qalmakka

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by qalmakka 6y ago
> 20 pounds of pasta for $40 That's around €3.60/kg, which is considered in Italy a quick way to get street riots. Go over €4/kg and you'll get a full blown revolution, complete with a fully functional guillotine. In
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by qalmakka 6y ago
It's one Italian kind of pasta, I think there are more noodle shapes in our country than stars in the sky, probably. Even the lousiest supermarkets in Italy generally have a pasta aisle that's at least 10 metres long.
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by qalmakka 6y ago
I'm Italian, but I've never been that partial to bucatini, I'm more in the spaghetti or rigatoni camp myself. My niece would kill for them, but I think that her being seven and liking "strange pastas" like ruote and
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by qalmakka 6y ago
No, I'm not an iPhone user, I just use Apple products only when I need to test if HomeKit is working OK, mostly. For your second questions, HAP is clearly intended for single, stand alone expensive devices with strong WiFi access, tota
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by qalmakka 6y ago
Still, it's not ok to just blanket ban them. If they're not efficient enough for certain high performance areas, just don't use them there. I don't see why, for instance, they can't be used along with more efficient
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by qalmakka 6y ago
This is somewhat exaggerated, especially because while there are several poorly designed areas in C++ and the STL, it's not all that bad and it can lead to safer, less fragile code than the C equivalent with less effort (but arguably,
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by qalmakka 6y ago
I develop home automation devices for a living and I must say, Homekit is quite annoying to develop for. First, many things in the spec are clearly thrown in your way for Apple's convenience, and feel as totally arbitrary or almost cou
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by qalmakka 6y ago
It looks nice, but I don't get how "link" is supposed to work, it seems like some kind of strange tuple type. Does anyone have any example of how it can be used, except the few bits they linked from the readme?
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by qalmakka 6y ago
Windows phone's apps were built in C#, which arguably had also a deep pool of developers, and it didn't help. Visual Studio was also the arguably best IDE around at a time where XCode and Android's Eclipse plugin sucked hard,
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by qalmakka 6y ago
Sadly, "being fashionable in UNIX circles" is more important than it sounds, because those circles have quite a lot of skilled people, mindshare and staying power and they contribute to lots of critical components that only now ar
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by qalmakka 6y ago
I think that the dispute around Phobos in 2010 together with C++11 froze the enthusiasm that was brewing around it. Rust nowadays got much more mindshare than D ever had, and C++17/20 while extremely complicated is "good enough&qu
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by qalmakka 6y ago
I hope that the possibility of an industry-wide switch to ARM doesn't take away the flexibility we now have with the PC. Standardized parts and a well defined firmware interface (and thus "standard" bootloaders instead of a m
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by qalmakka 6y ago
I personally think that alone European countries have zero chances to survive this century without becoming either American, Russian or Chinese puppets. Countries like the UK and France are still riding what's left of centuries of infl
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by qalmakka 6y ago
I think that in a certain way Brexit could be beneficial for the EU. Britain was in basically just in for the economic side of the European Communities, and always rejected or scoffed at the idea of European integration, and with its large
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by qalmakka 6y ago
In my experience, RPM is a bit more resilient to this kind of stuff, because I've never had such a problem on SUSE or Fedora. CentOS is different, because tecnically you're not supposed to upgrade it to a newer version, so it has
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by qalmakka 6y ago
I have not seen crashes, but I often saw corrupted DPKG databases. This is very rare if you stick to upstream repositories, but it gets more serious when you start mixing third-party repositories in (i.e. I saw people replacing GCC with new
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by qalmakka 6y ago
I second this. FreeBSD is rock solid and extremely reliable (I have systems that are running on very old hardware and little memory, and still work fine). Arch can also pretty stable, if you actually know what you're doing and you&#x27
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by qalmakka 6y ago
I personally hate Debian because of APT and the fact that it tends to do way too many things behind your back, things that sometimes backfire horrendously as soon as you stray too much from the path Debian dug (Ubuntu is the best example of
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by qalmakka 6y ago
With a GCC-based toolchain, you need to build binutils and GCC for each target you need, plus a sysroot with headers and libraries to target. With LLVM, the same backend and set of tools can target every single platform LLVM supports, and t
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by qalmakka 6y ago
Lots of this is also thanks to LLVM being much more friendlier to cross compilation than other compiler infrastructures (for instance, GCC requires a different compiler for every target, which is ridiculous IMHO). Usually every build of LLV
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by qalmakka 6y ago
Finally, this means we've a way to share "real" filesystems on both FreeBSD and Linux. The only other filesystems you could open without issues on both are FAT and NTFS (thought NTFS-3G), both of which are less than ideal for
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by qalmakka 6y ago
I second this. Even though it's an out of tree project, ZFS on Linux has always been much much more stable and reliable than Btrfs, as far as my experience goes. The only time I really managed to screw a ZFS pool was because of the bug
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by qalmakka 6y ago
In the end, they realized they royally screwed up and the Grana Padano Consortium wrote him an apology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xy_KkZDiTE
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by qalmakka 6y ago
It already exists, it's called giving cows the right feed, and it has been done in Italy since the early middle ages. Quality requires effort, and the whole problem arises from Grana Padano producers being stingy and wanting to reuse b
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by qalmakka 6y ago
No, it's not, otherwise all those "homemade Nutella" recipes and such would all be illegal. It's not like this guy was going to sell the cheese as Grana Padano, so I really don't see the point the Consortium is tryi
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by qalmakka 6y ago
Lol, that's kind of true. They've been producing basically a _slightly_ inferior, cheaper knock-off version of Parmigiano-Reggiano for centuries and nobody ever complained; at least they always steered clear from associating thems
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by qalmakka 6y ago
Yes, I mostly agree with you, but I think that if we look closely to how programming languages have evolved over the years, we can more or less define them into "generations" i.e. periods where certain concepts have more or less d
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by qalmakka 6y ago
Even though I think the market for programming languages is saturated and it will be for the next decade or more, I think it's always nice when someone tinkers and creates something new, so, my congrats to the authors!
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by qalmakka 6y ago
5 years? That's nice. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70315 took 18 years to get solved.
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by qalmakka 6y ago
Caught in the crossfire? NVIDIA has been skirting around the GPL for years with its Linux module, without ever contributing back. They've being hindering the adoption of Wayland for years due their refusal to implement GBM in their dri

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