fps_doug

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by fps_doug 5y ago
I think this discussion thread is basically people looking at this in different contexts. A lot of the replies seem to interpret your post as saying "systemd is more complicated than sysvinit was" which is most definitely not what
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by fps_doug 5y ago
I remember back in the day, I preferred SP2. It seemed to run notably faster on slower hardware and there were very few instances of software (I don't even remember any) that required a later one to run on 2k. Just think about that. Th
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by fps_doug 5y ago
If you use a provider like Gmail, you're not just solving the problem on your end. Google trains their global spam filter through every user's behavior. So if enough people keep marking Cloudflare mails as spam, they will eventual
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by fps_doug 5y ago
True. It's stupid. :)
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by fps_doug 5y ago
If you don't go through the hassles of anonymously signing up with the hoster in Russia, and also paying them anonymously, then there isn't much point in this. As soon as the server can be traced back to you (in a way that convinc
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by fps_doug 5y ago
That's what seems to get a bit weird as time passes. IIRC, they aim at being NT5.2 aka Windows 2003 compatible, but if they don't support newer driver models, that would rule out using any recent GPU, as nVidia doesn't exactl
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by fps_doug 5y ago
> If they had to eat their own dogfood instead, things would get fixed. I assume they are using their own product. At FAANG size, these bad cases are probably just noise at best if you only look at the big picture. A hundred people los
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by fps_doug 5y ago
You are right. What is a good idea however, is to implement a TLSv1.3 library in Visual Basic 6[1], that doesn't have any external dependencies, by embedding machine code for AES encryption generated with MSVC in the source code, tha
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by fps_doug 5y ago
It's still magic though, isn't it? The hardware was slower and more limited, but at the same time the GPU wasn't event that much of a GPU by today's standards, for example. You had to do a lot of what modern GPUs do for
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by fps_doug 5y ago
Hi, Windows Phone fanboy here. I've posted most of the below before. ;-) The sad truth is, that the new Metro UI introduced with Windows 8 specifically for Phones was pretty efficient and slick. A mid-tier WP phone was running circ
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by fps_doug 5y ago
Yes :) Not that I post very often/frequently, but that's the first time anyone ever asked about or referenced my username.
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by fps_doug 5y ago
It's the same as the Opera Presto leak a few years ago. You cannot legally maintain or update, let alone distribute it. Back then you could find a few minor patches in Russian forums but that's about it. So even if there's pe
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by fps_doug 5y ago
Does work
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by fps_doug 5y ago
The only language I ever really use IntelliJ for is PHP, and apart from minor issues that usually get fixed within one or two updates it's fantastic. Maybe I got lucky here, or maybe it's because every other IDE for PHP is next to
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by fps_doug 5y ago
Thanks for the insight. I've assumed hand written assembly, except for those parts where you try to squeeze out the last bit of performance, would be structured more like a human would think, but alas I might be wrong. :-) But then aga
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by fps_doug 5y ago
> With more and more SMP applications appearing, the day will come (perhaps in another year or so) when games, applications and the whole load of software out there will support SMP. He was only off by a decade or so :-)
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by fps_doug 5y ago
Very cool, gonna check it out at home! I've always wanted to learn some reverse engineering and eventually do this with a game. Unfortunately the ones I'd like to target are all written in C or C++, so I guess translating the disa
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by fps_doug 5y ago
Unicode
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by fps_doug 5y ago
Just don't NAT again, but simply firewall. That's what I do. Luckily the days of routers crashing when there are more than 15 TCP sessions are over, even with the cheap ISP routers. But Wifi usually still sucks with those, plus se
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by fps_doug 5y ago
When I'm writing a C program I can somehow depend on only one library for password hashing and one for oauth (maybe two if it also needs curl). In javascript land it's probably a couple dozen, probably from a couple dozen differen
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by fps_doug 5y ago
Sure, it's not as simple as having one isolated reason, but would you expect the same outcome if you replaced the iPad by books and leave everything else the same? I'm having a hard time imagining this. Yes, it's multiple fac
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by fps_doug 5y ago
OTOH I noticed that kids < 10yrs tend to get overexcited or even slightly aggressive after watching TV. They're more likely to quarrel, if you have two or more. Obviously this might also depend on what they're watching, b
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by fps_doug 5y ago
It sounds like it's a workaround for dealing with bad co-workers? You can still have these in async communication and others will just give up eventually. And then the guy who gets asked something but doesn't reply until at least
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by fps_doug 5y ago
To me, it sucks. (Video) calls are exhausting and less flexible, and nothing beats having a huge, real whiteboard and three people taking turns refining a diagram or flowchart while discussing it.
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by fps_doug 5y ago
I'd like to throw in PhotoPrism[1], a web-based photo management tool. It's already moving forward steadily, having recently added a first version of facial recognition. The author wants to make it his full time job, but isn'
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by fps_doug 5y ago
But they said "didn't recognize the number", not "missed all calls and texts". I'm from Europe so I don't know how prevalent robocalls are; this story really sounds crazy to me. Sure, everybody has differe
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by fps_doug 5y ago
> Are they using an environment variable shared by other Go prpgrams? Seems like bad practice... Huh? So only set it for syncthing.
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by fps_doug 5y ago
Yes that was annoying to me at first. The official client seems to still get updates, so you don't immediately see anything wrong with it, but has a couple really annoying issues that have been fixed in Syncthing-fork for years.
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by fps_doug 5y ago
Syncthing supports introducer devices. If you mark a device as introducer, you'll automatically add all devices the introducer knows to your list. So basically adding a new device to an existing group requires everyone to agree on one
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by fps_doug 5y ago
Yes, I miss this so much, I actually stopped using Spotify about 6 years ago. This might be nerdy, but the feeling of instant playback was just great. This Electron crap is really a race to the bottom, so you can hire the cheapest college

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