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by korethr 10y ago
> However, linux is missing basic functionality other os's offer, and systemd is showing up and trying to fill in those blanks. I'm curious what functionality other OSes had that Linux did not before systemd came along. It seem
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by korethr 10y ago
>While we're discussing how high tech isn't required in a game, I feel the need to say that they aren't mutually exculsive, either. That's fair. I think part of the whole pixel art thing is a backlash against modern g
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by korethr 10y ago
Oh, I logged plenty of hours in Quake as well, Quake 2 especially, but not because OMG! Graphics! as I thought at the time, but because I was having fun. As for the game dev, I don't know, I didn't ask. I might be mis-remembering
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by korethr 10y ago
I'd say it's more like most mobile devices don't have IPv6 period, at least not here in the US. Every time I've done or seen network tests on a phone on the major cell carrier networks here in the US, there's been n
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by korethr 10y ago
No, I'd say the pixel tax is a real thing. There is an attitude among many gamers and game producers that if a game doesn't have the latest and greatest definition of resolution, 3d graphics, high poly count, or latest-graphics-te
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by korethr 10y ago
Why not? Sometimes pushing against the boundaries of what can/can't or should/shouldn't be done is entertaining, educational, or both. I mean, why would you abuse the spindles and armature in a hard drive to walk it acro
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by korethr 10y ago
> attending a school like ITT displays a shocking inability to do even the most cursory research before making a huge life decision. Meh. Again, torn. I can understand the sentiment having had my own frustration with interviewing ITT tec
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by korethr 10y ago
How many of them did you end up hiring? That's not sarcastic, I'm genuinely curious. My experience with ITT tech candidates was the opposite. When interviewing for a datacenter tech position, the candidates were hit and miss on ba
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by korethr 10y ago
I'm torn on this. Understand, I have little love for ITT, and I got my 4 year degree from there. In hindsight, I wish I'd done community college and the local university instead. I honestly believe I'd have had a better curri
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by korethr 10y ago
And we'll wrap up the article with a BrainFuck interpreter, one that's more compact than a BrainFuck interpreter written in BrainFuck. That truly _is_ a glorious horror.
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by korethr 10y ago
I've become accustomed to using backspace as a Browser Back keyboard shortcut, though I can sympathize with the hate for such. More than once did I intend to go back, only to discover the cursor was presently focused in a text box, or
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by korethr 10y ago
I appreciate that he practices what he preaches here. Perhaps I've been made cynical by my experience with several other sites, but I was half-expecting to have to enable JS from a bunch of other domains just to get the content to rend
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by korethr 10y ago
Perhaps you are being sarcastic, but I shall attempt to answer the question earnestly anyway. I've been reading up on aviation regs due to a recent interest in getting a pilot's license. By my understanding, airplanes certified by
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by korethr 10y ago
I know of no governmental student loan that is interest free. In addition, the options for flexible payments are limited, and generally only available to those of lower income brackets. There are payment deferral options, but interest accru
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by korethr 10y ago
They could. I doubt it would have much effect. It is very hard to get someone to learn something that they aren't interested in, don't care about, or don't agree with. What would most likely happen is people would take the pe
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by korethr 10y ago
Maybe a web app, maybe not a web app. Whether the code running on the Comcast set-top boxes is a web app or not doesn't matter. What does matter is that is is that the code running on the Comcast set-top boxes is likely built with the
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by korethr 10y ago
That there are assumptions that they own and control the network end points is betrayed by the comment that you don't find credible. I agree that the comment is poorly worded, but to me, it indicates that the set-top boxes they're
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by korethr 10y ago
I can understand Comcast's point. They're moving away from their QAM-based system, to an IP-based one, and one of the inherent assumptions of the design of the latter is that they own and control the network end-points that provid
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by korethr 10y ago
>and you're gonna need rollerskates. :-) What does that even mean?
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by korethr 10y ago
Okay, now you've piqued my curiosity. Is that something to do because it's really smart and clever and fun, or is there a certain problem or class of problems where doing that is unambiguously the best or least-worst solution?
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by korethr 10y ago
I suppose I'm in their target audience, then. I've not done any systems programming, but do have a curiosity about it, and Rust has caught my eye. But my main problem is a lack of a project -- a ThingIWantToDo that would be well s
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by korethr 10y ago
It's a very sobering but realistic thought. Plenty of past human civilizations that were powerful and dominant in their day are now but decayed ruins of varying levels of mysteriousness. I do very much enjoy and benefit from being part
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by korethr 10y ago
Honestly, reading this, I kept thinking to myself, "Man, this is just waiting to be turned into science fiction short story." It could go in different directions, future humans discover such a site, humans discover an alien analog
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by korethr 10y ago
Your question, by what, shows why it's not passive. In this case, "exhausted" is an adjective, and thus the sentence is not passive voice. The subject (I) is not receiving the action of getting used up or drained, it is doing
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Why the Talos project wants to provide an open and expandable POWER8 workstation(techrepublic.com)
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by korethr 10y ago
English is a bastardized munge of a language, truthfully, with both Germanic and Romance parts. Initially it was a Germanic language, but after the Norman invasion of England, a great deal of Romance words were added to the language via the
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by korethr 10y ago
Looking at the site, it looks like this focuses on US politics. Being a US citizen, I'm totally fine with this. An easily searchable archive of political ads should make it easier to call BS on our politicians when necessary. I find my
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by korethr 11y ago
Another option is to start flying with something that qualifies as a 'firearm' in your luggage. Such requires actual proper locks that only you can open. There was a talk on this at DEFCON 17 https://www.youtube.com&#
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by korethr 11y ago
While I agree with you, the average buyer of computer components is used to spending an order of magnitude less on a motherboard. A person can go to their usual source of computer parts and pick up a motherboard for a couple hundred USD at
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by korethr 11y ago
I've heard about the power of Lisp more than once from more than one old-guard hacker, but (4) blows my mind.

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