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by zlg_codes 3y ago
Who gets to take the credit? I'm not convinced these efforts to put everyone's ideas in one place and one software are good. Often, design disagreements arise which are incompatible. Under this model of "everybody love everyb
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
That something that already exists may not be built in the way you are aiming for. That other something might be led by a dickhead that you can't get along with, or a community that's not receptive to your suggestions or patches.
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
Such a platform is doomed to never take a step forward because "oh no, something changed and now I have to increment my dependencies".
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
What language independent allocator? I'm unaware of any memory interfaces in programming languages that aren't specific to that language. What would you use instead of malloc and free?
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
> If it is already that hard for game binaries, good luck with apps. Video games are some of the most complex and most difficult pieces of software both to build and to get right. Modern games are coded so poorly that driver makers have
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
It's the JS kiddies. They got Node and then decided the whole world should be written in Javascript, lol.
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
As someone who uses Linux as a daily driver, I can recognize these gargantuan apps a mile away and stay away from them. They are absolute hogs of system resources, and for something simple like Etcher there's no excuse. Things like Ele
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
Which libc? There's glibc, musl libc, etc. Also consider you may be using the functions incorrectly.
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
What 'real tech stuff'? Windows is an OS for consumers, not makers.
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
Not really. FSL has some gray area surrounding the expiry of non-compete, and I expect companies to extend their non-compete term whenever revenue gets low or a big feature gets released. Also, wouldn't this period be reset on every ne
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
Not a conservative, quite the opposite in fact! I simply don't trust the government to report correctly on statistics that are levers for public sentiment. Interest rates, inflation, unemployment... All of those come with an incentive
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
So IBM/RH can't be big because the biggest makes more money...? We've had two exchanges and I'm still trying to understand why this matters.
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
I love this comment, measuring complexity via googles/line. That really sends home how difficult it is to grok PowerShell. What are you building with it that would be harder in bash or another shell? I'm not seeing the value of pa
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
What would I use PowerShell to do , though? Most of Windows is a GUI. That's a key problem with the developer story on Windows, especially coming from GNU/Linux. Where are my standard compilers and libraries? What use do I have f
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
Thing is, sysvinit, runit, s6, and OpenRC all work too. It's not just systemd. The only reason we 'had' to go to systemd is systemd was actively being sold to distros and they were implementing things to get them to switch. P
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
Yeah dude I totally love it when journald eats my logging and power interruptions create unrecoverable log loss! You can forget just mounting a drive and checking its journald logs -- your machine has to be started by systemd in order to re
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
It certainly seems that way my dude. I can't remember the last time I saw a new piece of tech or software and thought "fuck yeah this is revolutionary". Maybe Git...? I thought that was pretty cool back in 2006.
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
Their handling of the switch to systemd was dismissive. Tom Gunderson simply left sysvinit to rot. There was no grace period of switching, and sysvinit was removed prematurely. It was one of the first distros that went all in on it, well ah
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
What reason do you have to believe that dissuaded bug reports and PRs are spam? Do you think Arch's community infrastructure is free of faults?
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
You're forgetting the users that are tired of signing up for one-shot sites to do patches or drive-by bug reports. The actual value of the sign-up process is so little that the incentive to contribute lowers. It's another set of u
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
I'm less likely to trust "open source but kinda not" platforms like GitLab. It's only a matter of time before more options get locked down and you're looking at paying for a code forge. Git is free software and alwa
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
Some of us don't open HTML e-mail or click on every ad banner they see. Some don't even see ads! An AV is a waste of system resources unless you're a fool that's easily convinced into opening things you shouldn't.
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
We need JD protectionism to.... have a network of professionals that can repair tractors? That's weird, cars get by just fine on having mechanics in every town.
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
Do you believe there is zero correlation between what citizens allow their country to do and that country's actions? We did not protest and revolt enough over money being sent to the Middle East. America has done every wrong move i
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
Do you think China provides a better way of life to Uyghurs? Serious question. Given Israel's misleading and lying stances as other nations inspect the conditions of the conflict, and their regarding of Palestinians as less than human,
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
It is a disgusting waste of my tax dollars to send it to an imperialist group trying to settle an area that was never theirs. Journalists are killed more by Israel than the rest. Why, if they were satisfied and confident they are correct? T
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
This is the one less eco-friendly thing I'm not letting go of. Hot showers are amazing.
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
I mean, that's one way of viewing it, yes, but considering how influential they are in spaces other businesses are struggling in (free software), having a $34B market cap isn't shabby performance. IBM getting an easy-in to free
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
Because it's not just me. I'm just the only one in this thread. HN is not the entire world.
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
But you're defending ignorance and apathy. The core problem here is people don't really trust these systems , they're conditioned to believe that it's the only way it's done and that other ways are unfair in one ma

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