kpxxx

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by kpxxx 9y ago
How is uboot fundamentally different than BIOS or UEFI/EFI? It's not like all the PC clones through the ages had the same bootup sequence for RAM and peripheral init.
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by kpxxx 9y ago
> The result: the controls of modern aircraft look very similar to those from the 1930s. http://magazin.lufthansa.com/content/uploads/2016/07/A380-80... http://imgproc.airliners.net/ph
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by kpxxx 9y ago
> You seem to dislike Windows quite a bit. To the point where it seems personal or you have a vendetta against it. I have better things to do then have a "vendetta" against either a corporation or a piece of equipment (I don&#x
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by kpxxx 9y ago
> Being able to access your workstation via airport wifi at all is actually a benefit in this case, unless you intend to wheel it around like a suitcase Did you walk out of a 1980s time warp or something? The workstation in this case ca
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by kpxxx 9y ago
That's because Microsoft is trash. Typing this from an SP3, which I overall like very much. I was given this, so I have no misgivings. But the overall sloppiness of Windows and the years of varying quirky behavior I've had with th
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by kpxxx 9y ago
The difference is they are demonstrating fantasies or idealizations that much of their customer base have or aspire to themselves. Truck commercials are made that way with a large part of their customer base keenly in mind.
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by kpxxx 9y ago
> MS was probably worse. Not that this counters anything you said nor that relevant to this topic, but as a nerd I am genuinely curious if this was true. I used to write lowlat audio stuff for iOS so I was well aware of the situation And
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by kpxxx 9y ago
No. Ironically, you're probably not old enough. AIM predated any meaningful adoption of SMS in the US by a long time. In the 90s, I was one of the youngest to carry a cell phone (13) -- I wasn't rich either, just a nerd. In the mi
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by kpxxx 9y ago
I'm not quite sure I believe that a lot of people use the X primitives. The alternative to Gtk and Qt is most often not raw Xlib. There are alternative toolkits such as Motif, Xt. And then graphics abstractions such as SDL. Obviously a
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by kpxxx 9y ago
Imagine if the creator of the ideal windowing system wasn't aborted in the 1960s.
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by kpxxx 9y ago
I'm going to give the article a pass on this. They explain the genesis of the Snapchat dot codes. They don't explicitly say that the FB and snapchat codes are based on QR, they do genericize the term QR a bit, but that is all. The
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by kpxxx 9y ago
> Since 'beginning-of-file' isn't really something you can reduce to a token... Of course you can, generate a token immediately upon opening a file. Nothing special about b-o-f or b-o-l. Similar to EOF.
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by kpxxx 9y ago
> Not sure where you get the patronizing tone from. This would be a start: > Most people doesn't have your or my kind of work. And even those that do will be able to use their phone on any screen at some point. Nice assumption th
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by kpxxx 9y ago
Why this happens has been explained, but more generally what you posted really doesn't prove anything at hand really. The dictionary created from scratch could be made an updateable view by hooking __setitem__. If you gonna contradict
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by kpxxx 9y ago
As someone that used to do kernel and RTOS development for many years and then migrated into web and app dev for a living because it allowed a more flexible lifestyle for paying the bills - this equivocation is disingenuous. There is some r