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by krylon 5y ago
Unfortunately, I have forgotten the details, but a couple of years ago, I was writing a rather complex SQL query for my boss to extract some information from our ERP database the ERP software itself was incapable of providing (it was a kind
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by krylon 5y ago
So it's a lot like software development, then. (SCNR) But I agree, when I buy fruit, I usually have to let it sit for a while before it is good to eat.
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by krylon 5y ago
1. I like it!!! 2. Are these fish real or just real-istic? Not judging, just curious.
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by krylon 5y ago
If you can deal with the price tag, mainframes are very nice machines in a lot of ways (scalability, availabity, storage). And if you're a large-ish bank or other financial company, chances are the amount of data you need to process an
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by krylon 5y ago
The more I learn about animal intelligence, the more I suspect we grossly underestimate it. I recently saw a video of a seagull that entered a grocery store through the automatic door, picked up a (non-transparent) bag of potato chips (or s
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by krylon 5y ago
Irony at work.
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by krylon 5y ago
Atlas Obscura is one of my favorite places on the Internet. They have a podcast, too! And some very interesting food specialties as well.
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by krylon 5y ago
I haven't given them a close look, but there is a project called "zile" that - AFAIU - aims to create an emacs-like editor using Lua instead of Lisp. Which sounds amazing to me. Also, there's another project to replace e
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by krylon 5y ago
This is amazing, but it would be even better if one could zoom in and out, and scroll left to right. On a 1080p display, I could not read some of the names because they were overlapping. Minor, minor nitpick: I miss NIROS, the NIxdorf Rea
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by krylon 5y ago
I have heard/read enough people sing high praises of AmigaOS that I wonder how intimately it is tied to the hardware platform. In other words, would it make sense to port it to the PC or maybe Raspberry Pi? It sounds like it would be f
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by krylon 5y ago
Now I feel old. I remember vividly running around with my first camera, looking for objects worthy of being photographed. The film cost money, so did developing it into pictures. I really had to weigh the pros and cons of taking a particula
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by krylon 5y ago
In my experience, Firefox uses a lot more memory on Windows than on Linux. It feels faster on Linux, too. The reasons might rather complex, though.
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by krylon 5y ago
I recall Wikipedia saying one of them (I tend to confuse the two) was popular in RAID controllers, so that sounds plausible.
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by krylon 5y ago
I don't know about the i860, but accelerator cards for math-heavy workloads are still a thing, of course. I remember seeing a brochure for an add-on card with one or two Cell CPUs, Intel has (had?) their Xeon Phi, and of course GPUs ar
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by krylon 5y ago
This leads to an interesting situation, where Intel owns x86 and licenses it to AMD, while AMD owns the amd64 extension and licenses it to Intel. Should one company revoke their license, so would the other (I assume, naively), and boom - no
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by krylon 5y ago
And they did it again with the i960 and i860. I'm told they were quite nice processors in their day (never having been close to one myself, that was before my time), but for whatever reasons, they did not go mainstream.
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by krylon 5y ago
Thank you so much for all the work you put into this!
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by krylon 5y ago
Paint.NET is great, too. It's not open source, unfortunately (for valid if regrettable reasons), but it's free as in free beer. The memory of its GUI makes me sigh a little whenever I open GIMP.
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by krylon 5y ago
In order to get the compiler to optimize your code, you have to say PRETTY PLEASE, though, and THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ;-) PRETTY PLEASE ADD SALES_TAX TO PRICE GIVING NET_PRICE THANK YOU VERY MUCH
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by krylon 5y ago
I agree 100%, it is awesome. Also, it remembers the position in a file.
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by krylon 5y ago
If I understand this correctly, the potential problem lies not with the citric acid itself, but with the fungus we use to produce it, traces of which can make it into the end product and might cause allergic reactions. I'm surprised,
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by krylon 5y ago
I second that, because ProcessHacker was the only tool I found to let me set the I/O priority of a process.
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by krylon 5y ago
When I worked as a Windows admin, the SysInternals tools were usually among the first things I installed on a new server or workstation. Personally, I do not understand why Microsoft does not include them by default on Windows, they are jus
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by krylon 5y ago
So... next we should try feeding random traffic noise through voice recognition and see what Perl makes of that? (SCNR)
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by krylon 5y ago
Which, to be fair, was a fairly high-end machine at the time. As I recall, the problem was not just Vista's juicy hardware requirements, but the fact it would initially behave quite unpredictably performance-wise. OTOH, Microsoft is sa
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by krylon 5y ago
I can only provide a single data point, but I used to smoke a lot of weed for a pretty long time, then stopped about 12 years ago, and one of the changes I noticed was that I became much more able to accept responsibility for my mistakes in
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by krylon 5y ago
The commit message does NOT indicate when this will be available to mere mortals like myself. Can someone enlighten me if this will be part of FreeBSD 14, or if there is a chance it will become available earlier, perhaps with FreeBSD 13.1?
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by krylon 5y ago
Well, I said "AFAIK". ;-)
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by krylon 5y ago
In passing, the article reveals that in the Netherlands, there is a place called "Monster", and Willy is a woman's name. But the archaeology is fascinating, too, of course. It is both sad and exciting to think about how much
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by krylon 5y ago
This is pretty cool! Pretty pretty, too. I know this makes me sound kind of old, but this reminds me how much I miss GrooveShark. Their Ambient stream/channel (whatever they called it) was awesome. Spotify has vaguely similar function,

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