alxlaz

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by alxlaz 6y ago
Azure is... really weird like that. Sometimes it feels like I'm working with Amway, not Microsoft. A few months ago I spent like a week or two playing with Azure Sentinel -- I'm a contractor for a company that develops some securi
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by alxlaz 6y ago
Y'all realize that this is precisely why some people just want to bring spacer GIFs back, right :-D?
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by alxlaz 6y ago
(Editing period is done so: > for which they get sandboxed packages out of their distributions' repos s/sandboxed/signed)
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by alxlaz 6y ago
Don't I know it. On the other hand, see the part about "if there were enough of those" ;-).
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by alxlaz 6y ago
There's a huge, huge chasm between allowing for sandboxing of applications and actually getting applications sandboxed. Flatpak can make use of that to isolate applications from the system but many (and I'm using that to acc
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by alxlaz 6y ago
> What this leads to is a base system that is stable, a solid framework to build on. After using Linux for about twenty years now, I'd be very surprised if a stable -- let alone solid -- framework were indeed what this leads to :-
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by alxlaz 6y ago
I think it's safe to say that, between the primary sense of "rocky" being "made of rock" and elementary common sense, nobody does ;-). People aren't going to think Rocky Linux is unstable for the same reasons w
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by alxlaz 6y ago
W. Richard Stevens. /old man yelling at cloud mode on: do kids these days really need to look up who wrote Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment??
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by alxlaz 6y ago
> If you want an office license, it's 70$/year, and as a bonus you have a dropbox equivalent for free for 1TB. My point was that if you already have an Office license, it's 70$/year for something you already have +
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by alxlaz 6y ago
> Unless you're hoarding data or want to avoid Microsoft ...or have access to a licensed copy of the "real" Microsoft Office, the desktop app, which doesn't lag (that much), where all keyboard shortcuts work, drag-and
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by alxlaz 6y ago
> making things discreet and replaceable will increase costs significantly and slow progress Nobody is asking to split the current, high pin-density SoC into eighty chips with DIP sockets, they're mostly asking for things like: * Pu
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by alxlaz 6y ago
> Part of the problem with electronics is often a brand new unit costs less than replacing a faulty part on an old unit due to miniaturization and having everything on chip combined with economics of scale. That's simply because &qu
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by alxlaz 6y ago
> Michelin 3-star restaurants don't reach the top used in world either. On the other hand, Michelin 3-star restaurants will typically give you cutlery along with your dinner, instead of telling you that you've got a drawer full
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by alxlaz 6y ago
It certainly doesn't help that the "wrong" way is featured in almost every textbook, tutorial and article I've seen in the last 15 years. Your example is actually for the most favourable case because there are native 32-
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by alxlaz 6y ago
> XFCE GTK engine is much faster than Adwaita Not to rain on anyone's parade but the XFCE GTK engines haven't worked in a heck of a long time because theme engines were removed ("deprecated", quoth the GTK team, as in
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by alxlaz 6y ago
If you mostly use GTK applications, it's a great way to use them in a well-rounded desktop environment that isn't Gnome. That's appealing enough for a lot of people, even 10 years after the first Gnome 3 release. Some people
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by alxlaz 6y ago
> Let me say something shouldn't be brushed off lightly while brushing it off lightly. Clueless. Marinetti was literally a member of the Fascist movement -- not "had ties with it", he was a legit, card-carrying member of
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by alxlaz 6y ago
> You start to think about what you design and build in a different way. You start to remember that the people using your web site aren't on the latest whiz-bank iPhone 16. They're on a craptastic pre-paid piece of garbage tha
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by alxlaz 6y ago
Gnome is still the default in most of the big distributions -- but arguably its most popular incarnation, Ubuntu's, deviates significantly from upstream's vision for the default Gnome desktop. Some of these things are pretty hil
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by alxlaz 6y ago
After enough years in a corporate setting I can guarantee that this has the opposite effect, because it makes it even less likely for your email to fit on a screen so it just gets skipped.
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by alxlaz 6y ago
> not some non-profit startup. There's no(t necessarily a) question of any non-profit startup there. The problem is that the people who paid for the development of the product should also hold rights over the product. If the vaccine
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by alxlaz 6y ago
It looks like they used NIST's switchboard corpus, so it's an error rate for native language, and it's well-documented that it typically gets you around 5-6% errors on human transcriptions, yep. However, it's worth remem
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by alxlaz 6y ago
Looking at things like e.g. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin... , this is very obviously specific to the underlying hardware's control model in all sorts of wa
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by alxlaz 6y ago
As with much of Pike's advice, it's worth remembering where it comes from: Unix, specifically AT&T-style Unix (and later Plan 9), where a fairly disciplined (programming-wise, at least :P) team of very good, and oftentimes v
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by alxlaz 6y ago
> What does this scenario represent that is _the actual problem_ of the matter? Among others: - Crippling depression for many of those who are jobless and living with their parents in a culture that is not exactly friendly to them. - An
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by alxlaz 6y ago
A long time ago, I had a GEOS installation that used to reliably crash every Sunday at 12 PM. Should mandatory reboots every Sunday at 12 PM be introduced in a future Windows update? I mean, someone else has done it before. If you do it eve
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by alxlaz 6y ago
Unfortunately, Microsoft also has a trust problem with updates. Back in Windows XP era, there was no question about whether you wanted to upgrade to SP2 or not -- you'd maybe wait for a few days/weeks to make sure no major bugs we
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by alxlaz 6y ago
Unfortunately, it's very likely that they did!
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by alxlaz 6y ago
There are plenty of successful businesses that have adapted to, and thrived after, way more radical things than a social platform pulling out of one of its markets. There are plenty of small businesses that are doing fine, and have been doi
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by alxlaz 6y ago
You can , but the cold reality is that most jobs aren't like that. You work alongside the kind of people you don't want to be around, solving problems that shouldn't even exist in the first place, and doing work that isn&#x2

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