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by asveikau 1y ago
Haven't seen that one since it was current. I remember people really disliking it, as Carrey had blown onto the scene with Ace Ventura and set expectations thusly, and it wasn't as successful a role change as Truman Show or even s
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by asveikau 1y ago
I dunno, I skimmed the article's 31 year old code examples and immediately thought they would be shorter and simpler in c++11 or later. But it's important to see the 1994 (and 1998) view of the world to understand how modern c++ f
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by asveikau 1y ago
Spelling can also bridge the gap between phonetic differences between accents. Many variants of English don't even have the same number of sounds as others, but we all "come together" when we write. In English, it would frust
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by asveikau 1y ago
The vast majority of engineers don't have access to the machine resources either.
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by asveikau 1y ago
Nope, I am talking about people with CS degrees. In the mid 2000s, intro CS classes started focusing on Java. These days Python occupies a similar niche. It's not until they start to take an operating systems class, possibly by junior
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by asveikau 1y ago
I may sound bitter in describing this, but I started to notice about 15 years ago that the then-current crop of developers, trained exclusively on GC'd languages, seemed to have no idea what a memory constraint would look like and thou
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by asveikau 1y ago
You mean like cryptocurrency bros naming something "web 3.0"?
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by asveikau 1y ago
Windows NT also originally targeted a non-x86 CPU from Intel, the i860.
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by asveikau 1y ago
Did you know that the so called "criminals" are also human beings?
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by asveikau 1y ago
Don't think that I'm naïve about this. In the 2000s I was on the Windows team. I didn't work on app compat but sometimes when I was bored in the office I would read the app compat shims. The most memorable example of a bad
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by asveikau 1y ago
> Either you add a compatibility hack to the OS or you drop support for that app. It isn't really a binary choice like this in real life. This really depends on the specifics of what the breakage is. The best way is to not break t
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by asveikau 1y ago
There is a ton of this in the app compatibility support. It comes from the era in which it would not be expected for a vendor to patch a program they already shipped. So, you know, they enable the hacks that keep SimCity working if they not
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by asveikau 1y ago
I am of similar age to him and was in the tech industry at the time. It struck me at the time as a collosally dumb move and proof that he wasn't a smart guy. That is literally the point of my comment. There are a number of possible int
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by asveikau 1y ago
Is it that meta is anti-democracy or is it just that Mark Zuckerberg is kind of an idiot? The feeling I get from the book is more towards the latter. Speaking personally, the moment I knew that Zuckerberg knew nothing about politics was cir
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by asveikau 1y ago
I read the book and I think it struck me as an accurate portrayal. With this bullying, Zuckerberg is showing how important it is to him that people not know about its contents.
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by asveikau 1y ago
This tends to be a favorite scene of Bay area nerds. There's not too many other Hollywood mentions of the San Mateo Bridge.
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by asveikau 1y ago
I think getaddrinfo_a is cancellable, including the ability to block with a timeout. It is a glibc extension.
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by asveikau 1y ago
I remember their in car navigation being huge in the 2000s in the US, maybe 2005 or so was their peak, before that they were very expensive. Probably a lot of people know the brand just for that.
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by asveikau 1y ago
Mine is a Garmin Fenix 6s. If you do a quick Google images for Garmin Fenix 6s and then for mi band 4, I think you will see the visual contrast we're talking about.
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by asveikau 1y ago
I am not sure what you can do without an account, because I created an account on day 1. It connects to the phone over Bluetooth. Many operations need your phone to have internet. There is a kind of primitive app platform. The only app I re
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by asveikau 1y ago
I feel like Garmin watches are kind of slept on by normies. They seem to have a niche for fitness enthusiasts. I got one primarily because it looks like a normal watch and not a tech product. But I do appreciate the fitness tracking. I&#x27
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by asveikau 1y ago
I am no fan of Zuckerberg or Trump, but I didn't find this hot mic to be particularly shocking or outrageous. I think the tech leaders' presence at the event in the first place is much more damning. There are worse clips that came
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by asveikau 1y ago
This reads to me as extremely defensive.
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by asveikau 1y ago
This sounds terrible for the environment.
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by asveikau 1y ago
This happens in proprietary software too.
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by asveikau 1y ago
I guess the article was vibe coded.
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by asveikau 1y ago
That's a good point. I'm fairly certain that lady has said that to me before touching the food. I think some legally blind people are good with shapes and big contrasts. She may also be relying on smell and not expressing it.
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by asveikau 1y ago
"Blind" has way more of a wide definition than we usually appreciate. I volunteer at a food pantry. There is one old lady who is sometimes rude in the line, shoving through saying "move it, I'm blind!!" She sometime
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by asveikau 1y ago
I run FreeBSD on a machine with an NVIDIA card and it works pretty well, even if the driver is a little sketchy. If it works on FreeBSD of all things I'm going to guess it works well on Linux. I run Xorg, though. I guess Wayland is
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by asveikau 1y ago
And that argument is a bad faith smearing of less centralized organization structures. That is 100% how I have seen it used. The results tend to be awful. As a society, we have codified "business douche" structures as inevitable.

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