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by rossy 5y ago
Really? Even now it's still one of my favourites. Apart from the fantastic visual direction, soundtrack, and Anno's characteristic style, I love the way it plays with the viewer's expectations and I admire its authentic treat
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by rossy 5y ago
It seems like the database libraries they recommend for security, ksql and sqlbox, mitigate the risk with process separation and RBAC, so the CGI process doesn't have full access to the database. It's definitely contrary to modern
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by rossy 5y ago
> If one has trouble writing correct cleanup code conventionally (with "goto out" and a single function exit), then allowing them to use defer will only lead to more obscure issues. I've written countless functions in th
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by rossy 5y ago
As someone who contributed to a (formerly) OpenGL-based video player[1], these issues with waiting for vblank and frame time variability on Windows are depressingly familiar. Dropping even one frame is unacceptable in a video player, but we
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by rossy 5y ago
On the other hand, some features turn out to be a very good idea and do stand the test of time. Designated initializers and compound literals, introduced in C99, are perfect examples of C features that stuck and became very widespread, wh
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by rossy 5y ago
> I half empathize. I'd empathize more if (as the author notes) you couldn't just use MinGW for ports, which has the benefit that you can just use GCC the whole way down and not deal with VC++ differences MinGW GCC doesn&#x27
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by rossy 5y ago
It's not surprising that Microsoft's developer team is the one gathering goodwill, and it's not because they just happen to be staffed by good people. Microsoft bet against open source and lost, and they were watching themsel
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by rossy 5y ago
> anything with subprocesses I'm begging software developers to stop using subprocess APIs that take a string argument (system(), child_process.exec(), Process.Start(string)) and start using subprocess APIs that take an array of a
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by rossy 5y ago
> and reduce dislike attacks – where people work to drive up the number of dislikes on a creator’s videos. Why not just hide dislikes from people until they've seen a certain percentage of the video?
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by rossy 5y ago
The author is a contributor to vkd3d-proton. vkd3d is an implementation of Direct3D 12 on top of Vulkan, which is used in Wine and Proton to let you run D3D12 apps and games on Linux. The intention of the article seems to be just to documen
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by rossy 5y ago
There are other things that make JSON a bad configuration language with poor human readability and writability. Lack of multi-line strings is a big one. The requirement to put a comma after every array item and object member except the la
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by rossy 5y ago
>> There are NINE (or 63*, depending how you count) different ways to write multi-line strings in YAML. I hate to be the YAML defender, but I strongly believe that all of YAML's block and flow scalar types are necessary and tha
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by rossy 5y ago
To be honest I don't know if it came to pass or not. I'm still trying to find more info on what the current Windows logo requirements for Secure Boot on x86 actually are.
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by rossy 5y ago
No, I don't think it will. I hate this trend of pretending that our relative freedom on PCs has anything to do with the platform. Our freedom on UEFI Secure Boot PCs was hard fought and could be taken away at Microsoft's whim*. Th
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by rossy 5y ago
> I'm okay if banks apps are using that. I'm not okay with it, to be honest. It's my money, and I trust a rooted LineageOS with it much more than I trust the default firmware of most phones. Besides, my bank lets you d
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by rossy 5y ago
Probably never? Even in the unlikely case a cron doesn't get installed by default you could just install it.
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by rossy 5y ago
Multi-monitor high-DPI will probably never work well in Xorg, but most Wayland compositors support it just fine. I switched to Sway a few months back and it's great. Unlike in Windows, when a window straddles a high-DPI and lo-DPI moni
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by rossy 5y ago
Well it's really just a command, so if you've given up finding the "proper" spot, you could make it an @reboot cron job.
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by rossy 5y ago
> I will pick up the laptop and it will often be dead despite hibernating You have to change the default sleep state from 's2idle' to 'deep'. I can't remember what config file I changed to make that permanent s
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by rossy 5y ago
Things weren't so nice in Windows before Microsoft added VT control sequences to Windows 10. Before then, if you wanted to draw fancy stuff in a console window, you had to call a synchronous out-of-band IPC API to conhost.exe. I don&
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by rossy 5y ago
> They integrate all of Google's non-standards just as quickly as Google does They don't. They are still publicly opposed to the most egregious Google "standards." See https://mozilla.github.io/stand
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by rossy 5y ago
"Alignment done with spaces" would look like this for that code. module whatever { ->fn long_function_name_whatever(arg1: type1, ->...............................arg2: type2, ->...............................arg
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by rossy 5y ago
> 120 is too long That sounds a lot like a hard limit. The difference between 2-space and 8-space tabs is huge, so you still have to specify what tab width you're using and someone who prefers a narrow tab width could still accide
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by rossy 5y ago
I think you're underestimating the size of the demographic who care about FOSS, or who believe FOSS to be more trustworthy. It's not big globally, but I think it has a lot of overlap with people who use Firefox and people who care
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by rossy 5y ago
Amplifying content in algorithmic news feeds is hardly censorship. Anything Facebook did would be counter to the usual forces that amply divisive (engaging) content.
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by rossy 5y ago
Which part of that article advocates for censorship?
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by rossy 5y ago
I can't think of a more effective way to kill Firefox. You'd give the fence-sitters a reason to switch, you'd get rid of all the volunteer contributors, and you'd get rid of everyone who uses and advocates for Firefox be
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by rossy 5y ago
> When they have already been sustaining this stuff for going on two years with no signs of letting up. For what it's worth (you've revealed in another comment that you're not Australian, so you might not be aware,) in t
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by rossy 5y ago
Mandatory quarantine is an absolutely reasonable thing to do during a pandemic, and it's not new. Australia did it for the Spanish flu as well.
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by rossy 5y ago
The display seems to be fixed as well, with the new OLED XPSes having a wider gamut than the Macs. For what it's worth, it's the touchpads and displays that keep pushing me away from the 13-inch MBP. I much prefer the feel of most

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