rleigh

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by rleigh 7y ago
Maybe there's a spectrum here. A family trade is both highly social and highly stable, even if it is confining in terms of personal freedom and social mobility. Maybe, our current obsession as a society with personal freedom and socia
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by rleigh 7y ago
Yes, three separate jobs to date over a span of 16 years. However, none of those three jobs directly utilised my open source contributions over the last 20 years. They made use of the skills I had, and which those open source contribution
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by rleigh 7y ago
It was tasteless and tacky then as well. However, the difference is now that we are effectively being forced to pay for features we do not want and which are a waste of material resources and power. Previously, you would have needed to get
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by rleigh 7y ago
Resources referenced by an index. Examples were provided in the post you replied to. Threads, processes, file handles, mutexes, etc. Or in an embedded context could be memory addresses for control registers etc. Many of these require fu
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by rleigh 7y ago
Well, the SQLite might have been more scalable if you needed to deal with much larger YAML files. I've been in a similar situation with XML. It's fine to hold in memory until you end up running out of memory, at which point you
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by rleigh 7y ago
My experience has been the opposite. Of all the people I've worked with using Macs, all of them were developing cross-platform open source software. I've yet to meet a single developer making MacOS applications.
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by rleigh 7y ago
The MacBook is a general purpose computing platform. The iPhone and iPad are not. Locking down the Mac will make it unusable for many, many people. It will indeed be the death of the platform, as most devs abandon it entirely.
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by rleigh 7y ago
I think that when your co-workers have such severe BO that it makes your eyes water, that it might be a bit much.
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by rleigh 7y ago
Unless those commitments are in the form of formal contracts, written down, then I would not place a great deal of faith in them. Unless they have legal obligations to abide by them, then IBM don't need to keep them.
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by rleigh 7y ago
For the core parts, such as database engines, webservers, programming languages, etc. then you should not encounter any trouble. I've done this and found little trouble. For glue like kubernetes, yes, you're going to find differe
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by rleigh 7y ago
FreeBSD just got some big updates to improve performance on multi-core virtualised systems. I'm looking forward to testing them. Yes, you're right, Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS etc. are the common systems in use for this purpose today
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by rleigh 7y ago
That's not the germane point. There are applications dating back over 30 years written for X11. Thousands upon thousands of them. Compatibility matters. Wayland may turn out to be a flash in the pan. Those applications aren't
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by rleigh 7y ago
Even in the Windows98 era, it was common to boot into DOS for many games.
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by rleigh 7y ago
No dictator has absolute power. They can't rule a nation single-handedly. Their will is enacted through others. There are many generals, and in essence an entire ruling class who run the country, and benefit from the status quo. He
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by rleigh 7y ago
Then you might as well just be using the STM drivers directly, and ignore the OS entirely. It would be a few trivial function calls into the C code for the sensors in question.
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by rleigh 7y ago
Maybe the death watch for the traditional Linux desktop has also started... Linux distributions have had a decade long slide in their usability and polish. Much of this has been due to an abandonment of its historical UNIX roots in favour
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by rleigh 7y ago
I certainly don't doubt that he has considerable freedom of action in some areas, perhaps so long as his upper echelons agree with it. However, that doesn't imply he has the same freedom of action in all areas.
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by rleigh 7y ago
I don't wish to defend the regime in any way. However, do consider that while he has power, he's also the figurehead. There may be real constraints upon how much change he can meaningfully effect without the system falling apart
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by rleigh 7y ago
Depends which specific part of the industry you work in, perhaps. The company I work for has set working hours, with some flexibility in start and finish times. But it's basically 8 hours per day, 40 per week. What surprises me most,
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by rleigh 7y ago
This is a disingenuous argument. Working twice the hours does not mean you are putting in twice the effort or getting twice the results. You're more likely to be a complete liability, because you're tired, unfocussed and not capa
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by rleigh 7y ago
Looks like a marketing strategy, more than lots of real genuine grassroots enthusiasm. Don't get me wrong, they are doing better in some respects recently, but I use Microsoft Windows because I have to, not because I love it. I won&#
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by rleigh 7y ago
You can switch between one or the other. Oddly, it can't run both at the same time.
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by rleigh 7y ago
Not really, not in any meaningful quantity. That only happened once, on a geological timescale (the carboniferous period). During that period, there was no breakdown of dead trees; fungi and bacteria hadn't evolved the enzymes to brea
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by rleigh 7y ago
I tried it out today. It does disengage, but only at the very limit, which is why I must not have noticed it before. And when it does disengage, it surges forward disconcertingly fast, so I'm not too convinced by its usefulness or sa
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by rleigh 7y ago
Interesting. I've not seen this happen in practice though (and I have tested it). I'll have to try pushing it right to the limit, which I don't normally do in 30 zones. Mine's a 2015 model; I don't know if there&
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by rleigh 7y ago
It's less than one flat teaspoon per loaf, and most of that is metabolised by the yeast. You can do without it, but it takes much longer to rise.
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by rleigh 7y ago
It doesn't in my car (Nissan Qashqai). You can floor it and it will accelerate up to the limiter's setpoint and stay there. It would kind of defeat the point of it to disengage in this situation. I use it in 30 and 40mph zones,
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by rleigh 7y ago
I have to disagree. The current state of computing is a disgraceful state, squandering multiple GHz of compute power to give worse performance than much software from the 386 era. It might be marginally more featureful, but those gains do
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by rleigh 7y ago
Yeah, there used to be a separation of geek stuff from social stuff. Pre- or early-internet era, computing and technical stuff was done in a room at home, or work, or a computing facility at a university. When you left that place, you sti
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by rleigh 7y ago
I do likewise. Nice to think that their algorithms might be mis-trained, but I'm sure they can filter it out.

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