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by yyyk 4y ago
There are no real elections in Iran, since every significant challenger to whomever the Supreme Leader decides to support will be disqualified (e.g. Raisi's election).
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by yyyk 4y ago
Note that the hijab law remains. I guess it will just be enforced by regular police, the same way it was enforced before 2005.
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by yyyk 4y ago
Debian Testing has a problem: It doesn't get security updates directly like stable/backports or unstable, it waits for a package to be promoted from unstable which can make it sometimes less up to date then stable... e.g. you can
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by yyyk 4y ago
? Unstable has 107: https://packages.debian.org/sid/firefox
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by yyyk 4y ago
>Sounds like interesting sci fi movie premise. Well, their field of work is called poly-ticks...
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by yyyk 4y ago
PDF readers are a far more diverse bunch than browsers. It's much less likely someone has a simultaneous break on Adobe Reader/Foxit/okular/evince/xpdf/mupdf/etc. than on merely two browser engines (Chrome
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by yyyk 4y ago
Steam client fonts are a mess even without y2038 bugs. There's no good way to change size globally - despite the entire client being based on HTML/CSS tech! The current 'solution'* is to edit stylesheets manually as if i
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by yyyk 4y ago
>and ZIP is still used by macOS instead of .tar.gz for some reason. Also, several other tiny insignificant Operating Systems like Android(/Linux) [apk files] and Windows [builtin explorer support]. Let's also not forget Java JA
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by yyyk 4y ago
GRUB(any number) is horrible and should be entirely replaced.
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by yyyk 4y ago
I use fscrypt, my typical threat case won't be able to break it, and I think the failure mode is more graceful (you can set up alternate methods for decryption, I use a backup password). FDE should be possible with the right kernel sup
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by yyyk 4y ago
Booting uses PARTUUID to find the right boot partition (there's a systemd standard for finding the right partition automatically if the right UUID is set, but nothing seems to actually use it? I did set up the right UUID from the stand
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by yyyk 4y ago
The post is excellent. However, if one uses a UKI, is initrd as useful as it was? After all, you could ditch modules and compile directly to kernel, and there'd be no space difference whatsoever. Perhaps we could make things simpler if
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by yyyk 4y ago
>The other point is that GNU utils are self-contained binaries and don't usually include transitive dependencies 20 levels deep. Mostly because UNIX programs don't actually call other programs all that much. Composability happe
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by yyyk 4y ago
Because the F-14 was based on the epitome of 1960s tech, while the newer planes were based on 70s/80s tech. There was no slack for upgrades and even maintenance was difficult.
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by yyyk 4y ago
Actually, TSMC reserves the lowest node size to Apple (I don't recall for how long their deal will last). AMD's processors are about equivalent despite being on a larger node - so Apple actually didn't do a great job, but a l
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by yyyk 4y ago
Historically, the educated elites used to support conservatives. Pretty much every revolution in history was against 'the elites', and some of these revolutions were justified. Polybius himself wrote for a very exploitative empire
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by yyyk 4y ago
>It's possible to use system drawing in Linux This is deprecated since NET 6.0, eventually support will be removed: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/compatibility/...
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by yyyk 4y ago
>So it's up to them to keep using a version that won't get fixes or new features or accept the new license. Users can always fork the old version. We can't force the ImageSharp team to maintain software under a licence the
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by yyyk 4y ago
It looks nice, but that's it. Usability is pretty bad. e.g. keyboard use completely breaks it on Firefox (didn't test other browsers).
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by yyyk 4y ago
Neural networks were modeled after a model of the neurons in human brains, a model which we know by now is inaccurate and misses a lot of details.
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by yyyk 4y ago
That would make sense if Stadia was targeted at casuals (high school students probably can't afford AAA). However, the lack of subscriptions, separate purchase model, lack of discoverability (no search bar for years! from the Search co
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by yyyk 4y ago
Stadia died because the business model made no sense. The service was squarely targeted at AAA gamers. However, it was a poor deal for AAA gamers and (much more importantly) a horrible deal for AAA game companies. The deal for AAA companies
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by yyyk 4y ago
A better story with more twitter reactions (including the original twitter link): https://www.gamesindustry.biz/developers-voice-concerns-over...
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by yyyk 4y ago
I didn't get a chance to use the new calculator yet (I usually use Linux. Windows 11 changes make it unlikely I'll 'upgrade' a VM). Is it this one? https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator
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by yyyk 4y ago
It won't necessarily work for single-player games, since it's trivial to build a game so that it requires a connection to an external server (put in some API with game logic there. Make sure logic isn't easily reversed engi
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by yyyk 4y ago
Microsoft's Gaming and Cloud 'verticals' have not 'been around for ages' (or maybe I'm just older). They're a relatively new* creation of Microsoft which actually do well. Now, we could say Gaming is as ol
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by yyyk 4y ago
I so knew it would happen. I explained why Stadia's business model made no sense two years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26073799 TL;DR: Stadia was technically geared for AAA games, but had a horrible value
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by yyyk 4y ago
"Truth to power". There were few people as vehement in supporting Assad's genocide as Max Blumenthal (following his paid junket to Russia in 2015).
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by yyyk 4y ago
Russia is basically a bubble of two large world-class towns, and a gigantic third-world periphery (source: many friends who lived there). You've enjoyed yourself at one time, but the bubble is starting to burst, and Russia will not be
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by yyyk 4y ago
>As you say, IMAP could do with modernisation In theory that's doable. In practice modernizing a protocol with extensions is though, since support ends up patchy. Especially when the big email providers have few reasons to make a do

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