katastic

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by katastic 9y ago
>Outlook is awful. Yes. And any system that wants to REMOVE the incumbent, has to replace it with superior features. I mean, what are you actually trying to argue for here? You literally just used Markdown to add emphasis to your post.
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by katastic 9y ago
Holy crap. That seems like such an oversight for something so crucial.
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by katastic 9y ago
You guys are seriously downvoting HTML? Have you ever worked in a business environent? Have you have used Outlook (the most popular e-mail client in the world)? How do you support attachments in text? Do you assume every "link" is
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by katastic 9y ago
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, but sqlite supports ramdisks/"In-memory databases" https://www.sqlite.org/inmemorydb.html Perhaps the key (ha!, pun) is that you're talking about using RAM _and_ di
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by katastic 9y ago
Or you know, a standard that actually supports useful things like links.
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by katastic 9y ago
Wouldn't people with the most experience in "finding" work... also be the people who have "found" work they didn't like--requiring many job changes? My job was never listed anywhere. It was purely word-of-mouth
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by katastic 9y ago
I thought GPLv3 was for many issues, not a single issue. For example, the software-as-a-service loophole that GPLv3 (and AGPL) closes. We actually had an exploitation of said loophole for the open source Space Station 13 game. People were m
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by katastic 9y ago
Not only that but due to an existing bug/oversight in Windows, you can actually freeze your mouse pointer with a machine... even with 24 cores sitting idle. (Great read.) https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2017/07&#
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by katastic 9y ago
In my experience, K-12 and 4-year college were all about "useful abstractions and assumptions" to help people understand concepts, and grad material was about slowly peeling away those assumptions and abstractions that made it con
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by katastic 9y ago
I thought you needed a many-GHZ scope/logic probe to capture modern ethernet.
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by katastic 9y ago
"It's not a hardware problem, it's a human problem!"
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by katastic 9y ago
What's hard about a VM? You can download an entire VM complete with OS and all relevant dev tools and have zero leakage of viruses or workspaces into your normal client. It's a great way to encapsulate your development for a speci
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by katastic 9y ago
To clarify: The N64 SDK runs on XP.
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by katastic 9y ago
How about a non-compete agreement?
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by katastic 9y ago
> we also can't ever move forwards. There is a thing called Forward Compatibility. Not everything old has to die to move forward. On our OpenGL 4.x videocards still run OpenGL 1.x. And no, fixed function pipeline of 1.x isn't a
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by katastic 9y ago
>The web is the only platform aside from perhaps some assembly languages that is that stable and that ubiquitous. The first part I agree with. The second, I don't understand. .NET and Java are way more universal than assembly langua
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by katastic 9y ago
Kind of strange how certain, obscure topics reappear on the same site. Like Reddit reposts, Hacker News apparently has articles that hit every year or every few years. That first link literally mentions HN the last time it slashdot'd i
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by katastic 9y ago
I had _three_ of the same generation card die on me. The past and future generations still work fine. (7xxx/8xxx/9xxx series if I recall correctly.) No problems with 560, 1060, or even really old cards like the MX series. So &quot
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by katastic 9y ago
Have you considered rewriting it in Rust?
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by katastic 9y ago
Exactly. I'm more worried about if someone can make a mask of someone's face (or even a print out) and get it to work. But at least it's not like people have pictures of their faces plastered across every social network... ..
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by katastic 9y ago
Before or after all the grad students couldn't get jobs because the market was full?
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by katastic 9y ago
Didn't you mother ever tell you to stop putting things in your mouth? Also, it's used in dental alloys. It seems it's only toxic if you inhale its dust. Fun fact: Your body has no way to remove it from your body, so you accum
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by katastic 9y ago
Mine is almost instantaneous. Except it's a lie because the TV is never actually off. It's "Standby" mode consumes a crap ton of wattage and the manual literally says "unplug it" if you intend to not use it for
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by katastic 9y ago
I know. I'm not saying they invented it. I'm saying that it wasn't a common feature on lower price cars.
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by katastic 9y ago
User interfaces have gone backwards decades in quality. Look at your car radio in a 90's car. You didn't need to look at it to figure out how to push the radio button, turn the volume, anything. You could even adjust the bass on t
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by katastic 9y ago
Android used to about a crappy Samsung app on my phone in the details view: - Using sys.whatever.whatever [redtext][Should only ever be used for debugging.] I can't remember what app it was but it had an insane amount of unnecessary
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by katastic 9y ago
In my experience, the entire world runs on insecure systems (and will continue to do so until companies start getting sued into oblivion for leaking data). Secure systems are the exception--not the norm. It's just not a priority becaus
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by katastic 9y ago
Other than "active" pages with live charts and other data (which are great!), as well as Control-F (which cannot be understated), I prefer paper books on every possible way. They're easier on my eyes. They're easy to boo
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by katastic 9y ago
Except they already make bigger than that. A 25x40 display. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Refreshable_braille_display A full page braille display with 1,000 cells (25 lines of 40 cells) was developed in 2015 b
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by katastic 9y ago
>but I tried something different in an attempt to avoid large switch statements. This must be some sort of generation gap. Because array of pointers for opcodes is like... emulator 101. It's just a jump table. Glad you're learn

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