jlgreco

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by jlgreco 13y ago
> "I don't get why they can't use git? Git is used to maintain the entire Linux kernel and they want some system rarely used?" They are presumably trying to use a single repo for a very large chunk of code. Large
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Ideally personal topic branches, not yet ready for world consumption, would be pushed but to a different repo. This would allow the main repo to have a global "No force pushes!" setting, and would prevent branch name collisions
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Their issue, as far as I can grok it, seems to be that they are attempting to use git much as Google use[s/d?] Perforce: http://www.perforce.com/sites/default/files/still-all-one-se... Mercurial may let
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Being able to write custom update hooks also allows you to do a lot of neat things (in this case, an update hook could prevent non-fastforward pushes).
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I think this is the best setup to run with. There really are few cases where a non-fastforward push to a public repo is called for.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> "Yes but you can't read them without getting eyestrain." Maybe I'm working on borrowed time with young eyes, or maybe I work too close to my screen, but I certainly can. I am sitting here at work on a company T420
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> those devices are converging in capabilities and the transition between them is becoming more fluid. Transition between authorized/trusted devices is fluid. A concept that did not exist in the recent past (or if it existed
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I beg to differ. I can fit several more xterms side by side on a pixel screen than on any thinkpad. High DPI only becomes pointless if you scale everything up correspondingly. I don't do that. The expectation that a laptop have a scr
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by jlgreco 13y ago
@lowkeykiwi (your comment is dead) Witness the rise of "web services" that will only work when used with proprietary browsers run on a trusted OS on trusted hardware. Netflix on the Chromebook is a harbinger of things to come.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Lenovo laptops suffer from eyestabbingly bad screens. To my knowledge, traditional PC laptops with better screens than the Pixel have been announced, but are not yet available for purchase.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> The machine heats up fast Chromebook Pixel? My Pixel is the hottest machine I have ever used...
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Crouton is a pain in the ass, not least because you are stuck with much of ChromeOS when you go that route. You are better off just slapping Debian on it properly, unless you reeeaaally need to watch Netflix with it.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I purchased a chromebook with no intention of using ChromeOS on it, but tested ChromeOS on it for a weekend to get a feel for it and see if it were the sort of thing that I could recommend to family members. (Traditionally my go-to advice
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by jlgreco 13y ago
They both call themselves "phusion".
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Should we not commend the EFF for correcting this misconception?
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Custom systems would also be "open to infection". It just probably wouldn't be very likely. It is very difficult to not read a strong implication into that line. If nothing else, then the line is useless and states nothing
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Hmm, fair enough.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
If GCJ is to be removed as a default, and GCC-Go added as one, (I don't really have the expertise to say if doing those things is merited) then they should be done as two discrete changes: "GCJ was removed as a default. Incident
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by jlgreco 13y ago
The laws need to be enforced to work, I would never suggest otherwise. The fact is when the laws are enforced it becomes difficult for teenagers to buy liquor themselves and, absent people who make a living selling liquor illegally (th
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by jlgreco 13y ago
A suspected memory-leak is definitely the sort of thing that you should report to the authors/maintainers. Even if you think it is triggered by something that you are doing wrong, their program should not respond to that incorrect inp
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Even htop doesn't show you everything it can by default. See the (default off) option "Detailed CPU time (System/IO-Wait/Hard-IRQ/Soft-IRQ/Steal/Guest)"
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Just give more information right off the bat. Don't say "XYZ is chewing up lots of RAM" ; the best case scenario if you say that is they have to respond back asking for more information. Give that information to them in th
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by jlgreco 13y ago
How does this understanding prevent people from solving real problems, simply by virtue of it being commonly cited? I don't understand your complaint.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Drug dealers are typically willing to sell their wares to children. This makes sense, since what they are doing is illegal anyway. If we legalize a drug (say, alcohol), then the people who sell that particular drug will typically no longer
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> They've all got much less usable since the fancy UI designers came in and screwed them up. See also, the decline of GNOME. This isn't a problem unique to Google.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
What the hell are you smoking? I'm not attempting to prove anything, I am asking you a question .
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by jlgreco 13y ago
"when did you ever see a Justin Bieber hairdo on anyone over the age of 17?" Give it a few years...
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> "Do you know many 13 - 16 year olds?" Admittedly no, but aren't most children on their parent's cellphone plans? I would expect the cash strapped ones to be in their early twenties, but I'm not seeing that in
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I typically hesitate to repeat myself to trolls, but what do you suggest the EFF do here ?
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by jlgreco 13y ago
So what do you suggest the EFF do here, not oppose the bill?

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