qalmakka

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811.
by qalmakka 6y ago
Because the CDDL (by design, as inherited from the MPL 1.x) is not compatible with the GPL, due to the fact that both try to enforce their own copyleft without allowing relicensing (i.e the MPL2 avoids this thanks to a annex clause that all
812.
by qalmakka 6y ago
Ironically, a fully encrypted Linux installation with Btrfs or ZFS on a removable drive is quite easy to make and it works really well. I've one I made on an old SSD I had lying around and a 2.5" USB-C caddy and it's wonderfu
813.
by qalmakka 6y ago
While it works fine, it tends to BSOD more often than I'd like...
814.
by qalmakka 6y ago
Using a non-FAT filesystem for portable storage opens up lots of issues regarding broken permissions. Try to create a file on an ext4-formatted USB flash drive using your current user; rest assured that, unless your remembered to set its pe
815.
by qalmakka 6y ago
AFAIK South and North America belong to two independent tectonic plates that happened to merge a few millions of years ago; North America was part of Laurasia, while South America was part of Gondwana and it was originally attached with Afr
816.
by qalmakka 6y ago
For instance, https://verymobile.it/ (new MVNO from WindTre) has a 6.99 / 100GB promotion (if you switch from certain operators)
817.
by qalmakka 6y ago
If you get the right winback or operator attack promotions you can get amazing deals with the major MNOs.
818.
by qalmakka 6y ago
Here in Italy lots of plans actually stopped offering unlimited SMS because nobody uses them anymore. I think I must have sent less than 10 SMS in the last 5 years or so.
819.
by qalmakka 6y ago
I'm Italian and I pay ~9 euros per month for 130 GB of uncapped 4G mobile Internet, so I can't really complain about it. Some new offers I've seen are as low as 6.99 for 100 GB + infinite calls. A few days ago I told this to
820.
by qalmakka 6y ago
I haven't reinstalled Linux in years; usually, if I want to migrate my install somewhere else I use one of the following approaches: - `rsync -qaHAXS src dest` - `btrfs/zfs send/recv` Lately I standardized around ZFS, so I&#x
821.
by qalmakka 6y ago
Among all the feasible buyers, Oracle feels like the worst possible one. They are basically the real life version of Mr. Robot's Evil Corp, and they have a very bad record when it comes to acquisitions.
822.
by qalmakka 6y ago
Yeah, that's a real shame. I wrote lots of Perl and while it requires a bit of experience, I almost never incurred in issues such as those we see in PHP and JS. The fact Perl is also quite strict in you specify if the variable is hash,
823.
by qalmakka 6y ago
I think that the big mistake PHP and JS made was to loosely pick their weak typing from Perl while trying to look too much like Java. Perl has different operators for numeric and string equality, so you know that `$a == "3"` would
824.
by qalmakka 6y ago
After years of being a laughing stock, it's nice to see PHP finally becoming a nicer language instead of basically being the "three languages in a trenchcoat" of programming.
825.
by qalmakka 6y ago
They cut the cost by removing Bluetooth, though, so ESP32-S2 might not be the right choice for some scenarios.
826.
by qalmakka 6y ago
No, it does not. The world is full of scriptable C++ programs and C++ libraries with dozens of language bindings. As I wrote before LLVM, perhaps the most important compiler toolkit out there, is completely written in C++ and almost every l
827.
by qalmakka 6y ago
I'm kind of out of the loop - is BootHole a UEFI or GRUB2 vulnerability?
828.
by qalmakka 6y ago
Perl6 became Raku, a whole different language, something that should have happened since the very beginning instead of putting on a totally different project the label "Perl" and thus funneling in a truckload of FUD that only harm
829.
by qalmakka 6y ago
I like Perl, and I think that changing the defaults is a sane thing to do. Starting a new script with dozens of "use strict", "use v5.30", etc is less than ideal and it's easy to forget something and shoot yourself
830.
by qalmakka 6y ago
This is arguably false; for instance, Qt has official first-party bindings for Python. It's just that the tools Qt has make them not that necessary. Qt has not one but 2 fully functional IDEs (QtCreator and KDevelop) and good designer
831.
by qalmakka 6y ago
If everyone had rolled its own OOP in C now we would have dozens of incompatible and hard to interoperate object systems, all trying to do in a library the same stuff C++ and Objective C do at compiler level. I understand doing simple IsA r
832.
by qalmakka 6y ago
Objective C is not forced to have such design; if you don't import Foundation you can use plain libobjc and create your own root class, you can name methods however you want. Objective C historically boiled down to basically a preproc
833.
by qalmakka 6y ago
The fact C++ has no stable ABI is not what stops you from creating language bindings, because you need that kind of interoperability only for those symbols that need to cross the FFI. It's more about how the library is designed than t
834.
by qalmakka 6y ago
The part of GTK+ I've always hated the most is how much it relies on GObject, which is probably one of the worst ideas ever conceived by mankind. Reinventing a whole object system using C and shitload of macros is such an aberrant idea
835.
by qalmakka 6y ago
I tried almost everything and I can't for pete's sake find a way to get them to install when connected through SSH. Chocolatey works fine, though
836.
by qalmakka 6y ago
No, it's a native mingw-based GCC toolchain(cross compiler for an embedded platform), and everything is noticeably slower than on Linux or even macOS. I think it's because GCC is designed as relying on a multitude of separate bina
837.
by qalmakka 6y ago
AMD cards now with AMDGPU are vastly more convenient than Nvidia ones under Linux. AMDGPU is fully open source, so everything JustWorks™ without installing anything. Everything is shipped in Mesa and the kernel itself, and it does not requi
838.
by qalmakka 6y ago
None of these cards need any additional driver under Linux, unless it's extremely obscure hardware made by some Chinese company. Damn AMD has even rewrote its entire Linux graphic drivers from scratch, now they are fully open and work
839.
by qalmakka 6y ago
Also, have you ever tried to do any serious in C++ development work under Windows? Downloading 10 gigabytes of SDK just to run the compiler is not fun. Also, most if not all compilers (GCC is a number 1 offender here) are much slower than L
840.
by qalmakka 6y ago
If Wayland doesn't work for you, you can still use Xorg, that has worked fine for millions of people in the last few decades. I like Wayland, but I won't switch until it gets to the same level of features and stability of Xorg. Al

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