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by rleigh 8y ago
Unsurprising. This is one public announcement, but it's inevitable that there are many more products which will cease support for MacOS. OpenGL is an established industry-standard graphics API. Supported on every platform of note. D
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by rleigh 8y ago
Possibly, but it might simply be that systemd using the shiniest new features just for the sake of it is not the most performant or sensible approach.
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by rleigh 8y ago
Try this out: Take any current MacOS release, any recent one you like. Now, look at the versions of all the core tools. Stuff like readlink(1). Basic UNIX tools. Look at the manual page, and note the dates. This is the date of the tool
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by rleigh 8y ago
I'm sure it's driving out smaller meetings as well, which might not make big news but might add up to even bigger losses overall. Some of my team went to a meeting in SF a few years back. They described "running the gauntlet
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by rleigh 8y ago
I'm the opposite, I found the books in a steady decline from book 2 onward. I thought the last two were terrible. And the new books by Brian Herbert were largely unreadable. But we all have different tastes.
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by rleigh 8y ago
I've yet to hear any complaints from anyone I've been talking too; it's been universally regarded as a good thing. I'd have to agree, and I'm not a particular fan of the EU. It's never been portrayed as "
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by rleigh 8y ago
I got this just two weeks back, fully up to date 2015 MPB. I was shocked that this could happen; I could even click around on the desktop for a few seconds before it locked up, and I had to hit Esc for the login screen to appear. I didn&#
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by rleigh 8y ago
It's very difficult, for certain. As is clear from this thread, "normal" levels of drinking can vary wildly between people and social groups. For the two people I know, it wasn't an overnight thing. They were already
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by rleigh 8y ago
It depends on the person. If you're not dependent upon it and you can immediately give it up without ill effects, then it's not much of a problem. What makes this article and paper so interesting is that there's a real phys
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by rleigh 8y ago
While I know that some people do drink everyday and consider it normal, I don't and none of my friends do. We're all occasional drinkers and might drink on one or two nights, and often not at all for several weeks. I'd cons
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by rleigh 8y ago
I don't agree that it's a different context. An end user might not care directly about OpenGL or any other low level feature, but these things will directly affect the availability and quality of third-party software for the pl
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by rleigh 8y ago
Well, if you're investing time and money into a platform, you don't want to waste it on a dead platform. I'll use myself as an example. I've written some scientific visualisation software, which uses OpenGL. It uses Qt
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by rleigh 8y ago
You can't hide it on github either. You can just look at the commits directly, and I've used this to contact people in the past due to the "UI" hiding it. It's nothing more than the thinnest bit of obfuscation, an
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by rleigh 8y ago
They are slower (by orders of magnitude) than writing them in C or C++, or even PL/pgSQL. Calling into the interpreter for millions of trigger events can quickly become a major bottleneck. When I originally implemented https:/&#
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by rleigh 8y ago
Compilation itself, no. However, linking can be very I/O-intensive, particularly if using static linking of large libraries. And packaging up of build products at the end of the process. These can often be serial rate-limiting steps
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by rleigh 8y ago
It can learn. If you take ZFS as an example, it has both MRU (most recently used) and MFU (most frequently used) caches. Thus it can adapt to retaining memory data which is accessed repeatedly as well as data which was just read which mig
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by rleigh 8y ago
> I think Dave Chappelle said it very well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inlDT62oGy8 > And that leads to an even bigger realization: people (and the body politic) don't want jobs at all. Jobs aren't usefu
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by rleigh 8y ago
Since the partial pressure of helium at ground level and flight level is essentially the same (≈0) there should be very little change, providing the seals are intact. Since they are very securely sealed to contain the helium, changes to th
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by rleigh 8y ago
That isn't how it works though--look up partial pressures of gases. Helium will continue to escape until its partial pressure is at equilibrium with the external environment, i.e. near to zero, and the external gases will enter until
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by rleigh 9y ago
Surely this is primarily a question of willpower. Before you go to bed, commit to this action: when the alarm goes off, I will immediately get up. It quickly becomes habit.
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by rleigh 9y ago
There's a big difference between allowing people in prison to vote, and in never allowing them to vote again after they are released. People in prison by intention don't have the same civil rights as normal citizens, and so withh
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by rleigh 9y ago
It's not what they are made of, it's the effect they have. Bits get stuck between your teeth and gums, and this encourages bacteria to grow and establish biofilms, which once established can start causing tooth decay. Long term,
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by rleigh 9y ago
GNU Make has a huge amount of convention over configuration. It has hundreds of built-in pattern rules!
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by rleigh 9y ago
At the same time, you need mindshare at the lower end to drive demand for the high end. I previously developed for POWER by getting an Apple Mac Mini. Very affordable, and while not a full POWER instruction set was sufficient to test and
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by rleigh 9y ago
As an occasional user, no I can't get over it. I choose the wrong action every time! It's a non-standard way of saving an image, and it's a usability fail.
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by rleigh 9y ago
Logfiles. ZFS with lz4 has given me compression ratios of over 100× with /var/log, due to the huge amount of repetition. My first test of PostgreSQL on ZFS was also quite instructive. lz4 again achieved respectable compression (
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by rleigh 9y ago
"Necessity is the mother of invention". If you don't desperately need something, you don't need to put resources into developing it. Unfortunately, war has driven technological progress. And that also includes the spa
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by rleigh 9y ago
They are definitely bad for your hearing. In a previous job, my boss and his biker buddies were all deaf to varying degrees after years of biking. I got a 125cc bike and ended up wearing earplugs for anything but the shortest rides, and t
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by rleigh 9y ago
Works automatically on Ubuntu. I'm writing this on a Linux system with ZFS on root which has worked perfectly for nearly two years now.
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by rleigh 9y ago
No. D-BUS is a travesty and blight upon the Linux desktop, and with systemd, every Linux system. It's the most fragile and nasty IPC system I've encountered. There are several better alternatives implemented by competent people

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