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   by bboreham 6y ago

   Prior to the registry most settings were in files like WIN.INI, and ISVs put settings there. The registry took this idea, added more structure and an API so simultaneous writes don’t screw up. With the registry, each vendor puts its stuff u
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   by bboreham 6y ago

   Your approach works less well if someone re-orders one of the arrays, like `containers` or `env`.
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   by bboreham 6y ago

   I suppose to Knuth’s point there is no “book of the history of graphics algorithms”. The information exists, and some people know how to find it, but we don’t choose to write the book.
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   by bboreham 6y ago

   I would submit that the “Graphics Gems” series of books does document a lot of rendering techniques in their historical context. They were written to be current for practitioners at the time, but the connections are drawn. Similarly Michael
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   by bboreham 6y ago

   Sure, I just think web became way more popular. Maybe Wordpress plugins are the spiritual successor.
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   by bboreham 6y ago

   I tried out both Objective C and C++ in 1988, when neither were popular though C++ was more talked about. What I remember was that with Objective C you needed to track all intermediate values and release them, so you couldn’t write an expre
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   by bboreham 6y ago

   I think the vision of Software ICs was delivered most fully by VBX custom controls for Visual Basic and Delphi. Superseded by OCX. There were hundreds of them you could download for free or paid, doing all kinds of GUI and non-GUI tasks. Do
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   by bboreham 6y ago

   Edits are done by the UI. You do transactions in your UI?
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   by bboreham 6y ago

   There was no “following municipality” for about 1000 years. Not one rich enough to fund that size of show.
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    by bboreham 6y ago

    Apple originally called it ARM64; the AArch64 name comes from ARM and was used by everybody else so Apple adopted it. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTY5ODk
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    by bboreham 6y ago

    Multiple factories, though one is the Serum Institute of India, said to be the largest in the world. https://in.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-india-c...
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    by bboreham 6y ago

    CO-RE is great, but for those who have to run on older kernels an approach is to loop, guessing the offset and running an experiment to see if correct: https://github.com/weaveworks/tcptracer-bpf/blob/cd53e7c8
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    by bboreham 6y ago

    It’s fairly straightforward to configure QEMU to do the emulation. And the Docker preview released a few days ago does that without even asking.
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    by bboreham 6y ago

    Hence “bless you” after a sneeze. Could be the last thing you say to that person.
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    by bboreham 6y ago

    AWS is an investor in Weaveworks where the implementation (Cortex) was first created. Weaveworks had two Prometheus maintainers on staff at the time. In the announcement it says AWS have a commercial relationship with Grafana Labs, where se
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    by bboreham 6y ago

    There are soft limits _everywhere_, to stop people shooting themselves in the foot. Those can be raised by admins after checking the user knows what they are doing. I do not know what the practical limits are right now; especially I do not
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    by bboreham 6y ago

    Caching means that multiple viewers cost very little extra. (I am a Cortex maintainer)
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    by bboreham 6y ago

    It’s Cortex, though the particular configuration shares a lot of code with Thanos. (I am a Cortex maintainer)
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    by bboreham 6y ago

    Amazon has hard-disk products for large transfers. Snowcone, Snowball and Snowmobile.
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    by bboreham 6y ago

    I think you must have misunderstood one or the other.
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    by bboreham 6y ago

    He’s overestimating how much money is made by selling Kubernetes network addons.
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    by bboreham 6y ago

    I recommend reading the paper that this is a slightly confused paraphrasing of: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-linguistic...
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    by bboreham 6y ago

    Maybe we need to distinguish “altruistic open source” from “corporate open source”?
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    by bboreham 6y ago

    Schildt is one author who triggers deep revulsion in me. Some time around 1988 I bought one of his books on C, and found it was mostly generic padding about programming in general. Later I somehow managed to buy another book by Schildt and
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    by bboreham 6y ago

    These predictions were not shown to the students ahead of the results announcement.
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    by bboreham 6y ago

    Never say never. “Receive SMS alerts whenever prices drop below zero, or use our API to program your smart devices.” https://octopus.energy/agile/
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    by bboreham 6y ago

    Electricity prices go negative at times.
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    by bboreham 6y ago

    This exists already. https://www.ecotricity.co.uk/business-energy/virtual-power-p...
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    by bboreham 6y ago

    Bill Gates wanted to pay for it. There are a few TV documentaries about what happened next - quite interesting. (Turns out a key problem is preventing shit from getting into the water)
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    by bboreham 6y ago

    Solutions to this problem were developed in the early 1940s: German fighters had fuel-injected engines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Shilling%27s_orifice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressur