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by etatoby 9y ago
We still run and manage our servers and save a metric ton of money wrt. "cloud" offerings. When "cloud" or "serverless" will be cheaper than managing your own dedicated servers, then it will actually be useful.
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by etatoby 9y ago
At least they have the decency to call it Ubuntu and not Linux in the promotional material, seeing as it does not contain any Linux kernel code. Personally, I would have called it Line (= Line Is Not an Emulator) or Eniw.
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by etatoby 9y ago
With no actual Linux kernel code. Oh, the irony. At least they have the decency to call it Ubuntu and not Linux in the promotional material. Personally, I would have called it Line (Line Is Not an Emulator) or Eniw
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by etatoby 9y ago
That's because Dave Cutler (of DEC VMS fame) specifically designed the NT kernel to make it easy to add new ABIs. NT originally supported running Win32, OS/2, and POSIX executables. Now apparently they added Linux executables.
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by etatoby 9y ago
Except for the fact that you cannot launch (or otherwise control) Windows processes from the Linux environment. That's one serious limitation.
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by etatoby 9y ago
> no drm > no ads > revenues Does not compute.
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by etatoby 9y ago
You are right. I stand corrected.
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by etatoby 9y ago
My point is that binary executables for Microsoft OSes, and the entire market built around them, are the only reason something like %ah (which is an incredibly stupid and expensive thing to address and the actual source of the bug) is part
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by etatoby 9y ago
Precisely. I would go as far as saying proprietary binaries for Microsoft systems are the single force making Intel processors keep decades of cruft, considering the immense cost that Intel must bear to keep those old instructions (bare
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by etatoby 9y ago
I will be surely downvoted for this, but I would like to remind everyone how this bug is just one of the many consequences of Microsoft's evil policy of encouraging the sale and distribution of proprietary software in executable form.
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by etatoby 9y ago
I've been using Gimp forever and I have the opposite experience: to me it's much more intuitive and powerful than Photoshop. I have used both in the past, but I always come back to Gimp because for me it's so much better.
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by etatoby 9y ago
Drag layer under pointer and Drag selected layer are two options of the move tool. You will find them in the tool properties pane. All in all, I've always found Gimp more intuitive and easy to use than Photoshop, probably because I lea
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by etatoby 9y ago
When I was using OS X, I used to compile my own version using Brew that behaved like a native application. There are flags to do just that, but it's a very lengthy process, because you have to compile GTK and other libraries first. It
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by etatoby 9y ago
Oh come on, how can you expect similar execution time between a compiled language like Haskell and an interpreter like Python? I would be very surprised if the latter was not several times slower, purity or not. If anything, you may want to
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by etatoby 9y ago
> it's not possible to emulate purity using an impure language The fact that Haskell code is routinely compiled into machine language, which is the most impure and imperative kind of code possible, disproves your point.
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by etatoby 9y ago
Yes, this is my feeling too: Java all over again
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by etatoby 9y ago
You can have my cryptic Bash one-liners when you pry them from my cold, dead hands. But yeah, I agree that Ansible is the minimum that should be in place.
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by etatoby 9y ago
Is there any practical programming language (or dialect, or static checker) that enforces this property? Or is Viper the first attempt at a usable, yet decidable language?
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by etatoby 9y ago
You should compare the cost of one (or two) .intern() plus '==' against a single .equals() For example, if your code needs 10 .intern() and then performs 100 '==', that is possibly going to be faster than performing th
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by etatoby 9y ago
I don't buy it. Watching a big-budget movie in a theater and watching a pirated version are two activities so dissimilar as not to affect each other at all. If we were talking about Netflix shows, or DVD releases, then maybe piracy wou
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by etatoby 9y ago
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. —Phil Karlton oh, and: The first step towards wisdom is calling things by their right names. —Anonymous Chinese Proverb
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by etatoby 9y ago
When somebody asks me how to solve a particular database problem, or an IT problem, or how to write an algorithm to do something, I will think about it in the back of my mind and "just spit it out after a while," unless it's
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by etatoby 9y ago
Regarding fees, only large entities (those with more than 10 million additional ad impressions per month due to participation in the Acceptable Ads initiative) have to pay. For these entities, our licensing fee normally represents 30 perce
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by etatoby 9y ago
> we should really come up with a community-driven criteria for Acceptable Ads Isn't that what ABP / Eyeo is doing? You may criticize them for the fee they ask of the Ad companies to include / review their ads, but it&#x
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by etatoby 9y ago
Yes, it's possible—I would say probable—that after introducing their "impartial" ad blocker, whose rules for acceptable ads just so happen to allow all of their ads through, and after enabling it by default on their browser,
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by etatoby 9y ago
Do they? I just downgraded Chrome for Android to 56, because the latest one would crash when playing live video streams. Granted, Play Store didn't have that option, so I had to download the APK from a third-party site and disable auto
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by etatoby 9y ago
> if they stayed with Waves they would have been Slack As a protocol, Waves was a great technological successor to email, IM, and collaborative document editing. It was federated, real time, asynchronous, distributed, and (IIRC) based
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by etatoby 10y ago
Would a kernel-level firewall (iptables) help in this case? Or does the vulnerability happen before the packet can be discarded by iptables? If so, what is a good firewall frontend for Android?
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by etatoby 10y ago
Very well put. Moreover, since we have circumstantial evidence that objective reality does not exist (see the various interpretations of quantum physics) I see no problem with any of that.
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by etatoby 10y ago
This is it. If you need a more hands-on approach, I can recommend an old (1980) but very, very good book: Feeling Good by David D. Burns. Best $6 you will ever spend IMHO if you have any kind of depression issue.

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