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by the_duke 2y ago
Two answers here: In languages I know well, I use copilot like a smart autocomple. I already know what I want to write and just start typing. Copilot can usually infervery well what I'm going to write for a few lines of code, and it
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by the_duke 2y ago
Do you have any concrete examples where this would apply? (person getting arrested in China over an offered service) If not, this is just whataboutism. I can't think of any, to be honest.
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by the_duke 2y ago
I've found triple stores to have pretty poor performance when most of your queries fetch full objects, or many fields of the same object, which in the real world seems to be very common. Postgres also isn't terrible, but also not
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by the_duke 2y ago
In June 2025 new EU regulation will come into effect, mandating at least 5 years of OS updates, starting when the model is *removed from the market* aka the last unit is sold. So in practice that'll mean 7+ years. Note that Apple and G
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by the_duke 2y ago
You got things very confused. SLS is the thing that launches Orion, which is the capsule with humans inside. SLS isn't capable enough to get that capsule into lunar orbit. Orion also isn't landing by itself though, it just transfe
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by the_duke 2y ago
Out of cursiosity, what's the motivation of combining a bunch of different components yourself over building on something like Servo or webkit?
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by the_duke 2y ago
Many websites don't render properly anymore without Javascript. A pure "html + css renderer" would probably be of limited utility for screenshotting.
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by the_duke 2y ago
Godot was released in 2014. That's ten years ago, so it's 6 years older. Bevy was also quite rough for the first few years, focused a lot on foundational work. It will take a while longer to see whether it can become a success or
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by the_duke 2y ago
Correlation vs causation? Management has to collect information, disseminate information, coordinate, make decisions and propagate them. All of that requires a lot of communication, aka talking.
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by the_duke 2y ago
A lot of shallow "but the buttons!" comments here... no need to be so negative. This is the first alpha release of a full new desktop environment, built on a new GUI toolkit (based on Iced) and a new Wayland compositor, together w
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by the_duke 2y ago
i3 , the tiling window manager, has had this for many years.
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by the_duke 2y ago
As the title says... Aurora is somewhat implemented like that. RDS just runs regular database servers and provides some nice management automation around it.
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by the_duke 2y ago
> the costs of those particular compiled languages is high enough Only if we are talking developer experience. Even if you are working on something almost no-one uses. Spending a bit of time , or even hours, compiling, will be dwarfed by
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by the_duke 2y ago
Depends on what you are working on. For Rust and C++ compilation fast CPU/RAM/SSD makes a massive difference, so I'm always eager to upgrade to the latest and greatest.
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by the_duke 2y ago
I assume OP meant in terms of money. Apple will not accept scraps (like tens of Millions) for the default search engine, after getting billions from Google. And no-one else will have the financial resources or be willing to burn these amoun
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by the_duke 2y ago
> Development has stalled except for the few corporate contributions of doubtful quality. Do you have some data to back that up? The stats on Github seem to show healthy activity. 700+ merged PRs from 120+ contributors in the last month
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by the_duke 2y ago
Can you give some examples? Which GUIs are you using?
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by the_duke 2y ago
Quite a lot of Flutter apps have popped up over the last few years. It's definitely gaining adoption.
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by the_duke 2y ago
GVisor basically works by intercepting all Linux syscalls, and emulating a good chunk of the Linux kernel in userspace code. In theory this allows lowering the overhead per VM, and more fine-grained introspection and rate limiting / ba
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by the_duke 2y ago
> From what I understand, Unison has very little in common with Scrapscript. I think you should read up on Unison a bit more, I see a lot of overlap. Both identify code with hashes, and implement code sharing through hash based syncing.
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by the_duke 2y ago
Garage splis the data into chunks for deduplication, so it basically already does content addressed storage under the hood.. They probably don't expose it publicly though.
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by the_duke 2y ago
The Rust async experience indeed has lots of pitfalls, very much agree there.
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by the_duke 2y ago
Async != concurrency. One of the major wins of Rust is encoding thread safety in the type system with the `Send` and `Sync` traits.
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by the_duke 2y ago
The idea behind Zulip is great, but the UI is horrible. (Slow, clunky, ugly) Developers can put up with it, but regular people will hate it.
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by the_duke 2y ago
How did you manage to grow 50 microservices to 100GB? A fresh checkout of the whole Linux kernel currently is 1.8GB ... Were you checking in lots of vendored dependencies? Or 10s of GBs of images/videos/AI models?
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by the_duke 2y ago
The post never mentions a date, but this must have been around 2000-2004, since that is when the UK embassy was established. [1] Some things have probably changed since then. A fascinating read regardless. [1] https://en.wikipedi
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by the_duke 2y ago
Running a binary in userspace is quite different from giving a third party unconstrained root access to your system though. To be fair though, with the lack of security and isolation on Linux a malicious binary can already do a huge amount
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by the_duke 2y ago
> This is not an acceptable way to install anything on Linux You might want to tell the rest of the software world how unnacceptable it is, because a huge amount of software, and especially dev tooling, is installed in this exact way. It
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by the_duke 2y ago
I think people just have very different tolerances for latency and slowness. I keep trying different editors (including VS Code), and I always end up going back to Neovim because everything else just feels sluggish, to the point where it an
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by the_duke 2y ago
Interesting, first time I heard about sljit. > Although sljit does not support higher level features such as automatic register allocation I don't quite see how it can be architecture independent if it doesn't do register alloc

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