cat199

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by cat199 8y ago
> on most linux systems its closer to about 375 kB right now with the default build. For some reason it is much smaller on macOS, and can be smaller when built with -Os clang vs gcc? elf vs mach-o? hmm. would be interesting to know.
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by cat199 8y ago
But did you attend Oxford? this school in particular has a peculiar habit of changing speech as a byproduct of attendance...
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by cat199 8y ago
... blah blah petty self-serving bourgeois rambling blah blah
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by cat199 8y ago
> Can we not have one breathless article about an incremental improvement in cancer drugs without everyone in the know scoffing about how it is not revolutionary? this will probably happen about the same time that the headlines stop pres
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by cat199 8y ago
... beware the GNUluminati
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by cat199 8y ago
1) Doesn't seem so unsexy to me - though I havent gotten any in a while (actual trust busting that is) 2) If raising the issue, why start with these 2? Many bigger and much more entrenched fish in our sea
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by cat199 8y ago
> And despite the dreams of techies more than likely after awhile, you aren’t going to change your underlying infrastructure. sorry - isn't the _entire context_ of this article (and your response, experience, etc) 'implications
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by cat199 8y ago
> pardon the colorful language, fuck those bioethicist Luddites. oopsies.. Looks like someone forgot to edit out the naughty langauge gene in this one, and we all know that's an unhealthy one..
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by cat199 8y ago
> CD "parental advisory" and moral panics of the right not so germaine, esp. given that your overall sentence was balanced, but 'parental advisory' can most clearly be traced to tipper gore, al gore's wife, and s
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by cat199 8y ago
... and yet Unix was critiqued for being written in a high level language instead of assembler
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by cat199 8y ago
Aah the joys of false progressivism. I hear that representing the absence of value as a number was invented about 6000 years ago, perhaps we should abandon that as antiquated as well.. also, to wit, a Unix kernel of recent vintage: $
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by cat199 8y ago
how about subsidies and open development for these sorts of software? seems to be doing ok in the raspberry pi arena, etc...
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by cat199 8y ago
> Senator Pay is $174k, which is less than senior developers around the tech world. Isn't this just a stipend to cover housing/food while drumming up kickbacks, insider trade information, or cushy post-office executive position
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by cat199 8y ago
So, castrating independent economic activity and forcing people to be subservient based on other activities is 'moral'? this argument cuts both ways.
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by cat199 8y ago
nice and barok, tres fitting.
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by cat199 8y ago
This is bad history. Firefox was top dog when chrome came out - it had unseated IE already for many users fed up with XP-era crapware. Firefox was not simply 'bloated', but designed for classic HTML rendering at a time when javasc
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by cat199 8y ago
I used to like 'other thing', and one time 'other thing' changed. It went bad so therefore 'thing you are talking about' could go bad too. Other unrelated grouping is a small part of bigger, mor
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by cat199 8y ago
So, someone like say, Pythagoras or something?
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by cat199 8y ago
Ah.. just saw the later discussion of ProxySQL.. but still would be curious
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by cat199 8y ago
Interesting post. You mentioned issues with HAProxy (needing to patch / reconfigure, etc)- wondering why you stuck with this rather than something else? e.g. other tcp proxy or an SQL aware one or did the original issues resolve themse
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by cat199 8y ago
well put it also helps us to conveniently ignore economic sovereignty when contemplating 'success' or 'prosperity' which of course is a useful frame given the bulk of the post war american middle class was created by ess
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by cat199 8y ago
thank you for 'schooling' me on one particular philosophical belief; the existence of which, and inherent biases of - rather than being objective fact- but rather philosophical opinion- is precisely what I am calling out in my cri
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by cat199 8y ago
yay legalism! did engineers exist before there was a title and a professional society?
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by cat199 8y ago
> Legislative intrusion into the womb has a long history in the United States, and nowhere is this paternalism more forceful than when illegal drugs are part of the equation. a) legislation on everything has a long history everywhere b)
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by cat199 8y ago
> manages to do things that are really CPU intensive on a normal OS Dedicated circuits. This isn't all in CPU - the CPU on these synths mainly sets parameters for the sound generating chips. not the same chips, but something like t
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by cat199 8y ago
like, say, 0% nicotine vaping?
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by cat199 8y ago
given the overtly marxist ideological bent and direct, targeted calls to specific actions wouldn't be surprised if this were related https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_influence_on_the_peace_... https:/&#x
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by cat199 8y ago
> Why is elitism implied to be a bad thing in this context? because, judging by the left-fist logo and focus on control of the means of production / classes / etc. this organization probably has a left/populist ideological
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by cat199 8y ago
> Powerbanks aren't design for What particularly makes them unsuitable for this? Many things 'aren't designed' for something but work just fine in that capacity..
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by cat199 8y ago
you seem to imply that these are the only means to reduce disease and famine..

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