thesnide

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by thesnide 2y ago
Life finds a way.
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by thesnide 2y ago
No, but then the firefox team will stop caring for 32bit because some online metric shows that there is no 32bit firefox users anymore
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by thesnide 2y ago
Every extremism is bad. Period. ;-) Yet it is very conforting and comfortable if you are inside its echo chamber. So all the output of those thought leaders are not to be applied to the letter, but should be part of a whole educational proc
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by thesnide 2y ago
> the CPU architecture for 32-bit x86 Linux will now be reported as x86_64 in Firefox's User-Agent And in a few months, everyone will state that no 32 bit users remain and support can be dropped. #facepalm
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by thesnide 2y ago
my dad wanted to buy a 486sx, i convinced him to go for the more expensive dx for povray and factint... Yeah. I know now about the int in fractint :D
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by thesnide 2y ago
And now, 21 years later we are in another insanity https://xkcd.com/927/
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by thesnide 2y ago
That stuff that disappears, do you have means to patch and rebuild it? Otherwise, you're directly heading for a nasty surprise at the worst moment.
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by thesnide 2y ago
Parent seems to care more about 'not polluting something i see all the time'. Typical of our society, we want to make everything someone else's problem. I guess we deserve some of the SaaS enshittification and it's spend
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by thesnide 2y ago
That's not shareware. At least not in the spirit. That's pay to win. Shareware is about more features /content and a clean cut out of them in the free version.
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by thesnide 2y ago
The new slashdotted ;-) But that is one of the reason static blog generators are better. It doesn't take that much power to regen the whole site anymore, and it enables serving at a scale, even on a potato VPS
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by thesnide 2y ago
Bah.. we just don't call it shareware anymore, but freemium. And mission disks are called DLC. Which also work with DRM free content. DRM and renting feels like short term gain to me.
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by thesnide 2y ago
noone mentionned grandpa https://slashdot.org/ yet..
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by thesnide 2y ago
"Engage" to order some travel solution?
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by thesnide 2y ago
This. And evenmore, the lesser versions were free for everyone to use. But now, if you are a business you don't have any free offering anymore. I guess it makes a lot of sense, to go only after the ones that can pay, the rest would hav
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by thesnide 2y ago
"Number One" would be my code word...
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by thesnide 2y ago
I have many other things that aren't secrets, which I still do not want to be uploaded. Don't get me wrong, many concepts are great (such as the watch/auto rebase). But I still would base everything on top of git. Call it the
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by thesnide 2y ago
Self fullfilling prophecy and arms race comes to my mind
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by thesnide 2y ago
Another thing that DRM (and always online) killed... Being online just hasn't the same feeling when you could hear screaming within earshot when your plan executed to perfection... I miss the raw simplicity of IPX. Not the NE2000 IRQ h
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by thesnide 2y ago
I think that tool lineage is one of the canonical example of software history. First a great tool. Then incompatible copycats that add some incompatible enhancements. Then some JS rewrites. Then some SaaS freemium offering...
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by thesnide 3y ago
That's why physical hard copies are often better for historians. But that isn't free.
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by thesnide 3y ago
That is painfully accurate. My usual response to it is https://despair.com/products/break-the-rules It usually gives me angry looks at first, but thanks after several years when there's enough turnover.
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by thesnide 3y ago
what i do miss is a libsystemd-notify. Doing dlopen() is just fixing the wrong prob. I agree that a simple self-contained .h header file would solve it in a better way. But I stopped trying to push for minimalism. Sadly.
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by thesnide 3y ago
Append only files might be enough to be fair. And still very useful. As then, you can dedup per block, even with a sliding window. Nicest is that you can do it fully asynchronously, so real time appends are not slowed down.
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by thesnide 3y ago
The discussion to upload it to Debian is interesting on its own https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1067708
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by thesnide 3y ago
Seems like a real hard "inflexion point". A. S. Grove (1996). Only the Paranoid Survive. ISBN 0-385-48258-2
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by thesnide 3y ago
Yes... if i need a better format, i'll just use sqlite.
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by thesnide 3y ago
This has a particular resonance when coupled with the enshittification of streaming https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39179418
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by thesnide 3y ago
OpAmp did maths way before microprocessor did. And there's even whole analog computers, some even fully mechanical. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38504787 I knew my love for steampunk would be useful someday
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by thesnide 3y ago
I now only use vscode to code p8 files. And only use the IDE for everything outside code. I'm too spoiled by modern text editors to accept the embedded one for any long time
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by thesnide 3y ago
It feels a little like iOS vs android at that point.,,

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