na85

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   by na85 9y ago

   >That isn’t true Precedent seems to indicate otherwise.
2. 2312.▲
   by na85 9y ago

   >what happens if there is an error in the logic? If you are a big name in the Ethereum community, they will soft fork Ethereum so that your mistake is rolled back.
3. 2313.▲
   by na85 9y ago

   Well if he's not contributing to the project in any meaningful way, why is his opinion valued? It's not a matter of lines of code, but of contribution at all. What does RMS enable the emacs project to do that they couldn't do
4. 2314.▲
   by na85 9y ago

   Why? Has he written any code lately? Honest question, because from the outside he seems like an absolute grognard whose computing habits are so far removed from those of everyone else that he is incapable of relating to how the modern world
5. 2315.▲
   by na85 9y ago

   I can't imagine how painful it must be to develop software on windows.
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   by na85 9y ago

   I'm failing to see how static Python addresses any of the concerns you listed. In fact you seem to defeat your own argument when you state: >A lot of the failures in space that were caused by software weren't actually programmi
7. 2317.▲
   by na85 9y ago

   No sweat, it wasn't condescending. I think for me, the problem is that my background is not in comp sci or software engineering. I am an aerospace engineer and am mostly self-taught save for what I retained from my first year C++ cours
8. 2318.▲
   by na85 9y ago

   is gfortran that much slower than Intel's compiler that they didn't bother to benchmark it?
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   by na85 9y ago

   I clicked on your first link out of curiosity and see that it's for F90/95. My first reaction was to wonder whether it would cover the object-oriented paradigm and IEEE floats added in later standards, but then I realized that th
10. 2320.▲
    by na85 9y ago

    My big problem with Fortran is finding a modern tutorial written for an audience that doesn't already know some previous version of Fortran.
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    by na85 9y ago

    OpenBSD performed so abyssmally poorly on my old X220 that I simply couldn't tolerate it. Debian on the same hardware was significantly more performant, so for me that answered the "why not Linux?" question
12. 2322.▲
    by na85 9y ago

    This is why I use ublock and noscript. Fuck advertising.
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    by na85 9y ago

    What sort of under water assets are you imagining here? Some kind of secret base on the abyssal plain? The cost for such a thing would be astronomical, with no appreciable benefit.
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    by na85 9y ago

    Plenty of popular web applications work(ed) without JavaScript. I'm thinking here of thinks like Gmail. The only thing that I can think of that absolutely requires JavaScript is advertising and tracking. Anything else better serves the
15. 2325.▲
    by na85 9y ago

    Personal animosity towards Zuckerberg and his monstrosity?
16. 2326.▲
    by na85 9y ago

    >Let me ask it a different way - do you have any reasonable expectation that your proposal will ever be accepted? There are hundreds of pie in the sky suggestions being floated here, and the one about javascript is the one you choose to
17. 2327.▲
    by na85 9y ago

    Because Poettering and his fanboys like it, and nobody's implemented anything sufficiently better to overcome the political sway of the freedesktop.org crowd.
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    by na85 9y ago

    It's like that in aerospace.
19. 2329.▲
    by na85 9y ago

    Slackware ?
20. 2330.▲
    by na85 9y ago

    Perhaps, but there's no systemd, which is a huge win.
21. 2331.▲
    by na85 9y ago

    >Hospitals alone kill close to 100,000 Americans alone each year. Oh please. In any tech related topic there'd be a hundred people telling you that perfect is the enemy of the good. Why does this site that prides itself on logical a
22. 2332.▲
    by na85 9y ago

    Studies show that back pain resolves on its own in 95% of cases.
23. 2333.▲
    by na85 9y ago

    The actual win is avoiding bloatware like Cortana
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    by na85 9y ago

    I saw nothing in the article that implied LTSB lacked the ability to run binary installers. The same capability to install your company's application to the machine can surely be used to install Firefox.
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    by na85 9y ago

    >Windows 10 LTSB omits a lot of the new stuff in Windows 10. It doesn’t come with the Windows Store, Cortana, or Microsoft Edge browser. It also omits other Microsoft apps like Calendar, Camera, Clock, Mail, Money, Music, News, OneNote,
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    by na85 9y ago

    I've seen it occasionally used to refer to Americans, because technically speaking, any citizen of any country of North or South America is an "American", and yet citizens of the USA don't recognize this. To many, the im
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    by na85 9y ago

    A cursory Google search would have revealed that BGP is Border Gateway Protocol.
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    by na85 9y ago

    I think everyone knows the answers to your rhetorical questions. But unfortunately laws don't work that way, particularly in the case of copyright.
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    by na85 9y ago

    Is that a limitation in GNU Make or is it an inherited limitation of m4? In my experience, m4 is an arcane bit of software that surprisingly few people know about and one that frankly should have been replaced years ago. Personally, I try t
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    by na85 9y ago

    I write all my latex documents in org, so that I don't have to use latex, which is awful.