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by kakwa_ 11mo ago
Perl was pretty much first in the wave of interpreted languages from the late 80ies and 90ies. It set the bar on what to expect from such ecosystems. But being the first meant it got some oddities and the abstractions are not quite right im
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by kakwa_ 11mo ago
I think Apple has kind of a culture problem where the whole organization has to look-up way too much to its chief to make key decisions. This could have worked in Jobs times, because of the personality & vision of the latter, plus a rap
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by kakwa_ 11mo ago
Netscape was fairly known by the public during the .com bubble, it's now a distant memory at most.
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by kakwa_ 1y ago
https://technically.kakwalab.ovh/posts/silly-sun-server-intr... Some architectures are no longer practical with Linux. The kernel might still support it, but distribution support is sketchy. For a SPARC64 server refurb
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by kakwa_ 1y ago
I'm also an UnTrap happy user. It's an awesome anti doom-scrolling antidote for Youtube, with a lot of customization possible. I would definitely recommend it. At least try it to see how much Youtube's design & recommenda
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by kakwa_ 1y ago
Groupe Le Monde (Xavier Niel, founder of Free and 42 schools, wed to Bernard Arnault's daughter (French Bourgeoisie is a small world)). But Le Monde Diplomatique's redaction has been able to remain independent thanks to it's
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by kakwa_ 1y ago
It's actually kind of worse. Because you get a mix of Dassault (the company)'s agenda (defense spending, pro-industry) and a push for the fairly conservative views of the Marcel Bloch/Dassault descendants themselves. To be fa
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by kakwa_ 1y ago
No, it's not some kind of clickbait strategy to drive views. Driving an agenda is. Most of French media, specially newspapers, are money sinks only surviving because they are useful to push the rent-seeking business or ideological agen
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
It's not necessarily a question of persons (and the CEO did a resigned after the Max crashes). It's more a question of culture (oversimplifying, sales vs engineering) and this is harder to change most of the time. Apparently, even
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Different contexts and not really comparable. 1) The whole airspace environment is heavily regulated (ATC, rules, etc), cooperative (think transponders or TCAS for example) and usually quite sparse (several miles between planes). 2) Pilots
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Or you simply are extremely cautious not knowing how bureaucratic and slow the PSF is or is not.
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Golang is not a complete replacement for Python and/or Java and/or C++. For example, if you were to create a complex native application (browser, game, cad software, etc), C++ is still probably the best choice. For data manipulati
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Maybe, but then, why the onion service is still up? This feels more like uncontrolled infrastructure rot/lack of maintenance rather than a conscious decision to cut unnecessary parts of it.
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Given Golang popularity, it probably managed to solve more than Google's internal issues. It most likely ticked quite few boxes right: * easy syntax * fairly extensive std lib * easy memory management & mostly painless GC * easy sh
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Well, having a working Node 18 in 10 years might prove really difficult. Recreating the whole outdated stack is often doable, but it's really time consuming and often feels more like archeology than Computer Science. What you really wa
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
> A few decades ago anyone with a billion dollars could start making cellphones Did you mixed-up million and billion? A billion dollar is a gigantic pill of money. This feel a bit like saying "anyone with a British crown on his head
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Looking at the git logs ( https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/log/ ) that doesn't seem to hold true. While the days around 2003 when the project had +2500 commits per year are long gone, coreut
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
You are lucky, I got nothing for heavily suggesting a ~1M/year saving. The only "personal" reward I get from that is: whenever I feel guilty for not having done much in a given day, I remind myself that by this action alone,
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
These 2008 slides talking about "Ads Quality" really sound weird compared to today. The screenshots, with the ads being clearly visible, surrounded by yellow boxes, and not taking too much screen real estate, are quite striking co
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Toshiba, given Midea bought their home appliance division, yes: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-17/china-s-m... Looking through amazon, all the most basic models at a ~$80 to $110 price point
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Sad thing is, Apple used to make keyboards that were even easier to replace than Thinkpad ones: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/PowerBook+G3+Pismo+Keyboard+Rep...
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Indeed, in a car accident, the car itself is rarely to blame. But that was not my point. At the end of the day, no matter how well it's built, a car is a several tons lump of steel launched at significant speed. It's an inherently
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Honestly, with some adjustments, the same incentives also hold true in every industry. I would personally put the low quality of our code more down to immaturity and lack of tooling.
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Are cars really that safe? I mean, safer relative to what they used to be, yes. But compared other modes of transportation, not so sure.
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Honestly, these days, I would be surprised to not have Linux hardware support with any PC I might buy. At least, in my experience with the 3 brand new computers I got (T460s in 2016, T14s in 2021, Custom Desktop (Ryzen 5, ATI 7900 XT)), eve
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Implement a proper Proof of Possession system (PoP) and make Let's Encrypt opt-in instead of opt-out. Given that in the end, Let's Encrypt/ACME relies on PoP of a DNS domain, DNSSEC setup on the domain should have been a prer
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Not really. In a lot of industries, +20 years old tech and even +20 years old equipment are normal and competitive. In tech, yes, 20 years is a lot, but that's more of an exception. And imho, it's slowing down: A 20 years old comp
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Devil's advocate, but one might argue patents actually incentivize progress. Without patents, there is far less incentive to seek progress. What's the point for a for-profit organization to spend resources on Research, just to see
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
I'm wondering what was the overall effect on prices in the end. Did the prices really increased by 15%? Or did the bids, specially the second highest, roughly dropped by 15% meaning the price stayed the same. Or something in the middle
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Well ressources are not infinite. And in such conditions I would rather prioritize by need rather than by mean.

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