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by krylon 5y ago
I never used it myself, but I was told DEC had transplanted at least part of the clustering tech to Tru64. Of course, that got cancelled after HP bought Compaq/DEC and did not want to support two Unix systems. IIRC, they promised to po
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by krylon 5y ago
Booo! throws crumbled paper (SCNR)
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by krylon 5y ago
It's been a long time, but ~10ish years ago, I was doing something DNS-heavy in C, and ldns was a pleasure to use after being spoiled by Perl's Net::DNS. I think the ldns API was in fact built to resemble Net::DNS. Either way, it
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by krylon 5y ago
The weirdest thing about this is that this is not the first time I heard about explosives from WWII finding their way up someone's behind in peacetime.
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by krylon 5y ago
Good point. I was thinking of old-school desktop and server operating systems. Having worked as a Windows admin for a couple of years, I think that is the most tragic aspect of Microsoft's software ecosystem. There is so much there tha
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by krylon 5y ago
There already were mandatory vaccinations (against smallpox) in Germany, up to the 1970s, and there is a current vaccine mandate against measles for children. That cat has been out of the bag for a long time. And with good reason. Smallpox,
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by krylon 5y ago
Have other operating systems done a better job, though? UI/UX is not something I can claim to be good at, but getting it right when it comes to security is difficult.
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by krylon 5y ago
I wouldn't even mind GNU documentation moving to TexInfo, but I have repeatedly found man pages telling me to invoke "info <some-command>" only to then find there was no texinfo documentation for that command. It's
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by krylon 5y ago
It's a great movie from beginning to end, you won't get an argument from me here. ;-) Also, you make a good point - I really love movies with complex villains. In recent times, I much enjoyed Blueberry where the final stand-off re
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by krylon 5y ago
Well, in between those, Genghis Khan was tearing down empires all across Asia, the Middle East, and eastern Europe. Certainly global in scope for the time.
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by krylon 5y ago
Special effects are not bad per se. The problem is that these days, a lot of movies use FX as a substitute for storytelling. Just consider Blade Runner: It is just stunning, visually, but it uses these visuals to tell a story, not to dist
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by krylon 5y ago
Say what you want, in my eyes it is a great movie. Its status as one of the great classics is well earned.
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by krylon 5y ago
That is not dead which can eternal lie, for with strange eons, even death may die. SCNR
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by krylon 5y ago
Badum Ts
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by krylon 5y ago
That is gorgeous! Thanks for sharing!
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by krylon 5y ago
Most of those ads are bit ... on the nose.
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by krylon 5y ago
They do, yes. Thank you!
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by krylon 5y ago
Heh, I remember playing around with Hammerhead back in the 1990s. Nothing came of it, but it was fun. Sadly, the download link appears to be broken. :-(
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by krylon 5y ago
I know. Last time I checked, gcc still was the default C compiler on architectures clang did not support, but it was a couple years ago, and they discontinued a few architectures since (vax, alpha, probably others?). Yes, gcc is still avail
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by krylon 5y ago
Oh, I do not deny there are honest marketing people. But there are plenty of people in that game happy to omit some inconvenient factoids. And as always, those are the ones giving their craft as a whole a bad name.
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by krylon 5y ago
I know, but they included it for a pretty long time, so I think distributing GPL code as part of a BSD project is kosher, legally speaking. (Same goes for FreeBSD, although they, too, replaced gcc with clang some time ago.)
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by krylon 5y ago
AFAIR, OpenBSD has included the GPL-licensed gcc for a long time. They have a clear preference for more permissive license, but it would seem the GPL is not a problem as such, the OpenBSD developers just prefer more liberal alternatives whe
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by krylon 5y ago
> The omission of proper technical details is essentially the same as lying. Welcome, child, to the beautiful/"special" world of marketing!
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by krylon 5y ago
There Will Be Toothpaste
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by krylon 5y ago
I think I read something about some birds being able to sleep with only one hemisphere of their brain at a time, similar to dolphins. The common swift often spends months at a time without touching ground. And lots of birds perform marvelou
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by krylon 5y ago
They're not fun and safe, though, they're "fun-safe", so you don't enjoy yourself (too much) while doing math.
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by krylon 5y ago
It makes sense. Building and maintaining that layer of blubber must take a lot of eating for a large animal, and most large whales have their feeding grounds in fairly cold waters. And of course, building and maintaining a body of 10 or mor
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by krylon 5y ago
One thing I came to like very much about Fossil is that on Windows, the whole thing is just a single executable file, just drop it anywhere in your %PATH%, and you're good to go. The builtin web interface is very nice, too. I have sinc
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by krylon 5y ago
sigh I cannot blame you. And if vi makes you happy, I want you to enjoy the heck out of it. Between discovering emacs and making it my editor of choice I spent a few years using vi heavily, and to this day, I reflexively use it for quickl
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by krylon 5y ago
I honestly don't know about the state or progress of Guile Emacs. I know it exists, but I haven't followed it beyond that. Assuming it gets "finished" (is any software ever finished?), it should be no-brainer as long as

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