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by rvp-x 7y ago
A lot of you seem to be working on commercial solutions to C's insecurity. Does this feel like a conflict of interest to you?
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by rvp-x 7y ago
I wouldn't expect significant changes in RedHat just because Paul Cormier got moved up one rank. He isn't new to the company, and had a lot of influence in his previous role.
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by rvp-x 7y ago
I lived in a similar place and I somewhat miss it. It isn't just parking spaces, the neighborhood was designed with walking in mind. Many streets had shops at the bottom floor, and I could do all my errands on foot. My elderly grandpar
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by rvp-x 7y ago
That "stack grows upwards" conditional is a giveaway of ancient code. The only architecture I know still using that regularly is PA-RISC, and it's very rare for people to care about it today.
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by rvp-x 7y ago
There are reports that they have a shortage of ventilators, so a lot of patients that could be saved are dying.
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by rvp-x 7y ago
This comment is making me feel poor. I regularly wear a winter coat (and more) indoors instead of heating.
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by rvp-x 7y ago
Cool. I recently saw a car with a light flashing the license plate periodically, I wonder if the driver was going for that effect.
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by rvp-x 7y ago
NetBSD publishes updated builds of src daily, you can just update to them. No idea about the frequency of package rebuilds but they definitely happen.
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by rvp-x 7y ago
If you want a simpler system that is easy to understand, NetBSD is a pretty good choice. The source is almost entirely in a single repository for you to read, and you need a single command to build a boot-able release (you can even build it
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by rvp-x 7y ago
Oracle doesn't own all the rights to OpenZFS, people are intentionally adding their own copyright to ensure it stays under a copyleft license, and Oracle can't make it closed source by owning the rights (which they did with the ol
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by rvp-x 7y ago
My TV has an obnoxious full volume boot sound unless you connect it to the internet :-/
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by rvp-x 7y ago
If you're only interested in scrolling through images, Imgur offers a much better user interface for that. can browse with just the arrow keys.
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by rvp-x 7y ago
You definitely have some deal with them. I couldn't get them to respond before I showed some proof of warranty when my Dell XPS battery inflated.
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by rvp-x 7y ago
Working in places that were based off permissively licensed software, the default position we had was "no upstreaming" and if I wanted to upstream something I need to ask for permission. when you're contributing to GPL softwa
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by rvp-x 7y ago
I had trouble with imgur on firefox mobile. it doesn't allow uploads until you request the desktop version (which fakes another useragent string).
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by rvp-x 7y ago
I got direct quotes from Apple employees about how their employment has banned them from doing anything related to GPLv3 code in their free time, specifically GCC. I don't want to mention them in a public website in case that gets them
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by rvp-x 7y ago
better because you can be sued for using the FUSE interface?
78.
by rvp-x 7y ago
they can remove reload tonight and most of HN wouldn't have a reason to care, but it'd hurt some old architectures. I personally tried to convert one of them but damn is it hard. bring out all the bugs!
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by rvp-x 7y ago
my family loves watching movies.
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by rvp-x 7y ago
They weren't going to fix it without the bug being made public.
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by rvp-x 7y ago
I use a conventional dark theme and e.g. it flashes a white background whenever I open a new tab before applying a black background. And certain pages can't be styled to block themes from hiding things. It's inevitable that a good
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by rvp-x 7y ago
I can't connect to this website, is it geo-blocking?
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by rvp-x 7y ago
In the past when porting netbsd to new architectures the approach was to first run a kernel with a binary compatibility layer to the existing operating system, be it something like OSF/1 or SunOS. Not only was it doable, but people did
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by rvp-x 7y ago
As a non-north american I was initially confused at the replies because surely duplexes are low density construction for a city.
85.
by rvp-x 7y ago
You should try living less in a bubble.
86.
by rvp-x 7y ago
They shouldn't call it maintenance mode just because they stopped using it. There's a lot of non-Red Hat contributors to X.org.
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by rvp-x 7y ago
Worth noting that removing 16bit support in windows is an enormous security win, because the DOS stuff relied on things that are really bad for security. 32-bit support is a lot more sustainable.
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by rvp-x 7y ago
When there's a will there's a way. Personally I would go for unpacking the 64bit userland+packages in a subdirectory, boot once into a rescue userland which just switches the directories around, then boot normally. GRUB already ha
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by rvp-x 7y ago
The life expectancy of people with cystic fibrosis in the west doubled in the last 40 years. Using them as a marker things are getting worse sounds questionable.
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by rvp-x 7y ago
It's worth noting that Ian Lance Taylor (author of this post) is the maintainer of gccgo.

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