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by ibotty 9y ago
Which keystrokes does firefox send opt-out to google by default, to display ads? Don't spread FUD.
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by ibotty 9y ago
Not saying that telemetry should not be opt-in, but sending every keystroke to amazon and sending aggregated, anonymized data is not the same.
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by ibotty 9y ago
If you control the OS, you also control the firmware (if you want a way to install new firmware from the OS). No way around.
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by ibotty 9y ago
> This has to be done at a granularity coarse enough that the function call overhead doesn't kill the performance. It has to be entire loops, for example, not just some primitive operation like a dot product. Yes, You are right! I
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by ibotty 9y ago
Can't you test for the capabilities of the processor once and use the right SIMD code from then on? Maybe it makes sense to introduce a block around the SIMD code, which gets compiled into different blocks of SIMD instructions. Then yo
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by ibotty 9y ago
EDM? The resurfacing of 90's Eurodance? Is there anything more commercial? Maybe that's my European viewpoint, so please elaborate if I am wrong.
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How Citus Executes Distributed Transactions on Postgres(citusdata.com)
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by ibotty 9y ago
Yes, but it was shady before. Remember that they let you pay for revocation. Even worse, also after heartbleed!
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by ibotty 9y ago
Unfortunately usability was the least of its problems.
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by ibotty 9y ago
Interestingly it does send a different message than the mailing list post. While not factually wrong, the press release sounds like the browsers are to blame for the decision (which they definitely are not, see the mailing list posting).
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by ibotty 9y ago
> It's a sad and bewildering affair. Yes. Eben's departure from free software ideology left "many heartbroken": Bruce Perens, ESR, Bradley Kuhn, MJG.
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by ibotty 9y ago
Unfortunately that is extremely light on information. Is there any other source?
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by ibotty 9y ago
It is Matthew J Garrett's personal blog. He was a member of the EFF and has publicly been involved in the free software community.
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by ibotty 9y ago
> Honey Not Cheerios
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by ibotty 9y ago
I am pretty sure it's abrt, this reports to downstream. I don't know whether they get passed upstream, but sometimes they do.
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by ibotty 9y ago
Yes. There is a disadvantage, that when your app already exposes metrics, you will have to tell prometheus' service discovery that you want to scrape two ports.
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by ibotty 9y ago
Simply add to any playbook a play with `all` hosts that drops your remote shell.
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by ibotty 9y ago
It's Stasi (as in _Sta_ats_si_cherheit), it has nothing to do with "Nazi". Aside: There is a big controversy (in Germany and elsewhere) on how and when to compare the third reich and the GDR. Hubertus Knabe, the leader of the
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by ibotty 9y ago
Very late answer, but no, that is incompatible with mvcc. How can transactions (and rollbacks) work?
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by ibotty 9y ago
Unfortunately that is not that easy anymore. There are extensions that can tile more sophisticated though.
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by ibotty 9y ago
The news is, that it finally landed! https://feaneron.com/2017/10/03/improved-half-tiling-availab...
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by ibotty 9y ago
Did you read the article at all?
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by ibotty 9y ago
Oh, it did not work good for many use cases, and even in the supported use cases it had pretty severe bugs. PA is also way more power efficient.
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by ibotty 9y ago
Don't uninstall WebView updates! There are security relevant fixes included.
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by ibotty 9y ago
You did not ask that question. I assume you knew before that PostgreSQL is not the tool for your workload.
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by ibotty 9y ago
Can you provide specifics? AFAICT that applies only to indexes (where there is another layer of indirection in MySQL).
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by ibotty 9y ago
Part of it is that android is used way more often, on very old hardware that is long discarded by apple users. Part of not (only) catering to the wealthy.
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by ibotty 9y ago
Monoid is a concept that is older than category theory. And way simpler. I don't get why people always say category theory when they mean basic algebra. Maybe they don't know better (lack of math background, expository texts that
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by ibotty 9y ago
Not every data in Haskell is thunked and boxed. At least with GHC extensions.
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by ibotty 9y ago
Oh, that's my current project! Unfortunately that cannot be made mass-market, because you can't get any decent trackpoints (except from IBM and Lenovo keyboards).

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