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by fapjacks 7y ago
Weird, I'm genuinely curious how this recommendation got a downvote.
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by fapjacks 7y ago
Technically, containers running on MacOS and Windows are a (Linux) VM, under the hood. Now, Microsoft put in a lot of work to support something like namespaces in the Windows kernel, so that it's now possible to run "Windows-nat
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by fapjacks 7y ago
Wouldn't that be nice? If the only thing DoorDash did wrong was deliver cold pizza?
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by fapjacks 7y ago
This will not be shocking to you in the slightest, but: It'll look exactly the same!
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by fapjacks 7y ago
BY FAR Sleep As Android (previously called like Sleep As Droid or Sleep Droid or something -- it went through a couple of name changes a few years ago when the founder made a company out of it). Developed by a team from Eastern Europe, foun
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by fapjacks 7y ago
I was the lead console operator during the midnight rollover on NYE for an aging fleet of state-owned mainframes and minicomputers which were affected by the bug. Some of the machines could not be updated with a fix, so we were almost compl
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by fapjacks 7y ago
He no longer writes checks to people for bug-hunting and hasn't done so for years due to concerns about the proliferation of his banking information. He mails out certificates.
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by fapjacks 7y ago
Sure, I grant that these may not be forthcoming and obvious developments to everyone, and that you may need to "fill in the blanks" for many when it comes to atomic energy (a jet engine is not a complex machine, however; it is a p
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by fapjacks 7y ago
The parent comment implies these things would follow the old "seems like magic" trope. They would not seem like magic if you explained these concepts to (educated) people of the time.
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by fapjacks 7y ago
Well, in 1912, jet-engine-powered aircraft and atomic energy would not seem like far-fetched ideas. Certainly not to educated research engineers at GE, anyway. People routinely underestimate how technologically advanced the world was prior
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Code Review of Future Crew's Second Reality Demo(fabiensanglard.net)
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by fapjacks 7y ago
I realize this is HN but let's not be so milquetoast about the critical infrastructure of our democracy. Non-free, closed-source software DOES NOT belong in the machinery of our democratic processes.
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by fapjacks 7y ago
I appreciate your skepticism (and your sense of humor) but for the benefit of other readers, it is not like engineering a monkey tail onto an elephant and expecting the elephant to swing through the trees.
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by fapjacks 7y ago
Be advised that there are many posts on Chinese social media claiming the crematoriums are backlogged with people whose listed cause of death is "viral pneumonia" (or just "pneumonia") because hospitals are turning away
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by fapjacks 7y ago
I consider myself lucky in that I can do both of these things seemingly at the same time. The way I describe it is that while my "conscious mind" (i.e. my inner verbal thought train) is engaged in one thing, very often my "su
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by fapjacks 7y ago
There's mountains of money to be made if you can fulfill this political promise Google and Facebook have so far failed make good on. Go for it.
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by fapjacks 7y ago
No amount of technology will be able to stop all people from being exposed to all forms of content at all times which may one day trigger PTSD symptoms. Social media shitholes use blacklists when they "should be" crowdsource-white
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by fapjacks 7y ago
But there's no money in enterprise support contracts for things which are simple and effective.
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by fapjacks 7y ago
Openstreetmaps is pretty good. The transition has gotten much better than it used to be.
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by fapjacks 7y ago
Android is perfectly usable with microg! And then look into magisk for functionality requiring root access for things like ad-blocking and a firewall to prevent (or spoof!) all the traffic generated by all those shitty apps trying to ship y
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by fapjacks 7y ago
There have been a number of posts over the last few days like this about giving (more) of your (sensitive) data to Google. Lots of comments in the threads about exporting and uploading messages from e.g. WhatsApp and Telegram, and a surpris
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by fapjacks 7y ago
Honestly, I used to be such a computer nerd, to a fault. So over the last quarter century of programming for money, I'd have to say the most transformative has been writing comments like my livelihood depends on it (since it does). Oth
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by fapjacks 7y ago
> also an advanced ECM platform I would suggest they are primarily an ECM platform. It is well known that the F-22 is a superior fighter compared to the F-35. The main feature of the F-35 that puts fear in potential adversaries are the
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by fapjacks 7y ago
Everybody defending Microsoft's actions is using some variation of "it's only a small ad for Office" but their Stockholm Syndrome is causing them to ignore that the word "ad" these days is a loaded term that al
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by fapjacks 7y ago
You didn't understand what I wrote. To put it into simpler terms: Over time, people demand less and less about their civil liberties, whereas with open source projects, people demand more and more.
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by fapjacks 7y ago
Are you asking for a value judgment? Or what exactly is your question? This can happen for example in some games like Master of Orion. You send a ship to the border, and before it gets there, you've already researched, built, and deplo
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by fapjacks 7y ago
Man... Wouldn't it be great if this same attitude often seen in users of open source software was had by regular people toward civil liberties? Like where people just pile hate on the codifiers day in and day out, because they are owed
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by fapjacks 7y ago
I take it you have not been poor.
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by fapjacks 7y ago
So not only do you fill the issue tracker with ten thousand duplicate issues, but now you are blind to issues numbered #10000 or higher.
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by fapjacks 7y ago
This sounds nice on the surface, good intent. But it smacks of inexperience and is the same mechanism that ends up pushing the kinds of dumb conventions that insist on golang's Trailing Comma. What is the expected outcome of your rule,

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