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by trelane 2y ago
"Warning: This paragraph is about science so, if this topic causes you undue alarm, please close your eyes until you've finished reading it." Amazing.
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by trelane 2y ago
> A statically-linking distro would queue up those thousand packages to be rebuilt and you would receive them via OS update, just as you would with a dynamically-linking distro. The difference is just in whether you have to download 1000
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by trelane 2y ago
It's not like they only start developing the driver when the card is released. In either case, they work with the OS vendor for months or years prior to develop the driver. One often sees this in e.g. Intel drivers coming out in the Li
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by trelane 2y ago
> You can't automate checking for random strings, right? No, but you can make the string configurable.
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by trelane 2y ago
The downside is that it ties them incredibly heavily to Microsoft, and makes cross-platform efforts much harder.
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by trelane 2y ago
Maybe. Maybe not; it could well be an incompatible flavour of SPIR-V.
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by trelane 2y ago
I used this one because the LWN page adds a number of LWN articles that were written as the events were happening. As such, it provides additional, contemporaneous context.
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by trelane 2y ago
LWN linked to a summary of the origin of git: https://lwn.net/Articles/974914/ They also provided a set of links to LWN articles from that era.
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BitKeeper, Linux, and licensing disputes: How Linus wrote Git in 14 days(lwn.net)
13 points by trelane 2y ago|2 comments
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by trelane 2y ago
Also Samba. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Tridgell Reverse-engineering proprietary protocols is definitely one of his things.
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Hackers infect ISPs with malware that steals customers' credentials(arstechnica.com)
75 points by trelane 2y ago|25 comments
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by trelane 2y ago
Running a diverse ecosystem of software, with varying builds of (potentially) identical source code. Preferably on a the variety of hardware.
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Tim Stryker's Aztarac: The Final Chapter (2017)(arcadeblogger.com)
1 points by trelane 2y ago|0 comments
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by trelane 2y ago
> When you have a billion devices running around the world, you can't say "hey we'll let this arbitrary group of billion people do what they think is best for them", because you then end up with Blaster worm, and the
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by trelane 2y ago
Your hardware sounds horribly broken.
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by trelane 2y ago
It used to be that they couldn't live without Word Perfect . Funny how that changed.
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by trelane 2y ago
> an employer would be more than happy to pay you a junior or mid compensation while extract senior level contributions from you. The problem with this argument is that the level also gets you a seat at tables you otherwise don't ge
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by trelane 2y ago
And long, long before recycling glass, people just reused the bottle as a bottle. Which is IMHO the better approach.
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by trelane 2y ago
> There are plenty of people (especially on the internet) who actually do think that way Sure. That's why these safety officers exist. I think some other funranium posts state.that (paraphrased) "safety rules are written in blo
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by trelane 2y ago
Really? To me, it is a very clear instance. Amongst my cohort, saying "The safety officer won't let us do anything fun" is going to generally always be sarcastic, unless the point is that some rules seem excessively and obvio
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by trelane 2y ago
Almost a different Funranium post: https://www.funraniumlabs.com/2022/12/choose-your-own-radiat...
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by trelane 2y ago
Niiice. Even attenuates those xray lasers!
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by trelane 2y ago
I think they know that. I read their comment as sarcastic.
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by trelane 2y ago
Also, the guy had enough happen to him. He doesn't need his actual name put in the story. One might hope that in the intervening 25 years he would have improved, especially after such an expensive lesson.
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by trelane 2y ago
Presuming your characterization is correct, this sounds like premature automation. Like optimization, there is a sweet spot.
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by trelane 2y ago
I'm shocked to hear that Lenovo has buggy hardware. Shocked! Well, not that shocked. This tracks from what I've experienced and heard, though I don't think that one came with Linux. But I wasn't given a choice, unfortu
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by trelane 2y ago
It's more about what distro the hardware vendor supports. What vendor and model laptop was it? I'll make a note to avoid them in the future.
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by trelane 2y ago
This sounds (ha) like broken hardware.
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by trelane 2y ago
What version of Linux did your laptop ship with?
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by trelane 2y ago
Did you try OSX on the same hardware?

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