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by kakwa_ 9y ago
Well, not difficult... I'm not sure about that. Most hand-tailored Makefiles have seen aside from well known OSS projects (Linux Kernel, suckless stuff) generally had major issues. Here is a sample of what I've seen: * not support
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
Well, I'm not denying that, I'm exactly in that situation for my laptop: 2007 thinkpad x61, core 2 duo T7100, but with 4GB of RAM and an SSD, to be fair I'm cheating a little as I use Debian+DWM which is lighter than Windows
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
Well actually I think it's more a case of "increase in performance is becoming harder and harder, the technology leader (Intel) is slowly becoming stuck and the competition (AMD) is catching up". Everybody will be more or les
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
I don't know about the CVE, but the earlier Liberty ships were not particularly well constructed (brittle steel that resulted in some of them breaking in half in the middle of the Atlantic under cold conditions). But for the few that b
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
As a side note, to illustrate their lesser "sophistication", they got the following nickname: Combustible Vulnerable and Expendable (CVE).
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
Also, when architecturing for shards, you must take into account availability. Having several shards can lower the availability of your application if it cannot handle the absence of a shard. For example if you have 99.9% availability on yo
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
Storing 60+TB of data is different than searching and doing complex computation on 60TB of data. Also, operations on a such huge data set can be really painful. Think how to backup a DB like that safely, or how to update the engine. Some sl
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
This implies traditional car manufacturers are not already working on EV vehicles. Sure some will be left in the dust because they missed the good wagon, but a large chunk of them will survive and thrive. Right know Tesla's production
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
To be fair, rare are the roman buildings that survived in good condition. There are some beautiful counter examples, like for example the Rome Pantheon, but this building, being converted as a church, as been correctly maintained most of th
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
The new-built nuclear power plants you are mentioning are not finished yet, have huge cost overruns and delays (and that's not finished yet). The french EPR (Flamanville) for example had many issues (for example, some serious defects o
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
I could not agree more. The Linux version was really badly maintained for ages. Circa 2014, I had to do weird stuff like sed on the .so flash plugin to bump artificially its version string from 11 to 12 This was to work around a requirement
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
IIRC, it's already present in mysql workbench. https://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/images/wb-new-visual-...
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
- "do you even know what a shard is?" - "shards are the secret ingredient in the webscale sauce, they just work" <3
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
I don't think so, I work for a big corporation, and our legal department contacted Facebook to confirm the interpretation and ask if a reworking of the license was possible. It wasn't possible, consequently my company asked that w
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
Just a very naive question, would not it be possible for the taxiway lights to only be visible from the ground?
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
1) As far as I know, this is only communication stunt. There was no new legislation that eases immigration, it falls in the current set of laws and regulations that didn't seem to cause major issues for now (at least for engineering jo
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
You should change bank ^^. Personally, I've moved two times and I didn't have to do the close/open/cheque stuff. And the direct debit authorization I've since before the first move keep working. As for cheques, It&#
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Ask HN: How to find a new maintainer instead of abandoning a side project?
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
There are CS Engineering schools in France that have a large part of their teaching in "hard" science. For example, in my school (ENSIIE). I've studied Operational Research, Graph Theory, Logic, Probability, Statistic, Formal
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
Monetizing, or at least trying to monetize can be kind of counter productive for many projects, specially smaller ones. Personally, I have a few projects on Github that seems to be somewhat useful to other people... but not a lot people (my
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
>8859-1 defines the first 256 symbols and declares that there shall be no deviation from that. Microsoft then immediately deviates with their Windows 1252 encoding. >Everyone hates Microsoft. If only it was only that... Microsoft has
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
Just a bit of history of french politics since WW2: After 1945, the IV Republique is created, it's a parliamentarian regime, with a strong left side. Long story short, the decolonization in Algeria is a mess, the socialist government s
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by kakwa_ 9y ago
It might be a little too simplistic to credit the EU for 70 years of peace. There is no major conflict directly involving two major powers for many decades (1945/WW2, or 1952/korean war if considering that China was a major power
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by kakwa_ 10y ago
Yes Thinkpads are great, specially second hand ones. Many companies tend to replace them after a few years so there are a lot of them on the market, and they are generally quite cheap. Once thing to keep in mind however is the screen. At le
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by kakwa_ 10y ago
On on side, Ford, and most other companies in the automobile industry, are big corporation. The bigger it gets, the more difficult it is to change. And all the sub-contracting done in the industry might lead to even more difficulties to mov
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by kakwa_ 10y ago
"With great power comes great responsibility". The image part of docker is basically bundling application with its dependencies. Personally I've rarely seen applications doing that properly. For example, I've seen many J
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by kakwa_ 10y ago
I think we are a lot here using "minimal" tilling window managers. At least in the representative sample of 5 linux users around me, 3 are using minimal setups (not so representative I know). Personally I use dwm with some shell s
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by kakwa_ 10y ago
Crypto Won't Save You Either, Peter Gutmann: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahcUuNO4so
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by kakwa_ 10y ago
My impression is that the intent is to mitigate the possible legal issues raised by the numerous repositories without license. It seems a little far fetch, but I imagine that accessing and reading content subject to copyrights can be punish
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by kakwa_ 10y ago
A few aircraft incidents/accidents were caused by batteries. There is of course the 787 of All Nippon Airway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_787_Dreamliner_battery_... And with battery as a cargo this time,

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