qalmakka

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by qalmakka 5y ago
If I recall correctly the Portuguese term was the original etymology of all the "marmalades" in other languages. The French changed the meaning of the world by extension from "quince cheese" to "citrus preserve&quot
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by qalmakka 5y ago
VAT evasion is widespread in certain countries (like Italy for instance), and pushing people to prefer electronic payments to cash is empirically the only realistic way to counter it, but there will always be resistance from small retailers
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by qalmakka 5y ago
At least leave a note? Something like, "sorry, we didn't have enough chips" instead of just playing dumb and letting customers find that out the hard way when they try to plug in their phones?
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by qalmakka 5y ago
If you are very zealous and use lots of C++17/20 magic, you can prevent lots of runtime bugs with C++ too by doing basically the same stuff you do in Rust (RAII, move semantics, use concepts, etc). Sadly that's not doable in C#.
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Yeah it's LLVMpipe, it's basically doing everything in software and Plasma uses quite a bit OpenGL for animations and compositing. A lighter WM like Fluxbox could maybe be easier on the CPU. In any case, looking back at Nouveau, w
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by qalmakka 5y ago
I for one can't take "EPYC Bergamo" seriously. Come on, Bergamo? For real? I guess it could sound "cool" to non-Italian speakers, but here in Italy I think that Bergamo is one of the most forgettable cities ever. Wh
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by qalmakka 5y ago
yeah, they are basically selling plain simple Virtual Machines as if they were a revolutionary technology. If you exclude the recent GUI features (which are orthogonal to WSL2), WSL2 is IMHO just marginally more convenient than running Linu
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by qalmakka 5y ago
This is quite banal to achieve. Just put Linux on its own disk and create a Hyper-V VM with the physical disk attached. If the disk has its own ESP, is it that simple, just remember to use UUID everywhere and Linux will happily boot wherev
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by qalmakka 5y ago
So it basically uses .NET in place of something like, LLVM, in order to generate native code. Clever.
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by qalmakka 5y ago
OT: I would have gone with the 'libinux' name, just to have a cool -linux command line flag like 'libiberty' .
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by qalmakka 5y ago
So this is basically a newer, cooler IronPython?
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by qalmakka 5y ago
AMD graphics on Linux nowadays are vastly more stable than anything else. NVIDIA is proprietary crap and Intel Graphics still have cross-platform bugs so often is almost comical.
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by qalmakka 5y ago
The experience you are describing is more akin to what I remember being Linux in the '00s than nowadays. I run a machine with arguably a buggy Ryzen 1st gen motherboard (it's quite buggy on Windows too), and I have a very stable d
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by qalmakka 5y ago
I am 100% convinced that GNOME 2 was one of the greatest UIs of all time. Its UX was incredibly simple yet beautiful, and GNOME 3 and 4 instead feel gimmicky and disconnected from reality when compared to it. Mate really deserves more love
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Guess it didn't work well for that. Thankfully projects like AdoptOpenJDK exist, so there are basically zero reasons to touch their stuff ever again.
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Who would have thought that bringing something so primal as social interactions to a scale for which our monkey brains are not evolved for could backfire so badly? /s
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by qalmakka 5y ago
The best part is that most of them even work well under Windows, too, and that really is a nice breath of fresh air for a change. I always miss my tools when I am on Windows, and while I know a good deal of PowerShell it still doesn't
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Ubuntu is famous for breaking spectacularly as soon as you start install PPAs or non-stock packages. I'm still convinced that APT is not the right tool for a desktop OS, it's way too complex and has too much automagic to withstand
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Once you learn to avoid NVIDIA, your life gets way easier. I've bought an RX 580 4 years ago and it's been a pleasant plug'n'play experience ever since.
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by qalmakka 5y ago
These benchmarks also don't reflect how good are the backends for different CPU architectures in GCC and LLVM. For instance, GCC is by far the dominant compiler on GNU/Linux on x86, while LLVM has a almost total monopoly of AArch6
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Glibc has always been a whole rigamarole of nasty GCC-isms. I've been interested in building entire GNU/Linux systems with Clang for years, but I have always found a general lack of interest from both maintainers and the community
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by qalmakka 5y ago
I genuinely don't care, I gave up on the desktop app in favour of the web app a long time ago. The one thing that drives me crazy is that even Google has took its time to make Meet work well in Firefox, while Microsoft can't be bo
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by qalmakka 5y ago
To be fair, Bing search is pretty much at a level comparable to google in the early '10s in my experience, so I understand why people are not thrilled by it. It's _fine_, but it's definitely not up to par with Google, not eve
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Well USB cables use some copper and some have gold-plated contacts. In any case, the EU has been complaining about cables for who knows how long, so I guess they have their own reasons, backed by data, to argue for their standardisation. It
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Is GIMP still on GTK+ 2.x? I think 3.x has been out for more then 10 years now.
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by qalmakka 5y ago
if most domains happen to be .com, isn't it basically the same?
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Unpopular opinion (maybe): given the current situation, we should probably consider phasing out TLDs somehow. It's becoming more and more clear than no TLD outside those established before the '90s are actually viable for anything
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by qalmakka 5y ago
It does indirectly come from age, because legacy and backward compatibility mean that you can't simply change some core parts of the language at all. For instance, std::optional uses UB because _all_ of C++ does the same, and making st
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by qalmakka 5y ago
I found an archived copy of the GNU guidelines from 2004 that well represents what was the GNU policy of the time: https://web.archive.org/web/20041029162424/https://www.gnu.o... As you can see, it basic
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Both g++ and the objective-C frontend already existed back then, so your argument isn't correct. I think the main reason back then was that Stallman and the FSF were very much against C++, and pushed very hard for everything under the

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