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by weland 11y ago
Shit man, at this point I'm wondering if I'm not actually working for the CIA's industrial sabotage training department. That list is basically an SoP.
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by weland 11y ago
That's neat! Thank you for the explanation!
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by weland 11y ago
> For example say you want to have a "first" operator that takes the first item of a container, but also works on individual values if they aren't containers: But why would I want to do such a thing? Not only does first()
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by weland 11y ago
Ha! Ok, this one makes sense. Thanks!
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by weland 11y ago
Nonetheless, Red Hat really is doing a lot of upstream development, certainly more than Debian does as far as I know. Indeed, the Debian community has managed to keep their release schedule and meet their goals lately, so they're proba
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by weland 11y ago
I'm a little... confused is maybe too strong a word for this, I just don't really grok this: > As you can see, during serialization, it comes pretty handy to be able to check if an object has an attribute and to query the type
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by weland 11y ago
Red Hat has no reason to care about platforms like BeagleBone Black.
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by weland 11y ago
Yeah, "the joy of getting X to run" part didn't really resonate with me, either :-)
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by weland 11y ago
> This makes me feel old. I look at those desktops (particularly the Windows 95 one) and think they look clean and neat, with few distractions. They also look like someone tried to come up with their own ideas. Everything today is flat,
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by weland 11y ago
My guess is that you need to have the kind of wavelength that meaningfully interacts with human features and body composition (i.e. something that scatters and reflects off of you, instead of being absorbed). It's not specific to the
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by weland 11y ago
You should look into Apple's history a little. Their management at the time was not significantly better than Commodore's, and Apple wasn't too far away from going under the same way Commodore did.
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by weland 11y ago
Disclaimer: I'm (technically) an engineer, not a physicist, but I took a course on this back in uni, and as far as I can remember, you're correct. The gist of it is that BCS theory, which satisfactorily explains conventional super
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by weland 11y ago
The vitality of the Amiga community never ceases to amaze me. I actually headed over to A-Eon's page. I've been postponing getting one of their systems for about three years now, for various reasons, and I finally thought I'd
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by weland 11y ago
That's largely because you still have the package manager to resort to in order to take care of most dependencies. Prior to that, you'd still have to install (a lot of) dependencies by hand. Not all of them used autotools, not all
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by weland 11y ago
It was somewhat tongue-in-cheek -- you're right, I should have made that clear. I was referencing a tweet in which one of you was (jokingly) remarking how many FreeBSD developers seem to run something else on their laptop.
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by weland 11y ago
If you don't depend on anything that Windows or Linux-specific, it is :-). Modern standards for portability are a bit... relaxed, to use an elegant word. But yeah, OpenBSD makes a very good desktop OS. OpenBSD also has a pretty good &q
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by weland 11y ago
I've seen the opposite end of the spectrum, too, though, which is why I don't think talent is only a lot of practice, I just think that you can be very good at something without being one of those "really talented" peopl
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by weland 11y ago
The point I was trying to make is that there is no widespread innate aptitude that makes you magically produce amazing programs when you touch a keyboard for the first time, and anyone who does not have that innate aptitude is bound to writ
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by weland 11y ago
Here's a little story that I tell to anyone who asks me this question. It's how I got it answered for me a long time ago. > How can I tell if I have programming aptitude? I have a friend who's a painter. She's a visua
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by weland 11y ago
I bet strongly against that simply because large commercial players in the field center a significant part of their business around hoarding users' data. Even if they somehow figured out how to scale decentralized systems and keep them
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by weland 11y ago
Folks, please read the article. This has nothing to do with Docker. It's referring to bundling as part of RPMs , i.e. on having application packages bundle some or all of its dependencies along with the application. This is generally
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by weland 11y ago
I haven't read the scientific article article in question, so I cannot challenge the statistics (if any) or the methodology (since I don't know it), but I'm curious if there's any guess about the underlying mechanism her
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by weland 11y ago
This is highly anecdotic and I'd be happy to counteract it with the opposite experience. Whenever I spend enough time in the outdoors (I used to go camping regularly until a few years ago), I'd end up sleeping less and going to
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by weland 11y ago
Not really, although the technique employs a look-up table. The basic idea is that they found that many instruction sequences that cause a mis-speculation once tend to cause it again in the future. This is done in the context of ILP -- mi
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by weland 11y ago
> I'm going to argue that direct public funding is the best way, and by that I mean the historical analogy of direct patronage or crowdfunding research today (e.g. experiment.com). Sadly, you'll be hard-pressed to do direct pub
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by weland 11y ago
> You might have found it bothersome, but what it was doing was intelligently trying to reason whether a device would cause problems in your machine. What was intelligent about that? I don't need intelligent tools, I need tools that
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by weland 11y ago
> I'd say it's a matter of debate how good that control is when who's controlling it is either incompetent or has it's own interests -- or worst, both. The problem is that, in the example quoted, no one had that con
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by weland 11y ago
> Yeah good luck setting up a startup now. If other countries follow Russia's suit, we'll soon end up having to somehow determine where a user is from (what if they're roaming, etc.?) so we can shard the datastore across m
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by weland 11y ago
The whole term is ridiculous: > a more child-centered approach to parenting What other approaches to parenting are there? Cat-oriented?
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by weland 11y ago
I can confirm this. I have an acquiantance who is a medic, far away from Norway. He's in the same boat. A few years ago, when they switched to their new system, he mentioned to me that one of the reasons he's so unhappy with the n

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