alxlaz

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by alxlaz 4y ago
> The bluetooth module. What bluetooth module? `CONFIG_BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED=y` is a cgroup-related option. It's not pretty, and not because of a lack of tooling (apt source, ABS, whatever). The problem is that, since there's no &q
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by alxlaz 4y ago
That's sort of the model that systemd uses (used?). However, non-trivial setups that attempt to use it tend to degenerate into very complex beasts, for various reasons, including: - Unit properties can be specified both ways. For examp
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by alxlaz 4y ago
> This is actually quite easy to check and to claim otherwise is FUD It's only easy to check if you have a small number of dependent services that mostly go one way. On the general case it absolutely isn't easy to check. If I h
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by alxlaz 4y ago
> I don't think dependency order is particularly valuable in the real world. Manually specifying order imposes a strictness upon reality that isn't there. I mean... sometimes you have to do it, because that strictness really is
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by alxlaz 4y ago
> systemd starts services in dependency order. I'm not sure if this is still the case, because I no longer use Linux, and I may be misremembering it. But IIRC a good while back, there was no way to guarantee service start order at b
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by alxlaz 4y ago
> I think there is a little more rationale than simply not caring. You're right in one more way: both Google and Microsoft offer email hosting solutions for small businesses. Their main (and, if you've got more than 8-10 accoun
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by alxlaz 4y ago
My favourite part about these is that if you take these interfaces, anti-alias the fonts and add some colours to the UI widgets, you get a modern-day interface. Minus the animation, so probably faster. 40 years of UX "development"
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by alxlaz 4y ago
It's a combination of factors but the gist of it is that they're not preventing anyone from doing it -- nobody wants to do it because they can't justify it. Designing and selling long-lived consumer products is a tremendous e
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by alxlaz 4y ago
These ideas aren't born in the actual product design teams, where "don't put touch control near things that get hot" or "no unprotected touch controls on surfaces where spilling can occur" are not concepts that
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by alxlaz 4y ago
That's what most people say the first time they hear it but if you give it time, Icelandic metal will grow on you, I promise :-D.
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by alxlaz 4y ago
This matches my findings 100%. The WWW is active and bubbling, but virtually all the cool websites I've found in the last 10 years or so came through friends, small IRC channels, or more recently through marginalia.nu :-). Google and f
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by alxlaz 4y ago
> if you oppose this it would be wise to find other ways of solving the concerns people like Kutcher are raising Well if I am supposed to find other ways of solving the concerns people like Kutcher are raising, then what, exactly, are
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by alxlaz 4y ago
> What more really needs to be said? An actual apology . Jesus Christ, has no one at Microsoft ever apologized to a human being? I mean apologized, not passive-aggressively, condescendingly issued a generic apology line in the P.S. to a
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by alxlaz 4y ago
C doesn't have userland generics or built-in hashmaps, and there are plenty of hash map implementations in libraries out there (glib, apr to name just a few). Yes, they obviously don't have the type safety that generics enable. Bu
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by alxlaz 4y ago
So... people will just use libraries that have a correct implementation? Lots of C++ compilers shipped STL implementations with atrocious performance (and outright bugs) for like a decade. It's not like putting something in the standar
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by alxlaz 5y ago
That depends a lot on what you're used to. It takes me far less time to implement a custom widget that can format/display a significant amount of information that doesn't fit into one of the classic widgets than it takes me t
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by alxlaz 5y ago
> Previously we tried more traditional stuff like fire walking but we had to stop doing that one because a guy in another team wasn't careful setting up the coal and then HR banned it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ tbh I found fire walking to be ov
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by alxlaz 5y ago
I'm not sure how they've kept up, as I haven't used Qt in some time, but back in the 4.x days the documentation was absolutely stellar. Extremely thorough and almost every non-trivial feature came with code samples. I couldn&
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by alxlaz 5y ago
> Maybe Meta should indeed do this, but we can at least acknowledge that there are significant practical constraints involve to maintain a zero hate standard Can we also acknowledge that not every business idea is destined for success, a
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by alxlaz 5y ago
FWIW: most systray applets work with any of WindowMaker's dockapp systrays, and there are a few dockapps (wmappl, wmbutton) that allow you a slightly more compact often-used icons/launcher thing. Mate panel applets do need the M
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by alxlaz 5y ago
Research on infectious disease & co. is a big part of military research because servicemen operate all across the world, including areas where they are exposed to diseases that are uncommon in the US, or that have been eradicated. That
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by alxlaz 5y ago
According to you , is that a crime, or not?
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by alxlaz 5y ago
So if you think a non-neutral stance would've been warranted in those cases, do you also support one now?
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by alxlaz 5y ago
What is this I hear about a new Microsoft?
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by alxlaz 5y ago
Neither :-). WSL2 runs a full-blown machine but the startup process is considerably different from that of a real machine with a real Linux installation, so when you "start up" a WSL2 shell, it's spawned in seconds, you'
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by alxlaz 5y ago
IMHO it's not at all a good approach to optimize UIs for that one hour of largely unproductive work instead of the other seven hours that actually make the dough.
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by alxlaz 5y ago
Unless you're being paid to coach the leader, this is just work their boss should be doing and which you're doing for free.
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by alxlaz 5y ago
Ever seen those used in an office setting? I have, and it was hilarious. Everyone swore at their laptops for two or three days, and then they all scrambled for mice. No screens were touched afterwards. It looks cute in ads but truth is spen
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by alxlaz 5y ago
This is not a binary thing. There is such a thing as an interface that is clean and uncluttered, while still using icons that are at least distinguishable from each other. Otherwise you get none of the benefits of an uncluttered interface -
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by alxlaz 5y ago
> This is a very popular trend and a lot of programs are replacing their icons in this way, so it's obviously fine for most people, and I realize this is probably a niche accessibility need I have. It's not a niche accessibilit

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