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by rleigh 6y ago
You would have to read up on the science of anaesthesiology for a full understanding. I'll describe just a few of the subtleties I've encountered. About two decades back, I was a medical researcher who did all the vetinary quali
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by rleigh 6y ago
This is also a recent phenomenon. If you go back and read papers from 50 to 80 years back, they are shorter, more concisely written, mostly devoid of confusing language, and they are a pleasure to read, rather than a chore. It also comes
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by rleigh 6y ago
Iain Banks' "Consider Phlebas" has a great section of the story in such a setting.
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by rleigh 6y ago
Microwaves are still photons!
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by rleigh 6y ago
It was always somewhat annoying though, particularly when it broke inter-document links, and it was a legacy of older times. Today, it's way past time to drop individual file compression. I mean, we have transparent compression with
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by rleigh 6y ago
> - Installation of Qt binaries will require a Qt Account vcpkg install qt5 With vcpkg and other alteratives in the picture, it's far less hassle to use that than mess around with the slow and flaky installer tool.
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by rleigh 6y ago
No, I think it's slowly increasing in the background. Look at https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html It's been a steady linear increase for the past three years, now over 30%. Interest
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by rleigh 6y ago
I detest the constant distraction of Slack and I'm thankful that I no longer work in a place which uses it. A lack of discipline on sending out notifications, and you can be spammed all day long with workflow-breaking distractions. E
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by rleigh 6y ago
That's what "flat" OpenDocument files are for. Use .fotd, .fods and then you can have all the file content, plus referenced images, objects etc. all separate files under version control without the zip container. I do this w
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by rleigh 6y ago
Java 8 is six years old. It's not remotely current. Java 14 is the current release. Java 11 is the current LTS release. Depending upon your priorities, either of them would make sense to pick as a default. Most package managers pro
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by rleigh 6y ago
I disagree that the "anti-vaxxers" would have been "right". They fail to trade off the risks appropriately. No one can claim vaccines are "safe". They induce a host immune response so that the immune system is
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by rleigh 6y ago
Snap. It's only the last year I chucked away my slink, potato and woody CDs. I had terrible problems with NFS and systemd. In fact, when testing Ubuntu 20.04 in a VM, the problems are still there even today. It's not freezing
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by rleigh 6y ago
I've never seen a keyboard with hyper or super. I doubt many people have, since they were only present on hardware obsoleted decades ago. Meta, aka the windows key on most PC keyboard, is usually present, but most people wouldn'
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by rleigh 6y ago
You're not disagreeing with anything I said. You're making a completely different point. systemd might be more convenient from the point of view of an end user. And unit files might seem superficially simpler than a script.
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by rleigh 6y ago
This is one thing which is often claimed, but to my mind is poorly justified. As a (Debian) package maintainer for over a decade, this used to be a non-issue. They were write and forget. The average package was just some simple boilerplat
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by rleigh 6y ago
> It's dramatically simpler and more intuitive than what it replaced I hope you're being deeply ironic. It's several orders of magnitude more complex. It's more difficult to understand and reason about because its in
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by rleigh 6y ago
This is something I've been interested in getting. Could you possibly provide some examples?
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by rleigh 6y ago
So long as the API works, I really don't care about the implementation details. I also don't care about Microsoft's UWP and sandboxing stuff. They might have a desire to take the platform in that direction. But I have no obl
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by rleigh 6y ago
Can they adapt in time? Being "around for a while" means nothing. There are thousands of big-name businesses that fail all the time after being in business for decades, or even centuries. As they say, past performance is not an
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by rleigh 6y ago
None of that matters one iota. I'm not going to spend valuable time and resources on a non-standard graphics API for a platform with anaemic graphics hardware. Instead, I'm going to target Windows and Linux with Vulkan or OpenGL.
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by rleigh 6y ago
I'm unconvinced that it would cannibalise Mac Pro sales. The Mac Pro is so unnecessarily expensive that it has to exclude all but the richest companies and individuals. It's for people who have money to blow on £600 novelty chro
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by rleigh 6y ago
There are quite a number of costs here relating to the "why not buy an apple computer" point. I know because I paid them in both previous jobs and as a sole developer. Firstly, the hardware cost. It's expensive and slow, bu
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by rleigh 6y ago
I strongly disagree. PID1 is a single point of failure for the entire system. If it crashes, the kernel will immediately panic. Try it out yourself and see. A good design would move every last bit of complexity out of PID1, leaving PID1
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by rleigh 7y ago
The vast majority of the "store brands" are made by the same companies who make the usual branded stuff. In many cases, it's the exact same product in a different wrapper or container, made on the same production line by the
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by rleigh 7y ago
Only if you want to maintain a private copy in perpetuity. It's always more constructive to work with an upstream. Though in the case of GNOME, that's rarely productive. I had one of my contributions sit around (with tested patc
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by rleigh 7y ago
Application developers have ceased to care about input focus for keyboard entry. Here's an example I encounter whenever I use Microsoft Teams at work. I go to "Add Contact", and the entire screen becomes a modal entry box in
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by rleigh 7y ago
True. In that article though, they thought that the commercialisation wouldn't seriously affect true free distributions like Debian. Shame that did not turn out to be the case. The fear of even slight differences has effectively for
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by rleigh 7y ago
That's very subjective, and not at all related to the point I was making. It wasn't about the niceness of GUIs. Over the last decade, we have experienced a sharp loss of control and had certain entities become almost absolute dic
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by rleigh 7y ago
> embrace the chaos Linux was all about chaos and herding cats until a short number of years ago. It's the "standardisation at all costs" brigade who have killed the goose that laid the golden eggs. It's now far wors
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by rleigh 7y ago
This page isn't new enough to include more recent failures. One of my least favourite was when it was not possible to configure the screensaver timeout to never turn off the display. IIRC you had a choice of several fixed times, from

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