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by reisse 3y ago
What is the point of wrapping absolutely portable single-file program into a Docker container, honest question? Looks like cargo cult for me.
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by reisse 3y ago
Quoting @stenzek > But Wayland is just broken, and everyone would rather sit around arguing with each other instead of actually addressing the design flaws. > It's not the first time such a proposal has been put forward. Somethin
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by reisse 3y ago
> Last thing you want is funds having their say on how to run the company. And who exactly do you think owns 58% of SpaceX that Mr. Musk does not own? [1] It's not like being private means the company is not owned by funds or they h
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by reisse 3y ago
> - Hire an independent investigator to dig into the entire process leading up to this point and generate a full report. This is very interesting. You wouldn't normally hire an investigator to dig into a corporate shitshow. Firing o
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by reisse 3y ago
Exchanges rarely care about their absolute latency. The latency race is for the best place in the order entry queue. As soon as the order is queued for sequential processing by the risk checker or the matching engine, the race is over. I&#x
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by reisse 3y ago
> The go/no-go decision was effectively just sending the final CRC bytes correctly or deliberately incorrectly, thus invalidating the outbound packet that was already 99% sent. This trick will get you banned on some of exchanges now
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by reisse 3y ago
It is absolutely possible, I've seen multiple such systems. > In fact, you can't guarantee 5us for anything, at least not on common operating systems. Oh yes you can, with a screen-sized kernel cmdline, some proper configuratio
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by reisse 3y ago
Ugh, gross. Western man discovers people outside of the West are not living in huts! The paragraph about how "wonderful" Taipei Metro is so laughably demonstrates the disconnection between Western expectations of public transit an
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by reisse 3y ago
> Debian so far has decided to go with Netplan for their nework stack on Debian Cloud images. Seems not for long
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by reisse 3y ago
I run Firefox and resort to Edge for a single corporate web app that has issues with anything not Chromium-based. Spares me from installing Chrome on my machine, which is handy. Find it somewhat ironic that Chrome is the new Internet Explor
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by reisse 3y ago
Nah, it's your take that is ill-informed. If you want to convert rubles to crypto, you just do P2P on the Binance or on any other exchange. Basically, exchange provides a list of verified merchants to whom you can deposit rubles direct
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by reisse 3y ago
> all the major distros default to GNOME If your definition of major distros is limited to Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora, then probably. Linux Mint was born out of rejecting GNOME, Arch is not opinionated, Manjaro defaults to KDE (although &
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by reisse 3y ago
I won't answer this question because Canonical did it for me. As I mentioned in the parent post, they considered the gain so important that Ubuntu ships triple buffering patch starting from 22.04 LTS. Well, they actually come up with t
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by reisse 3y ago
> You have no idea what the challenges are or how the development process works for this project. The magic of the open source gives you the possibility to see it. And I do sometimes take a look into a shitshow of management which is thi
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by reisse 3y ago
> Red Hat didn't work on the image viewer. Honestly glad to err here. Kudos to Chris Davis, Sophie Herold and other contributors. > Why do you keep making comments on things you are uninformed on? I'm informed well enough o
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by reisse 3y ago
I doubt any of Red Hat paying customers are caring about image viewers or other important GNOME improvements in this release.
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by reisse 3y ago
Oh, I forgot about that! Thanks for the reminder. And lacking VRR is even more insulting now, since SteamOS has a working implementation for Wayland. Given how much Valve is doing for desktop Linux, I guess one day SteamOS will be the def
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by reisse 3y ago
Dynamic triple buffering for GNOME has been postponed again, fractional scaling is nowhere in sight, but they landed > a new workspace switcher and a much-improved image viewer. What a joke of a product management. Sometimes I envy guys
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by reisse 3y ago
> The entire point of such a move at the time was first strike capability, which is entirely offensive in nature. You know one of the reasons for Soviet missile deployment on Cuba was to counterbalance US missile deployment in Turkey,
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by reisse 3y ago
They are desktop only, but conceptually they're still much more like mobile chips. With M-series CPUs Apple is either targeting limited power consumption instead of going for max performance (which is a characteristic of mobile chips),
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by reisse 3y ago
Not really related, but one can always use a VPN with exit node in Russia instead of ad blocker. It still puzzles me what was their motivation to disable ads in Russia after the conflict began.
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by reisse 3y ago
There is also, allegedly, Chinese Eastern catastrophe from last year: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Eastern_Airlines_Fligh...
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by reisse 3y ago
> - A megacorp that pays 0% in income taxes still pays a ton of sales tax on things it buys I wonder if they can set up an entity in Delaware (where the most corps are incorporated anyway) and pay zero sales tax.
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by reisse 3y ago
> Russia can arrest local employees if they don’t like what their parent company is doing. That is a real risk for maybe few very high-level expat managers, but certainly not a risk for average programmer Ivan. Besides, as if Google care
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by reisse 3y ago
> CPUs, like smartphones, don't really need an upgrade every year So don't upgrade, what's your problem? Releasing new product each year gives an opportunity to upgrade hardware on your own schedule, being sure that the CP
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by reisse 3y ago
> that law which forced most American tech companies to close their R&D centers a decade or so ago Given that Intel and Nvidia had huge R&D centers in Russia until the middle of 2022, I highly doubt such law ever existed. Unrelat
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by reisse 3y ago
> Two companies(master/visa) hold complete control over the entire customer spending in the whole world.- They also prevented banks from catching up to the 21st century, technology-wise, and we still do not have instant online payme
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by reisse 3y ago
In Europe list price includes all applicable taxes in most cases.
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by reisse 3y ago
> The EU bureaucrats do not have power to magically insert spyware in our devices as long as we can install our own software. EU bureaucrats have power to force ISPs to block connections to the messengers that would not comply, Chinese-s
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by reisse 3y ago
Financially speaking, you can't become a monopoly in the gaming sector if you don't have mobile (as in, iOS/Android mobile, not portable consoles) division. So it's a long way to go.

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