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by mappu 7y ago
Going off on a tangent, but KDE is lighter than XFCE these days. Or at least https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/10/23/bold-... has been making the rounds.
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by mappu 7y ago
I know of MSc and PhD work to use the Kinect as a low-cost alignment system for radiotherapy patients.
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by mappu 7y ago
Sorry, I agree it's not a great title. I was worried the paper's title was misleading (just sounds like textiles), so I chose a representative statement from the author's abstract + conclusion. The link comes via https:&#x2F
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Fibers aren’t useful for much any more(devblogs.microsoft.com)
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by mappu 7y ago
No, not any more - the PE licensing changed to only allow this if the PE image is created by the same user. Tools like Macrium now download the WADK SDK and generate an image at runtime. Distributing prebuilt images like this violates the c
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by mappu 7y ago
You can install rbtray to get this behaviour globally for all Windows apps when you right-click the minimize button.
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by mappu 7y ago
Otter Browser provides an up-to-date Webkit (i.e. not Blink/Chromium) engine on Windows, that replicated a lot of Safari-only bugs for me in the past.
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by mappu 7y ago
The Discord number is inflated - 250mm is registered users, not MAUs. When they announced 250mm registered, they had 56mm MAUs. Telegram's 200mm is MAUs, and that number is over 1 year older than Discord's information.
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by mappu 7y ago
GitHub repository: https://github.com/stephenrkell/liballocs I read the paper imagining a kind of COM implementation (apartments/marshalling/...)? But the Github readme makes it seem more like a kind of tagge
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by mappu 7y ago
If your proprietary product is in any way niche (i.e. not the usual adobe/autocad example) I would suggest petitioning the company to support Linux (or web) clients. Software developers are often pro-Linux and a few customer suggestion
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by mappu 7y ago
We have several C dependencies, mostly in two methods: - Cygwin helps a lot by providing a GNU make that works with CC=mingw-w64 (i.e. no cygwin1.dll dependency) and we can simply link these extra .o by setting `-extldflags "-lxxxx&quo
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by mappu 7y ago
> The second downside may be a slight loss of ability to support very old targets. The most impactful of these will be 32-bit Windows since we are not sure if CGo (Go’s system that allows us to link to our C bits) will work properly on
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by mappu 7y ago
There's a problem with loading the home directory as a loopback block device from roaming USB disks - untrusted filesystems aren't safe to mount. From https://lwn.net/Articles/755593/ "Unprivileged
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by mappu 7y ago
> I can't think of any significant functionality it lost in the process Hardware acceleration for 2D operations (GDI)
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by mappu 7y ago
This isn't a particularly practical suggestion, but you might be interested in the Nintendo ES operating system. EDIT: Maybe XPenology can run the DSM web interface on a desktop OS? EDIT 2: Most of KDE Plasma (well, the QML parts at le
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by mappu 7y ago
It's not as simple as does the generational hypothesis hold, there are real downsides to having a generational GC - it means you need a copying collector. Go heap values never move, which dramatically simplifies everything else (e.g. o
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by mappu 7y ago
I'm slightly surprised you found three different set implementations - `map[T]struct{}` is the idiomatic one i see everywhere. I suppose it's not sorted or concurrent-safe?
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by mappu 7y ago
Hangover kind-of works: https://github.com/AndreRH/hangover/releases
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by mappu 7y ago
This surprised me - > He supports his wife and three children with his income of about 1500 Rwandan francs per day (about USD $1.73) My understanding is that raising a child in most developed western countries is just mind-bogglingly e
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by mappu 7y ago
I found the matching paragraph in my 1918 Maude translation: "At that moment there had happened to him what happens to most people when unexpectedly caught in some shameful act: he had not had time to assume an expression suitable to t
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by mappu 7y ago
> think they forgot a “K” an "M" - 200 million users as of March 2018. https://telegram.org/blog/200-million
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by mappu 7y ago
SMIC are now rolling out 14nm - that's apparently competitive enough for people to still use Intel CPUs.
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by mappu 7y ago
Singapore's Prime Minister prefers C++: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/prime...
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by mappu 7y ago
The whole world should count its lucky stars that this was Tencent discovering and reporting the vulnerability, and not Huawei, who depending on the current day-of-the-week might not be able to legally report it.
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by mappu 7y ago
That's not true, you overlooked the "about as wet as normal" population.
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by mappu 7y ago
Retroarch has made progress on doing this OCR, for both translation and text-to-speech purposes: https://www.libretro.com/index.php/category/ocr/ - https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch&#
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by mappu 7y ago
Aside from the noticably lower memory usage due to smaller pointers - Microsoft found that x86_32 is the lingua franca for WoA emulation. If all the binaries are x86_64 and there are legal problems emulating it, there might be problems swit
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by mappu 7y ago
> in reality it can be hard to gather enough entropy to be satisfiably unpredictable I think this is a myth, especially on desktop/laptop PCs - a few hundred bytes of entropy at system boot initialize the kernel CSPRNG, which can
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by mappu 7y ago
I used a distro in recent memory where `echo -n foo` really produced `-n foo`. The workaround was `printf "%s" foo`.
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by mappu 7y ago
This talk was really eye-opening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p76hGxv3-HE

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