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by zlynx 8y ago
I doubt anyone cares about efficiency or I wouldn't find people storing IP addresses in JSON, as text. Unnormalized too, so IPv6 is almost guaranteed to be broken.
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by zlynx 8y ago
I haven't noticed Linux doing that in the last few years. But honestly, that could also be the NVMe drives.
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by zlynx 8y ago
Don't miss his True Names story.
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by zlynx 8y ago
Configuration changes depend on the developers. For example, I used to use Evolution on Linux / Gnome as my email client. Their attitude to compatibility is terrible. As in, they just don't care at all. If you allowed it to upgrad
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by zlynx 8y ago
If Google had no physical presence in the EU then Google can just ignore the fines. The US won't force them to pay fines levied by a different country. They'd have to win a US court case. Just like China can be upset with Wikipedi
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by zlynx 8y ago
I wish more people used those control characters. Instead of building CSV, TSV, XML and JSON / YAML files with more and stranger methods of escaping characters why didn't we use the already existing and perfectly fine control char
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by zlynx 8y ago
"hoops like that" Yeah that's every filesystem ever. I helped a guy out just a couple of months ago because his Debian virtual machine had plenty of disk space but he couldn't install anything. Because it was out of inod
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by zlynx 8y ago
As personal experiences go, btrfs works great for me. I've been using it on a 6 drive NAS since 2012, and on two laptops with SSDs. In my experience "crashes" are symptoms of people who didn't read the documentation and
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by zlynx 8y ago
My Pixel 2 running the Hangouts app transparently switches between home WiFi, LTE and xfinity WiFi (Comcast's attempt to make every one of their customers into a WiFi hotspot). The Hangout connection doesn't drop. It may go fuzzy&
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by zlynx 8y ago
I saw "antigravity" when I read it the first time too. It's not just the OP.
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by zlynx 8y ago
Great, so now it's magic and no one knows how it works. The last time I had to work on Java (more than ten years ago) it was easier to load the app into the debugger than to understand the source code. That's f'd up.
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by zlynx 8y ago
It's also showing that the Internet is being controlled by an oligarchy. If a site cannot get hosting and IP connectivity from /somewhere/ then there's a problem in the system. This is a definite wakeup to the fact that
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by zlynx 8y ago
Indeed. When I use Firefox dev tools to open Facebook I see over 300 requests. 300! Many of those are loaded over the same HTTP/2 connection. And a lot of those are cached. But that's still a lot of TCP connections to multiple ser
164.
by zlynx 8y ago
Eh. When you realize that FTP supported opening two control channels to different systems and having them do a file transfer without involving the client, it makes more sense. It was also possible for the client and server to fork off data
165.
by zlynx 8y ago
For fairness I just did that myself. 4 seconds.
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by zlynx 8y ago
You may already be behind an overloaded CGNAT then. Over IPv6 on Comcast cable, with the Edge browser, Facebook is fully loaded for me in 3 seconds. Surface tablet in power-save mode so this isn't some overpowered desktop monster.
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by zlynx 8y ago
Hundreds of milliseconds per TCP (or UDP) session. The CGNAT boxes are handling hundreds of thousands of flows. And they're part of failover clusters so each flow has to be shipped to the other cluster members and acknowledged before s
168.
by zlynx 8y ago
Firefox has become crazy fast lately. Which is great! But on systems like a Surface tablet it seems to chew through battery much faster than Edge. It seems to be pages that are actively modifying themselves. If they just sit there being sta
169.
by zlynx 8y ago
Actual problems like: - sending dangling references to thread functions. Lambdas with automatic reference capture creating threads from inside functions that exit are terrible here. - returning a pointer or reference to an invalidated itera
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by zlynx 8y ago
Wayland is just a set of protocol definitions. You want to compare Arcan to a Wayland implementation. Like gnome-shell. Or weston. Or Arcan. Adding Wayland support to Arcan has been a thing.
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by zlynx 8y ago
They max out because the benefits max out. IN THEORY, your SS and worker's comp payments pay for your own benefits, as if an insurance company was calculating odds and investing the money. In practice of course it is politically easier
172.
by zlynx 8y ago
I read novels for escapism. If the evil dragon in the story is supposed to be a metaphor for capitalism, please do not tell me. I don't want to know. I realize that some people can find politics in anything. I'd rather not, thanks
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by zlynx 8y ago
I believe Ubiquity has an option to force clients off of individual APs when their signal falls too low. Bad for WiFi at distance but good for roaming within an office.
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by zlynx 8y ago
At least with (-inf, +inf) you know that the answer is nonsense and that you need to go back to the algorithm to find a better order of operations. With ordinary floating point, all too often people don't realize their results are nons
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by zlynx 8y ago
I liked that bit where the ship's Mind is replaying the battle in slow motion for the humans. As I remember the story, the actual battle was a loud bang and a violent jerk.
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by zlynx 8y ago
I've been using SPF in my SpamAssassin rules for over 10 years now and it has only ever been a good thing. score SPF_FAIL 0 0.919 0 0.919
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by zlynx 8y ago
Slamming the brakes means different things for a sports car vs a SUV. In my Subaru STI I can stop faster than some Escalade with only 2/3rds the brake pedal pressure. I'm not even close to maximum braking force. It's even mor
178.
by zlynx 8y ago
The compiler removes them, and the naming of intermediates often makes the code more understandable.
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by zlynx 8y ago
I've written a lot of Go in the last few years. I stopped chaining calls after I realized how much of a pain it is to debug. When you need to print / log a value from the middle of your call chain you have to take the chain apart.
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by zlynx 8y ago
Go could automatically create hidden Test methods for methods used by core types like maps. If Equals and Hashcode have to be correct, then these tests could ensure it.

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