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by asveikau 1y ago
> (see Tyranny of Structurelessness, etc.) so I am also skeptical that a company may have continued with this practice I have always been disappointed with people making claims that explicitly imposed bad hierarchy is inevitable, because
512.
by asveikau 1y ago
I had that issue after it "verified I'm a human", I refreshed and it looked fine.
513.
by asveikau 1y ago
Of course running a 32 bit binary is a different, lower effort problem than say, running on a 32-bit kernel.
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by asveikau 1y ago
In the late 90s WordPerfect was also ported to Linux and there was a distro centered around having it built in. I think it was Corel Linux. A few years ago for I'm not sure what reason (boredom?) I found those old WordPerfect binaries
515.
by asveikau 1y ago
Probably a case where you don't understand what it is you broke. Seen this too much to have any other sort of reaction. People come in without fully understanding what the existing solution does. They get overconfident that they can so
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by asveikau 1y ago
My guess is it has something to do with the file descriptor table having a lot of empty entries (the dup2(0, 666) line.) Now time to read the actual linked discussion.
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by asveikau 1y ago
It made it sound like what they did is drop ship into a company, destroy all their existing procedures, and rush through a half assed piece of software to replace them. It sounded a lot like the DOGE playbook. From that vantage point I beca
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by asveikau 1y ago
> When the first Windows RT came out, there was no compatibility , and this wasn't communicated well. It was worse than this. Source compatibility with the Win32 APIs you would use for ~20 years to target x86/amd64 was explici
519.
by asveikau 1y ago
I feel like there's a difference between FUSE, an anomalous way to implement a filesystem, and having the user-space method be the primary mechanism to implement a filesystem. The latter ensures that the user-space thing doesn&#x2
520.
by asveikau 1y ago
I seem to recall the Hurd people talking about cool scenarios like filesystem drivers written entirely in user mode that don't require root. Something like that. I booted it on real hardware sometime in the early 2000s, and it worked
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by asveikau 1y ago
I honestly don't think x11 is the primary problem. The package maintainer not thinking it's a big deal to send this data over http by default wouldn't be a good situation on Wayland either. They wouldn't get the clipboar
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by asveikau 1y ago
I don't think it was that simple. Hardware support wasn't good on NT, and it had poor compatibility with a lot of 9x software. These were two things that MS considered obstacles at the time.
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by asveikau 1y ago
I was around at the time. Mac OS 8 had no preemptive multitasking or meaningful address space protections. A single bad pointer dereference in user mode took down the entire system, and a single busy loop without a yield locked up the entir
524.
by asveikau 1y ago
> In the US, often the Android versions of "apps" you're forced to use by random businesses (instead of the Web which usually would work fine), are pawned off on an offshore team I haven't seen this. Also I would imag
525.
by asveikau 1y ago
> A neglected desktop OS with slowly deteriorating quality It's funny that this exact phrase could have been written about Apple in 1998.
526.
by asveikau 1y ago
Stromboli is American, from Philadelphia. It was named after a movie about a Sicilian island that was popular in 1950, because they just wanted to give it an Italian sounding name. Afaik they don't serve those in Italy or even that far
527.
by asveikau 1y ago
I read that some other apes have the simian version of HIV (SIV) endemic in them and it doesn't kill them. Other apes don't typically have exposure and it gives them AIDS. This suggests that in the long term, a species can develo
528.
by asveikau 1y ago
The link says up to one gigabit of ram which, aside from measuring as a gigabit being unusual, is 128mb.
529.
by asveikau 1y ago
I guess encoder app is separate from encoder proper, because I have to assume the bulk of the encoder is done in hardware. I mean, those things can do realtime h265 in 4k without a beefy CPU or getting hot.
530.
by asveikau 1y ago
I kind of doubt it did work well for them. Microsoft was having an identity crisis at that time where they didn't yet realize nobody wanted their tablet UI on desktop. If they allowed straight Win32 ports on ARM it could have been inte
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by asveikau 1y ago
People do large rewrites that subtly break expectations and need to slowly add back features to get parity with the old thing at Microsoft all the time. Source: I worked there at the end of the 2000s. Sometimes it's very visible, like
532.
by asveikau 1y ago
> You have SQLite .db and .db-wal files, but no accompanying .db-shm file. Maybe your friend shared it with you, or you downloaded some data off the internet. Honestly this sounds out of scope for normal usage of sqlite and not realistic
533.
by asveikau 1y ago
I used to compile sqlite regularly on msvc and it was more than 2 seconds. If this is a measurement it is a recent one with recent hardware. Sqlite is a single compilation unit for much very different reasons than the header only libraries
534.
by asveikau 1y ago
It makes more sense for c++ due to templates, but the header only C library trend is indeed very strange. It's not surprising that people are coming up now who are writing articles about being confused by static linking behavior.
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by asveikau 1y ago
The thing that the responses are not capturing is that the stuff on freshmeat was often kind of frivolous desktop widgets or themes. People were excited about Linux desktops and lots of people were authoring small stuff to customize it. Net
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by asveikau 1y ago
I hadn't heard of "http de-sync", so here's an old article by the person cited in this page: https://portswigger.net/research/http-desync-attacks-request...
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by asveikau 1y ago
It's SIMD specifically. SIMD is crazy fast and compilers are still not good at generating it.
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by asveikau 1y ago
I've seen old code do this over the years. When you consider for example that snprintf() didn't used to be standardized until the late 1990s. People would mock up a fake FILE* and use fprintf.
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by asveikau 1y ago
OpenBSD tends to commit to breaking changes much more aggressively than others. Something tells me they're not reverting.
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by asveikau 1y ago
I run several machines at home with NFS $HOME and I usually don't notice. I'd say with a good network and as long as you're not stress-testing difficult cases like parallel writes to the same data from multiple machines, the

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