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by geocar 6y ago
Yes and users have to unplug monitors to find windows that have done this. > Why the limitation? Because users don’t want it? We have window managers and some of us are using automatic window managers. The very idea of movewindow doesn’t
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by geocar 6y ago
> why do the developers think that it is a good idea to have it? Because it has little utility and a lot of risk; Baddies use this to trick people. It is also so hard to use it correctly/meaningfully in many display topologies (mos
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by geocar 6y ago
The question was interpreted as “why do admin tools have these features” on account of that was in the first sentence, and not, as you may have imagined, a request for a twitter employee to explain all of their tools, or a request for a twi
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by geocar 6y ago
You have a need for a tool allows you to see the UI “as the user does” so you can respond to support requests and maybe someone thinks it’s easier to just copy the cookie. This isn’t the right way to do it, but given they work at Twitter I
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by geocar 6y ago
> Programming seems to be the only profession in which the neophyte is excused learning the language thoroughly and, worse, that he/she expects the language to be dumbed down to make it easier to learn. Can you imagine a budding mus
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by geocar 6y ago
So I just ran a test, with a secret domain name I haven't told anyone: $ (for x in `seq 1 500`; do echo -n "$x "; host -v MYSECRETDOMAIN. 8.8.8.8 2>&1 |grep SOA; done) > data $ awk '($3 == 899) {
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by geocar 6y ago
> I think what I’m missing is how a default works in this instance. If I establish a 200 unit mutual credit line with someone, spend 200, what does a default look like? Is there some time period in which I have to pay it back? Without c
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by geocar 6y ago
> If someone wishes to make a payment, Offset will find the best path via friendships to facilitate the transaction. What if a bunch of people are offline and no path can be found? What do you think happens when Visanet is down? My exper
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by geocar 6y ago
> Practically everyone is still learning the wrong default I think this is a much deeper problem than stdio.
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by geocar 6y ago
What's stopping you?
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by geocar 6y ago
You're right in principle, but I think you're overestimating both the cost of discovery and the value of a 20% improvement: A 20% improvement on a microbenchmark (say float to string conversion) when only 0.01% of your application
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by geocar 6y ago
Because it's doing something else. Saying stdio is slow isn't the same thing as saying "they should just do what these other guys are doing" -- they can't do that without breaking everyone who uses stdio, and a lot
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by geocar 6y ago
Right. Even POSIX.1 has the same "messaging" functionality, so: * spawn/1 becomes fork() * send/2 becomes kill() * receive F -> ... G -> ... end becomes sigaddset(&s,F);sigaddset(&s,G);sigwait(&s,&r
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by geocar 6y ago
> You're looking at the official GitHub releases which doesn't mean much. Fermat would like rust then.
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by geocar 6y ago
That commit doesn't have any files in it. The first release of "uutils coreutils" appears to be this: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/commit/511f138e3856e2d69... which is only twenty days y
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by geocar 6y ago
> In all others, a < b < c would be parsed as ((a < b) < c) which may or may not be a type error, but it's consistent with the other binary operators. In APLish languages, it's (a<(b<c)).
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by geocar 7y ago
That's one way to look at it. Another way is if it takes a couple CPUs to run my application, a CPU or two to drive the storage, and a CPU to do TLS, why would I also spend a CPU on TCP if my network card already has one that does that
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by geocar 7y ago
Having 40Gb/sec TCP is great but if you can't come up with 40Gb/sec to put into it, "what's the point?" Of course, you could just buy a TLS accelerator if you wanted one.
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by geocar 7y ago
Sorry. I thought that would make it clear. The request is for a code point to represent the visible external link character, not for an invisible control-code to decorate some structured data (which cannot "appear" on paper).
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by geocar 7y ago
> That sounds like an issue that could be solved by updating the renderer's gtld list with the various new ones that have been coming out instead of adding invisible meta characters. Negative. My renderer is a piece of paper.
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by geocar 7y ago
> My heuristic is something I'll call SMS sniff test: would it make sense to type that symbol into a text message? If it wouldn't, then it doesn't belong in Unicode. I accept that heuristic, and find myself agreeing with i
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by geocar 7y ago
> A '1x developer' is by definition an average developer. The page is mostly listing basic knowledge that any developer, even a very junior one, should already have I'm not sure I agree with that. Why is a "10x progra
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by geocar 7y ago
Exactly.
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by geocar 7y ago
There's absolutely no reason it _has_ to be one-way: It's not like the CPU intrinsically speaks x86_64 or is directly attached to memory anyway. When inventing a new ISA we can do anything. And if we're talking about memcpy o
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by geocar 7y ago
I think people with computers more than five years old already know that their computer is slow. Why exactly do you think seven-years-old is too-old, but five-years-old isn't?
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by geocar 7y ago
> The vector instructions can't really be farmed out because they can be scattered inline with regular scalar code. If you believe this, you won't believe what's in this box[1]. [1]: https://www.sonnettech.com&#
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by geocar 7y ago
More marketing I'm afraid. See: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/notes.html See also, from: https://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/usr... In the or
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by geocar 7y ago
/usr is absolutely where user data was. That's what it stands for "users". First when / ran out of space, new programs were put on the other disk /usr in /usr/bin so everyone could assume programs wer
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by geocar 7y ago
If the use of /data is the reason why you're not using this software, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't find any use of it if it stored data someplace in /var either. Personally, I think the FHS is stupid marketing wanke

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