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by zare_st 3y ago
Exactly opposite of what the person above you is talking about.
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by zare_st 3y ago
I run Firefox+uBlock origin on multiple computers and OSs and haven't been affected. I'm always logged into YT. If it's true that YT is actively trying to avoid ad blockers then I guess I may have been pushed down their prior
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by zare_st 3y ago
Man, don't be so critical. I for one won't shed a tear for developers and their users that have been screwed over by their garden master. You go for closed proprietary technology because it has certain benefits, so have the conseq
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by zare_st 3y ago
On a bare POSIX system thing like CMake first needs to exist there to work. And it isn't in spec. Autoconf emits a source distribution that's build-configured using a famous 'configure' shell script. Since POSIX is still
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by zare_st 3y ago
Make is still the only build automation tool specified under POSIX standard. Also, makefiles never went anywhere because CMake emitted them.
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by zare_st 3y ago
A normal light switch is not an outdated tech by any stretch of imagination.
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by zare_st 3y ago
Right of computer owner to access public network resources and display it in the way he wants is above profit incentives of resource provider and above any other proprietary rights for that matter. For instance, if I receive a HTML/CSS
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by zare_st 3y ago
Probably city car congestion fees. Can you give me example of private highways (like in Texas) in EU? Is it even possible for a private entity to gather land and build road in Europe? As far as I followed (no expert on the topic), it's
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by zare_st 3y ago
I'm not sure what I'm reading here. Types are integral part of standard programming languages. If you mean "types bad" as in BASIC/Javascript variables, then yes I fully agree. These languages were never meant to be
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by zare_st 3y ago
Use https://86box.net/ There's a ton of hardware profiles embedded. I found my old XT PC which is not that common. Goes up to Pentium era. It is not perfect tho. My XT has a Plantronics card which is a CGA+, with doub
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by zare_st 3y ago
Sorry, I may have gotten something wrong by skimming over your link. Is this the "significant project" you have been assisted by LLMs? https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-history
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by zare_st 3y ago
I'd like to digress to your "Encouraged more forcefully" phrasing which is quite interesting if you think about it. In my view, it would mean something like pervasive dialog box ala EULA, some UI hoops you need to resolve, al
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by zare_st 3y ago
There are some American nuances here, although that's 100% relevant for Amazon, I have to put here that some of that business models do not exist in Europe. Stuff mentioned is chiefly state or city owned in Europe and works in differen
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by zare_st 3y ago
Plan9 tried to "remedy this". But in reality a file is not a good abstraction for an internet socket. The ACLs would in essence spell out firewall rules. Because the bigger question is where can it connect to than "user"
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by zare_st 3y ago
Then don't put an irrelevant citation if you don't want to play the game. One is peer reviewed, another isn't, so it's like comparing results from a self-reported against an academically measured study. The availability
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by zare_st 3y ago
citation needed
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by zare_st 3y ago
The biggest point is in your second paragraph. "The problem really is that the people who want to see Rust in the linux kernel have next to no linux kernel background and have a poor understanding of how Linux works and how things are
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by zare_st 3y ago
I have a couple of vintage computers. One is my original first computer. While there is a cheap expansion that would allow me to hook up any VGA screen on it, the part of the experience is the screen. I've been hooked on to retro compu
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by zare_st 3y ago
There was a time before Pentium when hardware was not named with trade name but by standard it implements. For instance you had your 486 with VGA, were it Cyrix CPU with Trident graphics card or Intel CPU with S3 graphics card didn't m
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by zare_st 3y ago
Windows API and the entirety of its client code aren't a good source of standard C programming. On the source level you have additional types and qualifiers/annotations that only MSVC understands. LLM copilot doesn't really u
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by zare_st 3y ago
Ordered from Amazon, thx.
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by zare_st 3y ago
The body is a huge system. Causation is easy in easy cases, if you eat heavy metals you will get cancer, because we know enough of the radiation effect on cells to encircle these cases with systematic knowledge. This happened years and year
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by zare_st 3y ago
Then those outside groups should make a software foundation that's attractive enough to replace UNIX. I see Debian today tinkering with two additional kernels - FreeBSD and Hurd, and both are written in C. Until some kernel 100% writte
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by zare_st 3y ago
If you mean Go is closer to C than Rust is to C, I guess that's correct. But neither are alternatives to C.
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by zare_st 3y ago
Today's computers don't spend most of their time in I/O. Average CPU runs idle most of the time. I/O does not require CPU power. DMA exists since the 80s or whenever. Software and segmentation limits such as operating sy
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by zare_st 3y ago
In last 30 years in my native language the word "worker" has been replaced by "employee" because "worker" has exact connotations. Working sounds tough. "Employee is performing a task" sounds less of a
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by zare_st 3y ago
Interesting that Wikipedia page says XTree suffered when Windows came with File Manager. File Manager was just a Windows version of "DOSSHELL" which was already a sort of XTree clone.
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by zare_st 3y ago
Most of the dockapps I used do not use GNUstep. I peeked into two now, one is libdockapp based, the other has internal code, both of them assume a default size, because it's not trivial for them to query the configuration in GNUstep fo
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by zare_st 3y ago
Unusable might be a tough word but I come from a viewpoint where I had wmaker install 10 years ago that could rival big desktop environments in usability and sleekness and looks but it was still NeXT-alike. Big part of it was GTK2-GNUstep t
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by zare_st 3y ago
Yes. The bane of old X11 environments and UI toolkits is the DPI/resolution of modern screens. Usually the sweet spot for them is around 1600x1200, usable on Full HD, unusable on 2K. Windowmaker and GNUstep included. I used Windowmaker

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