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by ploxiln 10y ago
I used Cadence a fair bit, back in university (CMU) about 8 years ago - it is really surprisingly poorly made and maintained software. Very powerful, huge number of features. Crashed if you looked at it funny. Some windows made with TK, som
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by ploxiln 10y ago
I hate iOS, I own no iOS devices. But, many people love it. If many people really need to be protected from themselves (and as a side effect save the world from botnets), iOS is the way to do it.
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by ploxiln 10y ago
Many already do - it's called iOS. When the iPad first came out, a few executives publicly said "this is so awesome, I can do all my work on my iPad!" Sounds good to me, leave the power tools to the grown-ups who can resist p
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by ploxiln 10y ago
I was only familiar with the original, and enjoyed finding out about these "better" and "best" variants. But I'll note: http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ is really quite good, and it's a s
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by ploxiln 10y ago
A broken blind is more comparable to a server (http, ftp ...) with no authentication/password, maybe just for some directories that should have been protected. Also, wifi with no password. Exploiting a vulnerability is more like using
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by ploxiln 10y ago
I live in NYC. I enjoy being able to take the subway to many world-class establishments in under 45 minutes. If/when I have children, I'm getting the fuck out of here. Many (most?) people do the same. There are huge numbers of peo
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by ploxiln 10y ago
I'm sure a few of the engineers knew that would never happen. But it's someone else's job to sell the tech to businesses, and the stock to wallstreet ...
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by ploxiln 10y ago
Chromium only became compatible with linux in 2010. https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/google-chrome-for-ho... Arch Linux packaging files have source history going back to then as well. Chromium is also an ex
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by ploxiln 10y ago
I'm pretty sure that, for the last few generations of Intel CPUs, the ME is not optional on any (non-Atom) model. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3anjgm/on_the_librem... https://p
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by ploxiln 10y ago
Then Walgreens should fail and come to be replaced by a pharmacy chain which one way or another depends on input from a competent pharmacist (whether they are equivalent of "CTO", or board of pharmacist advisors, or whatever wor
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by ploxiln 10y ago
> Do people use coroutines? Yes, but not in production code. Are you serious? Well, first, surely in all this talk of cooperative threading, you also include callback-oriented event-based programming. This is HUGE. Have you heard of ngin
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by ploxiln 10y ago
wink wink, nudge nudge ... say no more!
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by ploxiln 10y ago
Security is the ultimate technical debt. It's "worthless to your users" for a while, and then one day it's an extinction event. You don't get the same trial/iterate cycle there is with software features, when i
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by ploxiln 10y ago
static-analysis tools, like pyflakes, can also find some of those things (semi-obvious problems like variable name typos that would remain undetected until that actual line was executed)
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by ploxiln 10y ago
I think there's some arguing past each other in discussion of this. You've seen some terrible programmers who don't write unit tests, and I (and others) have seen terrible programmers that do write (terrible) unit tests. Test
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by ploxiln 10y ago
Collisions should not be common enough to have chains (or skip patterns) of 20 elements, in an (unordered) hash map. It should be more like, one jump to the hashed index, and then maybe another jump or two if there is a collision. That&#x27
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by ploxiln 10y ago
That's all true, and I do "backend" stuff so I'm in the same boat as you, but I think you might still not get the point of the more-projects-faster thing: To be competitive, web devs need to be working with the most popu
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by ploxiln 10y ago
maybe. but text mode is pretty fundamental really. It could be powershell or anything I guess, as long as it had files and commands and was both interactive and scriptable
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by ploxiln 10y ago
What if nothing ultimately makes a significant proportion of users switch from Chrome to Firefox? When will Mozilla stop flailing and just go back to making a good browser, like they did when they just had a couple thousand users? When they
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by ploxiln 10y ago
There are proprietary modules for linux, and they are distributed and used, but there isn't really a full consensus on whether they are legal. You can certainly do it and get away with it though. http://yarchive.net/com
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by ploxiln 10y ago
gobolinux - http://gobolinux.org/ - has had a completely different filesystem layout, for many years. It's languished in the past few. archlinux has for a couple of years symlinked /bin, /sbin, and /usr&
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by ploxiln 11y ago
"seccomp()" (old simple mode) does pretty much this but much more simply and efficiently - disallows all system calls except read() and write() to existing file descriptors, and exit() and sigreturn(). https://en.wikipe
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by ploxiln 11y ago
"indentured servants"? That's ridiculous - startup tech workers are paid well compared to the average person, and they face no financial penalties for leaving their jobs if they do not exercise their stock options. They do fa
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by ploxiln 11y ago
On other wifi APs you can give different SSIDs to the 2.4GHz and 5GHz radios (and, on a ubiquity or other business-class AP, you can also add another SSID that spans both radios). Then you can have the client connect to the SSID which is av
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by ploxiln 11y ago
You may be thinking of "implementation-defined behavior" which is not exactly the same as "undefined behavior".
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by ploxiln 11y ago
Sure, it was just smart business plays in the tech industry, not really "evil" like physically harming people or stealing stuff from them. But as an engineer (well, at that time, a tinkerer in high school), it was very frustrating
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by ploxiln 11y ago
I think the implementation of links between containers did change significantly in the past year and a half. But that "links break when containers restart or are replaced" aspect was a deal-breaker for me when I started using dock
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by ploxiln 11y ago
Docker itself can restart containers when the parent process inside the container exits for any reason. That behavior is not enabled by default but it can trivially be enabled for a container (started via "docker run", or in the c
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by ploxiln 11y ago
In this case, the problem is not how much power the computer "feeds" to the phone, the problem is how much amperage the phone draws from the computer. The bad Type-C cable can be incorrectly configured to indicate to the phone tha
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by ploxiln 11y ago
If you can download the actual video file and play it outside the browser, you may be surprised how efficiently it can be played by mpv[1] or maybe vlc. 5 years ago I had a desktop computer that was 5 years old, and it plain couldn't h

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