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by p_l 1y ago
I see it repeats the claims of patents being responsible for GNOME choosing to go bonkers in GNOME 3 - Something that, for all that I dislike GNOME, at least they actually had courage to go on a new path and find it demeaning that it would
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by p_l 1y ago
The funny thing is all of the above APIs? They are actually used, hell, some were used quite extensively in my memory. It's just that we're in a bubble that does not intersect with that bubble, and a lot of the stuff became less i
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by p_l 1y ago
DDR5 uses 32bit channels as well. A DDR5 DIMM holds two channels accessed separately.
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by p_l 1y ago
There's more MUMPS programming going around than many people believe, especially in financials... Including new development.
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by p_l 1y ago
They work with Visa and MasterCard to issue cards in systems run by both of them.
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by p_l 1y ago
Boards' ACPI etc. is still better than what it would be without "certified for Windows" (whatever name of the hour is) programs
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by p_l 1y ago
Part of the issue was that there are multiple FIPS-140 versions, and the Go support is for FIPS-140-3, which is honestly quite updated and less annoying. To the point I actually recommended running our entire environment (for a pretty big c
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by p_l 1y ago
Win4Lin was apparently based on Merge, which debuted in 1985. However, at least with Win4Lin, it depended IIRC on specially patching the windows components to run them in the hypervisor.
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by p_l 1y ago
Perl's big influence is Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions, to the point many younger people just assume "regular expression" means "pcre". In terms of direct language impact, Ruby code rarely shows that these days
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by p_l 1y ago
structs were first introduced in Algol 58 variant called JOVIAL, AFAIK
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by p_l 1y ago
There are some legacy programs in DoD that are developed in a variant of Algol 58 called JOVIAL that are still supported and edited despite over 40 years now of mandate to update to something newer (Ada). Also used in some other places, lik
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by p_l 1y ago
I imagine it could take some minor contributor deciding they don't like what you do and taking extreme interpretation of AGPL including trying to insist everything that talks over network to it is derivative work, vs interpretation of
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by p_l 1y ago
The problem is that the language is vague enough and untested enough a lot of places, including non-technical ones, can be wary of being the test case.
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by p_l 1y ago
with older HDMI/DVI displays, AFAIK you sync pixel clock to "address generator" for the matrix, with major issue becoming scaler AFAIK. DVI (and thus older HDMI) being essentially "VGA that skipped Digital to Analog conv
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by p_l 1y ago
I wouldn't exactly call Roomba niche... ;)
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by p_l 1y ago
Some might in fact contain everything, but the core difference is that this is a simulation engine not a GIS tool.
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by p_l 1y ago
Egregious cases can lead to immediate dismissal, you also don't have to let anyone continue working even if you still pay them if they are on the notice period (the notice period is for both sides, honestly - for employer to have chanc
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by p_l 1y ago
Template mechanism was also present in OS/2 Presentation Manager, at least since 2.0. Windows support for this survived I think until XP at least, but generally it runs the "New ..." context sub menu in Explorer.
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by p_l 1y ago
Because markets, as currently implemented for energy in EU, do not adequately include things like intermittency of demand. If you take a source that has very low per-MWh price but very intermittent, it gets effectively highly prioritized an
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by p_l 1y ago
Another reason is that they are shorter range, and the better shielding also means that interference effects are smaller. In comparison, twisted pair sending 10Gbit over 8P8C cable (popular "RJ-45") requires complex modulation sch
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by p_l 1y ago
Capitalism is exactly about amassing capital to make others reliant on capitalist providing capital for the tools necessary to do the work, then extracting rent from the value produced. In true capitalist market you end up with oligarchy.
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by p_l 1y ago
DACs don't cause problems, but twisted pair at 10Gig is a PITA due to power and thermals
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by p_l 1y ago
RPi does not support everything you may need to use, build farms are not the only use case for ARM servers too. And Google could do what they did because of the scale they bought crap changed the calculus for performance. And even Google sw
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by p_l 1y ago
A lot of the terms you recall are terms also coined by people who would be considered anti-capitalists today. That said, specific word use depends a lot on one's specific bubble. A lot of my personal contacts consider it implicitly b
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by p_l 1y ago
The quote I recall reading about long ago summarized the semi-official guidance as "write C like you write ASM". Because outside of ports from PC, large amount of console game developers at the time were experienced a lot with wit
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by p_l 1y ago
Naughty Dog's GOAL was PS2 specific and essentially chock full of what would be called intrinsics these days that let you interleave individual assembly instructions particularly for the crazy coprocessor setup of Emotion Engine. My un
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by p_l 1y ago
The title resonates well with mainstream dogma of capitalism being objectively good, ignoring that it was just one aspect of what made "the good years" and was in fact quite limited by both physical and legal constraints, and some
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by p_l 1y ago
I find Amdahl's Law very useful for parallelizable work as well. Or at least, I find it trivially scalable to parallel case. Often it helped for me in modeling how interconnect would be a possibly limiting element for a task even for
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by p_l 1y ago
Pi is relatively underpowered (quite underpowered, even), has proprietary boot system, and similarly isn't exactly good with things you might want in professional server (there are some boards using compute modules that provide it as a
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by p_l 1y ago
However, it's hard to get into ARM other than using cloud offerings. Because those cloud offerings have handled for you the problematic case of ARM generally operating as "closed platform" even when everything is open source.

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