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by the_biot 3y ago
I can confirm that. We must have the same friend.
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by the_biot 3y ago
The Linux Foundation used to have a project to do this (Core Infrastructure Initiative), but it looks like they closed it down in 2021. Not sure if the LF is the right sort of organization for this. But I'm very sure that ESR's in
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by the_biot 3y ago
I came across this flipping channels one night. It's the single most disgusting TV show ever. It's "get me off this planet" disgusting. I think somebody took the deplorable basic idea of Tinder and thought, how can I mak
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by the_biot 3y ago
I think we're seeing similar, or equivalent, technology being used in Ukraine right now. The Russians routinely jam GPS frequencies and have been doing so for years/decades (one of the few things the Russian military is considered
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by the_biot 3y ago
This happened to me as well. Didn't get any response to my patch, resent it and got told it had "already been fixed". Sure enough, a worse (IMHO) fix was in, fixing this thing that had never worked in the kernel. They didn&#x
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by the_biot 3y ago
Here, here. The elephant in the room in just about any discussion about threads/async is Python. Threads simply don't function in Python because of the GIL. Instead of accepting this fact and using another language if threads are
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by the_biot 3y ago
The Steam client was always, and is still, a gigantic pile of shit. The massive CPU usage when idle, the crazy game start delays, it's all plain and obvious to anyone who installs it. But for some reason people will insist on ignoring
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by the_biot 3y ago
Otherwise known as the Osborne effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
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by the_biot 3y ago
I recall looking into cough syrups etc, to find out which OTC medication was most effective. None of them did anything at all, according to studies, including ones that have been on the market for decades.
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by the_biot 3y ago
The one true source of man pages on Linux: https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/maintaining.html
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by the_biot 3y ago
This is utterly horrifying.
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by the_biot 3y ago
Or go back to 1984, when the original Elite had 2000+ planets -- running on a 48K machine!
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by the_biot 3y ago
That seems pretty elaborate just to maintain two different environments. Doesn't VSCodium have something like browser profiles, where you can customize all kinds of things only in that profile? I use this in Firefox all the time, windo
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by the_biot 3y ago
You're getting pounded by other comments, but you're absolutely right -- it's the elephant in the room in this discussion. The sibling comments here are pretty much variations on "I don't like/have E-ink device
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by the_biot 3y ago
That old chestnut. C is nothing remotely like an assembly language, of any kind. It is a low-level programming language, but only compared to most languages. Disassemble some compiled C code sometime -- it's another world entirely.
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by the_biot 3y ago
It isn't; it's been around for ages and is specifically a trusted organization handling donations for open source projects. Chalk the snotty comment, and irrational YC worship, up to your basic herd mentality. The author is, I wou
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by the_biot 3y ago
The sigrok community, such as it is, mostly consists of a lot of frustrated would-be contributors who can't get their drivers reviewed or bug reports addressed. Nobody is maintaining it anymore. The project really needs somebody to ste
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by the_biot 4y ago
A lie is a lie. You can blab on like that for pages, but that doesn't change anything.
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by the_biot 4y ago
Let me translate. If you were using PHP in, say, the year 2000 you were an amateur programmer, albeit likely a productive one. Amateur, because if you knew better you'd stay away from the dumpster fire that was PHP. If you're usin
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by the_biot 4y ago
> os: hpc/highly tuned single purpose oses/unikernel machines will become more dominant As much as I like the idea, I'm not seeing this happening at all. What makes you say this will be more dominant?
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by the_biot 4y ago
A bit surprised to see a windows-based server stack for web services. The world moved on from that nonsense by the mid-2000s, I thought.
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by the_biot 4y ago
That's a pretty negative attitude to purposefully instill in your child. I pretty much agree with his view on birthdays, but pushing that view to a child is so wrong.
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by the_biot 4y ago
You're absolutely right. I think the reason this kind of non-news gets any traction at all is that Google is known to shut down services rather than fix their revenue model, and that Stadia has been a failure for some time. So we all
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by the_biot 4y ago
Bullshit. Facts are facts.
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by the_biot 4y ago
I'm not so sure people buy books like that anymore, not at the volume they did 20 years ago. When was the last time you bought an O'Reilly? I used to buy several of these a year, but can't remember the last time I even saw on
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by the_biot 4y ago
The wikipedia page has some info, looks like various CRC and parity checks. Maybe the receiver was just ignoring them, and receiving faulty data. I dunno, it seems to me like that GPS receiver had fairly bad software. If you get packets fro
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by the_biot 4y ago
> Around Syria, C4ADS did some research a few years back identifying Russia as the main culprit The amazing thing is that there's ADS-B data from Syria at all. Who in their right mind would fly over Syria? With ADS-B enabled, no les
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by the_biot 4y ago
The "travelling" part sounds like it could be an artifact of your GPS receiver interpolating between two vastly different location points, and interpreting that as moving between them -- at impossible speed/angle. So a single
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by the_biot 4y ago
Yeah, these spam-friendly ISPs might flag me for forwarding their spam. Quaking in my boots as we speak.
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by the_biot 4y ago
Perhaps you could point to the document that spells out their fair use policy? Hetzner certainly didn't.

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