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by t43562 3y ago
Lots of small businesses sprang up that used it - perhaps some of them were even started by hobbyists. If they didn't get their supply it would have cause a loss of jobs and hardship. The Pi Foundation decided to help those people keep
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by t43562 3y ago
The reason hobbyists had shortages was because they allocated supply to businesses to help them stay afloat. Possibly your old boss was not right.
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by t43562 3y ago
In driving don't we use all our intelligence? I know I'm sometimes on automatic when I'm tired but I don't see that as a good thing.
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by t43562 3y ago
It's fairly obvious that cars cannot think at the level of humans and are at a disadvantage sometimes. We also don't need fully autonomous driving to prevent careless mistakes.
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by t43562 3y ago
Why should anyone bother to read this crap especially if it's autogenerated?
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by t43562 4y ago
Sure, if you're looking to write some commercial application you don't want to recompile it twice a week and then you go for something stable with compatibility guarantees like RedHat. Plus it's a big company and it fixes sec
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by t43562 4y ago
I use Artix now - love it because it is so easy to make packages or at least update one that you need to update for some reason. RPMs are super super difficult much of the time. I think the most horrible bit is selinux - that really upped t
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by t43562 4y ago
Not to me but to the company/institution and all its users. Of course the person who arranged it doesn't care because they are in a situation where they are immune to those particular consequences. e.g. they never use the system a
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by t43562 4y ago
The salesmen have adapted to a new style with smart casual clothes. They have a new vocabulary and perhaps ride mountain bikes instead of playing golf. They still mock technical knowledge by wading around in a new sea of acronyms which the
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by t43562 4y ago
IBM felt to me like the last holdout of the shiny shoed salesmen when I briefly worked for them. Before the internet and big tech companies with leaders who were theoretically technical there were the companies dominated by salesmen because
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by t43562 4y ago
Software for people who don't care about software! Personally I think if you don't care about something it will be bad. This is great for small companies and startups - if the bigger ones did things properly how could anyone compe
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by t43562 4y ago
It's sad to have to look so far back but: I installed linux for the first time in 1992 on my parents DOS machine. I had another partition for it. It was Slackware with kernel 1.2.13 I think. All off 5.25 inch floppy disks. Setup wasn
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by t43562 4y ago
Protests are organised to do what they have to do and they're not done with oodles of cash. The marches had hundreds of thousands of people in them stretching over a long distance. It wasn't even possible to fit in the final des
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by t43562 4y ago
In the UK whenever I go to some public event - e.g. some of the anti-Brexit marches or something like the Fully Charged EV show or any other big event I start to have trouble connecting and when I am able to move away from the crowd far eno
825.
by t43562 4y ago
I think its usually that their competence is judged from above based on their speed of development as that's the only metric people above them can understand. So quality is ignored and performance is an aspect of quality - many things
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by t43562 4y ago
you can't cut and paste all of TOML into a python program though. You can almost cut and paste JSON though - I think that's closer.
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by t43562 4y ago
An Object notation for every language? Perhaps this is the way all languages will go but it seems a little bit retrograde. e.g. Python Object Oriented Notation (POON) would have double quotes and True and False and "None" but othe
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by t43562 4y ago
I inherited a python based build system which had been written without any unit tests because....it's a build system right? right?? Anyhow it was the kind of thing where you'd build for 20 minutes (Android) and then have some kin
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by t43562 4y ago
That puts you at an extreme disadvantage which could be solved with ... money. And of course in history guerillas often have had sources of supply from other countries who are in effect providing the money. All the proxy wars of the Cold W
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by t43562 4y ago
Why are you talking to them? Is it to have a pleasant time? I'm going to assume that. This means you both go away feeling slightly positive about your chat. There's no way of knowing for sure that your question will be one the ot
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by t43562 4y ago
Guerillas need money too. Weapons are not free and guerillas need to eat too.
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by t43562 4y ago
Yes, I think you have it. It could cook up an unreliable essay on how to run a restaurant but not do it.
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by t43562 4y ago
not after a few lawsuits.
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by t43562 4y ago
A long time ago my solution was ptr+len but I allocated 1 more byte so that if a string had to be given to libc, I could terminate it at that time. No need for a copy then.
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by t43562 4y ago
> So instead we need to use the ugly for-loop manual collection > let res = vec![]; > for x in &iterator { > res.push(x.foo()?); > } I'm obviously not a rust programmer because I think that's much less ugl
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by t43562 4y ago
It's not doing as many things behind your back as the dynamic languages and C++ do. More things are your responsibility.
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by t43562 4y ago
Yes, I do think that you cannot fairly dismiss C because of strcpy_l only being available on Windows when it's quite possible to implement it yourself or use a library like the one you mention.
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by t43562 4y ago
I see why software vendors don't want to have to target specific distributions if they can help it - it's expensive. I assume snaps and flatpaks try to mitigate that problem. I wouldn't want it to be a very common solution r
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by t43562 4y ago
You'll invent new standard and have N+1 standards. It's not as if package formats can't be declarative - just that some issue always turns up in package X or Y that the declarative format didn't anticipate. I think there
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by t43562 4y ago
I have often thought that OBS (the system which builds OPENSuse RPMs and then builds releases) was fairly impressive. I just find the RPM format horrible to deal with most of the time - trying to create them properly is a misery IMO. Build

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