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by tech2 10y ago
And to allow the manufacturer to use a lower-power (and cheaper) processor with half the RAM and less storage. Software (something like the OSS ntpd at least) is free, parts on a board, physical board size, routing etc. not so much.
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by tech2 10y ago
Yeah, like I said, I should have just stuck with the FHD display :( Tradeoffs...
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by tech2 10y ago
I bought the Dell XPS 13 with the hidpi display. I didn't buy it for the touchscreen and I couldn't buy it without if I wanted the resolution. I'd have happily paid less for the same resolution but longer battery life (low po
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by tech2 10y ago
Sadly I felt that it was the POSIX compatibility that killed it for me. Before that there were several wonderfu applications purely written for the OS. After we got ports of Linux apps which were far less interesting or as well configured f
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by tech2 10y ago
ARM had that early on, all instructions were conditional, but with many more condition codes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Conditional_e...
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by tech2 10y ago
This (packaging/installation/management) seems to be a solved problem for those who've used Nix. Does it need solving again in a Lennart-specific way?
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by tech2 10y ago
Except then it might not have had as much uptake (tooling, existing Java libraries, installability to various providers and interoperability with existing systems etc.). Now that Clojure has a varied and excellent set of libraries of its ow
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by tech2 10y ago
Even if a big event occurs I think the security drive will be short-lived. You'll then find a few manufacturers taking shortcuts to beat their security-minded colleagues to market... then the floodgates open again as everyone races to
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by tech2 10y ago
Dualvars come up naturally. Treat a number as a string (try using Data::Dumper on some scalars) and suddenly your json ends up coming out like: {"something": "12"} rather than {"something": 12} Just because bot
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by tech2 10y ago
The problem there of course (migrating to Perl 6) is also finding matching packages for the _huge_ list we presently use. I can also only imagine the fallout from various issues like places we may have accidentally used the outcome of a dua
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by tech2 10y ago
To be fair it wasn't _just_ that particular thing, that's just the part I remember. There were other things that every time I have to go back to the docs for. It _is_ a memory competition though. In the various languages I've
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by tech2 10y ago
You haven't looked at a non-ASCII based APL I gather? :)
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by tech2 10y ago
I was trying to help with an algorithm used in some of our Perl code recently, writing some tests I'd used \A and \Z in a regex. My Perl co-worker told me it should be \z, I asked why and he said: > who knows :| > It Just Is. &gt
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by tech2 10y ago
I ended up feeling similarly, no longer hacking at home, no more linux installs on my home machines, etc. Instead I started on other hobbies, I repair physical things (mechanical, electrical, electronic), I enjoy photography, I work on my c
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by tech2 10y ago
Given the current issues in the Greek economy, it's unlikely you'll find a buyer since: * people can't afford it for themselves * won't buy-to-let (because people can't afford the rental) * won't buy-to-invest
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by tech2 10y ago
I always thought the point of a university was to teach you _how_ to learn, the actual material learned being an added bonus.
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by tech2 10y ago
MySQL (at least earlier on) was _very_ fast for simple selects. This made using it for websites make sense. If all you needed was to display the result of a simple query (most websites) mysql was easy to use, very quick, and quite forgiving
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by tech2 10y ago
Oh, sure, I probably pulled that thing apart several times over its life-span, but I loathed the clicking and lack of reliability of the micro-switch based sticks.
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by tech2 10y ago
Oooh, leaf-spring or micro-switch Competition Pro? I loved my leaf-spring one, it was built like a tank. When friends destroyed their Quickshot IIs in Daley Thompson's Olympic Challenge, mine just kept on trucking :)
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by tech2 10y ago
Then I guess I'm going to have to track it down, thanks for allying my fears.
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by tech2 10y ago
Handling, balance, engineering for structural rigidity, materials science, network effects (knowing who and how to deal with), aerodynamics, etc. Cars aren't built by standalone coach builders and haven't been for decades (unless
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by tech2 10y ago
Except that the main storyline is likely to be rushed to completion due to the final season being massively cut in length.
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by tech2 10y ago
> but it will reflect what actually happened, which is what history is, after all. Recorded history is not necessarily what actually happened though, often (or always, according to some) it's an interpretation. "History is writ
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by tech2 10y ago
Although I'm personally not _as_ bothered by 5, the rest of these are spot-on. The other big annoyance for me is the inability to use anything other than string as an object key (numbers, for example, but others would be interesting&#x
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by tech2 10y ago
The issue with Steam for CS players was the removal of WoN and needing to re-purchase CS instead of being given a license upon it if you had one on WoN already.
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by tech2 10y ago
Concepts like this seem fine a lot of the time for simple apps, but eventually you're going to want to _do_ something with the data. Query its history, integrate with other systems, etc. I read an aphorism of sorts a long time ago that
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by tech2 10y ago
This is anecdotal, and a number of years ago, but I was using ltrace and it managed to kill the process I had attached to. I think ltrace has to get a little more aggressive with how it extracts data from a process. If it's a situation
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by tech2 10y ago
I keep meaning to buy it to give it another go, I lost touch after 5 but kept revisiting their website for some reason. Like going back to an ex's facebook page to see what they've been up to. Windows explorer, the Finder, Gnome&#
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by tech2 10y ago
Directory Opus (prior to DOpus 5 when it all got a bit "special"). Two panes, amazing file recognition, I've missed it ever since.