dirkt

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by dirkt 6y ago
> Is the difference between an OS with one init system and another noticable? Systemd has lots of good ideas, and is now mature enough in most places. Unfortunately, the authors of systemd have the tendency to replace virtually everythin
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by dirkt 6y ago
> I love how rust does interfaces (traits) and allows implementing outside the type. Then it might be interesting for you that Rust copied this (like a few other things) from Haskell, where they are (somewhat confusingly) called type cla
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by dirkt 6y ago
And it's actually this information Facebook is interested in, to build the "social graph". The content doesn't matter, it knows who you communicate with and how often, and that's already a privacy concern (wife want
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by dirkt 6y ago
> If I buy a macbook, do I get to replace the case? keyboard? I would be happy if I got to replace the battery, and the SSD. You know, those two parts with a limited lifespan right from the start... Instead, guess what is soldered to the
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by dirkt 6y ago
> But it is controversial to complain that the best stuff is more expensive than the cheap stuff. Nah. Technically, and in terms of manufacturing cost, it would be even easier to make a simpler computer, without all those bells and whist
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by dirkt 6y ago
> Fancy JavaScript has nothing to do with serving static content Still, I visit websites all the time that don't work with Javascript disabled. They don't work at all, or the images don't load, or the formatting breaks dow
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by dirkt 6y ago
> A large number of people die every year. This keeps beeing peddled by the pro-nuclear fraction, but you are comparing apples and oranges: the "large number of people die" is based on "if you burn coal without any filters
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by dirkt 6y ago
> The semantic details are a distraction. But it's a distraction gladly used by those who want to promote more copyright restrictions - everyone learns as a small child "what's yours is not what's mine", and ever
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by dirkt 6y ago
It would also be the correct technology for most sites - you don't need fancy Javascript for just the contents. Navigation, ads, etc., maybe, but not the contents itself. Most webpages could be perfectly useful with Javascript complete
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by dirkt 6y ago
Though PulseAudio doesn't really minimize latency ...
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by dirkt 6y ago
15 ms is the same as people standing 15 ms * 300 m/s = 4.5 m apart. You can make music together at this distance (even though it's perceptible).
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by dirkt 6y ago
> Usenet is low key and mainly for file distribution nowadays but it still has its niche. I always find it funny that people think of Usenet "mainly for file distribution" (though that happened), when I used it exclusively for
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by dirkt 6y ago
Nerd discussions are always the same, no matter the medium...
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by dirkt 6y ago
> it was kind of crazy that I had to have a separate machine (VM or real) just to run container images... Containers use Linux namespaces to decouple from the main OS. MacOS doesn't support those, so no matter what you do, you can&#
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by dirkt 6y ago
> If they don't know what's wrong, how did they know what to fix? Pure speculation, but for example if they did design a process to enrich their pasta with iron, tested it initially, but then never tested it again (who cares if
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by dirkt 6y ago
> This wasn't considered a particularly invasive change at the time. It was pretty invasive - I tried to keep using Debian without systemd, but indirect dependencies always brought it in. Until I switched to Devuan. And the dependen
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by dirkt 6y ago
A proper typesystem for functional types will check at compile-time that in all places where you would assign such a function, the function will always have the right type. So it's NOT a runtime error, it's a compile-time error, e
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by dirkt 6y ago
Haskell in REPL: Prelude> :m Data.List Prelude Data.List> let f xs = [(head ys, length ys) | ys <- group xs] Prelude Data.List> f "aaaabbbcca" [('a',4),('b',3),('c',2),(&
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by dirkt 6y ago
Maybe I overlooked it, but I missed a mentioning of ladder logic [1] that was often used in process control devices (even in those for homes, I've seen some of those still in use). There's an obvious translation from the ladder lo
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by dirkt 6y ago
Hollywood does this with productions from other countries, for example "City of Angels" [1] for "Der Himmel über Berlin" [2], or "Vanilla Sky" for "Abre los ojos" [4]. And not only do the use American
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by dirkt 6y ago
It's interesting to see how the "we must protect users from each other on a multi-user system using permissions" need has shifted to "we must protect the often single user from multiple potentially evil applications usin
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by dirkt 6y ago
> allowing that "the web" is just arbitrary 'stuff' at URLs It's not. The majority is just textual content I want to read. Possibly with a few images. I don't need Javascript for that. And being forced to us
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by dirkt 6y ago
Unfortunately you have to do this again after each reboot, or whenever you plug in an USB stick, so the dev/by-* option does help when you do that repeatedly for the same device.
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by dirkt 6y ago
> There are a lot of things like that you can do in Java which people just don't do that makes many things a lot cleaner. The problem is not "people could use that particular Java feature to make code cleaner, but they don&#x27
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by dirkt 6y ago
status report = you have to take responsibility for what you have done (or not done) state what you are doing = what happens automatically if you sit in the same office with other programmers: you know what they are working on, you know if
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by dirkt 6y ago
See other comment: This court decision now will help a lot if the employees now file for civil damages. But that's a separate case. And given that basically all bigger German companies have a works council [1], this is really really li
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by dirkt 6y ago
Not for twitter, but on a european reddit: Starting at about the refugee "crisis", I have seen regularly postings using the following script: - newly created account (or, in the more sophisticated variants, an account created some
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by dirkt 6y ago
The US can bypass the restrictions European police etc. has on spying on internet connections.
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by dirkt 6y ago
Any details on that? Because I currently use it as workaround, and I can't remember reading about June in the docs I had a look at.
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by dirkt 6y ago
If you liked the tektronix emulation, also have a look at sixel graphics [1], which also work in an xterm. Helpful if you are logged in via ssh without X forwarding, and need some graphics... [1] https://github.com/saitoha&#

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