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by josefx 2y ago
Wasn't Microsofts biggest Linux contribution the code to make it run on Microsofts Hyper-V ? From what I understand their only other major contribution is the Rust project that ran head long into a wall.
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> Humans spent millennia working out the navigation problem. And you think we spend any less time trying to identify food animals that lay tasty eggs?
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> but doesn't unoptimized C map closely to 1:1 What is a variable in C? A register? A memory location? The language doesn't have basic concepts needed to map anything 1:1 to assembly and the ones it has usually come with half a
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From what I understand those drivers currently cannot be merged since the devs. rewrote various kernel APIs to match their expectations.
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> I don’t think developing a new PvP shooter is a viable business Valve is currently working on Deadlock and seems to have no issues getting players despite its still unfinished state.
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Mozilla started working on a similar API with Facebook back when Google announced FLOC. They are most likely more opposed to the bad press FLOC got than they are to the idea itself.
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Most users only bother with quick solutions for whatever problem they have, not with any deeper understanding. They get the kind of expertise where the BOFH only has to sit on the sidelines with a bucket of popcorn, watch the user shred the
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> because of the part on how local phone rates went up when AT&T was broken up. Isn't that caused by the "last mile" problem? Even with the split there was always only one company in control of local infrastructure an
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> All of these are talking about security issues, not "acting differently". Because no system has been ever taken down by code that behaved different from what it was expected to do? Right? Like http desync attacks, sql escape
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Microsoft defender using broken by design detection rules? One could almost think it is an anti virus program.
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Googles privacy policy once listed it as a way to manage the privacy impact of its services without going into detail what that actually meant. They reworded it around the time the lawsuit came up.
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> I doubt that it would cut down on the amount of low effort garbage. Right now the main search engine everyone uses is run by an ad company. Just getting rid of that conflict of interest would probably help to significantly weed out gar
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There is a difference between an API promissing that a value wont be null and a buggy program setting a null where it should not. A reference is only null if someone fucked up. As a programmer you can usually rely on a reference not being n
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> if only for the fact that a round-trip toUpper().toLower() will not give you back the original word. It is an inherently destructive round trip, especially in a language that makes excessive use of upper case when comapred to english.
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> likely a regression introduced by a rhel-specific patch. Blaming crowdstrike for this is stupid (just like blaming microsoft for the crowdstrike bsod is stupid). Yeah, it isn't as if crowdstrike was specifically advertising certif
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It probably extends the language less than g++ or msvc do out of the box.
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> So... C? =P Without the string handling API, the always unsafe casts or the global states hidden in its standard library, the complete lack of automatic memory management, ... . Most of the bugs I run into in badly written C++ code tur
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The biggest chunk of that "extra work" would be installing Linux in the first place, given that almost everything comes with Windows out of the box. An additional "sudo apt install nvidia-drivers" isn't going to sto
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In the context of a job application? Making up excuses to hide discrimination, maybe artificially limit the pool of applications to get around other hiring restrictions? Put the applicant on the back foot or make them share information they
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It might be great for everyone if AI research had a reason to look into non brute force training methods.
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Given that the example mentioned above was about making the scroll wheel work? When Microsoft released the IntelliMouse it came with a driver disk, just plugging in the mouse without reading the manual left you with a non functional scroll
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> Directly plugged monitors usually just work thanks to EDID info If you are dealing with consumer grade stuff that is sold a million times sure. I stopped keeping track of how often some special purpose/overpriced piece of display
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I think CPython does reference counting for its memory management, it still has to run a GC since reference counting does not handle reference cycles.
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> and had no knowledge of. A the time honored excuse of "sorry mister officer I did not know the car I was driving was stolen, I just found it on the road a few days ago and had no idea I swear".
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You could always have an AST node to encapsulate the invalid code. Of course any affected code would be stuck in the source format it was written in until it was fixed.
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> And decades later asked it to not be used anymore. Then how are her parents even remotely relevant? > You can waste as much time with long winded arguments as you want Brought to you by the people who bring this argument up every ti
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> If it was their daughter I'm sure they'd have a different opinion Are we back in the 60s where a father has to sign off on the daughters job application? We are talking about a woman who willingly signed up for a playboy phot
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> a good coverage with modern and clean trains But not a single ounce of reliability to be found among them. > but I think it's also really hard to run a punctual train network with a country of this size in the middle of Europe
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> Those 15-minute delays are annoying The 15 minute delays are annoying, the trains that do not arrive at all, however are travel ending. Bonus points: the DB was encouraged to cut train travel short or skip rail stations to make up for
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Isn't the 49€ ticket restricted to slower regional trains than the 150€ alternative? I still pay a small fortune traveling between west and east germany to save a few hours of travel time.

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