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by creshal 3y ago
Because Elon's twitter friends claim to care about it so much, I guess.
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by creshal 3y ago
This is a side effect of recent US conflicts being low-intensity COIN operations involving brigade sized or smaller assets that spend most of their time in garrison. In a conventional conflict mobilizing entire divisions, as the US is now p
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by creshal 3y ago
Single-use / regularly replaced disposable beds might be more hygienic in practice than to hope the staff has enough time for thorough disinfection.
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by creshal 3y ago
Cybertruck uses a different construction technique, one that's been around for decades yet was never adopted by any other car maker. This is probably one of the reasons why.
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by creshal 3y ago
But then you might as well get a real CRT to go along with your real consoles, and get the actual childhood experience of zero-lag inputs and CRT blur smoothing out the image. Why spend more money on an inferior experience? CRTs might b
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by creshal 3y ago
They're not, but all-digital 17" 4:3 displays with input lag and a need for external A/D converters to hook up retro systems are still being made. The authors of this ask for a pretty hefty premium to hide all the off-the-s
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by creshal 3y ago
Eizo and other still make high-quality IPS displays in those sizes and form factors (and even more exotic ratios like 1:1), so I'm not sure what the supposed market is.
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by creshal 3y ago
Linux doesn't "have" to run on the hardware. The vendors put in all the work to make the hardware work for Windows (not Microsoft); the Linux community often has to do all the work themselves (usually starting by reverse engi
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by creshal 3y ago
My 2 year old laptop's fingerprint reader still doesn't work in Linux: Its native resolution is too high for the driver to handle, and somehow that's been an unfixable problem for years now.
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by creshal 3y ago
They should be a last resort for that sort of alignment, but it's still important to pull that last resort if it's necessary, so you don't end up like Cloudflare and let your own standards slip so badly that you end up with a
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by creshal 3y ago
Spotify uses Chromium embedded for their desktop clients and webviews for their mobile clients, so that's largely one codebase for 6+ clients. A lot of the external frontends are also not made by spotify themselves, but implemented by
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by creshal 3y ago
Still. There's only ~200 countries, and a good chunk of them either isn't worth having any presence in (no need to negotiate licenses for Somalia), or is so small and has similar laws to surrounding countries that they'll be
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by creshal 3y ago
Usually, a promotion from "one of the coding peons" to "the software architect who tells coding peons what to do"
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by creshal 3y ago
Seems to be completely overloaded and not archived, RIP.
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by creshal 3y ago
Oh, that is not something you should tell me right before Christmas... ...but I want a link anyway
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by creshal 3y ago
For that use case, you have a lot of far better specialized unikernels to choose from.
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by creshal 3y ago
It's a shame that the embedded x86 market died with the Geode and the C7, for a while you could legitimately find fairly cheap embedded devices with x86 chips under the hood.
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by creshal 3y ago
Skynet is collaborating with the Martians already, I see.
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by creshal 3y ago
Everything, really. - the core feature, file sync, has extremely unreliable clients that can't resolve even the simplest of conflicts reliably while sucking up 8 CPU cores to do... nothing, really - all the ~ecosystem~ of plugins they
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by creshal 3y ago
There's solid SFTP clients for every OS (even Android!) and all it requires on the server is the already installed OpenSSH, so I never really saw the need to look into webDAV.
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by creshal 3y ago
Apollo was very much pushing the envelope of bleeding edge technology, while the bosses were probably not too happy, it was far from the only occurrence, and didn't threaten the contract.
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by creshal 3y ago
Given Nextcloud's track record that doesn't bode well for Roundcube's future. We tried to make Nextcloud work for us for years, but it's just too terribly clunky, unstable, bug-ridden, and customer hostile. I hope none o
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by creshal 3y ago
Steam still craps out during large sales. I really wonder how Valve calculates that it's fine to keep losing out on (cumulatively) hours of sales each time.
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by creshal 3y ago
A variant is in From the Earth to the Moon , where a junior engineer at Grumman confesses messing up vital calculations for the Lunar Lander to his boss, and finishes with "So… I guess I'll go clean out my desk." "What
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by creshal 3y ago
Windows 2000 has - full UTF-16 support, l10n was painful on purpose for licensing / differential pricing — Microsoft simply didn't want people in rich countries to grab MX/PH licenses and swap over to English/Japanese&
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by creshal 3y ago
Some of the causes for bloat apply to both commercial and floss projects: - heavier use of serialized I/O means much lower risk of pointer corruption or related threats, but adds overhead - so do simple safety/sanity/security
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by creshal 3y ago
Basic desktop interaction is the same as 22 years ago, yet modern desktop environments are orders of magnitude slower at performing those same basic tasks.
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by creshal 3y ago
The main downside is that those OSes were also really quick to hack, and the smallest problem bluescreen'd the system and lost all your work. But you can get a reasonably close experience with Linux or the BSDs and a simple GUI environ
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by creshal 3y ago
There's different types of charisma; some people appear extremely charismatic in person but not through a camera (there's a bunch of politicians you could name here), and vice versa (a lot actors).
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by creshal 3y ago
"You can't blame us for offering bribes, you can only blame the people who take them" is a weird idea of morality.

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