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by sirtaj 3y ago
Apart from the template bloat, at the time CORBA meant exceptions IIRC. The bits of GNOME that used orbit dealt with the same errors mostly by ignoring the return codes. In the end, both teams decided that assuming components running in rem
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by sirtaj 3y ago
KDE tried and discarded CORBA in KOM/KParts well before GNOME got around to putting it in production. DCOP was a response to CORBA's complexity and fragility, and was almost "reinvented" in the form of DBUS.
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by sirtaj 3y ago
There is nothing about CRT activists in the link you posted, and if anything the "tag" criteria seem to favour children of alumni and people from well-connected, wealthy backgrounds.
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by sirtaj 4y ago
I've been using Dungeon Revealer [1] a self-hosted web app. It's a simple halfway point between a fancy VTT and a paper map. It's easy to use and allows you to upload any kind of image, which makes it a rudimentary presentati
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by sirtaj 4y ago
I'm of the opposite opinion. Database migrations force you to think through the changes in your data more explicitly. You catch logic oversights, boundary conditions and implicit transformations much more thoroughly and with fewer erro
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by sirtaj 4y ago
Nomachine NX has been mentioned elsewhere in this thread, it works really well for me. Usually the latency is low enough that I forget I'm on a remote desktop.
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by sirtaj 4y ago
Hetzner's storage boxes provide native borgbackup support, I've found it very useful as an offsite backup store.
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by sirtaj 4y ago
There is some good effort towards that kind of dynamism being done by the Cyberscript mod[1] team, using lua scripting. It's a new project, but they already have things like faction relations and inter-faction battles implemented. [1]
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by sirtaj 4y ago
I'd love to know of well supported, secure IDP software to use for this. I'm afraid of OpenLDAP due to its long history of security issues. What are the open source alternatives that are both minimal in configuration and solid eno
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by sirtaj 4y ago
People in the third world are hardly immune to compulsive behaviour and the associated risks.
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by sirtaj 5y ago
You can use a USB module, or wifi-zigbee bridge devices from vendors like Sonoff are also supported.
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by sirtaj 5y ago
Why? He quite clearly states that " All modern humans are clearly, morphologically H. sapiens." Do you suspect that further research along this line will disprove this?
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by sirtaj 5y ago
It really sounds like you've managed to reason into "we have a military, so it's best to use it for its own sake." If so, that's pretty frightening logic, particularly for anyone in the rest of the world.
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by sirtaj 5y ago
Yes I was surprised to see the guitar signal going in directly. A simple DI box would improve the sound noticeably.
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by sirtaj 6y ago
So you can just put the laptop in your bag and go somewhere else and still have the same environment, just slower. No need to sync filesystems and packages etc.
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by sirtaj 6y ago
I switched over when I realised the Lastpass browser integration was chewing up CPU and significantly slowing down my browsing experience.
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by sirtaj 6y ago
> That would be a one time boost and then it'd be gone forever (not a recurring revenue) I'm not sure it has to be non-recurring. Right now the 1% (just the 1%, not all non-labour wagers) takes home around 20% of national incom
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by sirtaj 6y ago
Cost of education and healthcare has outpaced wage growth though, hasn't it? The 2-3 months you've calculated above represent 20-25% extra money to spend on those, much more if you hold the biggest expenditures (military and socia
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by sirtaj 6y ago
Didn't labour productivity already grow quite significantly? As I understand it, wages and productivity growth for the 99% tracked quite closely until the mid-70s, after which productivity kept growing in leaps and bounds but wages sta
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by sirtaj 6y ago
I especially like your guitar riffs and wish they were louder in the mix.
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by sirtaj 6y ago
Sure, but there are plenty that apply. Driving sensibly, not littering and behaving properly in a queue are such basic examples that going as far as "everyone becoming a software engineer" seems a little disingenuous.
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by sirtaj 6y ago
> Society is best when people think about how their worst actions effect other people. In our day to day lives, I use this as a basic character test of both individuals and societies. People fail this inductive-thinking test - "If e
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by sirtaj 6y ago
I have to second this. I've been using PyCharm for the last 6 months after 25 years as a primarily-Vim user (I've used various IDEs over the years before and during). The features of PyCharm are undoubtedly very useful, but actual
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by sirtaj 6y ago
Writing plugins in Python is a great way to reduce the size/scope of yaml you have to write, particularly things like filter and vars plugins. You can then use yaml primarily as a data source rather than a programming language.
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by sirtaj 6y ago
Not disagreeing with your general point, but I see Postgres as far from a boring choice. It is constantly evolving in inventive ways.
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by sirtaj 6y ago
I consider it similar to drinking water. You have to try pretty hard to get to the point where you're doing too much of it.
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by sirtaj 6y ago
Didn't the price of insulin in the US nearly triple in 10 years? The market is not always particularly efficient.
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by sirtaj 7y ago
Let's just be clear here. Are you suggesting these misleading tweets with the phone number didn't happen, or just that they were satire? Edit: For those looking to make up their minds for themselves, here's the Twitter search
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by sirtaj 8y ago
> Because the reason is that the contract you have with the hardware manufacturer and the terms of use do not allow you to. And there is no contradictory law or regulation that trumps that agreement. You are simply answering the question
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by sirtaj 8y ago
We will adjust to climate change the way we adjusted to smallpox and the plague. As a species we will probably ride it out, but things are going to look pretty grim for those of us in the thick of it.

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