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by ptx 9mo ago
Wait a minute... > with the rise of [...] microservices, apps were becoming [...] too complex for any individual to fully understand. But wasn't the idea of microservices that these services would be developed and deployed indepen
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by ptx 10mo ago
Maybe this one [1] from 1987? It says: > There are many race conditions that must be dealt with in input and window management because of the asynchronous nature of event handling. [...] However, not all race conditions have acceptable
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by ptx 10mo ago
They are apparently replacing the run dialog with a new "Modern Run" dialog, so we can look forward to that also not working properly: https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/after-30...
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by ptx 10mo ago
And those new APIs (at least the context menu API) apparently require a "package identity", which requires a signed MSIX installer, which requires paying for a code-signing certificate, unless I'm missing something in the doc
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by ptx 10mo ago
The survey asks whether people care about the headphone jack, though – it asks whether it's in the top three features they care about. I care plenty about the headphone jack but still reluctantly bought a phone without one (which I r
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by ptx 10mo ago
Debian is somehow able to manage it for apt.
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by ptx 10mo ago
There's not a single mention of pollution or clean energy or the environment in the entire article. Presumably the regulatory requirements for these generators are less stringent than for proper power plants, so the costs are pushed on
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by ptx 10mo ago
What would that look like in this case?
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by ptx 10mo ago
I don't think it's necessarily a misconception but rather people having different conceptions of what the term "F-Droid" refers to. It could refer to the client, the server tools, a specific server instance, the project,
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by ptx 10mo ago
I don't understand why the experience you describe would lead you to conclude that LLMs might be useful for software development. The response "that's why we shouldn't have done it like that!" sounds like a variatio
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by ptx 10mo ago
As I said, how are you going to check the source when LLMs can't provide sources? The models, as far as I know, don't store links to sources along with each piece of knowledge. At best they can plagiarize a list of references from
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by ptx 10mo ago
How is verification faster and easier? Normally you would check an article's citations to verify its claims, which still takes a lot of work, but an LLM can't cite its sources (it can fabricate a plausible list of fake citations,
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by ptx 10mo ago
> So I had Claude Code do the rest of the investigation And did you check whether or not what it produced was accurate? The article doesn't say.
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by ptx 10mo ago
Hmm, you mention in the README that it only works in a privileged container. This of course negates the security benefits Wayland supposedly has over X11, so it doesn't seem ideal.
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by ptx 10mo ago
Are you saying that you can't get the title of the active window in X11 without using some features specific to the X.Org implementation? It looks like the core X11 protocol spec [1] defines all that's needed, specifically the Get
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by ptx 10mo ago
Open Source is the same thing as Free Software, just with the different name. The term "Open Source" was coined later to emphasize the business benefits instead of the rights and freedom of the users, but the four freedoms of the
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by ptx 10mo ago
Well, the description is attributed to "two people with knowledge of the project" of unclear national origin.
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by ptx 10mo ago
Perhaps only in the case where it's preceded by the small tsu? E.g. "一人ぼっち" -> "hitori bo[tsu]chi" -> "hitori botchi"? That's what Wikipedia says [1], although I think it's also common to (
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by ptx 10mo ago
This was the default window manager on Red Hat Linux (not RHEL) 5.0, if I recall correctly.
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by ptx 10mo ago
And the Windows 1.0 UI [1] looks really similar to Mac OS (especially dialogs and buttons), so apparently Microsoft pilfered their UI design from Steve Jobs's companies not only once but twice. [1] https://www.pcjs.org/
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by ptx 10mo ago
It's disconcerting that he's on the fence about this. They obviously seriously considered the option and worked out an estimate of how much money it would bring in. Would they have done it for $175 million? It also seems at odds w
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by ptx 10mo ago
This makes no sense. Their AI solution is all about trust, he says, and we can trust Mozilla because they're not incentivized to push any particular provider. But all we're trusting them with is a frontend for other AI providers,
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by ptx 10mo ago
Right, I guess I shouldn't have edited out my preemptive response to this: Of course the solution is internally composed of different parts. Most things are. People of course understand that those internal parts could be switched out f
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by ptx 10mo ago
A solution to what ? Aside from details of the implementation, one can also disagree with the framing of the problem and scope of the solution. Sure, we're free to implement an alternative solution for doing DNS resolution and IPC and
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by ptx 10mo ago
Isn't unified agency the point of forming an organization? The organization generally elects leaders to direct the actions of the organization for some common purpose, e.g. through policies and direct decisions, and they can (or should
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by ptx 10mo ago
Couldn't the correct function signatures be generated from the COM type library? Using an LLM for this is clearly not a good fit, as the article demonstrates.
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by ptx 10mo ago
LibreOffice is derived from OpenOffice.org which is derived from StarOffice which predates Java. When it was acquired by Sun and open-sourced, they added some optional components implemented in Java, but the core application is not a Java a
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by ptx 10mo ago
Never mind the December security patches, Samsung haven't even released the November patches yet, the ones for the critical severity RCE. Unless you have a "major flagship model" [1], because apparently only the richest users
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by ptx 10mo ago
The funny thing about the last one is that those actions ultimately boil down to invoking their CLI tool (which is pre-installed on the runners) with "gh release create ...", so you can just do that yourself and ignore the third-p
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by ptx 10mo ago
> post your applet on a web page, and anyone on the planet could run it instantly "Instant" is a strange choice of words to describe JVM startup performance. I recall the UX of encountering an applet involving watching a Java

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