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by dmm 10y ago
It appears that the kernel-level code is shipped as source to be built, automatically by dkms, by the end user. Check out the list of binaries on the bottom left of that page. This means that no binary kernel modules are shipped, just the c
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by dmm 10y ago
If you're going to analyze the situation this way you have to take into account the risk of the credit not being available when you need it. Credit can disappear at any time and rates change. What if your parents lose their job at the
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by dmm 10y ago
> We don't know how many of Clinton's top IT aide's e-mails were official government records. When I was a federal employee we took yearly training on this exact topic and the rules for what qualifies as a federal record a
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by dmm 10y ago
In that case it must sometimes be necessary to accept anti-capitalist things to preserve important freedoms.
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by dmm 10y ago
The 13th amendment to the US constitution outlawed slavery, the buying, selling, and ownership of human beings. Is that anti-capitalist?
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by dmm 10y ago
Vanguard total stock market fund (VTSMX) has over 3000 stocks, right?
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by dmm 11y ago
> while open source is relatively unambiguous In my experience both terms are ambiguous. Many people seem to believe that "open source" simply means the source is available for examination. For example: https://news.
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by dmm 11y ago
Definitely consider zoneminder. I've used it with Foscam and Crenova ip cameras with good results. The cameras I got were $30 for a basic dome and $70 for a pan-tilt. However, if you do decide to go this route I would be prepared to pu
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by dmm 11y ago
The acceleration is no worse than other small cars.
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by dmm 11y ago
> It's probably why its becoming so slow and flaky. I see both version of this statement all the time: "Chrome is so slow. I switched to firefox![1]" "Firefox is so slow. I switched to chrome!" What's going
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by dmm 11y ago
All art is based upon the past.
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by dmm 11y ago
I think their argument is like this: Imagine there are 10 units of methane in the atmosphere and every year 1 unit breaks down into CO2. If cows add 1 unit per year and the source of that unit is ultimately CO2, then the cows aren't ac
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by dmm 11y ago
This is the way to do it. Run "apt-get build-dep git" to install the build dependencies and the set "--prefix=$HOME/opt" or whatever on the configure script to control where it's installed. Installing parts of
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Proposal for Anti-Keystroke Fingerprinting at the Display Server Level(lists.freedesktop.org)
1 points by dmm 11y ago|0 comments
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by dmm 11y ago
The Google c++ styleguide[0] has some examples, in general and specifically for files, functions, etc. Looking over them most are pretty objective so maybe it's worthwhile to come up with some usable rules that enforce qualities you no
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by dmm 11y ago
I don't personally know him so I really can't authoritatively about what's on his mind. He posted this[0] in Nov. 2015. From my reading of it it sounds like he no longer sees his porting work as fruitful. [0] http:/&#x2
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by dmm 11y ago
Maybe it could be compiled with wine? In particular with WineLib: """ Winelib is a development toolkit which allows you to compile your Windows applications on Unix. Most of Winelib code consists of the Win32 API implementa
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by dmm 11y ago
> Big news though. Wonder which platform is next. sparc? I've heard from a few people that it doesn't run reliably. sparc64 seems fine however. I run it without a problem. sgi was miod's baby. Now that he's moved on i
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by dmm 11y ago
From what I've gathered the OpenBSD project does all of their builds on the native hw, as opposed to using crosscompiles. This ensures the hw port actually works and also validates code in general. For example sparc(64) requires strict
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An AMD ARM 64-bit Dev Board Is Launching for $299 USD(phoronix.com)
2 points by dmm 11y ago|0 comments
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by dmm 11y ago
Markets provide price discovery and efficient[0] prices are very valuable. In that sense it's not a waste. Is this even a significant phenomenon? The article mentions 100 ships going the long way but wikipedia says the Suez averages 46
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by dmm 11y ago
What GPL licensed software are they actually infringing upon? The linked post[1] says they found mentions of systemd, but does the firmware actually contain a linux kernel? I don't see anything that looks like a kernel in the file list
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by dmm 11y ago
> Well, so could the linux developers by relicensing to MIT. The majority of the zfs sources are owned by Oracle, one entity. The linux kernel has many copyright owners and it would require the permission of nearly all of them to relicen
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by dmm 11y ago
> Would it be possible (read: legal) for someone to modify the ZFS source to be more easily buildable into the Linux kernel, but then distribute it as source code only Yes and that has been done. The ZFS on Linux[0] distributes a DKMS so
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by dmm 11y ago
Also when people say "Disable javascript" they don't mean go into Preferences and disable javascript. They probably mean install noscript which allows you to blacklist-by-default and enable js with a button click when needed.
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by dmm 11y ago
In Egypt 75% of the population is under the age of 25. These people want opportunities, jobs, apartments, cars, consumer goods, and escape from the daily struggle of poverty. Per capita GDP in Egypt is about $1575. For comparison in the US
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by dmm 11y ago
In the absence of growth the only way for an individual to get more resources is to take it from someone else. Life becomes a zero-sum game. This is a qualitative change. The game stops being who can make the most pie to who can take the mo
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by dmm 11y ago
I wonder if there is a trend away from standards. Has the web just become "whatever chrome does"? None of the developers who seem to care so much about this mentions creating a standard for this sort of feature. spending mil
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Open vs. Closed Driver Benchmarks of AMD's A10-7850K Kaveri on Ubuntu 16.04(phoronix.com)
1 points by dmm 11y ago|0 comments
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by dmm 11y ago
We spent lots of time talking about parsing in my compiler class :-/

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