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by asveikau 1y ago
Yes, and the reason I've commonly heard for the bailout was that it is to help US based investors. That's a clear example of the US financial sector influencing foreign politics.
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by asveikau 1y ago
The fact that they experienced issues on a relatively powerful machine is some kind of commentary on modern software development. The screenshots look like something you could have played on a typical 1998 machine or even older.
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by asveikau 1y ago
The reporting I've seen is that they were making efforts to get rid of anyone at FBI who would be upset at this. They are also reported to have an employment screening question that requires applicants to say the 2020 election was stol
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by asveikau 1y ago
> rewriting a product only to change programming language is _always_ a bad idea, There are of course a few scenarios where changing the programming language is a more defensible, less "always wrong" kind of thing. An extreme c
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by asveikau 1y ago
And he blamed wokeness.
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by asveikau 1y ago
An X server code base is such a niche topic, do you honestly think Xorg or any other project is capable of being a "woke" X server? It sounds more like this one guy has some issues and is trying to blame something he is already bi
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by asveikau 1y ago
That's the fork where the primary cause was to be "anti-woke", right? Honestly it seemed like it was just because that one guy was a little unbalanced, and he happened to be channeling that energy into an X server fork.
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by asveikau 1y ago
That looks like the display manager (i.e. login screen) running on vt4, which is probably not where you are logged in. Does it switch to another user when you log in? Note you have multiple virtual consoles which can have independent X serv
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by asveikau 1y ago
I had a dog bolt in front of my car once on a slow residential street. He survived. It was terrifying. Still, this cat was on a busy stretch of 16th Street for nearly a decade and was unharmed by human drivers. I think Waymo failed pretty b
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by asveikau 1y ago
This community has pockets of people who like authoritarian control, and genuinely believe in Apple or Google Play as some kind of superego that they need to defend, that they believe is protecting us. This surfaces in many types of discuss
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by asveikau 1y ago
I may be off by 100-200 years, but this is what I read. There were accents and regionalisms but they were all mutually intelligible. It is an example I think of often, about how quickly languages can change. In the scale of 1000 years, a lo
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by asveikau 1y ago
See the section "historical dispute". I think some people get touchy about them being lumped together if their last period of commonality (per the article) was 1400 BCE. For comparison, I believe all the Slavic languages were mutu
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by asveikau 1y ago
In addition I've seen LPL refer to "my friend Trevor McNally" in a couple of videos.
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by asveikau 1y ago
> use nonblocking io and an event polling mechanism Not incompatible with what I said. > with a timeout to keep an eye on an exit flag This is the stupid part. You will burn CPU cycles waking up spuriously for timeouts with no work to
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by asveikau 1y ago
Making your check less stable doesn't prevent this. The examples in this article IIRC were something like this. while (check_flag()) { do_stuff(); sleep_like_a_moron_instead_of_proper_blocking_mechanism(1second);
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by asveikau 1y ago
The same is true if you're repeatedly polling an atomic boolean in an event loop.
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by asveikau 1y ago
Relying heavily on a check for an atomic bool is prone to race conditions. I think it's cleaner to structure the event loop as a message queue and have a queued message that indicates it's time to stop.
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by asveikau 1y ago
Sorting is language specific even if you're restricted to languages using Latin characters. Eg. How do you sort N relative to Ñ? How do you treat the Turkish variations on the letter I? Doing a dumb sort by character or byte values is
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by asveikau 1y ago
Username is "CS Mastermind". Evidently not an economics mastermind.
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by asveikau 1y ago
How recently did they break that? Did they break it only for new titles? Because I did that on two books maybe 1-2 weeks ago without issue. I might be on an old version of the desktop app. Edit: apparently it's for titles April 2025 or
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by asveikau 1y ago
This will be an off topic and kinda spammy comment, but thank you for that game. I played it a lot circa 1994. The level editor also kept it very fresh.
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by asveikau 1y ago
Hadn't thought of Jazz Jackrabbit in a while. IIRC that game was pretty impressive when you consider that similar games on consoles were using custom sprite hardware, and doing it on a CPU would have been trickier, even despite having
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by asveikau 1y ago
I've been thinking about this video for a few months now. I've been telling people to "not be a sucker" referencing it. I haven't re-watched in a few years, though.
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by asveikau 1y ago
I had the same reaction, why not just use the command line interface? From there, I guess the value this adds is: 1. There is a UI, i.e. it has some autocomplete of sql syntax and it shows tables in a ... tabular format. 2. As others have m
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by asveikau 1y ago
I think it's more complicated just than NTFS's design. In my original comment I said that the difference is the Linux VFS for a reason. The slow part in NT is when you go from a filename to a handle. Doing things like caching lo
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by asveikau 1y ago
"Windows Subsystem for Linux applications"
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by asveikau 1y ago
The explanation they give is they need to put their trademark, Windows, before Linux. Sometimes they say this is advice from the legal department. I still think they could fulfill that requirement and call it the "Windows Linux subsyst
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by asveikau 1y ago
I have a lot of Catholic family, is there some connection between Catholicism and sourdough that I'm unaware of? As someone whose family comes from the more left wing Catholic culture, which is a thing, I sometimes am disappointed when
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by asveikau 1y ago
For certain types of searches it isn't a bad idea. Sometimes you want to include unverified testimonials, hearsay and gossip in results. It doesn't necessarily mean that you lose track of how unreliable the source is.
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by asveikau 1y ago
Under you assumptions, a really facile conclusion to make would be that Novati is trashing one boot camp to promote his own trash boot camp.

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