alxlaz

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by alxlaz 8y ago
Maybe not political debates per se, but I definitely remember many posters' political views being easy to decipher behind their USENET posts.
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by alxlaz 8y ago
Thing is, all those department managers -- the good ones and the bad ones -- are working under the same hierarchy and, eventually, under the same people. When there's just one or two isolated cases of pricks who are quickly booted, tha
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by alxlaz 8y ago
I know what you mean, and I've often wondered why this hasn't happened yet. I honestly think that a big reason why this has not yet happened is that most of the young folks who are equipped with the kind of free time and expertise
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by alxlaz 8y ago
It's been on my to-try list for a long time. I think this is as good an evening as any :-).
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by alxlaz 8y ago
Glad to see an Electron application that finally has a decent, native-looking, unsurprising UI :-). (Edit: sadly, I'm only half-joking. I was thinking about how fun it would be to extend this so as to bridge the host and the guest vi
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by alxlaz 8y ago
There's a world of difference between "speed will sometimes drop due to congestion" and "speed will definitely drop by throttling", and a dedicated line is way out of this spectrum :-).
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by alxlaz 8y ago
> Marketing a 50 mbps plan as 200 kbps just because it cannot "handle 50 mbps all the time" does nothing useful It's actually very useful in that it correctly tells you what speed you can expect. If "50 Mbps" is
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by alxlaz 8y ago
> I would actually go a step further than this and say that current is actually properly defined as the source of magnetic field. That's actually (still, and somewhat) how the Ampere is defined. There are ongoing efforts to change t
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by alxlaz 8y ago
Have you read the rest of the document? That clause does allow redistribution, but according to Appendix A, redistribution is allowed (in unmodified, binary form) only for personal use.
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by alxlaz 8y ago
A macro processing language is pretty much a language purpose-built for describing how to copy text from here to there while performing certain changes in the process. A templating system is a set of language-specific constructs (a library,
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by alxlaz 8y ago
> since most likely the only person with a real understanding of exactly why something is difficult is the person doing the work. This is often the case in other engineering projects as well. But there's often less of an incentive t
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by alxlaz 8y ago
> It is impossible to give meaningful error messages for all errors. This problem was, however, largely non-existent back when most of the init code was shell code. It was easy to trace, easy to debug. (Edit: obviously, "easy"
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by alxlaz 8y ago
It's an anecdote that describes my experience as well. In more than ten years I've only met three other people who use Emacs (and one other person who uses WindowMaker :-) ), and I've often been the only Emacs user in an enti
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by alxlaz 8y ago
> Kudos to all of you true craftsmen out there who do take care and pride in the quality of your work. This is a very fair point and certainly not all programmers strive for this. At the same time, in companies where this type of softwar
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by alxlaz 8y ago
The fact that GitHub does it, too, doesn't make it any less of an anti-pattern.
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by alxlaz 8y ago
> But basically the whole point of doing something in software is to automate things that are labor intensive. I see where you're coming from but that's quite an oversimplification, don't you think? Software that drives a
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by alxlaz 8y ago
What particular quirk of OpenGL does Alias depend on?
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by alxlaz 8y ago
> Then some annoying but probably correct person was like "hey we need a basis for comparison and a benchmark because this is an academic paper and that's how systems papers must be because academia in 2018" That person wa
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by alxlaz 8y ago
If you want to see what Armaggedon looks like, try suggesting that something should be user-customizable or that it should change depending on the underlying configuration on a Gnome mailing list.
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by alxlaz 8y ago
> Regardless, GNOME is going to do something which is many times more terrible than having a global or local application menu. They are going to put everything into hamburger menus: It's amazing how even the mockups on that page are
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by alxlaz 8y ago
It's very complicated. Not bumping into stationary objects on the road is fairly simple with the right kind of sensors, but most obstacles you encounter in real life are neither permanently stationary nor permanently in motion, and are
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by alxlaz 8y ago
And it's even harder to automate systems that have to derive data from environmental cues. A line-following robot is something simple enough that undergrad students can build, and making it stop if it detects obstacles is a good choice
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by alxlaz 8y ago
If you read, at the very least, the public accounts of the people who worked with him, you'll find that he came across as a very technically-able, detail-oriented person with pretty sane management style -- certainly far better than Jo
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by alxlaz 8y ago
> It's strange for me because I lived in a 1.5k town on Balkans that had two stores and a tiny open market. The bigger one was a chain store, so it always had everything. When I was a kid, my grandmother's neighbourhood had two
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by alxlaz 8y ago
I'm describing a European town with more than 20k people (albeit only slightly). Edit: certainly a slightly larger city (50k-100k) is better but the parent comment was about country life, hence my comment
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by alxlaz 8y ago
There are ups and downs to any of these, and various people like them (or hate them) for very diverse reasons. My mother is from one of these small towns and she hates almost every single thing you enumerated: - - "Everyone knows ea
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by alxlaz 8y ago
Well, I did warn you this was a fan scene :-).
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by alxlaz 8y ago
There is a remarkably active Amiga fan scene that continues to use these OSes for "real" and develop new applications and games. Frankly, it's amazing; random examples: https://amitopia.com/muimapparium-0-7-fo
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by alxlaz 8y ago
It's quite common. "Embedded" doesn't mean just "low power and little number crunching ability", it's just a fancy way of saying "special purpose". E.g.: https://buy.advantech.com&#x2F
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by alxlaz 8y ago
If we're talking about bad ways to present knowledge, the parent comment could also have been "I really don't know much on this topic so I'd rather not speculate" ;-).

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