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by p_l 10mo ago
No, routers would have to be fixed anyway, because even if you put extra bits into extension header we have 30 years of experience that routers and ISPs will regularly fuck around with those extra bits - it's related to why we have TLS
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by p_l 10mo ago
For a long time there was push to handle some of that under magistrate courts and other approaches so that to properly defend you have to appeal to actually get in front of proper court. There was at least one case where prosecution never,
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by p_l 10mo ago
This is speculation based on external observation, nothing internal other than rumours: A big, increasing over last decade, chunk of that is fear that they will break the compatibility - or otherwise drop in shared knowledge. To the point
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by p_l 10mo ago
A problem with Explorer, that it also shares with macOS Finder[1], is that they are very much legacy applications with features piled on top, and Explorer was never expected to be used for heavy I/O work and tends to do things the slow
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by p_l 10mo ago
Fred Brooks proposed "surgical team" structure, where as people gain experience they "bud out" new teams - i.e. the most senior after "the surgeon" ultimately leave team to become "surgeon" of a new t
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by p_l 10mo ago
After going through a bunch of docs and making sure I had the right reference. The "legacy" part of Vulkan that everyone on desktop is itching to drop (including popular tutorials) is renderpasses ... which remain critical for pe
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by p_l 10mo ago
Was not aware that Cap'n Proto RPC got object references over network, need to update my knowledge some day (unfortunately for it, it's also not used by any project I need to interact with) Persistence wasn't really an issue
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by p_l 10mo ago
GNOME 1.x was in many ways a dream, a dream I noticed was killed but haven't finished its death throes back when 2.4 was released
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by p_l 10mo ago
- There's actual standard logic for remotely-existing objects vs. just RPC - An object implementing multiple interfaces retains the same identity (niche thing but useful in my use cases) - Somewhat larger scope of supported languages (
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by p_l 10mo ago
It's a recurring bug in chrome
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by p_l 10mo ago
The systemd team mainly writes in (IMHO) horrible C, for one. But bigger issue is they already tried to push their ideas about d-bus around, and got finally mogged so hard it got canceled.
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by p_l 10mo ago
That was in the "few standard bits", yes.
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by p_l 10mo ago
Quoting things I only heard about, because I don't do enough development in this area, but I recall reading that it impacted performance on pretty much every mobile chip (discounting Apple's because there you go through a complete
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by p_l 10mo ago
No thanks, all the reasons I ended up looking at CORBA recently are because of things that simple RPC libs like Cap'n Proto don't do.
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by p_l 10mo ago
My understanding is that pipelines in Vulkan still matter if you target certain GPUs though.
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by p_l 10mo ago
At this point I would like CORBA back.
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by p_l 10mo ago
The C++ origin of Binder is annoying, but unlike original Binder[1] easily workable around especially given the exact format of messages is left up for implementation to decide outside few standard bits [1] BeOS, the docs still match what i
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by p_l 10mo ago
Cats are actually very social animals, they just don't firm similar pack structures to dogs With modem technology it became feasible to observe cats without disruption and it showed communal behaviours, including communal care for offs
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by p_l 10mo ago
Until relatively recently, ECC on server RAM was because of chip failures and to lesser extent electro magnetic interference. Good part selection and different EMI environment meant the calculated risks from not having ECC were considered
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by p_l 10mo ago
For a long time ECC brought most of effect as hedge against failing silicon, and local EMI. Aviation had benefit of careful EMI designs and appropriately selected chips, so it was seen less of a benefit...
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by p_l 10mo ago
Possibility of bit flips from cosmic radiation only really came to fore in 1990s, and some aircraft and parts predate that.
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by p_l 10mo ago
HPGL and HPGL2 exist, and most CAD tools have ways to export to it. Not sure about inkscape, but it should be doable. Hell, some plotters used to come with handbook of HPGL, even
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by p_l 10mo ago
Lot of network issues coming from Thrift RPC runtime apparently not handling anything well. I recall threatening I'll rewrite everything with ONC-RPC out of pure pettiness and wish to see the network stack not go crazy.
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by p_l 10mo ago
The people commenting about AI Slop, at least considerable portion, do so because it allows them to feel morally superior at little effort. Do not expect them to retract or stop if there's a way to not see the making of :P
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by p_l 10mo ago
The article is pretty vague, but nothing in it expired until at least 2023 :V
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by p_l 10mo ago
Honestly, first time I've seen someone praising Thrift in a long time. Wanted to do unspeakable and evil things to people responsible to choosing it as well as its authors last time I worked on a project that used Thrift extensively.
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by p_l 10mo ago
GNAT exists because DoD funded a free, open source toolchain.
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by p_l 10mo ago
Everyone focuses on M1 as supposedly super chip that fixed all the "intel problems" of Macbooks, but similarly large difference was how first M1 series reversed a bunch of Johnny Ive era designs including how forcibly thin it was.
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by p_l 10mo ago
Since on paper government cares about cost efficiency and you have to consider that in your lobbying materials. Also it enables getting cheaper programmers who where possible might be isolated from the actual TS materiel to develop on the
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by p_l 10mo ago
Also by the software being black box for everyone outside of USA / Lockheed-Martin.

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