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by spijdar 6y ago
I think the comparison is a little non-sequitur. Classic visual basic hasn't had a feature released since 1998 and supported ended in 2005 (with extended in 2008). It's not a part of Windows itself per se, but a runtime environmen
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by spijdar 6y ago
Bootstrapping rust is really, really painful as is. The rust compiler itself tends to require a recent version of the rust compiler to work. So to bootstrap from the original versions of rustc (which were written in OCaml) you'd have
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by spijdar 6y ago
But what about GP's point regarding mirrors? Your IP will be transmitted to potentially a wide range of effectively 3rd party hosts. Looking at my /var/log/dnf.librepo.log I can see requests from a number of hosts, inclu
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by spijdar 6y ago
Based on my very limited experience and the posts above, I'd say sign languages don't really have the luxury of having many "synonyms" with slightly different connotations, at least in the same way you'd list words
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by spijdar 6y ago
Purism is a good example, but System76 is not -- they're not actually designing or building hardware specifically for Linux, but tailoring existing hardware for Linux. The distinction is they're not trying to develop a new compute
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by spijdar 6y ago
There is a "canonical" ARM64 standard, so to speak -- ARM's ServerReady architecture, which implements UEFI+ACPI, which coupled with the right hardware, could create the same kind of ecosystem Intel/PCs have enjoyed for
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by spijdar 6y ago
They're just very different products, ultimately. I've preordered a Reform and they're just very different laptops, in that this project is aiming to produce a laptop that could satisfy "the masses" buying Thinkpads
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by spijdar 6y ago
I think it's a jab at how AROS's site doesn't offer HTTPS. Personally I don't understand why some people are so bothered by this, but I guess conversely it's really easy to add letsencrypt to about anything nowadays
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by spijdar 6y ago
Huh, this is further along and more ambitious than I remembered! https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Aros/Platforms/68k_support Looks like it's pretty far along. Shame that old Amiga hardware is more and more
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by spijdar 6y ago
One big difference is AROS only aims for essentially source compatibility with Amiga, while both ReactOS and Haiku aim for binary compatibility[0]. I've only toyed around a little bit with AROS back when I was a teen, but my impression
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by spijdar 6y ago
Yeah, this is also the strategy GCC and co use generally AFAIK. In a program like GCC where a single invocation will operate over a single file/unit, there's just not much benefit to trying to re-use data; if GCC or LLVM were clos
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by spijdar 6y ago
> until this becomes a legal requirement no matter what, it will keep being ignored by the large community of developers. "no matter what"? One of the more popular uses for these immediate-mode UI toolkits is to create interfac
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by spijdar 6y ago
I'm jealous, honestly. When I was in my early teens I wasn't doing anything impressive, but looking back I feel like I had momentum. I had always idolized college/academia, though, so I started at 16. The next 5 years of my l
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by spijdar 6y ago
I think there's some demand for this sort of thing. People definitely collect way weirder. I've dabbled in retrocomputing, and spend e.g. a couple hundred bucks on rare but totally useless hardware because I enjoy it. But there&
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by spijdar 6y ago
> If $190 feels outrageous for a film about a kangaroo accidentally coming into money, consider the price of a limited-edition copy of the 1989 Disney film “The Little Mermaid,” which is listed on Etsy for $45,000. The cover art for this
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by spijdar 6y ago
I love BSDs and try to use them personally because I like the experience, but as far as drivers go, I feel like Linux is generally on par with the BSDs. It's the userland which can be a PITA. Basically, I'm not sure there's
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by spijdar 6y ago
The last time I tried bzflag online I got beaten non-stop. It was honestly a little disheartening, the skill level of the human opponents seemed comically good. Lots of practice I guess I love bzflag though, I used to play locally with frie
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by spijdar 6y ago
Also probably tests things like signals/job control. I ran into an issue bootstrapping ppcle (on linux) where everything but the signal handler (and vDSO) were working, but context switching from a kernel to a signal handler ended in S
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by spijdar 6y ago
Relevant I guess since, besides the GPU, I'd expect one of the hardest parts of porting to the M1 would be full support for its very non-standard storage interfaces. Still impressive, but installing on or booting off the internal stora
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by spijdar 6y ago
Ah, fair enough. That's far before my time, so my frame of reference was much shorter. Can't say I haven't thought the same about where we are as a civilization, and how eerily similar it really is in some regards to the &quo
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by spijdar 6y ago
I think this is a jab at some or a group of politicians, but I genuinely don't know who -- it seems NASA's problems go far enough back that several different parties/groups have held control of the government and NASA has mos
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by spijdar 6y ago
With the benefit of hindsight, this sounds more like personal drama than a real fork. I'm not super familiar with 0AD beyond playing sometimes, dunno what their org structure is like or anything, but this doesn't look like there w
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by spijdar 6y ago
Every so often I have an itch to find a good eInk tablet, and each time I come away disappointed. Outside the remarkable and a few locked in reader only tablets, the market gets really sketchy (no pun intended) real fast. Lots of questionab
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by spijdar 6y ago
But ... but that's not what the email says, at least from a casual reading. > We would like to build it such that in theory any Wayland compositor could add support for this mode of operation if they want to remote application to a
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by spijdar 6y ago
I haven't really kept up with this, but last I heard virt-manager was deprecated (on RHEL at least) in favor of just Cockpit, hence the comparison. Cockpit is definitely nice, but it still feels pretty incomplete compared to virt-manag
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by spijdar 6y ago
The point is that Windows' biggest advantage is its familiar GUI. The trouble with Linux on the desktop (and in most small business environments where the sysadmins only know how to drive windows server with a full gui installed) is th
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by spijdar 6y ago
Well, the .Net runtime isn't exactly the most successful story from an end user perspective, where you occasionally run into weird problems with mismatched runtimes or missing runtimes or similar. Granted, it's not that often, but
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by spijdar 6y ago
Yeah, I'm not a physicist sort, so I wouldn't know, but I was under the impression that while we have a good model for the "what" of gravity in most "classical" scenarios, and we can even model some weird gravi
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by spijdar 6y ago
I thought about this a while after this, and yeah, I'd agree. Although as far as scheduling and IPC goes, I'd say this is less about "raw performance" as taking a chunk of CPU cycles and better utilizing it. So a VM runn
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by spijdar 6y ago
Maybe it's how it's "supposed" to work in principle and by the books they're doing something wrong, but on the other hand, have why haven't other patented technologies ended up in such a limbo state? Lots of te

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