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by mook 5y ago
Was there even hardware virtualization support to take advantage of if you're going that old?
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by mook 5y ago
Looking at the site, it looks like it's intended for packing an application into a single file, much like TCL could do. There's been other things to do the same as well. It virtualized the filesystem (and registry?), but it didn
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by mook 5y ago
> So the question is: MS created both Windows and Visual Studio. So why can't Visual Studio compile to something that works by default on the Windows of the target audience without requiring them to install those additional DLLs? Be
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by mook 5y ago
Visual Studio for Mac is a completely unrelated product that happens to share a name; when people say Visual Studio without any qualifiers they _probably_ don't mean the Mac version. Microsoft overall has a terrible naming sense, with
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by mook 5y ago
In particular, the word is derived from a brand of toy foam arrows. Basically, it refers to negating the possible damage of something.
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by mook 5y ago
Looks like (according to Intel) it's only the lower end Pentium / Celeron / Atom stuff; it wouldn't be useful for the kinds of chips people are most interested in circumventing ME for, though perhaps there are things tha
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by mook 5y ago
Interesting; at my local IKEA, the warehouse bit is on the ground floor, and while the normal path is through all the showrooms, there's a shortcut right by the entrance straight to the warehouse. Additionally, there's various sho
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by mook 5y ago
Yes, auto-closing an issue waiting on external feedback that hasn't happened is a great thing. Unfortunately GitHub isn't set up for that at all — there's no easy configuration to do that; instead the easy thing is to close b
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by mook 5y ago
The value would be in somebody else encountering the problem — they don't need to open a new issue (that will eventually get closed due to being stale later). Net effect is that you get less mail.
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by mook 5y ago
That assumes they _have_ a source code repo. For all we know maybe it's just random files on some person's hard drive with no source control…
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by mook 5y ago
As far as I know, none of the browser-provided password managers let you sync outside of an internet-connected account system. I can sync my passwords over my local network just fine.
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by mook 5y ago
> Probably the norm going forward to thwart ad-blockers. Also ads will most likely be generated server-side and served from the main domain in the future. That sounds great to me; it means getting cross-domain tracking to work would be m
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by mook 5y ago
Note that farmers markets don't guarantee that the produce is actually local. Realistically you'd need to camp out early enough to catch them shipping it on site to figure out where it's actually from.
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by mook 5y ago
Hmm, do you recall any details about those things? My impression was that the bad extensions mostly came from the antivirus vendors, but I may be missing something as I didn't daily drive Windows for a period, and I'm interested i
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by mook 5y ago
Note that Computer Systems Analyst is a profession listed in NAFTA; I was at a company where they used that. Also, the NAFTA definition of Engineer doesn't require a P. Eng title. ( https://www.nafsa.org/_/file&#x2
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by mook 5y ago
I don't think you'll be able to browse any HTTPS websites today using Netscape (probably any version, not just something from 1994) — Wikipedia lists that as based on Firefox 2.x, and caniuse reports that doesn't support TLS
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by mook 5y ago
I'm having issues parsing your comment, but WSL2 is already a single Linux VM with containers for each "distribution". That's how the /mnt/wsl/ thing works — it's just a mount mapped into your contai
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by mook 5y ago
Ars Technica had an article on three vulnerability that was decently clear: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/09/secur... (Sounds like it's a Linux port of some Windows management featu
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by mook 5y ago
Except that if the cheaper chips have ECC, they probably couldn't go up much in price — that price is limited by how much people (who don't care about ECC anyway) are willing to pay. So if prices for the low end went up, people (l
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by mook 5y ago
I think newer versions of config.sys (relatively speaking) had a menu system that greatly simplified that. It would set some environment variable to let autoexec.bat jump to the correct section too, I believe. Ah, Wikipedia says it's s
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by mook 5y ago
Pretty sure the point of using the rendering engine to display the UI was to make it easier to write cross-platform UI; granted, though, the point of then having the feature to use CSS to modify the UI was to do that (and it was relatively
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by mook 5y ago
It sounds like they did significant work getting the whole stack to work well, from Wayland to the RDP back-end to improvements to the RDP client on the Win32 side. Your interns must be rock stars on meth.
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by mook 5y ago
My understanding though is that nix tries to solve this globally (it manages your whole system, or your whole home directory, as opposed to docker, which has clearly demarcated separation between different images), and it doesn't reuse
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by mook 5y ago
> I'd be very interested in learning what it's collecting, and maybe someone living in a area with laws allowing users to request their data should follow up with them. Depending on the model, OSCAR might support your machine:
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by mook 5y ago
I'm surprised that they would accept symbol 7 ("other") in recycling for you. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling_codes
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by mook 5y ago
Video games are immersive experiences: you're interacting with only the video game when you play it (or at least, that's the design), and you don't experience the jarring from task switching because you don't switch. For
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by mook 5y ago
My team is working on https://rancherdesktop.io/ and it's scary how closely matches we're doing (depending on what you consider to be effective UI)…
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by mook 5y ago
You also have to be careful about the users' trust in your product, and your brand: unshipping is a lot more negative than shipping. Do it enough and you get things like https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/0
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by mook 5y ago
That seems reasonable, because you're waiting for a response that may not arrive. This is very different from a bug where all necessary customer feedback had already been collected, and is pending a fix.
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by mook 5y ago
The cookie law is fine, the problem is with companies who maliciously comply with it (and often "comply" with it in a way that doesn't actually comply at all). It's sort of like how telcos in America like to comply with

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