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by bch 6y ago
I’d be interested to hear from people currently working w OpenGL in any capacity - what does all this mean in 2021 wrt Vulkan? By way of example, Wayland is ~12 years old , and in my (BSD) world, just starting to become interesting to me.
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by bch 6y ago
I’ve only ever seen “vai” recognized as a sort of anti-shibboleth identifying newbies, who are then corrected.
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by bch 6y ago
> It only took one complaint from someone in Canada to get Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing" cut in half on SiriusXM for an entire continent Even after the decision was reversed[0]? [0] https://www.rollingstone.
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by bch 6y ago
This is what I love about OpenBSD (as an observer, and being adjacent via NetBSD) - in surprising ways, when they want something, they leap on it. Forefront of wireless chips, accelerated gfx (perplexing to me, but happily so), and now this
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by bch 6y ago
There’s an automobile analogy for everything in computing (but woe to those who use the wrong one).
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by bch 6y ago
In this case, that’s pretty much the definition of “not worth doing”.
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by bch 6y ago
Also if firewalling/packet filtering was a consideration, ipfw was (is?) leaps and bounds nicer to work with than ipchains/iptables. This (c. FreeBSD 4.x) is what introduced me to FreeBSD.
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by bch 6y ago
I recently got excited about OpenMP[0], which seems to let one take advantage of threads while handling some of the drudgery of setup in common patterns. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMP Edit: add link
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by bch 6y ago
> There is no suggestion of a risk of failure or that or that it was a problem. Steve simply wanted a perfect, smooth, synchronised motion. But Jobs did offer a solution that (for reasons he may not have been aware) wasn’t used (“I kno
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by bch 6y ago
> if you have enough assets to face a $400k loss, you weren't poor It’s not clear to me this has sunk in w ‘Volkswagens1 nor the loss has really been faced. I’d bet the sober second thought will come after this article was published
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by bch 6y ago
> use without documentation Of course people’s projects can be unique, and my work may not be representative of the readers work, but I guess this raises the question: what does “using Google” mean? I frequently use “lots of things” on m
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by bch 6y ago
> Tape is not sensitive to shock and you can just chuck the tapes in your car Apocryphal story from university - somebody did this and reckons electro-magnetic leakage from their heated seats wrecked their info
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by bch 6y ago
Here’s a direct link to the video so you don’t have to endure the hostility of their website: https://youtu.be/SEejivHRIbE
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by bch 6y ago
I think part of what you’re qualifying as “and yet...” may be exactly what GP is talking about. They worry less and get on with things, comfortable that they can, rather than harming themselves with 1000 “economical” cuts. See too the boo
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by bch 6y ago
> The Tilbrook, Pike, Redelmeier QED for Unix was based on the ed source code. I thought spiritually, QED begat ed, but are you saying for this specific implementation the lineage went QED ~> ed -> T/P/R QED ?
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by bch 6y ago
Does our using an oyster as a tool “prove” they have feelings though? We use litmus paper to determine (a certain) quality of water too.
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by bch 6y ago
MBP SE
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by bch 6y ago
> Lua was one of the very few reasonable choices. There are a ton of reasons why you might not want to stick TCL, Guile, or Python inside your application. That sounds quite editorial - can you list some of the “ton of reasons”? C. 2000
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by bch 6y ago
Not sure how to respond - you’re not necessarily wrong, but Tcl is also not Brainfuck[0]. The GP was indicating: > it takes forever to wrap my head around the syntax. ... which (from observation) is often from second-guessing or overthi
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by bch 6y ago
The syntax of Tcl is bog-simple, and it’s entire operational description fits in a simple man page[0]. The flexibility can certainly be abused, though that’s not strictly the fault of Tcl. [0] https://www.tcl-lang.org/man&#x
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by bch 6y ago
If it’s to be dismissed, might as as well do it for the right reasons. Additionally, if somebody doesn’t have sunflower oil on hand (like me), then understanding what can stand in might save a trip to the grocery store and having yet anoth
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by bch 6y ago
It looks to me like refined olive oil is in a range that puts it near the top. I guess the question though, is: is it sufficient?
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by bch 6y ago
I guess the best oil (olive or otherwise) is highly processed, to remove volatile (flavour and healthy) components, since it’s essentially just being cooked into a polymer. Added bonus that these are probably cheapest - is that your experie
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by bch 6y ago
> You really shouldn't buy a special oil just [for] seasoning your cast iron and carbon steel. It's not necessary. Pick an oil with a high smoke point, a neutral taste, and plenty of easy availability. That's often peanut.
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by bch 6y ago
Max: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaxDB
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by bch 6y ago
What’s better is that “My” has nothing to do with possession, and it’s pronounced “Me”: it’s Widenius’ daughters name[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Widenius
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by bch 6y ago
> 3. DO NOT treat exercise as a priority. Because then it is subject to your other priorities. Instead, make it a habit. That’s a good little hack there.
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by bch 6y ago
Cool - I posted a patch to pkgsrc so NetBSD, minix, illumos, etc can enjoy that “new” hotness.
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by bch 6y ago
Amazing that the last update was apparently 8 years ago. My workflow works better w ctags, but when ctags lack, cscope can usually fill the gap.
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by bch 6y ago
ADAS == Advanced Driver Assistance System, which I didn’t know. Annoyingly “ADAS” is used in the article without description, until the text of a figure.

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