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by emn13 7y ago
Also why anti-monopoly laws need to be reevaluated, and improved to ensure nothing counts as a market with fewer than 10 practical competitors at any given moment, and probably more like 100 for real competition (or some similar set of thre
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by emn13 7y ago
Unfortunately, even that is particularly impractical on windows. I'm not sure exactly who thought up the disastrous library feature, but the net effect is that it makes it really, really hard to organize stuff into folders. The arbit
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by emn13 7y ago
Yeah; that's pretty standard, alas :-(
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by emn13 7y ago
Hmm, my experience has been resolutely great; we just upgraded to 64 thread 3970x's with 256GB of RAM, and pretty much everything worked smoothly out of the box; I'm very pleasantly surprised by the lack of tuning necessary. We di
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by emn13 7y ago
Even xpath 1 let's you filter elements based on arbitrary sub-paths, so e.g. you can do stuff like //div[@data-marker]/span[i] - and match spans containing an i that are themselves the direct descendants of a div with a
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by emn13 7y ago
By that not so very useful definition, mutable systems are immutable, since they're in the same state at any specific moment.
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by emn13 7y ago
I mean, you gotta appeciate their efforts to make something so technical approachable by the general population, including gems like this in their Q&A: :-D: What is an operating system? An operating system (OS) is system software res
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by emn13 7y ago
They already are; there are some pretty glaring bugs/missing features in webkit nowadays. In fact, I can't think of any webkit developments that positively surprised me the past few years; development seems glacial, at best. A l
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by emn13 7y ago
You mean grid? I'm suspect you can emulate most if not all of flexbox in grid, but definitely not vice-versa.
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by emn13 7y ago
That algorithm - for what it is, namely pretty basic tree construction - is absurdly complicated. Did you actually read and grok all that stuff about the stack of open elements, and how all kinds of elements have special gotcha clauses? H
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by emn13 7y ago
It is certainly the case that "being charged" does not mean exactly the same thing in every country; the weight isn't the same everywhere, and the details differ too. So I suppose it's also conceivable that the japanese
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by emn13 7y ago
Sure; nothing wrong with that comparison either - you're just not going to get a straightforwards apples to apples comparison. Unlike libusb, the windows api really is part of the OS; whereas libusb is a convenience library that - on
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by emn13 7y ago
It's just not that simple. A kernel syscall just isn't an abstraction on windows, so if you want to compare the two, you need to include other OS APIs. Whether something is a syscall or not is a technical detail in the sense t
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by emn13 7y ago
Without getting into the specifics here, it's fair to compare linux kernal calls - sometimes - to windows api calls, because that's simply a technical detail, and in fact - that's just how those OS's expect you to commu
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by emn13 7y ago
This software imbalance is partially created by the fundamental inequalities contract+IP law creates. Since it grants not just remuneration for the creative, but also control, it's really, really easy to abuse economies of scale, and
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by emn13 7y ago
Maybe. The thing is; zstd is quite close, and unlike lz4, zstd has a broad curve of supported speed/time tradeoffs. Unless you're huge and engineering effort is essentially free or at least the microoptimization for one specific
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by emn13 7y ago
> > In my experience, cloud management is nothing like as simple as people make out; and you're not going to be magically making those ifrastructure man-power costs just go away. You need to configure all that stuff non-the-less,
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by emn13 7y ago
Oh boy, that canard. In my experience, cloud management is nothing like as simple as people make out; and you're not going to be magically making those ifrastructure man-power costs just go away. You need to configure all that stuff
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by emn13 7y ago
Occam's Razor suggests you're looking for ghosts, and just to be sure I tried this on my phone: as far as I can tell behaviour using FF + chrome UA addon (which I specifically installed to test this) is indistinguishable from chro
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by emn13 7y ago
Furthermore; democracy relies on there being meaningful communication and an at least somewhat unbiased sampling of popular opinion. So firstly on meaningful communication: Under the guise of freedom of speech nowadays falsehoods, and even
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by emn13 7y ago
I'm seriously skeptical of that. It's plausible they didn't bother trying to get it to work in FF, and just thought "screw that". But judging by de screenshot of the stock price history alone, clearly FF has no tro
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by emn13 7y ago
Open-records requests can be a huge amount of work, even if the records aren't secret - it's common for requesters to have an axe to grind, so you might want to know what that is (and whether you should be honoring the request, an
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by emn13 7y ago
Combinatorial? Seriously? The difference between exponential and cominatorial is essentially purely theoretical when it comes to computational complexity. In practice, even the difference between n and n log n is barely relevant, and the e
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by emn13 7y ago
That effect almost certainly exists, but whether it amounts to anything much at the small relative differences you'd see between members of the same species is much less apparent. And of course, you're sort of implying that this
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by emn13 7y ago
But links aren't alive; so if somebody once linked to something you wrote/own/built/whatever on some domain, you can't magically transfer that link to your new site if the domain name system decides to jack up price
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by emn13 7y ago
But how does google find those domains? Link juice still matters, and those links work via... domains.
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by emn13 7y ago
This analysis is highly suspect. It's a great sales pitch sure - but it's false. So first of all: the overhead for running the registry is unreasonably high. You'd expect there to be considerable room for reducing costs,
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by emn13 7y ago
Yeah, parallels sort of like a triangle is made of parallel lines. Only if you stretch the analogy beyond all meaning. I mean seriously, at that point any teacher correcting their student is 1984 for pointing out any mistakes. Sure - this
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by emn13 7y ago
I don't disagree with what you're saying; but the problem sounds more like one of execution than of principle. The US has way too many bad restraints on speech for the wrong reasons; and not enough weaker limitations for more obj
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by emn13 7y ago
In the US, we call these bureaucrats "judges", and the falsehoods they might combat "libel" and "defamation". No it's not the same, but this doesn't exactly sound like 1984 either. Frankly, I don&#x2

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