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by dcrazy 4mo ago
Since the article assumes familiarity with the DDX3216 (or the lack of need thereof), I had to look it up: the DDX3216 was released in 2002, assuming this Sound on Sound review is contemporary: https://www.soundonsound.com/r
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
Have you ever tried to write HiDPI-aware Win32 code? I suggest enabling HiDPI in Control Panel sometimes and marveling at how many Win32 apps just don’t notice and draw as postage stamps. Mac OS X 10.4 tried the same thing (Quartz2D scaling
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
Oh my sweet summer child. Even software being written TODAY isn’t being tested in HiDPI. Win32 still makes it difficult.
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
> By the end of the project, we wrote nearly four times as many lines of test code as we wrote for the Swift interpreter itself.
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
The UI got a massive overhaul in the new Xcode beta. It’s no longer confined to the sidebar.
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
There are fonts that rely on hinting for correct shaping at all sizes: https://xoxo.zone/@numist/116716601962175503
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
Xserve is a Mac. In fact the original one’s product code was RackMac1,1.
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
Sorry, I was referring to the automatic power-on feature described in the linked article.
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
You’re thinking of the Bonjour sleep proxy. Normally if you tried to ssh to `mymac.local`, but your Mac was asleep, nothing would respond to the mDNS broadcast for `mymac.local`. If it had been long enough that your local mDNSResponder cach
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
This isn’t quite lights-out, and Xserve ran the same version of Mac OS X Server you could install on any other Mac.
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
What do you mean by “this succeeded?” Someone salted their PRs with nuclear secrets so that people were afraid to code-review them?
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
Title buries the lede: the owner of the account under which the agent operates claimed to have likely had his account compromised, and the maintainer investigating actually seems to agree this is likely.
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
In my experience, it’s usually but not always enough for the hills in SF. But more importantly, regen can’t handle emergency braking (it would generate too much current and heat), and you can’t regen at all if the motor loses its path to th
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
I assumed it was to target the most motivated, price-insensitive buyers while recouping fixed costs.
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
If they’re small, light, and cheap, you can put 4 of them on the car and get independent all-wheel drive and insane acceleration. We have a dual-motor EV and our lease is expiring this year. We have our eyes on the GLC EV, which will land i
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
I’m not a lawyer, much less a German lawyer, but it does seem to my lay eyes that this is true of “malicious gossip.” But what is “insult”? > Section 192 > Insult despite proof of the truth > Proof of the truth of the asserted or d
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
Are you speaking about the law in Germany? Truth is not an absolute defense to libel in all countries.
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
Milwaukee’s flag already had such a strong symbol: the gear. Why throw it out for what resembles a Tycho album cover?
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
CGP Grey’s video is essentially a rehash of Roman Mars’s TED talk.
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
Sorry, I had conflated Windows NT development with development of 64-bit Windows as told by Raymond Chen: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/technet-... Raymond also says elsewhere that most WinNT
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
My point is that “just write a COM server” is not an answer to the problem of “I want each work item to be segregated from each other.”
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
Nothing about the UNIX shell is reliant on the fork model. Windows processes have stdio handles as well.
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
If you want the isolation features of a separate process, you can’t substitute it with a single multithreaded COM server process. .NET tried this with app domains, which are now deprecated.
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
XNU is open source; here’s a link into the middle of the implementation, after it’s copied all the necessary attributes of the parent into the new process structure: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/b
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
Syscalls aren’t all that cheap either.
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
Thanks. I completely forgot about static binaries.
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
Linux posix_spawn is a wrapper around clone and exec. There is no primitive on Linux to create an entirely blank process. This is adequately discussed in the linked LWN post. Other operating systems either have parallel APIs to fork (e.g. t
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
That’s not true. man 7 signal-safety
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
posix_spawn is emulated on Linux, but it is a native syscall on macOS (and possibly other OSes?). As discussed in the linked article, there is interest in changing Linux to adopt this model, where posix_spawn is its own fundamental primitiv
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
This is literally discussed in the article this post links to.

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