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by lotharcable 2y ago
Emacs is unique because it is self-editable. That is you can edit and modify the program on the program realtime. There is a C-based core that can't be updated on the fly, but by and large Emacs a self-mutable Lisp virtual machine tha
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by lotharcable 2y ago
It hard to know the timeline with his data loss, but I am assuming it was a long time ago. XFS is originally from SGI Irix and was designed to run on higher end hardware. SGI donated it to Linux in 1999 and it carried a lot of its assumptio
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by lotharcable 2y ago
There are liability issues for any sort of "money" or finance paper that don't exist for regular news reporting. Under regular news reporting journalists have no legal obligation to their readers or the truth. They can say a
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by lotharcable 2y ago
There is systemd the init and there is systemd the project. I counted no less then 64 related executables related to systemd on my system. Accusing systemd of "not doing one thing and doing it well" is like accusing the GNU projec
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by lotharcable 2y ago
Ubuntu desktop is Ubuntu desktop, not Gnome desktop. It uses Gnome but it isn't Gnome.
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by lotharcable 2y ago
The way you deal with this is tort law. It is already criminal for people to hijack websites like this. It is also criminal to defraud people. If you are damaged by a company's negligence in this way you just sue them. This isn't
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by lotharcable 2y ago
What they actually did was to implement kernel-level rootkits. This is why things 'secure boot' and requirement for signed drivers are a thing.
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by lotharcable 3y ago
Ideally you'd have a programmable keyboard. That way it keeps the OS configuration down to a absolute minimum. It is just easier that way. Especially if you want to use multiple OSes and such things.
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by lotharcable 4y ago
"Consumers". This is the difference between "consumer" and "customer". A customer has control over their money. They make choices that benefit themselves and producers must compete with one another for their m
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by lotharcable 4y ago
> There are many reasons to not like systemd and the creator, who incidently after leaving the GNU/Linux is now working for the same company that sought to destroy it, Microsoft. Yeah, well... Microsoft is probably soon to be one o
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by lotharcable 4y ago
> It feels like the time is ripe for something simpler and more modern to replace* systemd. Well then do what Poettering did and write it. It's threads like this why I am eternally grateful that Linux kernel uses a merit driven appr
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by lotharcable 4y ago
That is kinda insane thing to say. That is like trying to claim that you can't do threads in C++ because you can fork. Of course Go can fork processes.
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by lotharcable 4y ago
X11's model for 'cut buffers', 'primary', and 'clipboard' is a historically bad design. Like very easily in the top 10 worst designs in computer science history. The fact that it managed to work at all is
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by lotharcable 4y ago
What "hollowed out middle class" in America are things like "The Jones Act". The major problem in America is not foreign competition. The barrier to industry is not opening up relations with China. The major problem in A
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by lotharcable 4y ago
It is 100% possible. The problem is that it's monumentally expensive. You will need to have a pretty big water tower to handle enough energy to run a microwave for a hour. P.E. = mg(h) So say we have 2,000 liters of water that is 50 m
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by lotharcable 4y ago
They don't go bankrupt in the conventional sense. When they go bankrupt economists like to use the term "Hyper Inflation". This means that the currency they produce becomes worthless.
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by lotharcable 4y ago
Nonsense article. The point of Stoicism isn't to avoid feeling bad about living in a failing Empire. It's acknowledging that you can't control the world. You can only control your reaction to it and your own actions. And putt
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by lotharcable 4y ago
I don't know about the article.. but generally speaking You can't "count" protein in the same way that you can count carbohydrates or sugar or calories. This is because protein is much more complex and different types of
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by lotharcable 4y ago
Governments killing people without due process in this manner is criminal homicide. Each person needs to held individually accountable for their crimes. State secrets should be declassified and released. Each person's individual action
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by lotharcable 4y ago
X11 is hopeless. It was a turd 30 years ago. It still is a turd. If it was a simple as "make your toolkit asynchronous" then it would of been done a long time ago. Take Xterm, for example. I did benchmarks over remote systems lon
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by lotharcable 4y ago
There isn't many people in the USA that love the idea of driving their car to ride a train so that they can then rent a car to get where they are going. Rails work very well in situations were you have high density living areas connect
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by lotharcable 4y ago
> You are misrepresenting the definition of hate speech in order to create a strawman. Here is the definition from Google search card: I don't give a shit what Google has to say about it. What I do care is what the laws actually are
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by lotharcable 4y ago
> I am skeptical of giving the government the power to censor speech and to determine what is hate speech, because this power can be abused. But at the same time, hate speech is a real thing and allowing it does not promote freedom of sp
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by lotharcable 4y ago
Money != Wealth You can go ahead and force every billionaire to sell off everything they own and hand it to the government and all you end up with is a one time boost to government tax receipts. That's it. One time boost. Next year th