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by rogerbinns 5y ago
I worked with 88K DG/UX. Back in those times our company did a desktop environment for UNIX workstations (X Windows didn't come with one as standard). We had over 20 different versions of UNIX systems, including a Sony workstati
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by rogerbinns 6y ago
A big difference is that the software running on Apple devices is less complex. For example there is significantly less hardware support. iMessage only talks to other iMessage instances (eg no browser support). There is only one web brow
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I just got a peek at the future and it is a bit scary(twothirdsdone.com)
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by rogerbinns 6y ago
That would indeed be a huge feat of programming skill! I refer you to the configuration file documentation to treat as a spec: https://www.sudo.ws/man/1.8.3/sudoers.man.html Implementing a subset of sudo is a we
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by rogerbinns 6y ago
> ... why collage tuition increases ... Also covered in economics! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_%28economics%29 Being able to get into and complete several years of college signals to a potential employ
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by rogerbinns 6y ago
> What services are costing more outside of healthcare This is a known effect in economics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease "... the rise of salaries in jobs that have experienced no or
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by rogerbinns 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_need It has been law in many states starting in the 1960's. The original intention was to prevent too much competition which could skew incentives.
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by rogerbinns 6y ago
I good example of this is XMOS. Their chips are divided into "tiles" which can simultaneously run code, together with multiple interfaces such as USB, i2s, i2c, and GPIO. Latency is very deterministic because the tiles are not u
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by rogerbinns 7y ago
Fedex keeps delivering other people's stuff to my mother in law's house. The correct addresses are within a few blocks. I can assure you that Fedex really doesn't care or help in this case, over several instances of it happe
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by rogerbinns 7y ago
They will generally all meet your criteria, but there is one important gotcha to watch out for. If you intend to maintain the site for a long period of time (years) then look very carefully at features and functionality, and rate of develo
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by rogerbinns 7y ago
> There's Acuvue and there's everything else That helps confirm someone else's comment that this differs by person, not manufacturer. I kept trying Acuvue and found them very uncomfortable, instead favouring Focus Dailies
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by rogerbinns 7y ago
https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites There is even an RSS feed. It doesn't cover every breach but certainly significant verified ones - details in the site FAQ. There is even such a thing as faked breaches!
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by rogerbinns 7y ago
> SQLite has a relatively slow cadence They intend to support it till 2050 - https://sqlite.org/lts.html - which includes keeping file format and API backwards compatibility. That accounts for the more careful decision
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by rogerbinns 7y ago
I'm very happy to take this general approach, but someone else needs to figure out exactly what needs to be done to get a package that way. Discussion is welcomed on python-sqlite mailing list.
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by rogerbinns 7y ago
Cython wouldn't help. The reason[1] is in the docs. I already do Windows builds[2] - 21, becoming 23 in next release so that isn't a difficulty. The problem is tying all this together in a way that is useful, with sensible defaul
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by rogerbinns 7y ago
I'm the APSW author. The binary builds for Windows are distributed with those extensions all compiled in, although my doc needs some updating. It is also only a single flag for other platforms to include all extensions during compila
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by rogerbinns 7y ago
Maryland addresses this by setting prices state wide that are the same for all payers. There is an independent commission that sets the prices. https://hscrc.state.md.us/Pages/default.aspx
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by rogerbinns 7y ago
> Given that Linux users probably represent the long tail of Dropbox customers ... You also need to account for network effects. Every startup I have been at in the last decade went like this: The engineers are using Linux, so for every
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by rogerbinns 7y ago
To add one more third party dependency when you already have some is as simple as adding one more to whatever solution you are already using (eg another line in requirements or running a command). When you have no third-party dependencies,
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by rogerbinns 7y ago
I think the biggest problem is going from zero third-party dependencies to one and more. Adding that very first one is a huge pain since there are many ways of doing it with many different trade offs. It is also time consuming and tedious
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by rogerbinns 8y ago
> I'm curious why it didn't work out I worked at a multi-platform UNIX software vendor back then, and did the project of compiling our products to ANDF. At one point I counted 20 distinct UNIX variants that we had in our offic
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by rogerbinns 8y ago
I am saying exactly that. Note that it still works across compiler upgrades, libc updates, OS upgrades, python itself updates etc. By contrast if you compile a module against Python 3.4, it won't even work the same day against Python
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by rogerbinns 8y ago
You didn't hear much from the people using Python 2 to get things done. Here is what happened in that world: * there were no syntax changes, no new keywords, no deprecations, no coloured functions ( http://journal.stuffwiths
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by rogerbinns 8y ago
I work on a product that is in a similar boat. We have LAN based remote control using HTTP connections, but have no practical way of TLS enabling it. Stunts like this would work, but are a really bad idea. The other alternative is to have
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by rogerbinns 8y ago
Also consider Chromebooks. You get the desktop version of Chrome (ie whatever extensions you want), windowed interface, runs Android apps, and via the rapidly maturing Crostini project you can also run Linux apps. Heck on Intel based Chro
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by rogerbinns 8y ago
> no knowledge of how languages are formed I recommend reading this article. The problem he is solving is representing text in ASCII. For example an e with an accent can be replaced with a plain e. But what about languages not using t
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by rogerbinns 8y ago
> none of them are really designed to handle that much complexity Be careful what you wish for! I had used Nikola, but every release kept handling more complexity. Which meant an ever increasing number of options, but most annoyingly a
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by rogerbinns 8y ago
> I still don't really know what this breakthrough idea is .. As far as I can tell it is the European monopoly model. (My info all comes from Stratechery's coverage - errors are all mine.) Monopoly regulators look at consumer
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by rogerbinns 8y ago
The specific functionality you describe is available in mainframes, although they are designed to always run a hypervisor. You can't practically do it in the PC world because the operating systems either expect to use a virtualisation
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by rogerbinns 8y ago
> Will these more upmarket Chromebooks (which have x86 CPUs and acceptable RAM & storage) be OK to run any regular Linux distro? They aren't ideal. But they do have a good alternative that is in its late beta stages. Typically

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