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by zlynx 9y ago
That's just Evolution. It's a big, complicated turd that uses a thread pool with no priorities. So you can sit there waiting to read a message while it is blocked checking your other folders. Also it's keyboard shortcuts are
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by zlynx 9y ago
That used to be true back when the CPU did all of the GUI rendering. But now most all of it is offloaded to the GPU. Any GPU that can render Quake 3 Arena at 120 FPS (and that's ALL of them even Intel IGPs) can wiggle a window around v
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by zlynx 9y ago
And likewise, how do you know when a human is being creative? Isn't all art derivative of our training and influences? I believe something like that was an argument by one of the random paint splatter artists: that randomness was the o
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by zlynx 9y ago
In Linux the thing the author wants is /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_unprivileged_port_start which defaults to 1024 but can be set to anything you like. Such as 0. Edit: I didn't realize how new that was. Kernels 4.11+
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by zlynx 9y ago
On a Fedora Linux laptop, I occasionally boot from USB and verify the RPM package database. On servers, try to have secure remote logs. Use a different administration SSH key for the log server so that even if your user account and ssh-agen
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by zlynx 9y ago
Oh yeah. Cross site scripting and SQL injections are still perfectly easy to write in Rust. You can accept a web POST and pass it directly, unquoted, to a local shell too.
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by zlynx 9y ago
It seems to me the only thing on Windows that cares about CRLF is Notepad. Everything else works fine with just LF. A lot of new Windows software even seems to ship with LF format configuration files. Especially games, probably because it i
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by zlynx 9y ago
Although whatever block you get has to be big enough to convince people to route to it. Too small and it won't matter. No ISP wants to carry the load for millions of tiny IPv4 blocks.
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by zlynx 9y ago
v4 systems can only talk to other v4 systems. If there's a system that has only v4, it can tunnel v6 packets out to a tunnel gateway that will unwrap and forward them. There are other protocol-specific tricks, like v4 DNS records tha
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by zlynx 9y ago
Are there /any/ digital cameras these days that only do stills?
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by zlynx 9y ago
But with a camera I can just see what you typed, with a fairly high accuracy.
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by zlynx 9y ago
Meta headers are unreliable and mostly useless.
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by zlynx 9y ago
Linq, ick. It's a performance nightmare. No one knows what it is actually doing in the background so firstly, everyone writes horrible O-cubed performance with it, and then it is a series of random poking around to try fixing it.
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by zlynx 9y ago
Well it won't seduce me. Who wants an email client that uses 600 MB RAM just to open and that eats 100% CPU to animate your email folders?
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by zlynx 9y ago
I forget the author but there was a pretty cool sci-fi story that had legislation to "solve" this. Every 100 years, an individual "died" and was "reborn" legally. They lost all their stuff, were given a starter
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by zlynx 9y ago
From the article I think that's backward. AMD's RDTSC is a constant-rate cycle counter and APERF counts actual cycles. So with clock boosting from XFR, etc, APERF will increase while RDTSC will not.
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by zlynx 9y ago
If an implementation of a patent exists, and that patent expires, it is impossible for that implementation to infringe another patent for the same thing, because any other patent that applies would have been invalid when issued, because of
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by zlynx 9y ago
But where are you putting the waste heat from everybody's personal Mr. Fusion reactor? Just imagine if everybody on Earth has a personal, nearly free 10 megawatt generator. Flying cars. Laser weapons. Direct desalination of seawater in
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by zlynx 9y ago
I've read about some theoretical designs that would open the field to allow all negative charged particles out and use these electrons as power directly. But first, designs would have to be able to keep the containment pressure/te
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by zlynx 9y ago
There really are physics that only work at very large scale, such as stars and black holes. It may be that we can only get fusion power generation working in huge reactors like ITER. It's also a good attempt at getting many countries w
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by zlynx 9y ago
You want NAS drives for TLER and vibration tolerance.
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by zlynx 10y ago
I agree that debuggers aren't always the right tool. Use it only when you have a reproducible bug configuration running on your desktop. There are fancier setups than "print statements", like binary lock-free logs to circular
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by zlynx 10y ago
Are you letting random advertising Javascript run? I don't. Noscript disables most of that. My experience is that Chrome uses more battery than my Firefox, by a lot. Of course, Chrome is what I use when I just want a site to work, not
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by zlynx 10y ago
Gnome software seems to be dismal at handling error conditions. I solved a similar problem with Gnome on Fedora 25 a few months ago by deleting all of my Gnome Online Account entries. GOA and Evolution's data back end conspired to burn
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by zlynx 10y ago
Really ancient web developers know that Javascript adds hardly anything to most web pages. Some HTML, CSS, a few iframes (or just frames!) and form POST, and you've got a web site that's faster than most of today's junk. I th
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by zlynx 10y ago
Some game developers that had optimized with AVX were asked to take it out since it would crash overclocked CPUs that were riding the limits. Hit a patch of AVX and bam, they'd fall over. Intel has mostly fixed this in more recent chip
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by zlynx 10y ago
Video may be good for some other people. Personally I am very biased toward text. If I had the choice I'd choose to read a transcript every time. I'd probably not watch the video of other students. Why take time for someone to stu
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by zlynx 10y ago
Vista ran very well for me in 2 GB of RAM. It was absurdly slow in 1 GB machines, especially on laptops shipped with Vista plus bloatware. I used Vista until 7 came out. I usually upgrade Windows versions rapidly. Linux too, I usually jump
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by zlynx 10y ago
I don't know what you do for a primary job, but don't you get a feeling of refreshment and accomplishment from doing something different now and then? Especially when you can see actual progress and improvement instead of going to
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by zlynx 10y ago
"planning snafus" AKA politically motivated outright lies.

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