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by kbolino 2y ago
I guess I don't understand why this comes off like a bad thing. X11 has ossified badly. Web apps directly achieve the goals of network transparency in a cross-platform way. Remote desktop works better in practice with VNC and RDP and t
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by kbolino 2y ago
Certain "hard right" parties like the PAP in Singapore and the LDP in Japan have placed a competent civil service at the forefront of their policies. Though in many ways, the US may appear more conservative than its "peers&qu
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by kbolino 2y ago
The Switch is a cartridge-based console, but it can't really benefit from massive assets since the hardware is so weak. Best I can find is that the cartridge is limited to 32 GB, though whether that's because it's just SDHC u
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by kbolino 2y ago
The early manned space programs at USAF/NASA were a lot more cavalier than the shuttle program.
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by kbolino 2y ago
It was Jimmy Carter and not Ronald Reagan who scrapped the civil service competency exams. Government getting worse has been a two-party affair for quite some time. No one has any incentive to fix it, and the system is so vast, so complex,
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by kbolino 2y ago
Hasn't it been the case, for quite some time now, that VNC and RDP are more efficient over the network than X11 for modern graphical apps? Client-side font rendering, antialiasing, full-color graphics, alpha-blending, etc. have as far
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by kbolino 2y ago
Yes, though I guess this means we're in the era where "Linux" is more widely understandable than "Unix".
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by kbolino 2y ago
But the hardware does expire. Computers aren't just magically "faster" than they were decades ago; they're altogether different under the hood. An immense number of abstractions have held up the image of stability but th
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by kbolino 2y ago
For what it's worth, FreeBSD is actually it's own thing and not Linux at all. It's descended from Berkeley Unix and has no code in common with Linux or GNU (though it can still run software that's cross-compatible).
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by kbolino 2y ago
Fair point -- the delta to be considered is against the existing SaaS/cloud offering, not the old-school everything-local model. That having been said, not being able to save a file you've worked on because you ran out of credits
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by kbolino 2y ago
If so, that just raises the question: of what benefit is it to the banks to keep unused accounts open? The maintenance costs may be low, but they're still nonzero.
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by kbolino 2y ago
> Somebody please show me a downside to this model? For whom? The user? It's an absolute clusterfuck. Always online video games have already done this shit, and it's been a nightmare for the end user, and that software doesn&#x
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by kbolino 2y ago
Civil action is enforcement. The standards of proof and costs involved are lower than for criminal prosecution.
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by kbolino 2y ago
Closing a credit line penalizes your credit score in general. It's why the standard recommendation is generally to leave the accounts open, forever. Another thing for the FTC to investigate/stop.
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by kbolino 2y ago
"to" not "of" Though if you have $400/hour to spend, you can get an u7in-32tb.224xlarge in AWS us-east-1 region.
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by kbolino 2y ago
The only system that aligns more with voters that I'm aware of is the Westminster system but it has is faults too. It is after all the same system that gave us "Yes, Minister" which illustrated and lampooned the fact that the
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by kbolino 2y ago
I don't think your starting year is a coincidence: before then, Congress was nearly always held by one party: the Democrats. Though the Republicans were competitive for the Presidency, they rarely won majorities in Congress and could n
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by kbolino 2y ago
I do wonder if this strategy will actually move the needle at all. Conservatives have tried something like this at least twice before: lower taxes to starve the government of revenue and force cuts (largely failed and just got routed around
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by kbolino 2y ago
On servers, unless you have a very fast SSD dedicated to swap, all swap gets you is waiting an extra long time to figure out that the operation you're trying to do is going to fail anyway. The number of tasks that need just a little mo
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by kbolino 2y ago
This is an interesting theory. Basically, as I understand it, you already want to do these things, but since the government can compel you to pay tax on them in its currency, you stick to that currency out of convenience/necessity. If
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by kbolino 2y ago
As far as I can tell, in a dense Japanese city, directions start relative to a particular train station, then use distances and landmarks to go from there.
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by kbolino 2y ago
> As a global society we've generally agreed that if you are under the age of 18 you are not grown enough to make decisions that could put yourself or society at risk. What "global society" is this? Most of the world by nu
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by kbolino 2y ago
A cryptocurrency where all the voting nodes are run by the state could fulfill the same objective. The problem is that cryptocurrencies as we know them are based upon a publicly verifiable ledger. Inevitably, the state would want an "o
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by kbolino 2y ago
I guess the line between "business" and "technical" reasons here is a little blurry. Keeping SimCity or any other widely used program working through "hacks" doesn't seem nearly as bonkers in the days befo
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by kbolino 2y ago
The 386 was technically enough to run NT, but the additional features of the operating system demanded additional resources, making it sluggish on the hardware most home users actually had. NT also couldn't use drivers written for DOS
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by kbolino 2y ago
Interesting. My understanding of how things get implemented is that all code runs essentially "async" by default, but the runtime scheduler can switch to running code synchronously when requested (runtime.LockOSThread) or necessar
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by kbolino 2y ago
This is a good point. It's possible to use Go this way too, but it gets tricky. You can lock the main goroutine to its O/S thread with runtime.LockOSThread and then do the heavy lifting on other goroutines, sending messages back t
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by kbolino 2y ago
But that's the thing, we're comparing with Go, where all functions behave that way, and no async/await ceremony is required. Go has many weaknesses, but I don't think a language that treats async as unusual/specia
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by kbolino 2y ago
PostgreSQL also supports a hash index type, which should be able to handle random (v4) UUIDs pretty well. Since there's no meaning to the sort order on random UUIDs anyway, the limitation to exact comparisons (=) shouldn't be a pr
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by kbolino 2y ago
What I mean is, do the various enterprises cluster around the same versions? If roughly half of them skip odd versions and the other half skip even versions, and they do this fairly consistently, it doesn't affect revenue patterns.

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