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by deckard1 5y ago
QNX was almost this. I believe at one point you could even run Firefox or Chrome on it. > And also for more rigorous work tasks (programming, video editing, sound editing) Somewhat amusingly, an OS like DOS (or QNX) would probably be bet
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by deckard1 5y ago
AMD is also doing market segmentation on their APU series of Ryzen. PRO vs. non PRO. It should also be mentioned that Ryzen is a consumer CPU and you're stuck (mostly) with consumer motherboards, none of which tell you the level of ECC
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by deckard1 5y ago
Also the Pareto principle. 80% of code is shit that you don't want to copy. The vast majority of github is awful hacks and insecure code that should not be touched with a ten foot pole.
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by deckard1 5y ago
my impression of the mid '90s was that IBM also spent a boatload on OS/2 Warp marketing as well. But by that time everyone was on Windows and wanted Windows95. The ads for Warp were everywhere, in print and on TV. IBM seemed to be
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by deckard1 5y ago
Is this really anything more than a curiosity toy and a marketing tool? I took a look at their examples and they are not at all compelling. In one example it generated SQL and somehow knew the columns and tables in a database that it had no
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by deckard1 5y ago
yes, according to wikipedia[1] IPv4 is just inefficiently allocated in general. Why does the world need 10.0.0.0/8 in addition to 192.168.0.0/16? Isn't 65k addresses enough? Is there a private organization in need of 16 milli
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by deckard1 5y ago
> I would object to that product on the basis that kids need fewer, not more screens. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help.
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by deckard1 5y ago
parchive and md5deep http://md5deep.sourceforge.net/
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by deckard1 5y ago
I once used Unity to build an Android game. Unity is not entirely no-code, but it comes incredibly close. I'm willing to bet there are a handful of iOS/Android games out there with barely a line or two of custom code written.
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by deckard1 5y ago
Sure. What I mean is at 16:9 you're still getting letterboxing (black bars on top + bottom). In addition to that, it's rather silly to think that just because 16:9 is closer to a theatrical ratio that you're going to ever get
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by deckard1 5y ago
We also have crypto doing a similar effect. Look at the prices of graphics cards. Or, nowadays, hard drives thanks to Chia. It's going to be a goddamn tragedy for the entire planet if Chia continues to grow in popularity.
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by deckard1 5y ago
> 20 years ago we had 800x600 screens My iiyama VisionMaster was doing 1600x1200 @ 90Hz and running Quake 3 just fine back in 1999/2000. > better compositing, much better text and graphic rendering, better antialiasing, all aroun
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by deckard1 5y ago
oof. I've been there. One day my manager asked me if I could cherry-pick a large amount of code from master into their Frankenstein "release" branch. I thought about it for a minute trying to figure out a polite way to say &q
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by deckard1 5y ago
This always annoyed me more than it should. It's also torturing the definition of "query language." There is no equivalent of "join", or any other typical query feature such as aggregation, grouping, sorting, filter
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by deckard1 5y ago
the thing is UX people aren't even responsible for a lot of these messes. Look at Reddit and tell me that wasn't designed by some A/B-maximizing staple-counting corporate robot trying to bump up their "engagement" s
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by deckard1 5y ago
I have a $2 notebook from Muji sitting in my drawer but it's too nice to write in. It's $2!! Japan is on a whole other level with writing and stationary. Go to a Tokyo Hands or Muji and you'll feel like the type of person tha
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by deckard1 5y ago
Interesting. I was just looking for a way to route my domain email to Gmail. I then went down the rabbit hole of G Suite and discovered G Suite grandfathered accounts from back when G Suite was free for anyone with a Gmail account, I guess?
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by deckard1 5y ago
I was going to comment on this very thing in the other thread about software glue[1]. In that article there is a youtube video on Multics vs Unix[2] which really outlines why microservices were always doomed. Someone should coin a new law f
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by deckard1 5y ago
This drama all reminds me of what happened at DALnet in the early 2000s. A few overzealous IRCops started a purge of all the warez/mp3 scene channels. Everyone suspected RIAA put the pressure on them. I was a channel op with a handful
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by deckard1 5y ago
> A process doesn't need a non-trivial flow to need a queue and workers. Right, it doesn't have to be. Blockchain tech such as Bitcoin is effectively this sort of thing. The idealized type of queue worker would be a pure, refer
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by deckard1 5y ago
The amount of woodworking jigs and tools people develop on their own is fascinating. Some of these woodworkers on youtube spend more time creating jigs than actually building things. Matthias Wandel for example is a wizard. It's really
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by deckard1 5y ago
Murphy's law says that you're going to screw this up any number of ways. Maybe not you, specifically, but perhaps your coworker. > committed atomically Complex billing systems don't work that way. Worker processes are not
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by deckard1 5y ago
I imagine most people using Redis as a queue were already using it as a cache and just needed some limited queuing ability. Much like how places end up using a DB as a queue. Using a DB as a queue has been a thing for a very long time. Ever
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by deckard1 5y ago
2FA goes one of two ways: 1. You increase the risk of losing your entire life (if 2FA is properly implemented and avoids all social engineering process risks) or 2. The 2nd factor devolves into a 2nd way to get access to your account You re
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by deckard1 5y ago
To be fair, that's like the guy that wrote moment-js or jQuery. I've worked at a number of Perl-based companies and every single one used DateTime (I'm a huge fan, btw). Something like that is going to be noticeable on a resu
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by deckard1 5y ago
it's not really surprising a bug like bunny hopping would exist, either. You have to realize at the time that everyone was coming from Doom and was still using keyboard movement. I was using keyboard movement in Quake. It wasn't u
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by deckard1 5y ago
the worst offenders by far are VPNs. Their advertising is usually shady and litters youtube, and there is simply no way of verifying their privacy claims. They don't log or monitor traffic? Okay fine I'll just take your word for i
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by deckard1 5y ago
I must admit, I'm curious about the idea but I don't yet "get" it. Reproducible builds sound like a great idea at first, but this has the same problem as Docker containers: you inadvertently become a package/distro
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by deckard1 5y ago
> Hulu will sometimes tell me that they don’t have the item I’m looking for Netflix does this too (or did? it's been awhile). It's one of those tiny little details that really makes a difference.
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by deckard1 5y ago
docker has rootless now. Tried to set it up the other day on bog standard Debian. That's a deep ass rabbit hole with a whole lot of gotchas and I'm not entirely convinced the whole thing won't topple over at the slightest bre

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