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by trelane 2y ago
Declaring a variable in a loop or if statement is supported since C99: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C99 Also in Java: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/for-loop-java-important-points...
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by trelane 2y ago
Relevant to this topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power PDF of the story: https://archive.org/download/TheFeelingOfPower/The%20Feeling...
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by trelane 2y ago
The GPLv3 was explicitly created to prevent tivoization.
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by trelane 2y ago
As always, almost all federal spending is entitlements, interest, and the military. https://www.pgpf.org/article/chart-pack-the-us-budget/ https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide&#x2
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by trelane 2y ago
Maybe, but it's also not like "efficiency" isn't right there in the name
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by trelane 2y ago
> What would motivate a company to fork and keep private changes to a core GNU utility like chmod? Maybe ask these folks: https://www.busybox.net/license.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BusyBox
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by trelane 2y ago
Reminds me strongly of https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/our-blessed-homeland-their-ba...
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by trelane 2y ago
"How could you possibly leave Windows for Linux?!" also smacks of zealotry.
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by trelane 2y ago
> Why were you so desperate to flee Windows 7? Well, let's look at your statements: > Windows 7 was objectively the best Windows, and Ubuntu is considered by many to be one of the worst distros. You have two statements: one about
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by trelane 2y ago
> I'm not sure it would make a difference in maintainer bus factor If they want to ship working hardware, it would help for sure. > I'm unlikely to write drivers for hardware I don't even own. Oh, I see. You're ass
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by trelane 2y ago
Buying hardware (laptops and peripherals) from vendors that explicitly support Linux would probably be a good first step for many folks.
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by trelane 2y ago
This used to be the case. However, they have published docs on their hardware. For instance, https://gpuopen.com/amd-gpu-architecture-programming-documen... Their driver is also in-tree: https://wiki.archlinux.or
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by trelane 2y ago
This is highly hardware dependent. Modern hardware is complex enough that it pretty much has to explicitly support Linux or it won't work well. I have been buying System76 for about twenty years now, and this is has not been an issue f
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by trelane 2y ago
Last I knew, Microsoft's goal is to get XBox restrictions into Windows.
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by trelane 2y ago
Collabora Online may be what you are looking for. It's commercial, but it is LibreOffice (Collabora is a major contributor to LibreOffice). https://www.collaboraonline.com/writer/ There is plain LibreOffice Online
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LWN [articles now available] in ePub format(lwn.net)
11 points by trelane 2y ago|0 comments
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by trelane 2y ago
You should have seen the great deal I got on LibreOffice from TDF!
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by trelane 2y ago
Using wired instead of wireless can also help reduce load when your network starts to get congested, since it's not (as much) of a shared medium as wifi (radio vs switched network)
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by trelane 2y ago
Also, PCI can have peer to peer connections, skipping the CPU entirely. See e.g. https://developer.nvidia.com/gpudirect
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by trelane 2y ago
Not all malware is viruses, which brings us back to the subject of the article.
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by trelane 2y ago
The thing is that modern hardware is super complicated and you have to have a good vendor that specifically targets the OS you want.
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by trelane 2y ago
Yeah, I hate it when vendors are slow to upstream their drivers too.
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Read the Code, Not the Profile(reasonablypolymorphic.com)
2 points by trelane 2y ago|0 comments
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by trelane 2y ago
Weird. I haven't had a problem with my System76 laptops.
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by trelane 2y ago
I expected some sort of mini academic computer network: https://www.kanren.org/about (KAnsas REgents Network)
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by trelane 2y ago
Now I wish there were a way to yank emacs after killing it.
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by trelane 2y ago
It strikes me that, if a decision can be bikeshedded to death, it's not, generally speaking, an important decision.
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DIMM vs. Udimm vs. Rdimm vs. Sodimm vs. Cudimm: What's the Difference?(corsair.com)
63 points by trelane 2y ago|14 comments
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by trelane 2y ago
Any chance you have a gopher server running there then?
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by trelane 2y ago
Only if you believe that executing in the kernel is necessary and that there could not be another way to do this, with public interfaces.

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