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by sprash 7y ago
Government institutions are very well aware of the Streisand effect. This is rather a sign of the fact that this book may contain only useless information or even disinformation.
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by sprash 7y ago
> Few if any people used it, nor did it show better performance in practice. We use it for our specialized analysis framework. The real world performance gain is just shy of 30% which is impressive since all it took was a bunch of compil
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by sprash 7y ago
> The current bottleneck to broadband access isn't the fiber backhaul, it's last mile delivery. The "last mile delivery" problem is easily covered with 4G/LTE already. High licensing cost of spectral bandwidth ar
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by sprash 7y ago
I was thinking about what would be the easiest way to destroy those satellites. A highly collimated microwave beam could do the trick. Or may be a really high powered Argon Ion Laser which are rather easy to build. Maybe somebody can come u
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by sprash 7y ago
Unminified javascript is far easier to understand than disassembled code which originated from compiled C++ or Rust. It is possible to disable half of the paywalls on the web just by looking at the JS code. I can see why certain parties wou
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by sprash 7y ago
The people working on or using plan9 (front) today are different. Just look at the cat-v harmful section and you'll see the blatant elitism. They will keep the completely flawed concepts like the chorded mouse interface for ever for tw
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by sprash 7y ago
The reliance on a three button button mouse (buttons which sometimes need to be chorded) makes plan9 impossible to use on any modern Laptop. Many other aspects of the UI are completely idiotic (like pixel perfect mouse selection of words to
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by sprash 7y ago
It is imposible to anonymously buy or sell bitcoin now. If you buy Bitcoins and send them to "censored" people you will be caught immediately and possibly punished. "Tainted" bitcoins will be traced and will be unusable
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by sprash 7y ago
The initial purpose of Bitcoin according to its creator was to abolish central banks. The fact that the state uses force to collect taxes in fiat currency means that you have no chance to escape fiat, this new regulation makes sure of that.
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by sprash 7y ago
> X11 not being a monolithical piece of software sounds like a cognitive dissonance issue. But it isn't. Have you ever tried to use X11 without any window manager? You can't! In the best case you can type inside a terminal that
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by sprash 7y ago
At closer inspection GVariants looks very similar to JSON though.
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by sprash 7y ago
Wayland is indeed similar to systemd. It requires a monolithic implementation of all features traditionally done by separate programs (e.g. window managers, hotkey deamons, screen recorders, streamers, ...) because it lacks the appropriate
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by sprash 7y ago
Indeed it uses XML which is even worse!
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by sprash 7y ago
Xaw is not suitable for modern applications. Essential features like radio buttons or combo boxes are not present. Text input boxes support almost all Emacs command keys but none a typical desktop user would expect and they don't suppo
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by sprash 7y ago
There are many ways to do IPC on a unix system. Dbus is a reinvention of IPC in the worst possible way. It requires a daemon to run and it requires every client to be able to parse and generate JSON. The worst thing is that those JSON packe
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by sprash 7y ago
That depends on the toolkit. GTK first renders everything remotely and then transmits the final pixmap to the server. It also has multiple unecessary rountrips on every event which amplifies the lag even further. On the other hand xlib tool
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by sprash 7y ago
Many things that came out of freedesktop.org are pure garbage. The most prominent example is dbus. Personally I hope they have no success in standardizing anything further.
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by sprash 7y ago
The biggest hurdle for Wayland adoption is the absolutely brain dead "security model". Commonly used features like hotkey daemons, push to talk, screen recording/streaming/sharing, window management, clipboard history ma
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by sprash 7y ago
Every crisis since 1929 has been manufactured. Just look at what the central bank(s) are doing and you get reliable results. The current monetary system creates money in form of debt with interest which can only be paid by issuing even more
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by sprash 7y ago
> Py3 is currently more performant than py2. No it's not. It is a clear regression. The minuscule performance improvements stem from the enforcement of xrange() vs range(). But using xrange() on 2.x is still faster.
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by sprash 7y ago
> I suspect people are underestimating how much work goes into maintaining Python 3. And I suspect people are vastly overestimating it. The latest additions to Python look like they were made by a committee. It is the committee style wor
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by sprash 7y ago
Python 3 is a disaster for many other reasons, UTF-8 bugs is just one of them. So far I'm sticking with Tauthon[1] which seems to be the best of both worlds. 1.: https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon
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by sprash 7y ago
Any info on the difference of latency of register access vs. L1 cache on x86_64? When looking at compiler output of gcc most of the time it puts variables within a scope on the stack and rarely populates all registers or even any at all. Wo
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by sprash 7y ago
> Show me an alternative to systemd that matches its functionality and consistency. I'm using runit on void for years now. It has no functionality besides being a service manager. Having more functionality is a non feature. > bec
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by sprash 7y ago
I predict there will be much more assembly programming required in the future to squeeze out as much as performance as possible because the end of Moore's Law is already very apparent for several applications that can not be easily par
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by sprash 7y ago
Energy efficiency doesn't matter, there is enough sun available in remote areas. The problem is energy storage. Storing electricity is really expensive, and cumbersome. It can not be easily transported without a vast expensive infrastr
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by sprash 7y ago
The solution to the climate problem is actually "sun-to-liquid" synthetic fuel. The whole chain from air carbon capture, creation of synthesis gas of H2 + CO from H2O and CO2 via a catalyst, to finally the production of fuel via F
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by sprash 7y ago
Has anybody interest in forking the python project and continuing to maintain 2.7 until forever? And by "maintain" I mean no new features, just bug fixes and performance improvements. Maybe if we find enough volunteers we can pull
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by sprash 7y ago
Indeed, but if you ignore much of the crack-pottery and the lack of understanding of fundamental statistics you could find some valid criticism of current physics in this piece (but more like needles in a hay stack). Physics is now entering
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by sprash 7y ago
The FOSS community is about hobbyist recreational programming for FUN. If you want to kill the FUN you introduce COCs, you guilt trip people of a certain gender and race (white male) for simply existing and you create artificial drama via d

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