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by slacka 11y ago
> Chrome OS is far from perfection In fact, I would say for some users, Chrome OS is near perfection. Take my uncle for instance, who for years was getting himself infected with malware requiring regular visits from me or geek squad to w
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by slacka 11y ago
If it's demonstrably not true, why is it then that multiple reports of mail going into SPAM folder stop coming in, once I setup SPF and DKIM? While it's true that reverse DNS is probably a bigger factor. Not having these 2 setup i
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by slacka 11y ago
I doubt the engineers at Blackberry would agree with you when they chose the QNX microkernel as the basis of their next generation OS. Also I never heard any complaints about AmigaOS’s or Symbian's microkernel design as being impractic
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by slacka 11y ago
> To my mind, there's "cruise control" as it exists today, and "car drives itself completely and safely even in adverse conditions". Pretending that it's safe to suddenly hand over to the human in an emergen
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by slacka 11y ago
Wow Rust 20%+ faster than gcc / C in k-nucleotide and fasta. Then again the Rust vs C++ makes me wonder if this benchmark is flawed. 4.4 vs 38 seconds for binary-trees. Somethings not right with some of those tests. Edit: Looks like an
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by slacka 11y ago
> as does taking an oven hot dish and putting it on anything other than a wire cooling rack I can attest to this. I learned this lesson the hard way when I took a lasagna dish out of the oven and put it on a marble marble cutting board.
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by slacka 11y ago
My first reaction after reading the paper was similar to yours. That I had fallen for the OOP hype train. Later when my boss cited it as an excuse to iterate our aging platform instead of attempting a redesign, my view of it began to change
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by slacka 11y ago
Yes, the world would be a better place if young minds all stopped dreaming and accepted the wisdom of the elders. There's nothing left to explore. </sarcasm>
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by slacka 11y ago
I couldn't disagree with you more. This paper offers no insight, only excuses to accept that software will always be buggy. If anything I'd encourage young engineers to explore technologies that have been not been explored to thei
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by slacka 11y ago
Out of control memory bloat on vital apps like my stock trading platform forced me over to Chrome around the FF 4 days. Missing the great Add-ons, I returned to Firefox about a year ago, and can't believe the difference. The MemShrink
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by slacka 11y ago
ha. To clarify my point. The end game of a runaway greenhouse effect is far more terrifying than thousands of nuclear accidents. Sure the local effects of a melt down are scary, but it takes the worst earthquake in the Japan's history
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by slacka 11y ago
How often do we get 9.0 earthquake + tsunamis? I'm sure the earth and humanity would be much better off if every nuclear reactor was hit by one of these then the catastrophic damage caused by global warming. How many countries can affo
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by slacka 11y ago
Yeah there was a dead zone in my house that was so bad, I was about to buy a $100 repeater. Then on a whim, I googled "DD-WRT bridge" sure enough there's some black magic that allows me to use my old WRT54g without creating m
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Quantum “Spookiness” Passes Toughest Test Yet(scientificamerican.com)
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by slacka 11y ago
And it's not just open source, it's BSD which is about as none restrictive as you can get. So now 1) Open Source 2) Royalty-free 3) Free as in beer 4) Free as in freedom (Open Source OSI certified BSD) Software can now be call pro
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by slacka 11y ago
00:38 Eastern Standard Time All systems reporting at 100%. https://status.github.com/messages
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by slacka 11y ago
Yes, but if you invested a year ago in the Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index, you'd still have almost doubled your money. 3 months ago, and you'd still be even after today's drop. It's a bad single day drop, but th
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by slacka 11y ago
Yeah, I was aware of its use for skeletal animation, but didn't realize it also could be used to simulate anime hair so well. It turns out it's behind AMD's TressFX Hair. http://technologybehindmagic.tumblr.com&#x2
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by slacka 11y ago
When Daniel Hax ran Coverity and Clang against the curl source code, he found that the each "tool detected several issues the other didn’t spot." Coverity – very accurate reports and few false positives clang-analyzer – awesome re
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by slacka 11y ago
Yes, I like to support sites like reddit that vet their ads to eliminate the obnoxious ones. In an ideal world, I'd like the speed/memory usage of µBlock with the ability to enable the 'kosher' ads. When 41 goes to stabl
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by slacka 11y ago
To view this site, you need to come from google.com: 1. Go to: https://www.google.com/ 2. Search "Hawaii Wrestles With Vagaries of Solar Power" 3. Follow the first link
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by slacka 11y ago
How does your port differ from QuakeJS? : http://www.quakejs.com/ The source code is at: https://github.com/inolen/quakejs It has working networking through WebSockets. Might want to check that out.
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by slacka 11y ago
You linked to quake2-gwt-port, which is a Quake 2 port. But this is a Quake 1 JavaScript port called SiPlus' WebQuake. https://github.com/SiPlus/WebQuake I wonder how a JavaScript port done manually like this woul
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by slacka 11y ago
OP covered some of the best examples, but the more complete list of commercial video games with available source code can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_video_games... Spelunky was rele
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by slacka 11y ago
Key takeaway here: "The couple posted to Instagram saying that they were "thankful" to Airbnb for providing coverage under its Host Guarantee, which offers up to $ 1 million in insurance "in the rare event of guest damag
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by slacka 12y ago
Deluge and Transmission do NOT use the same libtorrent back-end. Also, you may be right about Deluge not being CPU bound on your i7 based desktop, but I can tell you from first hand experience that both Deluge and the Java based Vuze were m
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by slacka 12y ago
Of course Deluge, written in python can not compare to uTorrent's tightly optimized C++ code. Transmission is better, but its back-end (libTransmission) is not as well optimized as libtorrent-rasterbar. Any C++ client based on rasterba
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by slacka 12y ago
Could you give some examples of malware that you reported that are still there? What conditions do you use to classify extensions as malware?
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by slacka 12y ago
Back in college I used to see 486 Bloomberg terminals updating more complex tables in real time with no perceivable lag. It's a sad reflection on bloated HTML5 technology that it can only deliver this level of performance with CPUs tha
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by slacka 12y ago
My parents actively discouraged me from playing video games / watching TV when the weather was good. So instead my friends lived on our mountain bikes. The good health and shape has carried through into my adult life. I credit good par

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