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by notalaser 9y ago
> Well this justifies MS's decision for forced updates in Win10. Not that I like it, just saying. Unfortunately, I think the active hours period cannot be set to more than twelve hours, which is less than the time required for some
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by notalaser 9y ago
> You can get the best experience using the most up-to-date APIs available on your platform or the most compatible, lowest common denominator experience, but you can't get both. Thank God the guys who write the kernel never thought
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by notalaser 9y ago
I've used Linux since back when there was no "Enterprise" in Red Hat Linux :-). The driver situation has massively improved, absolutely. The second time I installed Linux (on a brand new computer) was scariest -- S-ATA was su
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by notalaser 9y ago
> Could you expand on some ways that linux desktops are getting worse/less portable? Less portable: both major projects (Gnome and KDE) are increasingly depending on Linux-specific technologies (mainly through systemd dependencies,
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by notalaser 9y ago
> I recoil at the possibility that some developer 5 years from now might ask me "Why bother installing your own linux distribution? You can just get Windows Go 15 and run Arch/Ubuntu/SUSE from inside there. Don't forg
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by notalaser 9y ago
As soon as Canonical blows something off in Ubuntu, users can switch to whatever other Linux distribution they like (or remove/replace the misbehaving component, like it happened with the Amazon thing or early-ish versions of Unity). A
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by notalaser 9y ago
For #1, maybe company-mode can be of assistance? I haven't used it with Java (I never had to write enough of it to need Emacs), but I imagine it works.
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by notalaser 9y ago
The remote computer is often good enough to run an application but way too slow to productively compile a large codebase on it. Besides, you don't need to maintain two development setups at once. This is a niche situation only becau
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by notalaser 9y ago
You can run it on a remote computer (or a VM) and debug it from an OS X front-end that connects to the remote-running debugger over the network. It's a pretty common technique, gdb has had it for, what, fiftenn? Twenty years? Maintaini
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by notalaser 9y ago
I've seen it done (on a large-ish codebase), using Perl as a preprocessor for C. It looked good on paper and we were really enthusiastic when we came up with the idea, but it quickly degenerated into the proverbial ad-hoc, informally-s
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by notalaser 9y ago
There's also the best kind of hurt: outdated, insecure firmware that gets delivered to users who aren't aware of it, can't inspect it anyway, and even if they could, they can't do anything about it because the firmware
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by notalaser 9y ago
My path has been pretty much opposite: a long time ago, I was a big fan of BSD-flavored freedom and thought that commercial adoption of open technology was the best thing that could happen. After years of eating my own dogfood and seeing op
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by notalaser 9y ago
You can use the owner extension: https://www.frozentux.net/iptables-tutorial/iptables-tutoria... , which can filter based on the PID of the process which created the packets. But what we generally do is, you know, not
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by notalaser 9y ago
The bummer for the companies doing the home routers is really just that it costs money. The only people who give a flying fsck about the F part are hobbyists, sadly. Source: worked in this industry.
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by notalaser 9y ago
First, at the risk of pissing off fellow emacs-ers -- if you're already a regular Vim user, why not stick to it? It's a great editor, and I know a lot of people who use it and are just as productive as I am with emacs. Plus, if an
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by notalaser 9y ago
> The best startups are ones that solve a pain point you yourself have experienced. Aww, yisss. Case in point, EDA and, in particular, hardware description languages and tools. Every discussion I've had with someone trying to get in
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by notalaser 9y ago
> I don't see how your series or resistor examples are particularly relevant: neither mathematical nor physical facts are human inventions. Mathematical facts are a very human invention, just like the trans istor. I picked calculus
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by notalaser 9y ago
And then people wonder why other engineers smirk when they hear the term "software engineering" :-). We're not all fitted with the same Umbrella IntuCard Mk. II Intuition card so that, relying on intuition alone, we can all r
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by notalaser 9y ago
One could equally point out that programmers should form mental models by reading documentation, rather than relying on intuition. It's not like you have to dig through compiler sources to find out that sizeof is an operator. Even if i
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by notalaser 9y ago
...or are more likely to be doing the kind of work where no one is pestering you about when to come at work and when to leave.
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by notalaser 9y ago
> What do people do when they feel they are burnout? Take more than a free Friday.
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by notalaser 9y ago
The GIFs were significantly more complex than the single emoji that the parent comment mentioned. Actually, I think even a four-frame 48x48 gif is more complex than that "single animated parrot emoji" :-).
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by notalaser 10y ago
> A lot of Slack's high (background) CPU usage is caused by GIFs, in my experience. Holy fuck, can you imagine the supercomputers that were required to display Geocities websites in the 1990s?
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by notalaser 10y ago
Pretty much this. A few years ago, I used to work for a small-ish American company that had offices in my corner of the world in Europe. They tried to pull this sort of crap in our office -- everyone except the guy in charge of the local of
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by notalaser 10y ago
Back when Solaris 7 was a thing, dependency hell was very much a thing.
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by notalaser 10y ago
The GPL an unpleasant side-effect: it encourages companies to pay lip service to community involvement and to be seen as "community leaders". If you go to any major conference now, you can't have a beer in peace without someo
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by notalaser 10y ago
> One person involved with the Linux Foundation ...there are a lot of people involved with the Linux Foundation, what didn't help in this case is that the one person involved with the Linux Foundation who came up with this piece of
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by notalaser 10y ago
> It's undefined behavior meaning, by definition, it's not C. It's not defined in C. The C99 standard defines undefined behaviour as "behavior, upon use of a nonportable or erroneous program construct or of erroneou
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by notalaser 10y ago
On the other hand, the people who use electron are generally people who should be using Qt.
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by notalaser 10y ago
The themes section is what I mourn the most. It was a great repository of computer art. And frankly, the content there was a lot more original, bold and and innovative than what you see on *-look.org today.

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