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by awalton 11y ago
I can't understand how you don't see the value in supporting ancient and dead languages with precise full text search, enabling lossless reproduction and alternative representations through printing, web sites, etc. Why wouldn&#
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by awalton 11y ago
Pay Google to stop seeing some Google ads. Meanwhile, websites will code around this and display more ads from other sources, and reap the rewards of getting paid by Google for not showing Google ads. No thanks, I'll keep using Adblock
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It's mostly trolly though. I mean, read through some of his complaints: > No high level, stable, sane (truly forward and backward compatible) and standardized API for developing GUI applications Really? He's calling Win32 sane
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by awalton 11y ago
> If all that tissue is not needed, then why did evolution conserve it? We don't need two kidneys, two lungs, most of our liver, arms, legs, two eyes, ears, etc. These things just make us better at surviving - more likely to mak
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by awalton 11y ago
Doesn't seem like a fair game. The NIMBYs pretty much always win.
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GNOME software is written conventionally so you can't just "put things in C++ mode and it's fine" - lots of churn would be needed to make it C++-clean (e.g. the 'class' and 'new' keyword are used as v
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by awalton 11y ago
I dunno, the post still reads like "Elon Musk built this in a cave, with a box of scraps" to me.
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The saddest part is that this is not a unique story. Some number of weeks ago, I "fit the description" of a latino male exiting Safeway after having caused some kind of spat in Mountain View. They "identified" the male a
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by awalton 11y ago
If you were going to rewrite your data, why wouldn't you go with something that's been standardized by every hardware implementers as the next generation CRC algorithm, CRC32c (the one the article explicitly throws out at the begi
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I'm sure this will go as well as shutting down the bulk email surveillance program did.
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When someone says they're robbing a bank, they send in the SWAT team, but the first thing they do is set a perimeter and try to make contact with the people inside. Zero of these incidents that I've read about have tried to make a
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by awalton 11y ago
> none of which are named simply "VMware" Ehh... my pedantic alarm was triggered. For a while the only product VMware created was what we now call Workstation, so much so that when people say "I'm using VMware",
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by awalton 11y ago
The Doc specifically mentions that Mr Fusion only powers the time circuits, not the rest of the car. So to get Back to the Present it would have had to have been functional, given the plutonium system was removed between BTTF1 and BTTF2.
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How long until someone gets wget installed, wgets a binary from some random Russian site, and owns the VM?
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by awalton 11y ago
Or you can do what https://www.vessel.com/ is doing and be subscription first and work out deals with producers for short-term exclusivity. Honestly, I can't understand why anyone would take their content to YouTube ex
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by awalton 11y ago
bzzt . LGPL code is everywhere in Android and iOS. There are numerous apps built on GStreamer for both platforms, which is LGPL. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft pulled the pig-headed move though.
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And I totally would have agreed with the author of this article if the tl;dr of the article was just the first sentence you wrote. Unfortunately, sanity did not prevail today.
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by awalton 11y ago
Or possibly the constant stream of Flash security vulnerabilities that Adobe can't seem to patch out.
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That'd be the joy of their paralegal auditing team's life for the next year to figure out: does all of the code that they're building into their version of the kernel include the "either version 2 of the License, or (at
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by awalton 11y ago
It basically just adds a level of indirection. Rather than going straight to the grsecurity folks, you now have to go to whichever downstream is disseminating the kernel based on that patch. Bummer. Really, it's just weakening the bran
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by awalton 11y ago
Any chance we can get them to make it available via archive.org as well? Yeah everyone loves Google, but archive.org seems like a vastly better home for content like this - preserving the historical record digitally, more easily allowing it
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by awalton 11y ago
Intel didn't delay a product launch, they delayed a PROCESS launch, which is a much bigger deal given their previous cadence towards the bottom. Physics is kicking the silicon industry's ass. Meanwhile, the guys doing HDL and veri
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Let's all realize that all of these research branches have been playing around with 10nm and 7nm chips for years now - the fact IBM cobbled together some working chip isn't surprising. Getting it to production is really the vastly
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We've also seen it hugely succeed time and again, with software like Open Office and Blender, and the vast cottage communities set up around open sourced video game engines. It's pretty simple: if the software is unique and offers
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register-register movs are needed because compilers are not the world's smartest code generators, and we don't have an infinite number of registers. The biggest problem arises when some calling convention expects certain things to
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by awalton 11y ago
> A "perfect gesture"? What does that even mean? It means "read the sentence again, this time from a figurative perspective." From my perspective, the whole sentence is a play on how the meal is a delicate dance, and
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"No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame." Sounds about right. Most of the games you buy for the PC these days are console ports anyways; they were literally designed to be used with controllers, they just slapped on a keyboard
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by awalton 11y ago
Ugh Intel. We just fixed the USB problem of "I can't figure out which way to plug this thing in", why do you have to go and add the complication of "Wait, is this a Thunderbolt or USB C device/port?" This is
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by awalton 11y ago
I can't imagine how outrageously frustrating `mv` would be if it choked at moving files across mountpoints, especially these days when OSes have more of them than ever.
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I think you're wrong. Everything in history to date with semis has been focused towards integrating more on chip, or at the very worst, on package. This puts the memory as close as it can get to the chip without driving the chip's

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