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by weland 13y ago
> Unless you're talking about filesystems with specific support for atomicity, and databases with custom storage drivers for those filesystems, that's really not fair. Unless you're talking about a database not intended to
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by weland 13y ago
I want to get you a beer at some point.
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by weland 13y ago
It will show them just how oppressive it is. After enough killings and beatings, however, they will not be so sure they're doing the right thing here. Source: lived in a totalitarian state. The guys who can kill and maim without being
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by weland 13y ago
His point attempts to be that I'm ignorant of the work that went into GCC, a compiler I've been using since about 1997 IIRC on almost every platform it supports, and that I'm generally a bad person. My point is that a compile
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by weland 13y ago
Don't bother, gcc is grumpy as hell.
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by weland 13y ago
Have you ever had to debug badly-generated code? It was a friendly fuck you, btw.
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by weland 13y ago
That's the first thing that came into my head. Yes, thank you, I WANT a compiler that Just Works. The last thing I want to debug is stuff my compiler throws up when it thinks it's smart. By the way, GCC, in case you're listen
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by weland 13y ago
> Learning what? How to program the kind of machine that's already been obsolete for 10 years? The RPi really is a very powerful platform. It's not a desktop computer. There are real-world devices that run things far more compl
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by weland 13y ago
Like most viewers, the DC viewer is best when it's gone and I can use a proper pdf viewer.
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by weland 13y ago
Supercap-based batteries have other problems that make them similarly inconvenient. Current battery capacity is far from fine, considering that a smart "mobile" phone can barely last through a delayed plane trip.
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by weland 13y ago
I didn't. Your logic is built on the fallacy that the following are independent: > An OS kernel, drivers, a browser (with a JavaScript compiler), a Java VM, all the applications (each one developed independently). They aren't.
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by weland 13y ago
> But some components have gotten to be big enough that they're entire projects in themselves, usually cross-platform and not integrated with any one OS's development. Some of these are adopted into the BSD core respositories a
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by weland 13y ago
You depend on people outside your distribution to keep up, otherwise it might break when you upgrade your kernel. It's also basically in a perpetual beta.
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by weland 13y ago
I'm rather incredulous that they built something which can run Java (they either have a Linux compatibility layer for it, or they built a JVM from scratch) and display HTML5. The skilled labour to do it they definitely have, it's
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by weland 13y ago
I really hope I never work with you.
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by weland 13y ago
Only subjective, but technical ones. Simplicity and stability of well-integrated userspace tools, sane defaults, good portability.
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by weland 13y ago
Yes, that's an important point. The Linux manpages are a joke, they're half useless almost all the time.
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by weland 13y ago
The Amiga port isn't live. It hasn't been maintained for a while IIRC. There are two important points that shouldn't be forgotten about aggressively pushing cross-platform: it retains developers and exposes bugs. There's
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by weland 13y ago
I know OpenBSD's reputation is primarily security, but I use it for a different reason. It's simple, stable, and doesn't break. Back when I was in high school and I had a lot of free time and all that, the various incarnation
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by weland 13y ago
> I think if you spoke to people who grew up in an authoritarian regime Oh, hello! > you'd be surprised by how large a role the totalitarianism of ideas and complicity of the population plays in comparison to direct violence from
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by weland 13y ago
Aye. The article also makes the well-know blunder of asking this question: > Is Python interpreted or compiled? The question isn't really well-formed. which is then repeated: > C compiles to machine code, which is then run direct
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by weland 13y ago
> The question is, what are those compute bound workloads? I'm not persuaded that there are too many of them anymore, and the real bottleneck for some time with most problems has been I/O. This even extends to GPUs where fast m
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by weland 13y ago
Sweet! That sounds like a really nice project, I'd totally love to see it running!
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by weland 13y ago
> stop any kind of drugs, they make your lonely times even worse. Been there, done that. It's sound advice, folks!
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by weland 13y ago
I don't have a problem with opinions that are not based on peer-reviewed, replicated, statistically-rigorous science (not that there's any other kind of it). What I do have a problem with are opinions expressed as if they were s
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by weland 13y ago
What you say: > What do you know, the top comment is a pseudo-intellectual tear down of an article, asking for evidence and proof, admitting that the original article wasn't even read to completion, but offering plenty of criticism.
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by weland 13y ago
I tried to read this all the way to the end but I wasn't quite able to do it in a single round. There are a lot of interesting points in the article, but you'd have more chance to drown in the Sahara desert than to find a single p
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by weland 13y ago
> For example, everybody knows that root is allowed to do basically anything on a system. If you write a blog post about a technique that requires root access, the typical reaction is "boring, of course root can do that". Every
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by weland 13y ago
I tried doing this as well, about a year and a half ago. I gave up relative early in the process, though, as I had hit the upper limit of my electronic design skills, and figured I'd better wait a wee bit more until they would either b
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by weland 13y ago
Dear God, yes! That was a beautiful platform. Beautiful.

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