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Preliminary board statement on FSF governance(fsf.org)
13 points by codewiz 6y ago|4 comments
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by codewiz 6y ago
But who will review your patches, if all the core devs have already moved on to Wayland?
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by codewiz 6y ago
Uh? I've been using ibus with mozc for Japanese input on KDE for the past 3 years.
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I Don’t Believe in Consciousness(medium.com)
3 points by codewiz 6y ago|1 comments
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by codewiz 6y ago
NetBSD/amiga 1.0 was my first unix. It was much harder to install, update and admin than most contemporary OSes, but, wow, it was multi-user and open-source before the term open-source had been popularized. Years later, when I switched
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Italy permanently halts arms sales to Saudi Arabia, UAE(aljazeera.com)
3 points by codewiz 6y ago|1 comments
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs at CppCon [video](youtube.com)
2 points by codewiz 6y ago|0 comments
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by codewiz 6y ago
If "something" includes safety and maintainability, then no.
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by codewiz 6y ago
Nate Graham, coordinator of the KDE Usability & Productivity initiative, wrote a full review: https://pointieststick.com/2020/07/23/the-superfast-ryzen-po...
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by codewiz 6y ago
These things come with a performance cost and constraints on how the language can evolve. I would argue that C++ needs to increase the pace of change if it wants to remain relevant. Rust, Go, Swift and Kotlin are though competition, while C
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by codewiz 6y ago
Is BoringSSL affected?
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by codewiz 7y ago
The post on the HAM (hold-and-modify) video mode is particularly interesting: https://www.markwrobel.dk/post/amiga-machine-code-letter12-h...
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by codewiz 7y ago
I was quite wowed when riding in a Tesla for the first time. It feels like a car designed entirely by a tech company as opposed to an incremental improvement over a classic car, or a classic car retrofitted with a bunch of luxury accessorie
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by codewiz 7y ago
The point is: if those users don't use Signal, you're forced to use another IM when you want to communicate with them.
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C Pointer Visualization with GDBFrontend [video](youtu.be)
2 points by codewiz 7y ago|0 comments
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by codewiz 7y ago
This is more like egcs/gcc. Like egcs, neovim is also a fork motivated by the desire for a new governance model.
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Editing partitions resets touchpad configuration(bugs.kde.org)
1 points by codewiz 7y ago|0 comments
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by codewiz 7y ago
Are you implying that those four Google employees were fired for low performance? Is there any evidence that they weren't productive in their respective positions?
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by codewiz 7y ago
> If I leave the door of my house open, and someone enters and steals my tv, it's my fault. I don't think so. In fact, I don't know any jurisdiction where taking a TV from someone's house wouldn't be a crime, eve
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AMD FreeSync 2 HDR(gpuopen.com)
4 points by codewiz 7y ago|0 comments
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by codewiz 7y ago
HTTP had persistent connections ever since HTTP/1.1, and HTTP/2 supports parallel streams within the same persistent connection. HTTP/3 is still a IETF draft, but is already being deployed pretty much by all big sites. It sup
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by codewiz 7y ago
Why 2 CPUs? Isn't the Ruby interpreter single-threaded like Python and JavaScript?
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by codewiz 7y ago
But that performs very poorly on all architectures.
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by codewiz 7y ago
You're essentially describing QUIC.
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by codewiz 7y ago
How does one downvote in HN? I've had an account since 2013 and I can still only upvote.
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by codewiz 7y ago
The glibc core maintainers have such responsibility, yes, but it's too much burden for occasional contributors focusing on a single issue or a particular architecture. Setting the bar too high would make glibc lose valuable patches fro
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by codewiz 7y ago
Except, you'd need ~50KB of ROM to store an English dictionary. This figure comes from the original UNIX spell program, which employed advanced compression techniques to fit into a 64KB memory footprint: https://ieeexplore.i
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by codewiz 7y ago
Where does HN display the downvote count for a post?
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by codewiz 7y ago
But why?
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by codewiz 7y ago
Every time I relocated, I ran into countless issues with my Paypal account being tied irreversibly to the country where it was first opened. So I end up opening a new Paypal account -- which must use a new email address, and can't have

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