writing on the wall. A-10 was developed for a Fulda Gap Cold War escalation, when Soviet Union had many many tanks at its disposal. China doesn't have near as many tanks as Soviets did, and n
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by a_nop 3y ago
Mindustry is like a PvP Factorio-lite
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by a_nop 3y ago
"Fixing" search is, at this point, to Google, "getting people to click on more ads"
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by a_nop 4y ago
Participating in class signaling is optional, starting with the choice of where to live. I can tell you from experience that if you find the right neighborhood, you can have good access and security and not have to cut your grass regularly
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by a_nop 4y ago
I'll be tickled when they discover the AI is measuring the lens distortion of the camera or some other artifact of the signal chain.
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by a_nop 4y ago
All of my clients use Bazel now, so I've started using Bazel. I like it a lot, but there are some kludges when you get into any non-trivial chain of dependencies. First off, if you depend upon another Bazel project which has its own d