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by somat 5mo ago
Release Engineering. Noun. See Also OpenBSD OpenBSD does a lot of things well, definitely punches above their weight. One underrated feature is their approach to releasing. No "When it's done" here. Like clockwork twice a yea
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by somat 5mo ago
I was always curious on why their original product, BASIC, did not evolve into a full operating system. Looking at it with the sensibility of a unix affectionado. basic is sort of analogous to the unix shell, a unified interactive user inte
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by somat 5mo ago
Xenix was Microsoft's first operating system, it predates DOS. Admittedly, Microsoft did not actually write Xenix. They bought a System3 source license from AT&T and used that as a base, Their main service model was to port it to v
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by somat 5mo ago
Transistors are much more efficient full on or full off. So for the most part for transistor based voltage control they pulse the transistors with a duty cycle equivalent to the voltage needed and integrate it with capacitors, keep the puls
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by somat 5mo ago
It is largely what one is used to but for me windows was always this unknowable black box, sure, you could get good at it but there was always so much, no source, many interlinked subsystems. when things work it is not so bad. when they don
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by somat 5mo ago
There is supposed to be some sort of conspiracy where the HDMI consortium actively tries to keep display port off of TV's. Not sure if I buy it, how would that even work? lower licensing fees when no display port? I suspect the real an
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by somat 5mo ago
It is more than that, I really like openbsd as a desktop system. This is niche enough that I have zero expectation for any sort of support from the hardware vendors. However, because the amd drivers are opensource. Heroic people in the obsd
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by somat 5mo ago
I sort of figured that HDMI stupidity was strategically a good thing as it sort of brought the dynamic of the HDMI consortium and VESA. specifically how they treat the end users, more to the public eye. That is, more people being subtly pus
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by somat 5mo ago
Fun fact, Perhaps the sole remaining general consumer electronics that ships with a vacuum tube is the microwave oven.
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by somat 5mo ago
I suspect the revulsion is that he did not write a full blog post, the time and effort was not consumed, instead there was an engine that did it for him. At which point interest drops significantly. I too suffer from lack of interest in mac
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by somat 5mo ago
In some ways X11 with it's focus follows mouse, don't raise on focus, select:middle click paste features provide a far more refined desktop experience then mac or windows ever could. No wait, stop laughing, sure X11 was a garbage
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by somat 5mo ago
I find A good window manager to be nicer for a bunch of terminals than tmux, where tmux really shines is when you want a bunch of terminals on a remote system.
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by somat 5mo ago
A question about aspect ratio on youtube, Does it care? or can you put whatever aspect ratio you want, I guess my complaint is that I don't see nearly enough (none) square video on the site.
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by somat 5mo ago
As opposed to the old mechanics koan "Buy once cry once" But sure, in general if you don't know what you are doing start cheap and treat it like a learning opportunity. The real danger is in when you use shitty tools and thin
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by somat 5mo ago
We had a pair of machines. And some bright spark set them up to mount each others NFS shares. after a power outage "Holy mother of chicken and egg NFS hangs batman" That was a weird job, fun, it was a local machine room for a ware
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by somat 5mo ago
Fakes don't actually hurt the game. Just print out whatever cards you want and play with them, nobody is hurt and you don't pay usury prices to a company literaly printing money. The idea is more for collecters, get something hard
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by somat 5mo ago
My bright idea is to build a ccg using rfid bus fare cards as the base.
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by somat 5mo ago
CAPTCHA is sort of a flawed concept in the first place. a machine to test if another agent is a machine. But I figure the future of this is give the test, but discard the answer, the truth is in how it is answered, behavioral analyses, see
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by somat 5mo ago
Isn't it the same problem with pam. Some solaris engineer got a little too clever and decided that the modular part of the the auth system needed to be dynamic libs. Now it's all in one process space, hard to understand, hard to d
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by somat 5mo ago
Tell that to cable isp's. I don't know if things have changed. but due to the way things fell out when they were trying to transition to internet service on their video lines it ended up being ip encapsulated in mpegts. Something
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by somat 5mo ago
I expect it to work fine without steam. Nobody is going to invest in a completely propriety comms protocol. it will probably be usbHID and a usb keyboard descriptor(or whatever the bluetooth equivalent is). Instruct your usb attach code to
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by somat 5mo ago
How custom is it? I assume(hope?) it is usb device class HID(or whatever the equivalent is for blootooth devices), this is well understood and there will be SDL/independent drivers for it in a day. On the one hand Microsoft's Xinp
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by somat 6mo ago
Err... wasn't your post a perfect example of why patents exist? The concept probably has a real name, I call it first mover disadvantage. It is much easier to copy a mechanism than to invent it. So why even try? Every thing you have to
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by somat 6mo ago
I assume there is market saturation for fresh peaches, that is, all the fresh peaches the market wants to buy are already in the market.
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by somat 6mo ago
The nostalgia hits hard. I have a silly little wiki engine I made 20 years ago. It was an exercise in trying to better learn the traditional unix text processing tools. So the page templates were in m4, sed and awk did their traditional hea
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by somat 6mo ago
And who gets to tell the phone company how to operate? We try and segment it into governments and corporations. But really there is no real differences between the two. They are all governing policies for groups of people arranged in a sort
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by somat 6mo ago
The 8 pin modular connector as found in most ethernet does have several sins but it has one huge redeeming feature, A feature I wish was found in every cable. It is easy to field terminate. Have fun putting a new end on nearly any other cab
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by somat 6mo ago
Already exists. There are fossil hosting sites, which is probably what you are talking about. I don't use one but here is an example. https://chiselapp.com/ But fossil itself can already serve many projects acting like
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by somat 6mo ago
I suspect postgress just brings efficient queries. My initial thought was how fossil uses sqlite as a backing store. but... not only is sqlite intentionally designed as an interchange format(stable specification). the postgress disk structu
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by somat 6mo ago
There is an apocryphal story about some poor sys-admin who after spending several days trying to diagnose mysteries hangs in the new office laser printer. traced it to one user who was sending long print jobs that printed nothing. This en

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