khedoros

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by khedoros 10y ago
There are a few things that make me value the desktop over the web, as a user. First, no surprising interface changes. If I install a new version and dislike it, I can go back to the previous one. Second, if it doesn't need a network c
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by khedoros 10y ago
OK, yes, people use those. How many people actually use them as replacements for the tools you mentioned? Are they practical alternatives, or "alternatives" in the sense that Gimp is an alternative to Photoshop?
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by khedoros 10y ago
What's your operating system? I usually run it under Wine on Linux without a problem.
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by khedoros 10y ago
I had a schedule like that for a few years. It helped that my manager tended to get in even after I did, most days.
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by khedoros 10y ago
I took "mainframe era" to be roughly the 50s through 70s or 80s. Are you talking about the same time period?
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by khedoros 10y ago
I come from a CS education and a professional background that's not focused on any kind of web technology. I guess that I'm accustomed to the idea that most new devs aren't remotely interested in the areas of technology that
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by khedoros 10y ago
Part of the difference in our perspectives is that I don't think I should need to do any low-level manipulation to get software working the way that I want. It's easier to keep my computer doing what I want it to by altogether a
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by khedoros 10y ago
I feel that a program should be clear about what it will do, to give you the choice of whether or not to run it on your hardware. Software is pretty dismal at doing that, and I don't know how to improve it. Something like a bullet-poin
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by khedoros 10y ago
Use SDL or SFML. They both let you write RGBA into a buffer and throw it onto the screen. I think they both handle hardware stretching and scaling, too. > Having 20 different versions of each function for every combination of data type a
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by khedoros 10y ago
Some people are forced into an adult mindset earlier than others. I've known 14 and 16 year olds that could be trusted with more responsibility than most 30 year olds. I've also met 60 year olds with a child's mindset. Clearl
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by khedoros 10y ago
So, selling weapons to Iraq: What is your list of ridiculous, incidental things to restrict? The premise of the original analogy has two parts. First, something that they want to prevent. Second, cherry-picking things that don't necess
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by khedoros 10y ago
This is awesome! It seems like an important series of steps towards having a legitimately-open educational platform, rather than the somewhat asterisk-laden one that the Pi currently represents.
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by khedoros 10y ago
> what if she cut off her thumb and disposed of it in such a way that it was irretrievable? A contempt charge wouldn't hold any more (probably), but there's probably another charge that would apply, like spoliation of evidence
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by khedoros 10y ago
Providing a fingerprint isn't considered testimony, and the law doesn't currently make an exception for a fingerprint used as the equivalent of a passphrase. The fifth amendment protects knowledge, but not physical constructs like
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by khedoros 10y ago
Contempt is only supposed to be for when someone's action brings the mechanism of a trial to a halt. Refusing to do an action that the court thinks it's allowed to compel you to do is an example. Say she waits two days. The phone
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by khedoros 10y ago
Why not all of them as a category, or shootings in general? They all fit the concept of "negatives that legislation would attempt to prevent" in the analogy. That's the great thing about analogies: They compare concepts, but
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by khedoros 10y ago
"Systemd" isn't really a single program, it's a collection of 69 binaries, that together handle a number of functions that were traditionally handled by separately-developed pieces of software. It handles init, user logi
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by khedoros 10y ago
> Why do people invent these strange terms? Same reason we talk about a "for loop" or a "while loop", instead of just a "conditional branch". Different words add different context to the concept that they&#x
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by khedoros 11y ago
I've never seen an interview question that I couldn't Google an answer for, after the fact. That doesn't seem like a necessary criterion to decide if it's a valuable question or not. However, it's a problem if the q
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by khedoros 11y ago
> I never really understood the draw of game streaming when you can't use the source device in any way (like Steam, Xbox One streaming). My gaming PC's 30-40ft away from the living room and master bedroom, in what used to be my
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by khedoros 11y ago
The OPL2 and 3 chips were all-digital, so it's possible to verify that the bitstreams from the original chips matches the outputs of an emulator of the chip...but the original hardware also included some specific ADCs with some kind of
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by khedoros 11y ago
The connection standard they used is really meant for use in a mobile phone, with a 3cm ribbon going from the board to the camera. I've seen CSI cables close to a meter for sale, but I'm not sure how reliably they work. The siblin
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by khedoros 11y ago
I'm a native English-speaker, and I don't speak anything else fluently, but I speak enough of a few languages to have basic conversations in them (that is, enough to go beyond just using phrases that I learned from a book). Every
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by khedoros 11y ago
Firefox and Chrome don't do "move fast and break things"-style continuous deployment, can't push updates to a user seamlessly (i.e. without restarting the program), and can be downloaded and compiled on platforms that Mo
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by khedoros 11y ago
I live in a more-connected place, but the only real communities I've participated in are online. Granted, there's not the time zone difference, but being physically in the same place as other programmers hasn't ever felt like
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by khedoros 11y ago
That sounds ambitious, interesting, and like a lot more work than keeping a webpage running. My first thought is "cross-platform nightmare". My second thought is that they'd have to rethink their expectations of continuous de
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by khedoros 11y ago
Maybe you could frame them that way. Vandalism causes damage to society (and a cost to repair/clean). There may be smaller prices society could pay, by providing some kind of alternative to tagging or destruction of property. Hypotheti
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by khedoros 11y ago
It's based on the idea that capitalism works because it harnesses greedy self-interest, while a pure communist state would fail because there's no direct connection between doing extra work and getting extra benefit. Capitalist fa
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by khedoros 11y ago
Well, right, that needs to be a multi-purpose serial interface device, and who knows what crazy timing requirements some sensor or interface chip will need. An example: There are some cheap little radios around. They literally just output a
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by khedoros 11y ago
For music, it seems like the rt-linux patch ought to be enough. They claim sub-100 microsecond timing jitter for process wakeup ( https://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RT_PREEMPT_HOWTO#Benchm... ). That ought to be tiny,

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