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by catdog 9y ago
I wouldn't be so sure if they benefit. Not every Google service which is pushed upwards by their tight integration is top notch.Also the better ones may have room for improvement and innovation which we might not see from a monopoly in
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by catdog 9y ago
Clementine is really nice (for the nyanalyzer cat alone ;)). It started as a fork of Amarok 1.4., no wonder it feels familiar.
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by catdog 9y ago
While technically correct sth. like the Quark is probably not what he meant but some earlier models of the Atom lineup (<= 10y, 2008 onwards) are 32bit chips. There are chips released as late as 2011 [1] which lack 64 bit support. [1] h
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by catdog 9y ago
Another problem with going fully nuclear: society is going to be highly dependent on basically a hand full of reactors so it's not that easy to shut them down in case unexpected defects are found or if they simply get too old without n
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by catdog 9y ago
Caring about bloat is a huge first step. I think developers very often include things because they look nice or more often simply because it's the easy way to go. It takes effort to shrink an image, looking for a smaller library instea
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by catdog 9y ago
Encryption can't save you entirely, there is still a ton of metadata being produced which is most of the time at least as interesting as the content [1]. Avoid the cloud and decentralize as much possible. As a bonus decentralizing help
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by catdog 9y ago
The real problem here is that embedded is a too broad term most of the time as it defines a specific way of using a computer, not its capabilities, size or power constraints, etc. You can put a desktop tower into a vending machine and still
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by catdog 9y ago
I think mostly because they don't know better.
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by catdog 9y ago
* Secure by default, you only have to keep your web server up to date or host externally * As fast as it gets without complex caching setup * Everything is nicely in version control instead of a SQL database (which also is used in a very me
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by catdog 9y ago
I don't know about perl but for php php-fpm is basically the way to go now rendering mod_php irrelevant.
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by catdog 9y ago
7.7 EUR/GB is still absurd, it's 2017.
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by catdog 9y ago
It could be beneficial for a Linux distribution sticking to only one tool to be able to build a common Workflow around it. For example Debian only uses one bug tracking system which might not be what everyone likes most but imagine what a n
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by catdog 9y ago
Debian has reportbug and reportbug-ng.
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by catdog 9y ago
There are a few models that don't need a firmware blob or where the manufacturer provided source code for it (mostly pre ac Atheros chips).
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by catdog 9y ago
They exist but most can not serve as drop in replacements for various reasons. Appropriate funding (which most lack) would enable such projects to tackle the many, often hard to solve details to get there. Moreover these things come and go
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by catdog 9y ago
Sadly thats not the norm. A lot of those (otherwise great) text tools ship with horrible defaults and suffer from poor discoverability. Sometimes it's both combined and somebody actually contributed such an improvement but nobody bothe
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by catdog 9y ago
Also from the Zen of Python: "Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules", the old print statement contains a lot of special syntax not found anywhere else in the language. Also "Readability counts", it&
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by catdog 9y ago
> but at least the java community doesn't force developers to rewrite their source code when a new JVM comes out. Java contains a lot of ugly legacy bullshit because of that.
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by catdog 9y ago
A backup can still be very useful if you perform something non-trivial like e.g. history rewriting. Sure you unlikely lose something but restoring a backup might often be the easier solution to restore the state you started from.
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by catdog 9y ago
Why should git be junk? Sure its commands may not be the most intuitive but apart from that it's fast, flexible and works well. Git has won, get over it.
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by catdog 9y ago
Apparently they started this thing right at the time where distributed version control systems started to take off, years before github (more or less at the same time git appeared). They were very early and clearly missed a big opportunity
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by catdog 9y ago
I think that it's more that they ignore the UX you are used to from other tools, not necessarily bad, just different.
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by catdog 9y ago
> The end user does not care if the driver is free software, they just want their machines to work. Upstreaming the code also means quality control. Linus and his subsystem maintainers by far do not merge everything people throw at them.
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by catdog 9y ago
They should really mainline their stuff (or better build onto kvm)… On the other hand it's pleasantly surprising by itself that Oracle did not kill the project.
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by catdog 9y ago
> The (proprietary) driver issue is a big pain for people who want to use Linux for desktop as a workstation e.g. development. I would say that it is the biggest obstacle for adaption of Linux desktop. Simply don't buy Nvidia. Apart
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by catdog 9y ago
This nice and clean solution is too little known I think. Far better than shipping shell scripts which are very hard to get right and most application developers are not shell scripting experts.
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by catdog 9y ago
The fastest code is the code which never gets written.
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by catdog 9y ago
> At some point even low-end smartphones will be "good enough" for the vast majority of users I think we are more or less already there, maybe not the lowest of all ends but buying high end already feels like buying that more s
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by catdog 9y ago
Often it shouldn't be that difficult to replace it, at least if the phone isn't entirely held together by glue.
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by catdog 9y ago
It exists. Desktop Linux exists, works well and maybe has some single digit market share but in a market basically consisting of everybody and their dog this is still an impressive number. It may not be enough for global megacorps but enoug

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