creshal

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by creshal 8d ago
doc vs docx is whatever, what kills older offices for me is the 64k row/col limit in excel. That was only fixed with the ribboned versions. :(
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by creshal 12d ago
Especially when the following years once again confirmed that none of the big enterprise customers care enough to cancel any contracts over QA problems.
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by creshal 19d ago
Sure, but compare that to the effort it would take to have the same safety guarantees without any drop in performance.
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by creshal 22d ago
> Posted from a memory safe browser - WebKit MiniBrowser compiled with Fil-C. Pretty sure this is safer than even V8 and the heap sandbox. It's easy to be safer, as long as performance can be sacrificed for it.
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by creshal 1mo ago
A lot of the stability problems come from trying to scale a free product on a still WIP cloud solution without costing too much; the same software running on separate, paid for infra has a lot better odds.
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by creshal 1mo ago
Which is a good fit to a distributed, offline first version control system, if you use it like that.
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by creshal 1mo ago
Microsoft considers it a bonus if a hype lets one department cripple another department.
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by creshal 1mo ago
IMO the constraint is that AI is still rather anaemic at sustainable green-field projects: It's good at one-off oneshots, and also at refactoring or fixing bugs or adding features to existing projects, where test suites and significant
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by creshal 1mo ago
Reaching into ring -2 or the TPM allows privilege escalations past traditional "root permissions" and lets attackers defeat the sort of tamper protection that's designed to make escalations to local root manageable. Wipe-resi
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by creshal 2mo ago
Preferably one that doesn't deliberately shoot itself in the face to spite its users just to protect some committee members' egos.
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by creshal 2mo ago
Is C even worth saving at this point? Even standards committee members can't consistently write C code that doesn't overflow and segfault.
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by creshal 2mo ago
I'm always flabbergasted when I see what people pay and how much effort they need to invest to keep their cloud websites from eating them alive. My allegedly more complicated VPS stack needs an afternoon of attention every two years wh
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by creshal 2mo ago
I'm sceptical, where are all these essays he was supposed to have learned this very distinct style from? I certainly don't remember seeing them.
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by creshal 2mo ago
Don't confuse urgency for FOMO. > There is definitely a point where you are going too fast, but the customer will almost certainly let you know when this happens. Usually by stopping doing business with you forever.
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by creshal 2mo ago
The post-release XP service packs, to be precise. XP's release was a perfect storm of events: Suddenly, millions of home users receiced an OS that had dozens of networked RPC services running in the background, and received DSL modems
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by creshal 2mo ago
Model quality is only one aspect, the bigger problem is making it work in a fully integrated enterprise platform, and Google has always been lacking when it came to the latter. At this rate, if Google has a flagship model, you're bet
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by creshal 2mo ago
The primary advantage of dedicated hardware accelerators for the past ~15 years been power efficiency, rather than performance. Not much of a problem on a desktop, but very noticeable on mobile devices.
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by creshal 3mo ago
kubevirt is a cute joke, but hardly a replacement for ovirt or vmware. It's a real shame redhat keeps sabotaging itself to chase hypes with half-assed non-solutions.
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by creshal 3mo ago
"around" is the best way to describe it; the libvirt/virt-manager ecosystem isn't dead, but redhat killing off ovirt/rhev support drained a lot of resources out of it. And for some bizarre reason people decided that
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by creshal 4mo ago
> as long as the people doing the work are recognized and compensated. Are the 15% getting 80% of the compensation, though?
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by creshal 4mo ago
I'm baffled by just how much Google continues to screw up their AI overview. Even duckduckgo manages to provide significantly better results.
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by creshal 4mo ago
Step one: Decision makers who can change these processes need to be aware of this problem. Many companies fail this simple task. Step two: These decision makers must be held accountable for the success of the process. Many companies fail th
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by creshal 4mo ago
Yeah, Elon's whole shtick is make things scale up that everyone else thinks can't scale up. Sometimes it works (batteries), sometimes it works spectacularly well (Falcon 9), sometimes it fizzles out because it turns out everyone e
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by creshal 5mo ago
Jokes aside, I don't really see the appeal of a demake of helix; it only really makes sense to me as "vim but far more concepts integrated as first-class features rather than addons"; take that away and you have vi with less
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by creshal 5mo ago
~90% of the failure modes grub can fix don't exist without grub. I can't remember any time when its needless complexity was actually a net benefit compared to literally any of its alternatives (and between gummiboot/syslinux&
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by creshal 5mo ago
Grub is really impressive in how it consistently spent the last 30 years focused on improving everything except the UX of the one workflow 99.99% of its involuntary users need it for (boot linux as reliably as possible, and make it easy to
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by creshal 5mo ago
Or use UKI and throw the current kernel to /efi/boot/bootx64.efi; there's plenty of solutions to sane bootloader/kernel management if you're willing to invest 15 minutes into the topic and not act like it'
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by creshal 5mo ago
If your definition of refinement is "looks like a Macbook", sure. Personally, if I wanted a laptop that looks like a Macbook, I'd buy a Macbook.
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by creshal 5mo ago
Oh look, another generic Macbook clone.
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by creshal 6mo ago
> The point was usually not usability. It was identity. And we're not even getting usability out of it! Each of those bland react-angles is subtly inconsistent with the OS, with each other, and very often, itself . And in 6 months

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