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by nknight 15y ago
My experience with generic "Don't put this chemical on that surface" issues has been that it usually takes quite a long time of heavy contact before there's a noticeable effect. I'm guessing an Italian restaurant with an identifiable "head
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by nknight 15y ago
> people who don't use the software It's far worse than that. Either they've never set foot in a busy restaurant, or they're insufferable, self-absorbed bores who don't take five seconds to look up at what's going on in the world arou
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by nknight 15y ago
I'm a little confused as to the exact involvement of SUSE. Is SUSE just acting as some sort of official steward for LibreOffice-in-AppUp? Is there any particular reason TDF couldn't take on that role?
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by nknight 15y ago
Switch does not solve the problem, "backup battery"? You're just delaying the inevitable, why not just demand that they make the batteries bigger in the first place? What good does a "mini engine" do? You can't turn it on automatically, tha
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by nknight 15y ago
Disconnecting the BMS does not eliminate self-discharge, only the parasitic load. Draining your batteries to the point of being functionally dead, and then leaving them in that state for an extended period, will still "brick" them just as b
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by nknight 15y ago
Then perhaps you'd care to share one? Or maybe just start cranking out magic batteries and become uber-wealthy? Since you haven't done that, I find it more likely you have no clue what you're talking about.
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by nknight 15y ago
It's harder to debug and extend a bitmap, and in the real world, single service instances don't scale infinitely, more layers are added. You will never have enough back-ends behind a single proxy for the time spent parsing to be measured.
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by nknight 15y ago
It's not a bug, it's an inherent technological limitation.
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by nknight 15y ago
Developers that are so obsessed with micro-optimizations that they can't stand to have a plain-text heartbeat packet don't get to have their software deployed on my watch. I can buy more hardware, but operating and maintaining systems that
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by nknight 15y ago
nginx doesn't exactly need much documentation, but it didn't get popular in spite of poor/absent documentation, somebody put in the effort to start writing documentation so a wider audience could put it to use. Nobody has put effort into Pl
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by nknight 15y ago
Uh, yeah, and neither did pretty much anybody else. nginx has only been of any significance for a few years. What's your point?
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by nknight 15y ago
Plan 9 is a really, really bad comparison. If you really try Plan 9, you'll find a much better reason that it isn't as popular as it "should be": Absolutely no one has done anything to make it easy to install or pleasant to use. I'd say i
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by nknight 15y ago
He wrote a rant on his blog, he didn't kill anyone. What exactly would be "proportional"? Never speaking a word when something annoys you?
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by nknight 15y ago
Because MIPS needs a good, high-performance JavaScript engine?
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by nknight 15y ago
Er, what OS is this referring to? My Linux boxes don't have a /dev/tcp or /dev/udp. This sounds like a Plan9ism, but IIRC Plan9's network interface shows up under /net, not /dev. EDIT: Ah, this is truly a Bash feature, some sort of internal
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by nknight 15y ago
Oh I get that. I'm usually the guy who points that out. I'm just saying the economics don't really support moving manufacturing jobs back to the US at this point, and probably won't soon.
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by nknight 15y ago
From what I've seen, I'm not sure corruption is much less of a problem in China, I think it just manifests differently. Arguably an openly-corrupt society has advantages over a quietly-corrupt one.
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by nknight 15y ago
I don't know how the economics work out at the moment, but India does have a couple benefits. A lot more people speak English well (like ten times as many), and it's culturally more accessible to the west. They were under British rule unt
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by nknight 15y ago
There's a long way to go before there's anything approaching parity with the US. $400/month is still less than $5000/year. Federal minimum wage in the US for 40 hours/week with no overtime comes out to just over $15,000/year, and it's unlik
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by nknight 15y ago
Chrome could still maintain a blacklist of roots.
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by nknight 15y ago
You're not understanding. The first example "requires glibc" because the binaries were linked against glibc, just like they'd be linked against OS X's libc if they'd been built for OS X. The second example is, again, an issue of gcc being b
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by nknight 15y ago
I just downloaded Xcode Tools 1.0 from Apple's developer site, for free (I'm not a paid developer). Xcode 1.0 was released in 2003 for OS X 10.3. Also available are 1.5, 2.3, 2.4, 2.4.1, 3.0, 3.1, 3.1.1, on through to the latest 4.x version
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by nknight 15y ago
Your first link is about gfortran executables for Linux (specifically a specific snapshot build, not the source code itself), not OS X. Your second one is about glibc systems, not OS X, is over six years old, and complains simply about bu
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by nknight 15y ago
I can't find any evidence of that. The gfortran 4.3 release notes strongly imply it doesn't: " Support for backtraces on glibc-based systems via the -fbacktrace option is now implemented. On all systems, a coredump can be generated for erro
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by nknight 15y ago
Show me a mass-market PC manufacturer that continues supporting 6 year old consumer hardware.
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by nknight 15y ago
New tools lose support for obsolete platforms, film at 11? It's been 6 years. The world has moved on, and Apple no longer has any commercial interest in PowerPC. You really expect them to keep bothering with it?
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by nknight 15y ago
gcc and glibc are different things, and gcc does not require glibc. I don't know that glibc even runs on OS X/Darwin, it would seem strange for any time to be invested in such an endeavour.
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by nknight 15y ago
This is SOP for GCC backends. Not all platforms support all GCC features. And if you really think there aren't problems building the same code across the various official GCC backends, you're not paying attention. Ask the Linux kernel guys
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by nknight 15y ago
You really shouldn't be using terms like "regular gcc" or "real gcc", they don't mean what you seem to think they do. GCC is a modular system specifically to provide for things like LLVM-GCC. LLVM-GCC takes the same form as other GCC back-e
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by nknight 15y ago
Windows allows some, I've had to mess with it in the past. Mac OS X allows all the command line network configuration you would expect of a BSD, since, well, it basically is a BSD, while at the same time having a great, user-friendly conf

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