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by orra 4y ago
Plus, as a general point, .NET has pretty decent performance. It's no C++, but at the same time substantial effort is put into optimisation. In fact for both .NET v5 and v7, they specifically did work to improve the performance of rege
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by orra 4y ago
That only applies to the core. The "enterprise" features are proprietary until the copyright expires. IIRC, backup was enterprise but is now part of the core. However, restore is still enterprise.
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by orra 4y ago
In the absence of Oracle playing ball, I wonder how (in)feasible it would be to relicence the code of other contributors, then build on that. OpenSSL recently went through a such a relicening and rewriting project. It took years, alas.
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by orra 4y ago
> that feature just not being available yet. How long are we expected to wait? It's been over a decade. btrfs was touted as a spiritual successor to ZFS. raidz5 is a core feature of ZFS, not an incidental extra feature.
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by orra 4y ago
It wasn’t my intention to blame Mono. The solution seemed necessary albeit unfortunate. Nonetheless, I appreciate the corrections and extra context you have provided.
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by orra 4y ago
I remember Mono, a .NET runtime, having to change its allocations to fit inside a smaller core. This was because a thread could start on a bigger core but then be shunted onto a smaller core. That fixed the crashing but obviously came with
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by orra 4y ago
> It's even licensed as MIT. Wouldn't be the first time. The old 2D "nv" driver was part of X11, and maintained by Nvidia employees. The catch, besides it being 2D only, was the "source code" was actually so
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by orra 4y ago
The legal system is primarily a legal system, not a justice system. Mainly, however, I am pointing out how absurdly reductionist it is for you to say “taxation is violence”. As you say, social constructs—taxation perhaps—can be “valuable or
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by orra 4y ago
> Taxation [is] enforced by violence... taxation is either extortion, robbery or theft Perhaps, but less so than money. People wouldn't recognise other people as having millions or billions of wealth unless that was enforced through
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by orra 4y ago
Fantastic! I had no idea that was possible. Thanks for elaborating.
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by orra 4y ago
To be fair to catch_panic, it exists for a very specific purpose: to prevent the undefined behaviour of unwinding across an FFI boundary.
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by orra 4y ago
I presume it's a gaming monitor, TN panel type? Each to their own. Personally I much prefer the colours and viewing angles of an IPS monitor. Unfortunately that means I can only get 60Hz. Thankfully I haven't experienced a high re
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by orra 4y ago
I can understand some of that discomfort. However, ultimately, uncountable infinities and (the axiom of) choice leads to other interesting scenarios that, IMO, it's best to make peace with. Besides, mathematicians rarely study arbitrar
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by orra 4y ago
> the mathematical objects we generally refer to as "numbers" have no constructive basis. Eh? I’m confused by your terminology here. You can construct the set of Real numbers using Dedekind cuts. Less conventionally, you can co
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by orra 5y ago
Somewhat? The browser and presumably the webview is distributed through Google Play, yes. But kernel upgrades are not.
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by orra 5y ago
Good point. I don't mean this as a slight against retdec. Simply, retdec was proprietary for quite a while, and it escaped my mind. retdec haven't tagged (or built) a release in a couple years, unfortunately, but there is recent a
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by orra 5y ago
A shame. My understanding is this was state of the art, for a free and open source decompiler. Of course, times change and AFAICT Ghidra has taken up that mantle.
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by orra 5y ago
> Core inflation includes housing and healthcare. Interesting, not in Europe. The UK produces a separate CPIH index. CPIH is CPI, additionally factoring in Owner Occupiers’ Housing Costs.
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by orra 5y ago
It’s not like the Tories cancelled the policy, unlike say Heathrow expansion (albeit only temporarily). That said the coalition government had a “no [taxpayer] subsidy” policy, which possibly was in contrast to the Labour policy. Nonetheles
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by orra 5y ago
I wouldn’t give PM Boris Johnson too much credit here. He regularly skipped crucial meetings at the start of the pandemic, and as PM he is ultimately accountable for his choice of advisors. Moreover, a year later his government had the gall
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by orra 5y ago
> They're fond of flashy announcements, but the hard long term work to bring them to fruition is another matter. Quite the understatement. At the very start of 2008, the UK Government announced a whole new generation of nuclear plan
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by orra 5y ago
It was rightly newsworthy, and investigated, that one person died during the construction of the Queensferry Crossing.
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by orra 5y ago
I fully agree.
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by orra 5y ago
> get that entropy from host to guest OS. There are some ways, although that doesn't mean they're always used. I read this week QEMU has provides a virtio RNG device to the guest, that reads from the host. That's good. Wha
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by orra 5y ago
> Obviously I'm missing something here For a start, there's a long tail of migrating all useful software to /dev/sane_random. Moreover, there's a risk new software accidentally uses the old broken /dev/
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by orra 5y ago
Here in the UK, most new builds come with 10 years of buildings insurance. That's good, because I've heard horror stories about the quality of new builds. I imagine the insurance premiums are quite high, to guard against such &#x2
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by orra 5y ago
Interestingly, Wolfenstein was censored for decades in Germany, until suddenly it wasn't. Turns out it was legal all along to put Nazi symbols in video games... on the baddies that you're killing. I mean, fair enough.
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by orra 5y ago
Thanks to you, and everybody else, for the examples. I find it interesting upgrading the SDK could make your code invalid, due to uninitialized struct members. Compiler warnings can catch that sort of thing, thankfully—at least these days.
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by orra 5y ago
> This is why so many Win32 methods take structs that have a size parameter that must be filled in. That acts as a version parameter That said, I couldn't name you a Win32 that actually has more than one valid value for said cbSize
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by orra 5y ago
> But the entire thesis of the OPs comment is that we shouldn't be valuing staff based on any one specific technical skillset, but rather based on their broader software development skills and experience, because learning the ins an

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