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by rleigh 6y ago
Absolutely agreed on all counts. The point about teachers is also something I think is quite neglected today. A teacher with real-world experience of their subject is vastly better than someone who has known nothing of the world outside ed
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by rleigh 6y ago
The biggest problem is the form-over-function design. The same applies to the new one as well, though it's not as bad. In both cases, they are missing out on the business market who need a workhorse. Both are priced out of most peop
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by rleigh 6y ago
In some ways, this is the result of equality through having paid salaries for politicians. While the previous arrangement of having to be independently wealthy excluded most people from getting into politics, it did mean that it wasn'
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by rleigh 6y ago
I disagree. It isn't a bug because it was explicitly designed to behave this way. The solution won't be to fix a defect, but to change the design, which is completely flawed. They should have pushed revocations from the beginnin
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by rleigh 6y ago
You're right, it's not stealing. You have chosen to give it away for use in this manner. But the other side of the coin is that this is increasingly unsustainable. Free/open source software development works best when it is
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by rleigh 6y ago
This is why I use GitLab with self-hosted runners for all sorts of esoteric platforms, then use their linux runners for the basics. I don't like to freeload, so I do have a Bronze subscription which includes a certain number of monthl
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by rleigh 6y ago
Not "democratic", but "fair and accountable". You are effectively reinventing a legal system with the CoC rules and its enforcement. But it's a "kangaroo court". In the real world, we realised that power
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by rleigh 6y ago
I have never encountered this in 23 years of participating in open source projects of all kinds. 20 years back (in Debian) there was some banter on the mailing lists, but never of that nature. It was mainly jokes about women. The communit
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by rleigh 6y ago
Most of the GNU software catalogue has historically been supported on nonfree platforms. Nothing to do with Linux here, it's not part of the equation. None of this consideration is really concerning free software or proprietary softwa
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by rleigh 6y ago
The "standard" for anything today should be the physical display size divided by the pixel count to give the exact resolution for X and Y in DPI. Scaling should be relative to that physically correct resolution. We've inheri
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by rleigh 6y ago
It doesn't matter one jot that the "development firepower" has moved on. We have a 30+ year legacy of using X11. I know the CADT development model doesn't care about that. But all the people using X11-based application
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by rleigh 6y ago
You're absolutely right about the suffering the the commercial stuff and the open source stuff being more flexible. However, when a product needs to use a certified toolchain to meet required safety standards, and to be supported using
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by rleigh 6y ago
There are likely to be some, but they will be a minority. And just like open source projects, their number will be dwindling. In both arenas, I've encountered CMake more than anything else over the course of the last decade. You&#x27
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by rleigh 6y ago
Maybe it depends upon the specifics, but for technical queries I've found DDG to be hands down better than Google for years at this point. Google used to be great, but with the dropping of both code search and specific matching even w
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by rleigh 6y ago
My understanding is that FreeBSD freezes its kernel ABI for each major release and this enables third-party drivers to be written against it and supported for that major release. There are out-of-tree graphics drivers in the ports tree mak
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by rleigh 6y ago
I understand the frustration to some degree. Part of me even agrees with it. However, what I don't see is that nVidia should have any obligation (ethical, legal or otherwise) of any sort to provide a Linux driver at all. The demands
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by rleigh 6y ago
Windows is not iOS. This isn't a counterpoint. I might be running long-running computations which take several days. I might be performing time-critical data acquisition which is going to run overnight. Hell, I might even just put t
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by rleigh 6y ago
The problem here is that it makes the assumption that rebooting without confirmation outside these hours is a reasonable thing to do. But it isn't. If I am in the middle of something, and put my laptop to sleep at the end of the day,
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by rleigh 6y ago
As if the "enterprise" version is much better. It's not. I had an unscheduled reboot losing all my work just this week. Taking that control away was the single most awful change ever made to Windows. It made it undependable
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by rleigh 6y ago
They wouldn't. There's far more to a Debian package than simply aggregating a bunch of files into a container and calling it a day. Making sure it's all correctly split into runtime, library, development, documentation, debu
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by rleigh 6y ago
Err, because it's the job of the package manager to prevent this exact situation from happening... Packages are not permitted to overwrite data files or configuration files (conffiles) from other packages. dpkg would abort the install
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by rleigh 6y ago
Likewise. In one interview, I was given a short task to write some simple multithreaded C++ application before the interview. IIRC it was just a bunch of timers running in parallel to trigger events. During the onsite, they said here&#x2
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by rleigh 6y ago
I watched both. I didn't particularly enjoy the first (just not my thing), but the second was boring. I did see it through out of curiosity, but I agree it's no surprise that it was cancelled. For many of these productions, if t
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by rleigh 6y ago
Netflix has done similar stuff with Ascension, The Witcher, Altered Carbon and others. I do prefer quality over quantity, and more episodes per season isn't IMO a good thing. Having tight focus, telling a complete story from beginning
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by rleigh 6y ago
There is also the matter of implementation quality and robustness, and the future of XML as a supported technology. XML technology is over 20 years old, and mainstream support for it has been slowly declining. If you're writing in any
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It's not applicable, in practice. This is the published hardware interface for the driver, the formal public contract. You can't change it without changing the hardware itself. If you really want to run the generator... well, the
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Wow, that must be really annoying. I have it at a very high pitch. I did get it checked out, and inner ear or nerve damage was suggested as a cause. However, they also suggested that poor posture putting strain on the muscles around the n
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by rleigh 6y ago
The opposite has been shown to be true. For example, see the effect of wolf reintroduction upon biodiversity. They keep other populations in check which themselves would overall cause harm. Look at the situation in the Scottish highlands.
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If you go back in time 15 years, and ask yourself if it would have been a good idea to be an "Objective-C" developer, I think the answer would have been "not really, unless you only want to develop for MacOS". Swift is
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Chrome was also advertised relentlessly, for years. For something which isn't being sold as a product, Google certainly spend a lot of time and money promoting it. And that was certainly not out of altruism. They wanted the control

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