digi_owl

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1. 691.▲
   by digi_owl 9y ago

   I had a 4.x Android tablet until the USB port died (poor handling by owner basically), and i can't really get myself to buy a new one (did get a cheap Windows 10 tablet on a lark though, and frankly i am surprised how well it works eve
2. 692.▲
   by digi_owl 9y ago

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosoph... https://xkcd.com/903/ < check alt-text.
3. 693.▲
   by digi_owl 9y ago

   Watching the animation play i could almost hear the shouts of the soldiers. And it has been decades since i fired up the game.
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   by digi_owl 9y ago

   I oddly ran into a description of something like this from someone that was a prisoner of the Japanese during WW2. Something about how every Japanese soldier, officers included, would squat while doing stationary tasks. That is, if i unders
5. 695.▲
   by digi_owl 9y ago

   Even more fun when OEMs put what should be read only ROM variables in NVRAM, and they get nuked...
6. 696.▲
   by digi_owl 9y ago

   So more of Torvalds on EFI: http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/efi.html And here he is on ACPI: http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/acpi.html
7. 697.▲
   by digi_owl 9y ago

   While he has not voiced any direct criticism of the project that i recall, he has voiced concerns about the principle developers of it. Keep in mind that at one point he was so fed up with Kay Sievers that he announced he would not accept a
8. 698.▲
   by digi_owl 9y ago

   Gets me thinking of one episode of the original Connections series. There Burke talked about automation (keep in mind this was recorded back in 1978), and how it would make management simply sit around waiting while the mainframe in the bas
9. 699.▲
   by digi_owl 9y ago

   And others pile it on in the name of "user friendliness" or "security"...
10. 700.▲
    by digi_owl 9y ago

    Being Unity8, it is not even GTK.
11. 701.▲
    by digi_owl 9y ago

    No surprise RH would not be interested, they have the Linux ecosystem by the balls.
12. 702.▲
    by digi_owl 9y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_8-bit_family You may be thinking of the XL series.
13. 703.▲
    by digi_owl 9y ago

    This one seems to be tied to systemd...
14. 704.▲
    by digi_owl 9y ago

    1. Anyone remember Webmin? 2. Seems to rely heavily on Systemd being present...
15. 705.▲
    by digi_owl 9y ago

    QB64 basically is. From the article you can do everything Qbasic could, but also load PNGs (_LOADIMAGE), fonts (_LOADFONT) and MP3s (_SNDOPEN).
16. 706.▲
    by digi_owl 9y ago

    I found myself reminded of Blitz Basic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitz_BASIC Seems it has since been open sourced.
17. 707.▲
    by digi_owl 9y ago

    What people seem to value is inline media, being able to vomit emojis everywhere, and chat syncs across multiple devices/OSs.
18. 708.▲
    by digi_owl 9y ago

    Also, i can have a Pi from any number of stores. Most of the other boards are either direct from manufacturer, or via some kind of specialized store that can set any markup they like. That said, i would love to see some kind of mobile devic
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    by digi_owl 9y ago

    I find myself thinking of the Slashdot system (also used by Soylentnews, a Slashdot "spinoff"), where people get to "flag" a certain number of comments on an article they themselves have not participated in. And said fla
20. 710.▲
    by digi_owl 9y ago

    That one shows for a number of conditions, including if they have limited your account to X comments pr Y hours...
21. 711.▲
    by digi_owl 9y ago

    They also have a "fun" half way house before shadowbanning, limiting your comments to X pr Y hours...
22. 712.▲
    by digi_owl 9y ago

    Remind me again why there are language specific package managers...
23. 713.▲
    by digi_owl 9y ago

    > There's no consistency between the dozen "toolkits" Frankly this is a complete bullshit argument. Qt in particular can be used with little to no code change across the platforms. And some of the most successful programs
24. 714.▲
    by digi_owl 9y ago

    I fear the long term problem is that "programmers" gets further and further mentally removed from the hardware that their code will ultimately run on. There was already the problem of them using massively more powerful hardware th
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    by digi_owl 9y ago

    And all too often most of the players will try to bend/break the rules in their favor.
26. 716.▲
    by digi_owl 9y ago

    There is the Opera Mini way of pre-rendering though. But that requires that you trust Opera to not do something naughty.
27. 717.▲
    by digi_owl 9y ago

    I wonder if it has to do with the age churn in the business. Meaning that unless you are self-employed, you are basically out of a job by the time you hit your 30s. And then they bring in some bright eyed grad, or maybe even some self-taugh
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    by digi_owl 9y ago

    I fear the inherent problem is that a "lazy" dev team ships/publishes earlier...
29. 719.▲
    by digi_owl 9y ago

    I suspect that corporations have much more leverage in this than consumers...
30. 720.▲
    by digi_owl 9y ago

    I can't shake the feel that this parallelism thing will be nothing but a wild goose chase, because nature seems to be highly serial in all but the most macroscopic of senses.