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811.
by rleigh 10y ago
We don't need to rely on polling though. We already had a actual referendum on the matter not less than three years ago.
812.
by rleigh 10y ago
I have OpenGL code running on FreeBSD, Linux, MacOS X and Windows. I'm not going to write a second implementation for Apple systems. Vendor-specific graphics APIs are a throwback to the '90s. I am categorically not going to sup
813.
by rleigh 10y ago
Bazaar (bzr) had valid reasons for existing. It predated git and mercurial, being based upon GNU Arch (tla) and baz. At the time, it was pretty cutting edge. While it was eclipsed by later arrivals, we weren't to know that without t
814.
by rleigh 10y ago
Most of my workmates have them. They look like glossy mirrors, and several complain about it. When you can see your reflection in them, plus all the room lighting, that's a terrible quality for a general purpose display. Meanwhile I
815.
by rleigh 10y ago
He might have made a gamble for political reasons. But, don't forget that there had been strong demand for a referendum on the matter since at least the mid '90s. It was long overdue, and (being cynical) had been denied because
816.
by rleigh 10y ago
Britain is not a nation, it is an island, so the question doesn't really make sense to ask. It's impossible to be English, Welsh or Scottish and not be British; you can't choose geography.
817.
by rleigh 10y ago
The British prime minister and cabinet are all elected. They are elected MPs like any other, who are selected by their party to perform additional duties. That is not at all the case with the members of the European Commission.
818.
by rleigh 10y ago
Why would you vote for an organisation you never wanted to be a part of in the first place? How does exercising your right to vote (or not) indicate that? Wanting to leave and voting are separate, but coupled, factors. I always have voted
819.
by rleigh 10y ago
It was a combination of company websites and academic job boards. In my case, this was ARM, jobs.ac.uk and a couple of others. I ended up in an academic software developer position, doing scientific image processing. In the past, I have t
820.
by rleigh 10y ago
Why? Because there are two extremes here: 1) Selectively applying only for positions in companies where you truly care about the specifics of the role and the overall purpose of the company, because you want a specialised role and/or
821.
by rleigh 10y ago
This is way too low a bar. I already use this plus: -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual -Wctor-dtor-privacy -Wextra -Wformat=2 -Wimplicit-atomic-properties -Wmissing-declarations -Wno-long-long -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Woverlength-strings -Woverload
822.
by rleigh 10y ago
Overloading and templates. I can now use unsigned char, uint8_t and byte as distinct types, meaning they can be separately overloaded and used as separate template specialisations. That's not a purely hypothetical point; I already cre
823.
by rleigh 10y ago
I've been uneasy at the whole "FBA" concept for a while, and I've certainly used Amazon much less as a result. I'm not sure what they are thinking here, to be honest. I don't want to use another eBay; I stoppe
824.
by rleigh 10y ago
With a sampling rate of 2 on the diagonal, you'd have a rate of 2.828 on the axes, with a square grid (2 * sqrt(2)). Unless I'm missing something. Agreed about the complications of the hexagonal grid. We make implicit assumption
825.
by rleigh 10y ago
It's going to be more than twice--Nyquist-Shannon is for 1D; 2D images would have a lower resolution on the diagonals, so you'd want a minimum of twice the frequency on the diagonals. In an ideal world, we would also be using hexa
826.
by rleigh 10y ago
For me I think the worst invention for discipline is a "snooze" button on an alarm. When it goes off, you must get up. While it's tempting to use, I always find that I feel like crap if I use it--you're not getting q
827.
by rleigh 10y ago
This is a fair point. All the mapped XWindows are certainly "retained" from this point of view.
828.
by rleigh 10y ago
Could another contributing factor be that Linux is becoming less appropriate for embedded use? In the mid 2000s, I developed an embedded system for my employer based on Debian, cut right down and with our software started directly from init
829.
by rleigh 10y ago
Consistency is definitely the key. Your body clock is pretty good so long as you have a routine and stick to it. I've been both a morning person and a night owl. When I worked 12 hour shifts 0600 'til 1800, I got up at 0400. I
830.
by rleigh 10y ago
Motif and Xlib use expose events to handle drawing. Doesn't imply retained mode drawing; you could use either in the handler.
831.
by rleigh 10y ago
Emacs puts two spaces after a period when reflowing paragraphs. So I've been going with that default for years as the path of least resistance. Since it makes monospaced text slightly more readable and most rendered text output (TeX,
832.
by rleigh 10y ago
Note it won't necessarily halve the capacity. Selectively enable it for the datasets requiring it, and avoid the overhead with the rest.
833.
by rleigh 10y ago
That's a minor concern and unrelated to the portability claim. That comes down to choice, and is not a technical consideration. I'm using it with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and 16.10 where it works out of the box. It's most certainl
834.
by rleigh 10y ago
Not portable? In comparison to which filesytems? I can easily export a ZFS pool on Linux, physically transport the discs to a FreeBSD or IllumOS server and import the pool. Or to MacOS X, which is also supported (though I haven't tr
835.
by rleigh 10y ago
Different versions of the ARM architecture with different ABIs. From the Debian POV that's a separate architecture to support. It could have been done by Debian, but was done by a third party, just as other minor platforms are suppor
836.
by rleigh 10y ago
Yes, but none of this thread is about this specific platform and its merits, it's about the different strategies for supporting multiple platforms, and where Microsoft through the choices they made failed to realise their own full pote
837.
by rleigh 10y ago
Those are just a select few products out of thousands of tools, applications and services I might need to run. The server vs desktop distinction isn't very important. What matters is the utility and hence viability of the platform as
838.
by rleigh 10y ago
I'm not referring to that type of support; this is merely support for the base platform. I'm referring to the entire ecosystem of Microsoft products, of which you'll find most are x86 only. When you say "there's no
839.
by rleigh 10y ago
Potentially capable; their support for non-x86 has always fallen short. If you look at e.g. Linux or BSD distributions, the entire world is rebuilt for every architecture. Running Linux on powerpc, arm, amd64, I get the exact same experien
840.
by rleigh 10y ago
Not sure why this was downvoted when it's objectively true. The Linux ZFS support is functional, but lacking. It's missing NFSv4 ACL support. It's missing per-dataset user and group permissions, forcing all operations to re

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