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by linguae 5y ago
There are some rail options for those commuting from Stockton: - The Amtrak San Joaquins train ( https://www.amtrak.com/san-joaquins-train ) connects Stockton with Richmond, where passengers can transfer to BART. - For thos
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by linguae 5y ago
If I recall correctly, I don't believe the book covers distributed file systems. For those, I highly recommend reading the research papers describing modern distributed file systems such as HDFS, Google's various storage systems
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by linguae 5y ago
Sadly public housing in the United States has been a policy failure that's tied to our issues regarding poverty and race. The only way I see public housing working in an American context is if it was seen to benefit the middle class,
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by linguae 5y ago
That's funny; my wages didn't increase to match inflation this year when I received my performance review. None of my family members or friends also received such raises. Yet the prices of everything else went up around me, espe
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by linguae 5y ago
But if economic opportunity is concentrated in cities that are too expensive for average working people to live in (even when renting instead of buying), then this is a societal problem. Even if the shift to working from home for some occu
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by linguae 5y ago
For a great introduction to file systems, I highly recommend Practical File System Design with the Be File System by Dominic Giampaolo, creator of the Be File System who ended up moving to Apple and designed Spotlight, the file indexing a
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by linguae 5y ago
I'm wondering if there have been any efforts to create a FOSS clone of the Genera operating system for commodity architectures? I was born during the beginning of the 1980's AI winter, and while I've heard a lot of amazing t
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by linguae 5y ago
If it had updated security patches, drivers for modern hardware, and a modern web browser, I'd seriously consider using Windows 2000 as my daily driver today. Windows 2000 was peak Windows for me. It was stable, and the desktop did n
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by linguae 5y ago
You bring up a great point: how do we deliver high-quality software to the general public that is stable, easy-to-use, and secure, yet respects user privacy? Ad-tech and other forms of surveillance technologies have become quite prevalent
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by linguae 5y ago
California's coastal metro areas are expensive due to high demand caused by its job market combined with artificial restrictions on supply. There is plenty of room for the Bay Area (and Los Angeles for that matter) to densify. The re
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by linguae 5y ago
And even then, home prices in the peripheral areas of the Central Valley that are within a 2-3 hour drive of the Bay Area have skyrocketed in price during the pandemic. For example, when the pandemic started I remember seeing large signs o
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by linguae 5y ago
There is no human right to live in Palo Alto, but something is amiss when housing in a metro area is so expensive that people making middle class salaries (we're talking around $60K-$100K) find themselves "driving until they quali
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by linguae 5y ago
I remember seeing this when I was a CS research intern working at a major Japanese company in Kawasaki back in 2010. I'm from America, and this was my first time in Japan. At the company, our workstations ran Windows XP; I guess the
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by linguae 5y ago
Racket also optionally supports a square bracket syntax for cons clauses. For example, in traditional Scheme one would write: ; this is in R5RS Scheme (define (length elems) (cond ((null? elems) 0) (else (+ 1 (length (cd
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by linguae 5y ago
1. The article was written in 2014. 2. While it appears that Wayland is poised to replace X11 on Linux desktops given the amount of backing Wayland has compared to X11, it is not clear whether Wayland will replace X11 in the BSD ecosystem
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by linguae 5y ago
This is just my opinion, but I actually love the Windows 9x aesthetic and to this day I wish Windows 10/11 had support for the Windows Classic interface; back in the days of Windows XP and 7 I always changed the theme from the default
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by linguae 5y ago
That day is already here and has been around for quite a while. Even before the proliferation of Electron applications there has been a push away from UI consistency in desktop environments. I believe the reasons are a combination of the
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by linguae 5y ago
I agree in the sense that BeOS wouldn't have saved Apple, though this has less to do with the merits of BeOS and more to do with Apple's circumstances. Even with the purchase of NeXT, there was still a considerable time period be
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by linguae 5y ago
Developers have a wide range of alternatives to Microsoft products, so Microsoft must compete on the merits of its products. If I don't like SQL Server, I could choose between Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and many other RDBMSes. Howeve
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by linguae 5y ago
Have you looked into Purism ( https://puri.sm )? Purism makes its own hardware such as the Librem line of smartphones and laptops, and maintains its own Linux distribution called PureOS. Purism also funds the development of apps
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Electron isn't Cancer but it is a Symptom of a Disease(duckrowing.com)
37 points by linguae 5y ago|10 comments
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by linguae 5y ago
Michael Spindler, Apple CEO from 1993 to early 1996, doesn't seem to have been a CEO at any other company since he was fired from Apple ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Spindler ), although I don't know
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by linguae 5y ago
One question regarding wrappers around native GUIs as someone with little experience writing GUI software: how does the wrapper handle different UI/UX guidelines? It’s one thing to wrap a common button class around Win32, AppKit, Qt,
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by linguae 5y ago
Two words: app stores. While this is less of a concern for Google (the Android supports alternative app stores, and Google would love it if we all used Chrome), switching to mobile apps will deprive Apple of a significant source of revenue
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by linguae 5y ago
This is despicable, and it's indicative of a trend I've been noticing over the years. Personal computing used to be about user empowerment. Today it seems to me that many tech companies treat their users as nothing more than eit
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by linguae 5y ago
I don't know....FOSS tools have their advantages, and I don't think it's unreasonable for FOSS developers to ignore proprietary tools, even high-quality ones. I think the advent of affordable and later FOSS alternatives to L
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by linguae 5y ago
I remember seeing this post on r/lisp earlier today, and the thought that I had then was that perhaps the reason why Lisp hasn't embraced "modernity" is because many Lisp programmers have not only embraced Lisp the langu
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by linguae 5y ago
It's still under heavy development (see https://asahilinux.org for more details). Developer Alyssa Rosenzweig has been doing great work on getting Linux graphics to work on the M1; just a few days ago she announced that sh
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by linguae 5y ago
As someone with experience in computer systems research, I recommend the following books that weren't on the list: - Any of Marshall Kirk McKusick's books on the design and implementation of various BSDs; his latest book covers F
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by linguae 5y ago
The remarkable thing about Apple prices these days is just how affordable powerful M1 computers are. The entry-level Mac Mini costs $699 ( https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-mini ). In single-core CPU benchmar

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