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by awill 4y ago
The top reply to this is excellent. It's ignorant to compare cloud gaming, where you NEED the cloud to play that game license, to docs/photos etc.. where you can download them if the cloud service shuts down. Everyone on HN predic
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by awill 4y ago
>>Families will lose their vacation planning that they started 4 months ago. Excuse my ignorance, but do people really do this? I use Slack for work, and have no desire to use it for personal reasons or with family. Especially when th
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by awill 4y ago
if you're worried about this going away, why not use something like hugo. It's markdown, and there are dozens of places that will host for free. I host on Netlify (free). If they go away or start charging, I have many more options
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by awill 4y ago
>> I am saying if Rocky says they need time to get it right, then I see this as a good sign. I've worked in software engineering for a long time. Sometimes delays are a good thing; A sign of waiting for quality. And sometimes the
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by awill 4y ago
if that's the case, why in your example is someone running rpmbuild doing it so much faster than an automated CI system. If your reasoning is that it will be faster in the future. Fine. But I doubt it. Criticizing Alma because it was f
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by awill 4y ago
sounds like Alma/Rocky would be a good choice :)
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by awill 4y ago
I don't think it's fair to be that harsh. Ultimately Red Hat incurs costs from engineering RHEL. They fund that through support contracts. So obviously a company that doesn't incur these costs can sell support contracts for c
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by awill 4y ago
Why is this a concern? If Alma and Rocky are essential identical, speed is the only/main differentiator, and it matters. If an urgent vulnerability gets patched in RHEL, and I'm using Rocky or Alma, I want the one that gets patche
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by awill 4y ago
I'd love to see a technical writeup of the differences. If Rocky genuinely were better, a 5-week delay vs Alma would probably be ok, at least for the original release, as long as the dot releases are faster. No one wants security vulne
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by awill 4y ago
I don't quite understand "provisioning and longevity issues, Rocky is winning." As a user of CentOS looking for a replacement, Alma and Rocky should be 100% identical. The _only_ difference is delay after RHEL launches.
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by awill 4y ago
This is literally the 'too big to fail' outcome. Boeing sucks. They're only selling planes because AirBus can't build enough for all customers. It's disappointing that mess after mess they're not held accountab
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by awill 4y ago
Ding! The whole issue was that they cheated to hide the differences to avoid additional training. Which proved fatal as the pilots were unaware of those differences.
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by awill 4y ago
what OP is saying is "Why don't new phones last 20% more than last year's phones"
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by awill 4y ago
I sort of read the OPs message ironically. The OPs point is that this stuff is broken compared to how a Windows or Mac user would do things. Windows/Mac users just click download, and double click. Linux could get to the same spot (mor
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by awill 4y ago
I agree with all the replies to this. 1. If you're saying that it's mostly software, then you shouldn't have created hardware. You should release and sell software to run in tandem with existing cheap webcams. Not a low-quali
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by awill 4y ago
I bought this game in England in the late nineties in a bargain bin for probably £5. It had terrible box art, but I bought it solely because it had Christopher Lloyd, and the voice of Dan Castellaneta. It turned out to be possibly my favour
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by awill 4y ago
This is great. It's especially useful if you're already in a terminal. No special tools needed.
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by awill 4y ago
AMD, releases CPUs every 2 years, so it's still impressive that in just 1 year Apple can have these gains.
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by awill 4y ago
I'd bet my house this will just be a raspberry pi-like device with an emulator. The audience that would want an FPGA will buy an analogue device. I personally bought a mega sg plus a Mega EverDrive Pro. Combined they support mega drive
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by awill 4y ago
What does "They are selling it in a big way" mean? I've never heard of it, and neither have any of the software engineers who are next to me at the office. RedHat OpenShift also bombed. They had a great start 11 years ago, bu
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by awill 4y ago
Ghost was briefly the hot new place to host a blog. And then static sites came along (like Hugo), and a lot of the market moved there.
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by awill 4y ago
It is because they don't need the community's help. They have a huge kernel team, and do all their own backporting. The RHEL 5.14 kernel is quite different from the vanilla 5.14 kernel, making the community's help not that us
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by awill 4y ago
It's weird to me that now, when Apple is firing on all cylinders with their best ever hardware (both the M1, and the new MBP with improved keyboard, ports and removal of the touchbar), someone would switch away from Apple. I've us
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by awill 4y ago
I don't know anything about the debt/risk etc.. around this, but $300M seems very, very low for 3 studios with lots of IP.
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by awill 4y ago
Check https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20498454 Dropbox did drop support and bring it back. I use Linux with xfs, so I switched off Dropbox. Even though Dropbox went back on this decision, they did some damage, and prob
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by awill 5y ago
They're making it free after it's already lost relevance?
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by awill 5y ago
this seems like brilliant tech that will unfortunately not succeed due to the business model. Cost/billing, forced outgoing requests, forced signup, and most of all, additional security risks. I'm not using a terminal with all my
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by awill 5y ago
This is fantastic news. I love that LucasGames is now collaborating in this way.
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by awill 5y ago
>>>If we’re not confident that changes are ready to be in production, then we don’t merge them. This usually means we've written sufficient tests and have validated our changes in development. This made me laugh.
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by awill 5y ago
Dropbox bought this and then open sourced it, right? Did they buy the company only for talent, and not the product? Why didn't Dropbox try to actually use it to compete with Slack? Teams is terrible, but integrated. Slack is better, bu

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