machinecoffee

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by machinecoffee 7y ago
> which is the integrity of the single market and solidarity with Ireland, which is a member state. It's a sad indictment on my country that the EU seems to care more about the Good Friday agreement than what seems like a majority o
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
> which suggests that you are here simply because you are here. There is no grand goal, no epic mission to fulfill, no gods to please. You are here because your parents were optimized for reproduction and raising children, who existed be
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
>If Firefox does not die by himself, expect Google to slowly stop paying them If the web is going towards a Chrome monoculture, then perhaps Microsoft would step in to keep some competition in the marketplace. Stranger things have happen
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
I've often thought the exact same thing! There's an amusing video on youtube where Steve Jobs is demoing remote Objects on NextStep and (I think) Openstep on Windows, and having a laugh at MS since Next managed to get remote Objec
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
Well, they did invent (and patent!) One Click purchase - so they at least did care about UX at one point.
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
Ah Motif, XBill and Afterstep! My nostalgia bit just got set. My first experiences of GUI programming on Unix (HPUX on a Motorola 68040 machine) was with Motif, which was a pretty good toolkit after you got used to the very long function n
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
Which is great, except that ctx_new() requires a malloc, which then can fail, and now you can't even explain why the thing failed, as you have no context info. You also have to worry about all of the ctx objects you've created alo
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
Really excellent article on real world experience with Postgres at scale, thanks. It is quite long though, so I guess people are still reading it :)
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
And worth every penny IMHO. For me it hits the sweet spot between a massive feature filled Adobe product and struggling with e.g. Gimp for simple creation of icons.
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
What is this G3 Cube? G4 Cube ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube ) Alas the speakers that came with it have a custom USB wiring, so they can't be used on any other computer. Otherwise it was an excell
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
It does help that the process is pretty painless. And at least for me, a good excuse to do a reboot - which I really do as seldom as possible on my laptop and iphone.
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
I would also argue that even after an object has been moved (out of?), that object should still be a valid object. So that even if somebody makes a call to it, it shouldn't 'blow up' , but do add asserts to indicate you'
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
To be fair, Postgres did come out of Ingres, an older database. So its ancestry goes back a fair bit longer than MySQL.
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
>Were you alive when Microsoft reigned as the dark lord? Yes I was. I worked in that stifling environment when anything not MS related was dismissed out of hand. Where MS's own marketing exhorted everybody to replace their 'leg
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
> so "there is no reason to switch until we KNOW for sure" Oh the painful memories that phrase evokes.. VB6
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
> assistant Editor of the Telegraph https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/24/boris-... Max Hastings, his boss at the time doesn't have such a great opinion of Boris. I would suggest
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
>and there's a huge Chinese population in Siberia which might be used as an excuse to incite unrest Russia is also quite good at making 're-education' camps, and can be quite prickly when prodded.
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
When my bank sends a login token via SMS, Safari can also copy the token out from iMessage and autofill the value - which is quite convenient, but also a little too much for my preference.
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
(Macintosh Toolbox Essentials) This brings a big smile of nostalgia to me - I remember reading this massive book and trying out all the system calls on my Metrowerks c++ compiler (system 7). I probably still have a copy of it lying about so
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
Why not small (ish) self-driving buses that run very regularly (you shouldn't wait more than 10 mins for one) that people can hop-on hop-off. Networked so that you can get from one side of the city to the next in no more than 3 hops. B
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
I guess the OP's point is that if you're storing everything on a db anyway i.e. 1 row per user,per email and a sent/not sent status flag against each row - then why do you need a messaging system? The email sending system co
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
There's also libkqueue for Linux - I would imagine they will also adopt io_uring when it's stable and ubiquitous enough, bringing the two APIs closer together. I find kqueue to be a great and well designed API, so that can only be
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
>Well except you're not allowed to run MacOS on a laptop with a real keyboard. I use the keyboard that came with my 2001 Mac Cube. You can't get a more real keyboard than that.
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
Also important will be quality of life in the later years. If you're unhealthy, lonely and constantly in pain then why bother? I've read that having a good network of friends & family into old age can keep you feeling better,
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
From what I can see, the whole point of C++ is to wrap existing C libraries and call them OO :-)
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
I love the old NeXT stuff, and all that they've bequeathed us, but I always wondered why they put the scrollbar on the left side of the window?
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
I thought this was well understood, and even expected by the models, since a warming planet brings more precipitation in the air which then falls as snow on the poles. So the Antarctic is actually gaining mass on the higher ground, and the
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
As an end user, what difference does the size of the source tree make? So long as the OS is stable, performant and has a pleasant GUI that you can interact with (or cmdline if that's your thing), was does it matter? I'm pretty sur
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
MFC I'm not so sure about, but ATL or even better WTL would probably do the job.
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by machinecoffee 7y ago
The sudden need to have war games near the Philippine has more to do with this: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/05/south-china-se...

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