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by rst 6y ago
Oracle has peculiarities that you won't see in most other databases, which may make this a bit harder -- including such things as an oddball set of date/time types ("date" includes time to seconds), and treating zero len
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by rst 6y ago
The original developer of CopperheadOS is continuing the work as GrapheneOS, after a split with his former business partner, over dilutions of the privacy guarantees, among other things. https://grapheneos.org/
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by rst 6y ago
Well, you've quoted a sentence that rattles off several of them. In prior operating systems, files were structured objects, often readable and writeable only in collections of fixed-length records; they often had attributes including a
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by rst 6y ago
You're pretty badly misinformed about Stallman -- he never had a faculty post at MIT (tenured or otherwise), and quit his paid staff position in 1984 to found the FSF. (After that, he had a fairly tenuous "visiting scientist&quot
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by rst 6y ago
Also explains the lack of references to (currently) obvious alternatives like JSON or YAML.
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by rst 6y ago
If it's an SV Unicorn, it can probably afford the "Data Center" enterprise offering. Though from comments here, even that may not be a smooth migration from the a la carte on prem products, depending on what add-ons they use.
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by rst 6y ago
A nicer and more complete syntax for anonymous functions, or some reasonable equivalent (like JS arrow defns, or Ruby code blocks) might serve most of the same needs as a full-blown macro facility, without some of the complications. It&#x2
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by rst 6y ago
No, it means that the expectation that "herd immunity" will be naturally reached, without an effective vaccine, is a pipe dream. Before vaccines, no population ever reached "natural herd immunity" for polio, which has s
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by rst 6y ago
This also assumes that acquired immunity from an infection is complete and permanent. Immunity to other coronaviruses decays over a year or two -- meaning that before the five years are up in your scenario, there would be a significant coh
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by rst 6y ago
The announced target market is airlines (and they've already got commitments from some; Virgin has announced publicly); projected fares are comparable to business class on transoceanic flights (their initial target market, to avoid reg
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by rst 6y ago
BCD is still in use in many financial applications, where it's the usual way to handle decimal fractions which can't be exactly represented in binary (floating or fixed-point fractions).
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by rst 6y ago
Blair House is... a house. A family named Blair used to live in it. So, not really parallel to the British usage of "House" for structures like the BBC headquarters, "Broadcasting House", which have never had residential
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by rst 6y ago
There were a few bit-serial economy designs going into the transistor era -- the latest I'm aware of is the PDP-8/S (S for Serial) from 1967. If you want to build a really cheap machine and transistors are $1 each (closer to $8 cu
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by rst 6y ago
I have the plugin configured to drop cookies a few seconds after the tab that set them is closed, excepting a very short whitelist. "On quit" would sweep them up once every couple of weeks -- way too coarse. Not the same at all.
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by rst 6y ago
For me, it's cookie auto-delete -- their default tracker suppression still white-lists more than I'd like. Very likely to block updates over this while I consider my next move. (My threat model is not your threat model...)
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by rst 6y ago
Also for trying, back in 2014, to grab the lease on launch pad 39A at Cape Canaveral, which ultimately went to SpaceX, without having an orbital rocket to launch from it -- not then, and not now.
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by rst 6y ago
By multiple reports, most of the Servo team was laid off (apparently sourced to former team members on twitter). See, e.g., https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-lays-off-250-employees...
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by rst 6y ago
However, current VMS releases won't run on a VAX, and there's no plan to change that. See their FAQ (which links to the product roadmap for projected future releases): https://vmssoftware.com/about/faq/#
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by rst 6y ago
Can't help wondering if some of the fall-off in Rails usage is due to a similar attitude toward deprecation of formerly supported APIs, which has made upgrading large Rails apps to a new major release a pretty significant project. Thin
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by rst 6y ago
"Is it secure?" is an incomplete question -- it has to be "Is it secure against...?". And then the answers will depend on whatever threat model winds up in the dots. That said, all secure boot even tries to assure is tha
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by rst 6y ago
A stronger contrast between human natural language learning and GPT-3 is that the human is an active participant, continually trying things out and getting feedback. GPT-3's training is entirely passive -- and when all humans have of a
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by rst 6y ago
FWIW, this may also mean avoiding US companies altogether -- the CLOUD act (hey, I don't come up with these names...) requires them to surrender data to US authorities on subpoena, even if it's hosted on facilities they own outsid
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by rst 6y ago
The UI is somewhat confusing; also, it seems designed to give a view of particular, selected streams and topics of interest, and doesn't always seem to keep up even with those -- but volume on my server is low enough that I want "
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by rst 6y ago
You may not even need the app. Zulip on Android Firefox is a better experience for me than the app, personally. (Tho the web version was, oddly, severely laggy in mobile Chrome the one time I tried it, some time ago...)
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by rst 6y ago
That depends on the ORM -- ActiveRecord has a ".explain" method on the proxy objects for its query builder which displays the SQL, and the query plan (displayed in db-specific format).
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by rst 6y ago
This might be a reasonable UX in some cases -- but it seems to assume that whichever user chooses an alternative also gets to broadcast that choice and have it immediately binding on all the others -- which is incompatible with some use cas
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by rst 6y ago
Odd to see "a real CPU, not an ... FPGA". For perspective, the first "real" SPARC processor was implemented in a Fujitsu gate array (though not, I think, field programmed). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by rst 6y ago
So, this makes Flutter apps available through Canonical's Snap store... which is Ubuntu-mostly right now, and controversial enough that the top item on the HN front page as I write is about an Ubuntu derivative (Linux Mint) explicitly
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by rst 6y ago
Unfortunately, universities in the United States have unique problems. In much of the world, higher education is a largely government-supported thing. However, in the US, over the past fifty years or so, even nominally government-run insti
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by rst 6y ago
Common Lisp was (per the name) designed to provide a migration path for a bunch of mutually incompatible LISP dialects that existed in the 1980s, but it wasn't fully compatible with any of them -- programs originally written for even M

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