jsizz

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by jsizz 10y ago
Why avoid recompiling? Why this reluctance to do a full rebuild? I started programming in a world where you had to wait a day to get 300 lines of Fortran built. Now I routinely build the whole 44Gb of community ports of a major Linux dist
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by jsizz 10y ago
Why can't developers, y'know, ACTUALLY READ THE BLOODY WARNINGS? And then, y'know, they could FIX MORE THAN THE FIRST ONE after a single build pass?
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by jsizz 10y ago
Three negative comments on this submission, that's some impressive anti-cult thing you've got going. Slackware doesn't do "security theatre" updates. Whenever there's both a credible risk and a reasonable fix,
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by jsizz 10y ago
Yeah whatevs. This reminds me of the ICL DAP with 1024 processors from 1979... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICL_Distributed_Array_Processo...
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by jsizz 10y ago
> sometimes they cause problems (hello, Debian weak keys). > until recently nobody was packaging Chromium for example. To name one example, SlackBuilds.org has had Chromium since 2010, although admittedly that's not so long ago a
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by jsizz 10y ago
The planning authorities have an obligation to consider the potential historical and archaeological impact of a proposed development, and can impose an obligation on the developer for a professional archaeological investigation (funded by t
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by jsizz 10y ago
Yes, you're being ignorant. Use '--content-disposition' with wget, or '--remote-name' in curl. The top level directory in the tarball corresponds to this name and everything works out as expected.
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by jsizz 11y ago
And thus, every boneheaded project that ships with -Werror enabled will inflict an excrement tornado of FAIL on its grateful users and packagers. THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULD NOT USE -Werror. NOT EVER. (And if you can't bring yourself to d
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by jsizz 11y ago
Oxford Flood Network http://oxfloodnet.co.uk/ "Making a flood detection network in Oxford, using low cost sensors and volunteers"
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by jsizz 11y ago
Parloff spent years publishing pro SCO Group articles and pushing the undisclosed-Microsoft-patents-in-Linux meme. Do we spot a pattern here?
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by jsizz 11y ago
Thanks. FYI, for the upcoming 14.2 release we have an officially unofficial repo with hundreds of fixes for 14.2 ready to go (and hundreds more needed). I'll admit I get a little tetchy when people insist on telling me 'xxx is bro
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by jsizz 11y ago
> I eventually left because slackbuilds.org was not being run very well and I couldn't get the packages I needed I'd be interested to hear more about that if you're willing to share. Let's see if we can do something p
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by jsizz 11y ago
> I have never used a more convenient package manager than sbopkg before. Dependencies can be cleanly recorded and built with queuefiles. http://idlemoor.github.io/slackrepo/index.html
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by jsizz 11y ago
It's worth pointing out that the Bernard S. Greenberg mentioned in the article in connection with NXSYS is the celebrated Multician who ported Emacs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Greenberg
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by jsizz 11y ago
"What makes Waterfox so fast? It's built with Intel's C++ compiler. One of the most powerful compilers out there. This enables us to make the fastest possible web browser for all the code changes we make. This potent combinat
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by jsizz 11y ago
So now Merriam-Webster has become the Twelfth Circuit? This is the lamest jurisdiction shopping I've seen in a while.
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by jsizz 11y ago
I absolutely do not agree with the idea that this is stealing. How can it be stealing, when the owner still has the thing that was supposedly stolen? Different circumstances, different terminology. The correct terminology (see US Title 17
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by jsizz 11y ago
> What word would you use instead? Infringing. (duh)
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by jsizz 11y ago
Please take a moment to actually read the Data Protection Act 1998. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/29 75 matches for 'offence' on that page. Sections 61 and 47 are particularly relevant. Europ