blacklion

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   by blacklion 2y ago

   I'm sorry, I cannot treat seriously project with these installation instructions: --- curl -fsSL https://xmake.io/shget.text | bash --- System packet manager? What is it? Never heard about it. It is like copying "
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   by blacklion 2y ago

   I don't understand, how we found ourself in the world where "one way, one tool, one repository" is good thing. It is totalitarianism, you know? It is considered bad in politics and social life. Diversity is considered good fo
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   by blacklion 2y ago

   Of course I need to choose cutlery. Should I eat with plastic fork? I prefer not to, for example.
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   by blacklion 2y ago

   Space of software projects' names are so limited... There is (was) xmake already: build tool used by XFree86/x.org before x.org modularization. It was very good, much better than auto*-tools, but didn't get enough traction ou
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   by blacklion 2y ago

   Who is still waiting for Cryptography II course on Coursera? :)))
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   by blacklion 2y ago

   Oooops, it is IBM RPG, not PRG! My bad! There are some links in Wikipedia. I never used it, but only read big thread about SQL vs RPG on Russian-speaking forum, and there was a ton of examples from person who works with IBM i platform in so
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   by blacklion 2y ago

   X11 with modern frameworks passes only damaged bitmaps too... No local font rendering, not vector primitives. And for me inability to detach whole session from one server (in X11 terms) and attach to another is showstopper. X11 needed somet
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   by blacklion 2y ago

   Yes, of course it is possible to use VNC with X11 as we use RDP with Windows. But it is additional protocol. Why do we need it if "X11 is network transparent"? It is different models: X11 assume you have only one terminal (effecti
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   by blacklion 2y ago

   It requires phone number for registration. Site explain this as it is unique and hard to obtain en masse. But it is not so. Phone numbers are controlled effectively by governments if needed, they are re-used, and they cheap-dirt in some co
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    by blacklion 2y ago

    Looks like SQLIte bytecode is similar to IBM RPG language from "IBM i" platform, which is used directly, without translation from SQL :) Edit: PRG->RPG.
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    by blacklion 2y ago

    Network transparency is good, but now it is achieved with RDP/VNC. I like new mode much better: when you change from terminal to terminal you have all the same programs running on "server" without restart. I could work on my
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    by blacklion 3y ago

    Yes, it is "good enough" and familiar to everybody in industry. I understand that. But it doesn't mean we don't need to try harder.
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    by blacklion 3y ago

    I was born in late USSR and my father is software engineer. We had several books that were not available for "general public" (they were intended for libraries of science institutions). One of the book was, as I understand now, ab
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    by blacklion 3y ago

    In practice, Linux is everywhere now, often in places where it should not be. Linux is truck/SUV of computer world if I can extend your analogy. It doesn't belong to center of big city, but it is here.
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    by blacklion 3y ago

    I had shareware version of Descent and didn't know that. I'd finished first chapter many, many, many times and never can kill final boss robot of first chapter. I didn't understand, that it is unkillable in my version.
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    by blacklion 3y ago

    Until Act which (supposedly) was approved to help fight sexism stops this "women only".
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    by blacklion 3y ago

    I'd worked in Sun Microsystems last 3 years before acquisition by Oracle. We've used version control system based on SCCS. Like CVS is based on RCS format, this was based on SCCS. But it was distributed! Only way to clone repo or
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    by blacklion 3y ago

    And now try to do task which should be as trivial as add 1 format character: output number in hexadecimal and leave stream in same state that was before your code. It becomes cumbersome very fast.
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    by blacklion 3y ago

    It will not be anything lice classic content anymore. You could not redact piece of art out of "old ideas". It is like re-drawing classics paintings but mask nipples and removing blood. And books which could be redacted this way w
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    by blacklion 3y ago

    Entire landscape of open graphic chips? Not every GPU should be used to train or infer so-called AI. Please, stop, we need some hardware to put images on the screens.
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    by blacklion 3y ago

    Is here any FOSS, self-hosting (single-user is Ok), alternative to flickr? With all its albums, collections, photostream, map, keywords, etc? I'm looking at this Memories now, but I don't like first page, sorry, with all photos is
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    by blacklion 3y ago

    It is exactly crashes of Java caused by changing (breakage) of POSIX API by Apple.
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    by blacklion 3y ago

    Yep, finance scams are everywhere, especially in YouTube (with fake "lecture" from celebrity like Musk), but on IG I seen these too.
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    by blacklion 3y ago

    People here complain, that they see these ads without joining to any special private groups. It will be strange to complain that you see drugs ads if you join private group to buy drugs.
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    by blacklion 3y ago

    Is it something USA-specific? I'm from Europe, I don't have FB account, but I have (and use) Instagram one. I didn't seen any viagra, drugs or weed/CBT advertisements once. I see many legitimate advertisements, and lot o
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    by blacklion 3y ago

    Good mailing list management software substitute list address to "Reply-To" header, so even simple "Reply" works fine (all known MUIs respect "Reply-To"). But it is typically breaks DKIM signature :-(
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    by blacklion 3y ago

    There was TED Talk from person who tried to teach some African people to grow tomatoes. When tomatoes were almost-reap there were a large herd of hippos and eat all tomatoes, completely, fruits and foliage. At least, this person (sorry, I c
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    by blacklion 3y ago

    Different compilers rely in different UBs for code optimization. So, it is very useful to compile OSS projects with different compilers, it helps find more bugs and make sources more standard-complaint and portable
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    by blacklion 3y ago

    Problem is, many people (including many power Excel users) don't want to "lets their intellectual potential explode". Job is trading time for money. Not something for rising self-esteem or even something interesting. You coul
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    by blacklion 3y ago

    Also, mathematicians are much more well- and long-trained than typical programmer. And it is good in both ways: some times ago there was idea that everybody should learn a little of programming (see, for example, BBC program in UK which bri