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by knorker 2y ago
Almost all the instances of people getting upset by language like that it's because they refuse to understand that it's required for you the customer being able to share the photo with others. Why sublicense? Well, because the w
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by knorker 2y ago
I am not surprised. Sounds like you're saying studies support exactly what I was saying.
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by knorker 2y ago
I do see many cyclists blatantly violating traffic rules. But I'm not even sure cyclists are more prone to do so than drivers. Stand at an intersection and count how many times light turning red does not have a car sneak right after.
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by knorker 2y ago
All true. But one should also consider the cyclist's view, which is that once the cars are gone, people walk wherever and however they want, bike lane or not. That's not to say that "it's their own fault for getting hit&
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by knorker 2y ago
Not just cyclists, of course, but also pedestrians and people living there.
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by knorker 2y ago
But... offline messages. We were on dialup back then. You could only send messages with MSN if the other person was also using the household landline at the same time. Yeah Microsoft did not exactly play fair back then. Even Apple today is
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by knorker 2y ago
It was MSN. I remember when MSN arrived late to the game, and managed to get users anyway, despite not having such an obvious feature, that the incumbent had.
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by knorker 2y ago
There's MIRV, so depends what you mean by "these things". But also some among these 3750 are in subs, and bombers. And as for "100 would do": Well, if they all hit their targets, maybe. But part of the reason for ov
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by knorker 2y ago
That's Hyrum's law for you. Actually that's not even fair to Go. I'm as annoyed as anyone about the many suboptimal technical choices of the Go team, but I would say that Theo saying "I have altered the ABI. Pray I
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by knorker 2y ago
Sure, they're recompilable. If whoever has the source recompiles them. Well, turns out ABI stability was not enough to make gamers use Linux, but it's an example. A better example would maybe be the Oracle database. You could mayb
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by knorker 2y ago
Linux could probably do it despite glibc, just more carefully. But OpenBSD also broke Go binaries, with some recent changes, right? Breaking ABI towards userspace, or breaking user space? What's the difference? Binaries that used to wo
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by knorker 2y ago
I agree that it's a fine use case. I'm just saying it's simpler if you allow yourself a fresh start. Won't work well for games and other stuff you can't just recompile on your own. Going mainframe mode and virtualiz
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by knorker 2y ago
> OpenBSD solved the time_t issue long ago. It's amazing how quickly you can solve problems when you're fine breaking user space between releases. Not that Linux has a perfect record, but it's much harder when you actually
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by knorker 2y ago
I don't think Pike ever gets accused of arrogance being off brand for him.
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by knorker 3y ago
To each their own. I've been running Sway on most machines. I only run X11 in one place, because there nvidia stability forces me to use i3 instead[1]. Sway and Wayland is just SO much better than X11 and i3. No screen tearing. Keyboar
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by knorker 3y ago
> If I give you the diff, how long will it take you to type the changes back into the code base and recover your six-hours' work? The diff will help, but it'll be an order of magnitude faster to do it the second time, diff prov
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by knorker 3y ago
I think you're nitpicking semantics, and don't know what your point is. Anyway, this is not a productive semantics debate. Have a nice weekend.
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by knorker 3y ago
Yes, I said they focus on other things. It's not criticism. But it is true that they dismissed SMP, and did not see dual-core coming. They were late because they were reacting to dual core launching. > I also feel that it's not
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by knorker 3y ago
I like openbsd for what it is, but they do have a tendency to imply or outright say that the thing they just did is something they invented. Like when they launched W^X (which isn't even an accurate term, because that implies that read
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by knorker 3y ago
Well, for SGI that's like saying the world "chose wrong" that long distance travel is not done by Saturn 5 rockets. The Saturn 5 was clearly a technical marvel better than any plane, and it'd get you anywhere much faster
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by knorker 3y ago
Sure. Could have been a rogue jerk. But even then maybe it's not a coincidence that the rogue jerk is from Apple specifically.
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by knorker 3y ago
I'm shocked, SHOCKED, that Apple is super aggressively swinging their hammer to protect their brand. During a technical talk at a nieche conference, a speaker had an apple logo on a slide, along other logos, to illustrate devices. An A
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by knorker 3y ago
You can commit while on a plane, with git. And on many flights even upload these changes. So that's not really a slam dunk. Everything else: Very interesting!
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by knorker 3y ago
I didn't want to start shitting on alternatives, but cmake is in my experience clearly the worst of all options. It seems that more often than not, cmake setups work on the developer's own machine and nothing else. And the choice
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by knorker 3y ago
It's another case of that "yes, it sucks. But the alternatives just plain don't work, or work in WAY fewer circumstances". If I have a strange architecture or install, autoconf is often the only one that works.
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by knorker 3y ago
Sure, I didn't mean to imply that the bigger the better, but only that "it's still a big thing". It would be less impressive to say "LAN parties still exist. Two friends came over yesterday and we nerded out".
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by knorker 3y ago
There are still LAN parties. So much easier to go now that CRTs are gone. Biggest one is https://dreamhack.com/summer/lan/
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by knorker 3y ago
This is why modern laptops don't stay at 100% if the detect that they're always plugged in, no?
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by knorker 3y ago
I'm shocked that it turns out that yes, actually, guns do kill people. But there's no way to prevent it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_...
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by knorker 3y ago
Whenever I've made notes like this, it's never been useful to my future self nor to anyone else. The only use I've had of this kind of documentation is that the process of writing it, made me understand it better. Basically w

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