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by zbuf 5y ago
I think the premise is flawed -- the idea that using our PC should be a static experience where we minimise movement of the body. The same thing leads to keyboard fanatics trying to get all typing from the fingers without moving their wrist
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by zbuf 5y ago
Even better, look at WITH, or CREATE TEMPORARY VIEW AS. Then the planner can make optimisations to the overall query. That is assuming you use your "temporary" only once.
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by zbuf 5y ago
Its not all about healthcare costs. Consider the mental impact of being involved in an accident where the other person was killed.
124.
by zbuf 5y ago
The irony is that most of the spam I get these days comes from Amazon's AWS SMTP service.
125.
by zbuf 5y ago
More than just SPF, DKIM and DMARC; mails still get silently discarded if you come from an IP address with a poor reputation. For this reason most of the large VM hosting providers will work but not give great results.
126.
by zbuf 5y ago
But that misses my point; the bug is that as a developer it's too easy to not write the correct check -- like exactly this one. The library function presented to most developers (especially a novice one) should reflect the most comm
127.
by zbuf 5y ago
> While string truncation has its own issues, it is often a fairly reasonable fallback. Seemingly swimming against the tide here; a strcpy() that _automatically_ truncates strings is a worse, and huge hidden risk. Yes, buffer overflows f
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by zbuf 5y ago
Yes, the reality is a chair is very personal, there's no "one size fits all" no matter how much $$ or how good the warranty, or how available the spare parts. I think perhaps it's good to temper the enthusiasm of a lot o
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by zbuf 5y ago
Yup, this is the comment I was looking for. I've had more impact through planking and thoracic spine stretches than any chair could ever have (your own case will be different, of course) The goal isn't to be able to sit still for
130.
by zbuf 5y ago
The frustrating and unnecessary thing is the trend to completely intertwine permissions policy policy with the API. If I can't play a sound, just make it browser feature -- let the web page call the APIs continue as normal, mute the ta
131.
by zbuf 5y ago
Trouble with extra layers, there's a point where it results in complexity. Which, in my experience, is more likely to be the root cause of a security problem. I'm not saying this little demo is a disaster or anything. But for exam
132.
by zbuf 5y ago
The trouble with this threads is they straddle a gaping chasm between complete delusion, or amazing trolling. Just imagine if stuff was like this though and computing were more 'analogue' -- each of those 15 layers of JavaScript
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by zbuf 5y ago
I hope Apple are using an audiophile-optimised memcpy() function: https://www.audioasylum.com/forums/pcaudio/messages/11/11997... > found that a function called memcpy was the culprit, most memory pla
134.
by zbuf 5y ago
Not a fan of spreading perfume, but Airwicks are a great source of an aesthetically acceptable case with battery compartment and motion sensor. I have one in each room of the house modified for sensing which is then used to drive a central
135.
by zbuf 5y ago
If you don't ask :) I've never worked on a large-scale text indexing so it doesn't have to be a particularly sophisticated insight. I'm speculating that the majority of uses cases need some kind of work equivalency, so t
136.
by zbuf 5y ago
Presumably there's a technical challenge with offering to match exact strings at this scale? After all, the ability to do it was Google's main improvement over AltaVista at the time. I'd love for someone in-the-know to share
137.
by zbuf 6y ago
I don't think the breaking point is the number of lines in the script; your pain point is probably one or two specific concepts or features? (or lack of) Shell is likely to remain the best way to connect together other pieces of softwa
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by zbuf 6y ago
Interesting to see that screenshot of the old IE as it was the first time we started seeing toolbar buttons that didn't have a static border to show they were a button. You had to hover the mouse to know that it was clickable.
139.
by zbuf 6y ago
I also think perhaps we over estimate how "digital" CD playback is. I repaired a CD player recently and learned that the control system which guides and powers the laser is entirely analogue. Only the audio pickup was a digital si
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by zbuf 6y ago
> > Xorg could have just added Wayland support > You already can run any Wayland client in Xorg with a simple Weston wrapper script. However since X11 supports DRI3 which is as efficient as Wayland will ever be it is completely poi
141.
by zbuf 6y ago
Is there a library providing these common utilities, which multiple window managers could use?
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by zbuf 6y ago
Ratarossa: this guy is rescuing and maintaining Ferrari cars in his tiny home garage: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCA0ZY1x5r2lyKQfoUYvHvqQ
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by zbuf 6y ago
> A lot of people have this mental model that The Cloud is Magic™. An consultant specialising in AWS once tried to convince me that moving our large scale computation into the cloud would reduce the environmental impact to nil. Amazing w
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by zbuf 6y ago
Yes, you can do an incredible amount of very useful stuff with ALSA and it's asoundrc files. Sadly that logic is quite opaque, poorly documented, and produces mysterious error messages or, worse, no error at all.
145.
by zbuf 6y ago
Perhaps just annotate each comment with how many minutes between clicking the link and making the comment (similar to the green usernames) That way the reader can decide for themselves. I'm less inclined to object to hasty responses to
146.
by zbuf 6y ago
These days, if I want an honest appraisal of a product then I prefix the search with "reddit" not "review".
147.
by zbuf 6y ago
Yes, I am also not using compositing, which I always assumed means apps render direct to the framebuffer. Does this mean that moving to Wayland (or its implemenation) is going to add 1 or more frames of delay to my output? This could be a p
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by zbuf 6y ago
> I'm on freebsd mostly anyway which isn't big on the Wayland train so I'm fine for now. But it would be great if X11 development would be continued. It would be. If a group wishes to take up Xorg development then I would
149.
by zbuf 6y ago
I think you've probably answered the question there; there are a lot of hosts on my LAN. X works great.
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by zbuf 6y ago
Is there a "rootless" implementation of Wayland compositor for X? If Wayland is just the protocol, this should be very possible; and perhaps it would have eased some of this transition.

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