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by alacombe 7y ago
City-wide application are discussed regularly here... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19442938 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19782760 Also online.. https://www.lowtechmagazine.com&#x2
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by alacombe 7y ago
> I don't know if you're familiar with FreeBSD's approach to backwards compatibility in general, or just making a general statement about monorepos. I'm a former NetBSD developer, I left when I got fed up to re-invent
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by alacombe 7y ago
The monorepo is actually a downside as it weaken any form of backward compatibility one could legitimately expect. The general answer in these case "rebuild", but it completely ignores binary-only software which exists in the real
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by alacombe 7y ago
>> A Linux distribution is a collection of tools written by different groups of people, often with conflicting interests and priorities. >This is true! Especially for core bits of the system, like glibc and the kernel. Come on, of
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by alacombe 7y ago
I've been running Fedora for ~10 years (switching away from {Net,Free}BSD, I was fed-up to re-invent the wheel and the general poor design of the OS / high inertia of the community), and never rebooted once for "performance
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by alacombe 7y ago
Irrelevant of diesel, if you only need a city car, say alike the Citroen C1, you can get a gas car with 600km range for about 12,000EUR. That 1.5x better range for 20% of the price and 25% smaller on top of that. For the same package, the C
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by alacombe 7y ago
Most devs I've been working with don't even bother with a full sentence in their commit log. At this point, we're discussing between what "should be done" in a perfect world, and what's actually been done when
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by alacombe 7y ago
Because it was innovating... 13 years ago.
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by alacombe 7y ago
Even though "mainline" has been structuring a tad over the past 5 years or so, Linux has no roadmap, no product management team scheduling features, no nothing. It is the epitome of bazaar development model done over mailing lists
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by alacombe 7y ago
to a large extend, a TODO/XXX is meant for developers while a bugtracker ticket is targeting product management.
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by alacombe 7y ago
Issues bugtrackers get lost, code stay. I prefer to see a TODO and have a glimpse of what was going on in the dev mind (or even my own mind, 6 months ago) rather than "hide this information for the sake of cleanliness." Just the s
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by alacombe 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZigBee > Physical range 10 to 20 meters Pretty crappy compared to other low-power protocols...
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by alacombe 7y ago
The gun is as much the problem as the truck used in Nice. Killing a lot of people is easy .
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by alacombe 7y ago
Mouser / digikey generally have inflated prices, and shipping on top of the order. I only go there for specific components, for day-to-day components Amazon is just fine.
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by alacombe 7y ago
Thanks to Obama-era Operation Choke-Point.
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by alacombe 7y ago
isn't Linus making a low 8-figure income from a pretty much more relaxing job than being a billions-dollars worldwide company CEO.
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by alacombe 7y ago
I can't run this in the background more than 5 minutes without getting high CPU usage and and unresponsive tab :-(
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by alacombe 7y ago
Or the company can't source the same materials / quality as before (supplier change, company moves, etc) and need to go into trouble fulfilling existing orders with the old design (paying extra both time and money for the old mate
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by alacombe 7y ago
> The best approach I've seen so far is to focus on "get rid of duplicate systems" In our case (very much performance-oriented), we're actually moving toward duplicating systems, because the cost of a centralized syst
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by alacombe 7y ago
> COBOL on a mainframe would remain current for decades Only if the underlying problem solved by the program doesn't change for decades, and even if this case, the piece of software in question is a constrain to the industry using
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by alacombe 7y ago
I'm confident that each and every one of us (even in the open-source world) can say "been there, done that".
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by alacombe 7y ago
Because "performance" is not related to "functionality". If you skip corners (eg. panic instead properly forwarding an error, hack a new implementation over an existing interface, etc), you induce a long term cost each t
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by alacombe 7y ago
This is blatantly false. Private transfer of fully automatic weapon is fully legal, provided you live in the right state and register it with the ATF (and pay a $200 tax stamp). The prohibition target the manufacture of such weapon for civi
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by alacombe 7y ago
No regulatory bodies (ie. governments or LE agencies) has any interest in a distributed / censor-proof system.
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by alacombe 7y ago
...as long as the target isn't getting too much negative exposure, and when this will happen (it will), they will happily block that resource.
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by alacombe 7y ago
It will be unavailable if Chrome uses its own DoH resolvers, bypassing system resolvers.
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by alacombe 7y ago
Don't forget that with Manifest v3 & DNS over https, Google paves the way to prevent any form of ad-blocking.
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by alacombe 7y ago
Just because there was competition doesn't mean it was any good, nor that it was gonna last. Microsoft "decline" largely came from new technology they laughed at (smartphone and cloud computing) and to a large extend, missed
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by alacombe 7y ago
It's hazardous at best to assume the state of something with so much variables. As for continuing being GAFA advocate (while still thinking they should be compelled to open up "Stores" to competition), vertical integration pr
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by alacombe 7y ago
Then break-up is still not the solution. Microsoft didn't get split in the late 90's / early 2000's. Anti-trust case against Google / Apple seems far more appropriate and doesn't require new legislation. All in

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