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by fps_doug 8y ago
That's why ad blockers are absolutely necessary. Not to scam companies out of their revenue, but because you cannot trust them in running clean ads. Fake virus alerts even are the lesser evil, delivering browser exploits or draining th
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by fps_doug 8y ago
> I don't know. Everyone has kids. Having kids is technically making an impact, but I think that when most people say they want to make an impact, or to accomplish something great, or to change the world, they don't mean by doi
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by fps_doug 8y ago
From that list, I only used TeamViewer on Linux so far, and never had an issue. Apart from the Windows VM another idea might be switching distro if you don't feel that that's already too much hassle. Fedora or Suse would seem a vi
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by fps_doug 9y ago
"Qt is Java for C++", one of my colleagues used to say, and I saw what he meant once I started working with it. We used to develop with Qt4 a lot and I rarely ran into any issues at all, getting started was really straight forward
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by fps_doug 9y ago
The first problem is excessive dependencies. Just one word: Left-pad. That is a library on its own, for that one simple problem. The JS ecosystem encourages that for any problem, no matter how small it is, you import some existing lib. So a
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by fps_doug 9y ago
Scratches PowerPC off the list of trustworthy CPUs Sooo, out you go, G5. Any suggestions what to use for online banking? A 486 can't handle all the jQuery and tracking scripts.
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by fps_doug 9y ago
Too bad I don't have the time to read the long comment thread on there right now. Hopefully I will remember to do so after work. :) Instances like this are really interesting to me, as it seems early on in the thread the commit the b
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by fps_doug 9y ago
> The same as the fact I did not lock my door do not allow anyone to rob my home, that I did not replace my fire detector batteries is no excuse for anyone to set it alight, etc. First, let's fix your analogy: If you don't lo
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by fps_doug 9y ago
Yes, but still. I read the article when it was first published and felt it was the usual "evil communism" bs (which I honestly wouldn't have expected from Mr. Schneider), and this time around we actually got a definite answer
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by fps_doug 9y ago
VMware 12.5.x
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by fps_doug 9y ago
I stumbled upon this feature when some Windows VMs running 3D accelerated programs exhibited freezes of multiple seconds every now and then. We quickly discovered khugepaged would hog the CPU completely during these hangs. Disabling THP sol
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by fps_doug 9y ago
Quick! Download that registry cleaner that promises you to get your machine up to lightning speed!
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by fps_doug 9y ago
I liked how the old Opera included a bittorrent client. It was the only browser that did, and felt like it was actually the way it was meant to be used. But nobody got it. You had warez kiddies left and right complaining how it sucked compa