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by aduitsis 6y ago
Tangentially, Plan9 extends the notion of /dev/tty to something called the draw device. Meaning that a process can just map and use /dev/draw to provide graphics. Those graphics are rendered into the window of the proces
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by aduitsis 6y ago
Very interesting. If I understand correctly, this article is mainly focused on bioinformatics and performance of high level languages in that area. I wonder why BioPerl ( https://bioperl.org/ , https://en.wikipedia
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by aduitsis 6y ago
Faulty avionics software leading to an airplane crash will get all due liability. Faulty pdf readers leading to a pc getting taken over, doubtful.
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by aduitsis 6y ago
All well and good, but TCP has been around for decades and there are top quality network stacks providing TCP sockets on top of almost anything that can run on a CPU. Is there a (preferably BSD-licensed) QUIC piece of code that can be retro
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by aduitsis 6y ago
+1! Thank you! Been using FreeBSD for 20 years. If one's reason for using FreeBSD is that they dislike GNU/Linux, then something's very wrong from the start.
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by aduitsis 7y ago
And a short presentation: https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/wp-content/uploads/20... See the last slide, combination with Azythromycin seems to help (they say). Azythromycin is the widely known Zithromax, les
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by aduitsis 7y ago
Those of us that were using non-MS OSes like Linux or FreeBSD or Solaris back then hated it that sites were made to work correctly only on IE.
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by aduitsis 7y ago
If you did it explicitly, I think there are no heuristics. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1614751
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by aduitsis 7y ago
The elephant in the room is that many networks need to have content filtering, and you are proposing nothing useful. DoH torpedoes content filtering to its very core and, fortunately, the knob Mozilla provides can (hopefully) be utilized. T
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by aduitsis 7y ago
If you are a network administrator and want none of this, look at that: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/canary-domain-use-appli... Basically, make use-application-dns.net. return an error (any kind will do).
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by aduitsis 7y ago
I think the greatest image format of all time for icons was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_PixMap /s. It all went downhill afterwards. Imagine my surprise when I cat'ed an .xpm file in 1996 and saw something
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by aduitsis 7y ago
Going to a restaurant is a cultural activity???
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by aduitsis 7y ago
UMA is the slab allocator in FreeBSD.
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by aduitsis 7y ago
One more good article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/22/the-promise-an... and: https://www.novartis.com/news/media-library/car-t-cell-thera...
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by aduitsis 7y ago
Excellent comment, I thought the article was talking about software developers.
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by aduitsis 7y ago
Can Android today handle voice dialing non-English names in the address book? If not, their hands-free story leaves a lot to be desired as well.
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by aduitsis 7y ago
I unknowingly used it many years ago to study for the entrance exams for the University. It was just some cute way to keep track of studying that some high school professor described, I didn't even know it had a name. Just tried it for
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by aduitsis 7y ago
Good comment and article, thanks! One thing only, the phrase "The quest for high ILP was the direct cause of Spectre and Meltdown" is slightly exaggerated. One might say ILP was rather a remote indirect cause, not the direct cau
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by aduitsis 7y ago
(copy and paste of my own comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21354314 ) " This is certainly not an excuse for the clearly bad UI design the article describes for iOS, but unfortunately Apple is not the on
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by aduitsis 7y ago
> FreeBSD is a monoculture. OS X is a monoculture. Solaris is a monoculture. OpenBSD is a monoculture. I dare say there's bit of an irony in that assertion. 4 different operating systems, each of one of which uses a different init s
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by aduitsis 7y ago
Somewhat tangential, but there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance . In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long
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by aduitsis 7y ago
This is certainly not an excuse for the clearly bad UI design the article describes for iOS, but unfortunately Apple is not the only one afflicted with that disease. The situation on Android is not exactly rosy either. I get particularly aw
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by aduitsis 7y ago
https://metacpan.org/pod/Lingua::Romana::Perligata :-)
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by aduitsis 7y ago
The Bastard Operator From Hell! :-)
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by aduitsis 7y ago
Somebody can conceivably receive significant financial damage though. Why they shouldn't be liable?
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by aduitsis 7y ago
What on Earth is wrong with techcrunch? I clicked the link of the story, read it, decided to go back to HN. I had to click the back button 4(!) times.
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by aduitsis 7y ago
Well, I do respect that, and being in favour of innovation is certainly desirable in many contexts. On the second part of your comment: I suspect some tech companies were given a while lot of leeway in many aspects by society at large, beca
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by aduitsis 7y ago
So, if "they" decide to do something with their currency, "you" would like to be able to opt out. So you position your interests outside theirs (correct me if I'm wrong). Fair enough, it's certainly your right.
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by aduitsis 7y ago
One would argue the subject is more specific. Not "Social Media", but specific companies that decided to play fast and loose with dangers that have been known for decades. Surely propaganda existed long before Social Media.
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by aduitsis 7y ago
NTSB Report here: https://ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/HAB1... (found it here: https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/4/20849499/tesla-autopilot-c... ) Copying:

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