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by asveikau 7mo ago
I had the same reaction to this post. Mainly because one of Meta's explanations for the lapse was that they didn't have moderators who understood the local language You hear that folks? Lack of localization kills.
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by asveikau 7mo ago
They've come a long way since enabling Burmese genocide citing lack of available translations.
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by asveikau 7mo ago
I got into OpenBSD first and I like it a lot. These days FreeBSD is my go-to. I find it faster whenever I've done do comparisons. ZFS is really interesting. OpenBSD is way more opinionated. Stuff might randomly break or get removed rel
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by asveikau 7mo ago
I like *BSD, I have like 4 machines in my home running Free or Open, but no, this is not why GNU has the personality it does. I feel a lot of it is the way it is because in the pre-linux era, it was common to run GNU tools on commercial Uni
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by asveikau 7mo ago
I'm not talking about that. I was replying to a claim that Zoom is less stable on a platform, as if that somehow happened for free and not as a result of a team tracking and fixing bugs on the application side, likely over the course o
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by asveikau 7mo ago
I'm just remembering a performance issue I heard of eons ago where a sorting function comparison callback inadvertently allocated memory. It made sorting very slow. Someone said in a meeting that sorting was slow, and we all had a laug
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by asveikau 7mo ago
> After identifying the small misbehaving function, we had to study the C++ code pretty hard to even understand what the problem was. I don't remember the exact nature of the bug, but I do remember thinking that particular type of b
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by asveikau 7mo ago
How many hours has Zoom put into making the client stable on Windows and Mac? How many hours have they put into the Linux client? My guess is the answer to these questions indicate more of how it got there than anything the distros or upstr
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by asveikau 7mo ago
I'm speaking about people I've known and been close to. As an example, my brother shifted around diagnosis between bipolar I, schizoaffective, and schizophrenia often while I was growing up. He's not the only person I know li
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by asveikau 7mo ago
I believe I've heard that synaptic pruning may be implicated in both.
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by asveikau 7mo ago
> is schizophrenia a spectrum disorder like autism? I'm a non expert but I believe some people are starting to see it that way. See: https://www.google.com/search?q=schizophrenia+spectrum+disor... Also there's
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by asveikau 7mo ago
There's much easier ways for gullible people to be scammed than convincing them to install an android app.
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by asveikau 7mo ago
Seems like the Streisand effect to me. Suing him over this calls attention to the inappropriateness of police raiding his house. I hadn't heard this story and now I took away from it some embarrassing stories about the cops.
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by asveikau 7mo ago
I tend to build ffmpeg from source because package managers don't usually include support for patented codecs. (Yes I know there are repos to get binaries for some, things like deb-multimedia.)
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by asveikau 7mo ago
> across a process boundary > within a cgroup Note the complementary language usage here. You seem to have interpreted that as me writing that it didn't matter what cgroup they are in, which is an odd thing to claim that I implie
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by asveikau 7mo ago
Maybe I'm misreading, but considering it OK to leak memory contents across a process boundary because it's within a cgroup sounds wild.
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by asveikau 7mo ago
I'm using X11 every day on my personal machines and don't see a need to switch at this time. I think x11libre specifically is a little suspicious though. There's nothing wrong with the xorg packages I use today that requires
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by asveikau 7mo ago
Yours? Because I know that mine wasn't.
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by asveikau 7mo ago
Yes, and I am praising them for tackling the idea. I don't know how you managed to misread me like that. I also read the article before commenting.
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by asveikau 7mo ago
The fact that Wayland can't just substitute out pluggable WMs without changing a bunch of other unrelated infrastructure is IMO one of the biggest user-facing losses relative to X11. Anybody who is working to improve that is doing god&
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by asveikau 8mo ago
Seems like the reason is to catch new bugs, fix them and upstream the fixes promptly, with a team of 10 doing that. Sounds awesome, but I could see other people just passively consuming stable.
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by asveikau 8mo ago
I think this person might just be seeing Vietnam in a retrospective lens and has not seen the pro vietnam war propaganda from the 1960s which was immensely popular. I wasn't alive either but I've seen it after the fact. Also the
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by asveikau 8mo ago
> No war since has been even close to as unpopular or frankly as salient. Iraq. Spoiler alert, a bunch of the current ones are going to be seen similarly too. Also keep in mind when making comparisons that the Vietnam war was not unpopul
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by asveikau 8mo ago
I think I'm a bit more of an iconoclast than the average HN reader, but when this community was fawning over him when he was head of YC, I always got the impression, without knowing the guy or much about him, that it was totally undese
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by asveikau 8mo ago
> Flock would have detected, but maybe not prevented, two of these cases I'm glad you acknowledge this, because it highlights what has irritated me about the discussion of crime in the last ~6 years. People seem to expect that crim
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by asveikau 8mo ago
The way it starts is you pass videos back and forth with a friend. Then you find yourself chatting in the same app. I'm mindful that it's less secure than other apps, but for a lot of chats it doesn't matter.
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by asveikau 8mo ago
This seems to be about injecting your own code into a running process and then modifying its behavior. The kinds of things that would break from build to build are VERY DIFFERENT from what typical applications would face.
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by asveikau 8mo ago
I think this person is joking. For one, they're mixing metaphors between Epstein and the rumored Trump pee tape, then tying it into Nokia where neither seems to apply.
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by asveikau 8mo ago
I'll say one good thing in hindsight about Elop. He's not all over the Epstein files like another MS executive of the era. Edit: Wow, I tried to be discrete and not mention him by name but I notice every time I mention Steven Sino
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by asveikau 8mo ago
I thought the n900 did some things better than the n9. The biggest problem was lack of portrait mode. I didn't understand at the time why they didn't "just" tweak the n900 ui instead of rewriting everything.

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