mveety

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by mveety 10y ago
You could attack them, but attacking a government with the government's justice system is a fool's errand in many countries. It might work in the US and much of Europe, but I feel that in Russia, for example, they would just ignor
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by mveety 10y ago
I haven't done any testing on this but the corrosion hypothesis seems plausible. I wouldn't store it under alcohol because there's generally some dissolved water/oxygen/salt in there which would cause corrosion. Oil
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by mveety 10y ago
All these social media platforms are bad at this. They're in the business of facilitating discourse and giving people a platform to speak. IMO they have an ethical responsibility to protect speech in all forms, unless it's incitin
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by mveety 10y ago
Yes it does. Censorship by public or private entities is dangerous because it destroys the open marketplace of ideas. The best ideas, given time, will rise to the top, and censorship in all forms prevents this from happening. Speech that is
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by mveety 10y ago
I don't see how it's any different now for the army to seize power.
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by mveety 10y ago
IIRC Hakka is closer to an antiquated mandarin than Cantonese is. Also the Chinese "dialects" are different languages. Calling them dialects is like saying Icelandic and Swedish are different dialects of Norse. They're all cl
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by mveety 10y ago
I wrote a ip stack for my little toy OS a few years back and even that experience is miserable and hard. It never works quite right because either your implementation sucks or the people you're talking to are fast and loose with standa
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by mveety 10y ago
Light aircraft engines actually run at relatively low rpm and have a surprising amount of torque for their weight and size. The Cessna I fly operates around 2400 to 2600 rpm, compared to my car which is limited to 9000 or a motorbike which
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by mveety 10y ago
I think that's stupid frankly. It hinders the manufacturers of high performance cars that use different safety systems (6 point harness, helmet, HANS device, etc) because it requires them to add a safety system that is redundant and&#x
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by mveety 10y ago
Changing the way people get stuff done is one of the hardest things to succeed at. We're not assholes unless you come talk to us without checking your assumptions and entitlement at the door. Probably.
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by mveety 10y ago
For me abaco(1) is generally good enough, and I used to use vnc and esd to get video and sound to my terminal from my 'browser machine.' RDP is a bit harder, but writing a client or doing a hackjob of freerdp or whatever wouldn&#x
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by mveety 10y ago
QNX is a fantastic system and one of the few microkernels that's really been done properly. That being said though the send/recv interface on QNX gives you the same side effects that Plan 9's 9P gives you. You have a simple w
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by mveety 10y ago
Since when does the window manager have to use the gpu to be considered a compositing window manager?
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by mveety 10y ago
Runtime speed isn't much of an issue for us. There's nothing in the codebase that large or complicated enough to be slow.
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by mveety 10y ago
I don't see what you gain with either of these that's worth enough to put in that much work and add that much complexity. linuxemu is a better solution for running Linux programs, all of the added unix junk is contained. Using GCC
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by mveety 10y ago
APE isn't anything like wine. It's just some libraries that give you a posix-ish api. It also doesnt use GCC at all, it uses kencc (the native plan 9 compiler) and cpp.
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by mveety 10y ago
I run 9front in my laptop and netboot, so root filesystem is at home and I boot off that. Only thing on my drive is a bootloader and kernel.
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by mveety 10y ago
This is kinda something that meditation is supposed to do. It brings problems you have to the fore so that you can see them clearly and fix them. This is something entirely ignored by the new-agey "im super spiritual" types. Medit
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by mveety 10y ago
> MS Flight Simulator is said to be good enough to learn quite a bit, too. MS Flight Simulator is fantastic to learn to fly. You still need left seat time in a real aircraft but it's great for fundamentals and navigation.
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by mveety 10y ago
No I can do things to it; I have u9fs installed and use that often. How it does sms, though, isn't clear and I can't find anything on it.
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by mveety 10y ago
The goal for a research OS isn't market dominance or to have users. It's to test ideas.
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by mveety 10y ago
Ah I forgot hellaphone! I miss having a 9P interface to my texts that I could just mount and use with some rc scripts on my terminals. Sucks that I have an iPhone now where this is probably impossible or insanely hard to do.
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by mveety 10y ago
No it hasn't. There's a ton of cool shit that hasn't been invented yet. What's stopping research is (as rob more or less states) researchers want to make a usable system more than they want to make an interesting or inno
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by mveety 10y ago
People are writing a kernel in rust[0], and a pretty good unix-like at that. I don't like rust, but it's a fine language for that and in general. [0] http://www.redox-os.org/
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by mveety 10y ago
Yeah, I agree. This is similar to complaining that the plane was broken when you fly it into a mountain. I can see this being a minor issue when you're passing data to like strdup(2) from an unknown source, but you should be following
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by mveety 10y ago
Plan 9 C and the rc(1) shell by far. Plan 9 C is still C but has a lot of things fixed and the plan 9 libs are great. The rc(1) shell I like because its much more consistent than any other shell I've used.
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by mveety 11y ago
You mean the Blit terminal. The Plan 9 window managers use a different architecture that takes advantage of Plan 9's design. Both are from Rob Pike though so they look basically the same.
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by mveety 11y ago
You could do something like this at 15. I worked some on my own little hobby OS when I was 17 (maybe a little younger though bit hazy on that). I learned what I wanted to out of it though and it never got this far.
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by mveety 11y ago
It can stagnate to the point of bugs not having much of an issue staying on the wing during flight. I remember a case when I was flight training where we had a little spider as a passenger on the top of the starboard wing for the duration o
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by mveety 11y ago
This is pretty cool. Being able to manipulate your window system is something I dearly miss from Plan 9 when I'm forced to use a unix. Making some weird utility with some miserable api to relabel a window sucks compared to echo -n &#x2

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