grandinj

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by grandinj 11y ago
There is plenty of lithium. This is just an updated version of the Malthusian idiocy. http://m.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/31/rare_metals_mineral_re...
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by grandinj 11y ago
There is no real bottleneck in uranium production. All we need to do is to double the price and various extra production will come online. And the price of uranium means almost nothing in he context of running a power plant.
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by grandinj 11y ago
Increase the size of your Eden space. You probably have something allocating very large amounts of temp objects, which is exhausting Eden. You should optimism that, whatever it is, but bumping up Eden will give you some breathing room.
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by grandinj 11y ago
Those are all user space level mitigations so you don't need the kernel to implement them. So you are barking at the wrong group.
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by grandinj 11y ago
There is no monolithic upstream organization. The real problem is that it's really hard work to upstream code, particularly when it touches core parts of the kernel. Look how long it took to get other invasive stuff like tickless or pr
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by grandinj 11y ago
I would guess the severe restrictions on building new homes which leads to a dramatic undersupply of new housing stock. Which in turn pushes up the price of existing stock and feeds an asset bubble.
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by grandinj 11y ago
Rather that FEC, send a lower quality and bitrate version alongside that can be used to fill in the gaps.
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by grandinj 11y ago
Isn't it obvious that this is just supply and demand at work? There are now too many people chasing a career in academia, which is driving the price down.
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by grandinj 11y ago
We try not to start battles with other open source projects. Live and let live.
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by grandinj 11y ago
Nothing. Java is only there to run a couple of extensions, but none of the core functionality requires it.
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by grandinj 11y ago
You must be kidding. Up until 1.6 I had regressions on even the minor releases. Since oracle took over I update without even thinking about it. And I've been delivering desktop apps since 1.1.8
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by grandinj 12y ago
Aaaargh. Yet another idiotic website that disables zoom gestures, making it unreadable on my iphone.
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by grandinj 12y ago
Could you log a bug with a sample that takes a long time? Our primary Calc guy (Kohei) is pretty good about tracking down performance problems and we've made some decent improvements to Calc performance in 4.4
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by grandinj 12y ago
Yeah, sorry about that. Took us a while to track down. We think we've fixed it in 4.4 (but it was one of those bugs with multiple causes)
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by grandinj 12y ago
There are multiple icon sets so you are welcome to switch to a more colorful set :)
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by grandinj 12y ago
We're getting there. But it takes time and we have only recently gotten a dedicated ui design team, who are doing a great job, but it's a really big product so there is only such they coukd get done in one release. Expect more imp
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by grandinj 12y ago
Come hack on LibreOffice we're a fairly friendly bunch :)
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by grandinj 12y ago
If you have one that is not private, please log a big along with the document and some sample screenshots of the correct and incorrect displays. Bugs like that tend to get our attention because they're easier to fix :)
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by grandinj 12y ago
Maybe this is a place where GLIBC could provide additional variants with improved performance and reduced rounding accuracy.
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by grandinj 12y ago
So his technical opinions warrant personal vitroilic responses? That's a rather .... interesting position.
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by grandinj 12y ago
Your drugs are expensive because the rest of the world freeloads by artificially restricting the selling price of drugs, leaving the US to bear the brunt of the R&D costs. Your FDA and legal system pushes up the price of medical devices
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by grandinj 12y ago
How do people find PyCharm these days? My brother uses it daily but finds it to be a major memory hog (1G+ of RAM on startup)
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by grandinj 13y ago
Even "third-world" countries like South Africa have e-filing for taxes....
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by grandinj 13y ago
Patents were not there to protect investment. That is a post-hoc reason. The original justification was to encourage inventors to share their ideas instead of hiding them. This was at a time when reverse engineering something was a to har
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by grandinj 13y ago
True, but how many of us programmers either want or need to do that? Less than 1% I'll bet. For the rest of us, Swing works just fine, and it's a whole lot better than some of the other UI toolkits out there.
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by grandinj 13y ago
Actually, no, we have used it for a decade and continue to do so, because it is a reasonably clean and performant UI framework that gives us great control and pretty decent platform-native look and feel.
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by grandinj 13y ago
> yes, I do refuse to waste an extra dime on clothing just for a logo. But I notice that you don't pass moral judgment on them for doing so. We need to separate the (strong, IMO) argument against bad marketing, from the (weak, IMO)
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by grandinj 13y ago
Why should they be spending all their profits on R&D and not marketing? Do you refuse to wear name-brand clothes because they spend 90% of their profits on marketing? I just don't get the R&D vs Marketing hate.
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by grandinj 13y ago
>This ought to be the best of both worlds for the electric grid, too, since solar generates electricity when load is at its highest. Unfortunately, not. Demand peaks early morning and early evening, when solar is near its minimum. And i
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by grandinj 13y ago
Except that the tool itself is so painful to use, and has such a shallow integration with things like email clients, that using it requires a considerable degree of self-discipline. I think I installed it once, and then when my machine requ

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