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by ornxka 6y ago
>You had almost 15 years of warning from initial announcement to eol. Why should I have to do labor to fix things that already work?
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by ornxka 6y ago
They're different to a human, why would it be any more difficult to understand that they're different for computers too? Trying to make things easier to understand by introducing complicated mechanisms just makes the whole thing h
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by ornxka 6y ago
I have several questions: Why was this even possible? Why was this apparently easy enough to do that you could do it by accident? Why was it impossible to recover from what was clearly an inevitability? I feel bad for whoever fatfingered th
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by ornxka 6y ago
>Plays For Sure(tm) (that name still makes me giggle) On Linux we just have the WorksOnMyMachine certification, which is accordingly crowdsourced.
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by ornxka 6y ago
>It might be worth noting that strictly speaking this isn't safe to apply to an arbitrary binary. That is 31 c0 and 33 c0 might behave identically when executed as xor, but they could, for example, also be part of a larger instructi
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by ornxka 6y ago
Does Google collect user data using tactics banned by Google?
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by ornxka 6y ago
I'm amazed by this. I started using an EeePC 901 a few months ago, and it barely runs Firefox. I don't know if that says more about the computer than it does about Firefox, but I had no idea such a thing was even possible.
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by ornxka 6y ago
Life is virtually everywhere, appreciable levels of biodiversity are not. Things get smaller, slower, simpler, and fewer as you start to move towards the fringe.
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by ornxka 6y ago
As someone else pointed out, losing information is bad because we can't know what value it might have in the future, only what value it has to us today. A lot of things from the past that we are certain had no value to people at the ti
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by ornxka 6y ago
Unfortunately it seems to have been hugged to death...
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by ornxka 6y ago
>The cockpit crew will not be handing out drinks. The mental image this gave me was amusing: >"Hey man, can you steer for a few minutes? I've gotta go push the drink cart." >"Sure thing dude, I'll get it ne
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by ornxka 6y ago
I don't know why anybody ever cared about logging policies. How would you even know if they keep logs or don't, or what they do with them if they do?
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by ornxka 6y ago
>Fury admitted to setting the 23 May fire by igniting some rags on the top bunk of a bunk room. He claimed to have started the fire to get out of work early.[10][11][12][13] On 15 March 2013 Fury was sentenced to over 17 years in federal
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The Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by ornxka 6y ago|0 comments
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by ornxka 6y ago
Cooperative multitasking is, in general, less than optimal in terms of stability. Both kernels run in the same address space, and must voluntarily cede control to the other, so any problem with either writing to the wrong place or failing t
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by ornxka 6y ago
I still use an EeePC on a fairly regular basis, so I agree with your statement, but also I think that the desire to drop support for older platforms is itself a concession, that it's too hard to engineer software at an abstract enough
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by ornxka 6y ago
My story with coLinux was that it was also my first experience with Linux, also around 2008. I wanted to try it but the thought of installing it and dual booting seemed a bit scary to me, so when I came upon a solution that supposedly let m
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Cooperative Linux – running Linux as a Windows driver (2011)(colinux.org)
115 points by ornxka 6y ago|58 comments
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by ornxka 6y ago
I don't really understand sentiments like this - Twitter is just a means for people to communicate. If the apparent result of this communication is "tearing us apart", then isn't that the fault of the end to which people
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by ornxka 6y ago
>There are some websites (especially PWA) where they are definitely useful and can replace a heavy client. How can this be so when the web browser itself is a heavy client?
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by ornxka 6y ago
this, but sincerely and without sarcasm
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by ornxka 6y ago
>a temperature range higher than 100 °C Uh, you meant Fahrenheit, right?
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by ornxka 6y ago
Isn't moving to a new instruction set only a problem with proprietary software? Open source operating systems seem to be able to be ported to new architectures almost effortlessly, some of them quite old or obscure. It's true that
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by ornxka 6y ago
I think this actually outlines the standard design process for most major web sites