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by alexeiz 6y ago
It's amazing how clean and small the simple C++ implementation is. It's smaller than Go and Rust. With C++20 features it can be even terser.
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by alexeiz 6y ago
It means you can kiss what's left of your freedom goodbye.
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by alexeiz 6y ago
> I think Tesla isn't making a mistake in taking this to court, if it was clear in the contract(s) that the employee signed that such behavior was unacceptable. Tesla could fire this guy, but taking it to court is a huge mistake. I
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by alexeiz 6y ago
Don't forget he's a CCP member himself.
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by alexeiz 6y ago
By today's standards the code of the old task manager (as most of the code in Windows) is a big pile of stinking Underfined Behavior. For example: void COptions::SetDefaultValues() { ZeroMemory(this, sizeof(COptions));
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by alexeiz 6y ago
> 10 super-smart people, but 9 of them are focused on myopic bits of code plumbing or reinventing APIs or something Hey, that's me! After 20 years I learnt to let go and start caring about the business a little bit more than about
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by alexeiz 6y ago
My experience is exactly the opposite. Windows and Linux are installed on my laptop in dualboot mode. Linux goes to sleep and wakes up just fine 100% reliably. Windows, however, uses this "connected standby" or "modern sle
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by alexeiz 6y ago
I used to be concerned about it. But so does Brave and other Chromium-based browsers. The script in `/etc/cron.daily/google-chrome` on Fedora ensures that the google chrome repository configuration file is correct, but it d
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by alexeiz 6y ago
Yes, beside paying $200 for a Windows license, you have to spend many hours removing all the annoyances you mentioned. I boot into Windows sometimes for certain apps and I'm still struggling with these annoyances after several years o
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by alexeiz 6y ago
So he doesn't like Linux just because of systemd? In my opinion, that's pretty ignorant. If you look beyond all the drama of systemd vs no-systemd, systemd is actually very useful, powerful and conceptually simple service manage
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by alexeiz 6y ago
Haha, this is so true. I started from "how the heck do I setup a Jekyll blog". Now I'm thinking to move to Hugo. Haven't written anything of substance yet.
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by alexeiz 6y ago
If he's far-right to you, than you're way off-center to the left.
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by alexeiz 6y ago
A language that should not be named.
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by alexeiz 6y ago
> ...a new intern named Bob. Bob raised a finger and said "Yes, I have a question... Damn those smart-ass interns!
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by alexeiz 6y ago
How does it compare with yappi[1]? [1] https://github.com/sumerc/yappi
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by alexeiz 6y ago
Paywalled link. Here's the full text: It took Soraya Bagheri a day to learn that 450 shares of Moderna Inc. had been liquidated in her Robinhood account and that $10,000 in withdrawals were pending. But after alerting the online broke
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Microsoft's early anti-competitive tactics (against DR-DOS)(youtube.com)
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by alexeiz 6y ago
The Xpra latency is really good. It makes remoting XWindow GUI apps almost bearable.
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by alexeiz 6y ago
> A senior executive at my company would sometimes ping me with "got a minute?" OK, this must be it. FROM CUSTOMERS DELETE * Ah, you just wanted to ask a question? Oops.
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by alexeiz 6y ago
Pfff. Does my 3 month old code still run? Uh, nope. And I don't remember what it was supposed to do!
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by alexeiz 6y ago
I don't know about Paragon's NTFS driver for Linux, but their non-free Ext4 driver for Windows had a nasty bug until recently, where it would change file ownership and permissions in the filesystem mounted in read-only mode, rende
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by alexeiz 6y ago
Finally, a Google Pixel phone with a competitive price. All previous Pixel phones were seriously overpriced.
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by alexeiz 6y ago
What's the Canonical's response to this? Surely, they care about their customer base, right?
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by alexeiz 6y ago
Neither monospace variant looks good in a Linux terminal or a text editor. Linux is very peculiar about rendering fonts, and this font is likely designed for macos. I noticed that this font doesn't have powerline symbols which makes
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Common Lisp for the 21st century – Cookbook(lispcookbook.github.io)
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by alexeiz 6y ago
So, what company do you work for? (Just asking for a friend :)
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C++?? A Critique of C++ (1992)(modulaware.com)
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by alexeiz 6y ago
I don't know how Dell makes any money on this laptop. It's too expensive. It's much cheaper to buy a Windows Dell XPS 13 laptop with the same specs and then just install Linux on it.
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by alexeiz 6y ago
I just got a response from Microsoft: our Windows servers are rebooting to install the latest updates.
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by alexeiz 6y ago
PyPy claims to be compatible with CPython 3.6.9 ( https://www.pypy.org/compat.html ). CPython 3.7 is currently the most common Python version. The project I work on since last year depends on features introduced in CPython

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