Postosuchus

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by Postosuchus 20d ago
Hmm... Is it an experiment? I'm seeing all reviews both on the web and in the app (Android phone). Having said so, I am not hopeful. Amazon has gone the enshittification route with the gusto few companies have. And they've been ac
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by Postosuchus 29d ago
Looks like you haven't seen what they've done with Order Search. Being a customer since 1994 (yes, when they just came out as a neat way to buy books online), my order history has been an invaluable reference allowing me to find t
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by Postosuchus 3mo ago
KeepassXC comes with its own share of risks (supply-chain attacks, zero-day vulnerability detections etc). No matter, which 3p software you are using, you are effectively gambling on the chance that none of those risks materialize. The onl
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by Postosuchus 3mo ago
It used to be pretty popular for mathematical modeling in quantitative finance.
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by Postosuchus 3mo ago
You might have missed the memo, but Roku's main business has been advertising for quite a while. It is just shrouded in streaming and platforms. But it is advertising nevertheless. Being a platform, Roku benefits from advertising 3 way
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by Postosuchus 3mo ago
That's precisely what is wrong with the state of the UI for Linux. Instead of boring, long research into user habits, finger memory, and productivity, resulting in boring standards like IBM CUA or Apple HIG, we got a bunch of opinionat
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by Postosuchus 4mo ago
I was not aware of that and literally read into this particular article. Thanks for clarifying!
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by Postosuchus 4mo ago
As someone who shipped my fair share of critical production features, I find this plan raising my eyebrows somewhat. Disabling a feature AND simultaneously removing the codebase for that feature almost never ends well. There will always be
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by Postosuchus 4mo ago
Almost 40 years of software engineering experience - and I hate Gradle more than I would consider reasonable. In fact, I consider Gradle the absolute worst software system out there. Absolute majority of people I witnessed using Gradle (mys
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by Postosuchus 4mo ago
Amazing project - and you actually fulfill a dream of mine (to have a collection absolutely all historically interesting UNIX-like OSes in VMs available on demand). I'll dig through my collection of "abandoned" OS distros to
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by Postosuchus 4mo ago
I'm not gonna laugh but I can tell you quite authoritatively that Google will not abuse your passwords and passkeys. But more importantly (which is the main decision factor for me personally) - given the current state of software (in)s
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by Postosuchus 4mo ago
Google's is even better, as it is cross-platform (although same caveat of having even more dependency on your account is still true). Plus (not sure about Apple) but Google also does (portable) passkeys and OTP.
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by Postosuchus 5mo ago
That's an excellent idea! It will work out absolutely great - much like Communism. Meaning, when you forcefully standardize and regulate how phones are built, you might expect that companies will not compete on making better phones (si
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by Postosuchus 6mo ago
This will not work for two reasons: 1. Thanks to the sanctions, it is virtually impossible for RF citizens to purchase anything abroad with Russian credit cards. 2. VPN was design not to obfuscate but to encrypt - that is, the protocol does
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by Postosuchus 6mo ago
Oh no! Yet another "difficult but right decision" (tm) to self-fund further investment in AI.
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by Postosuchus 7mo ago
Funny, how we reliably keep finding the boogeyman - first in computer games, then in "right wing extremists online" then in LLMs, while carefully avoiding the correlation of dysphoria and mental disorders with gender change...
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by Postosuchus 7mo ago
Indeed, they made Level Editor available. In fact, there was even a friggin' book on level design: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0782118690 Blast from the past indeed. Many many moons ago, I came up with a "brigh
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by Postosuchus 10mo ago
Snapdragon X Elite laptops have been out for the last two years, if not more. How much has Qualcomm did over this time to make Linux work on those devices - almost nothing. As of 2 months ago, the best you could do was a special cut of Ubu
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by Postosuchus 1y ago
This. And speed aside, Gradle embodies everything that is wrong with modern software development. A giant, opaque, idiosyncratic black box. I develop for Android (Java and Flutter) and it has become a sad pattern from Hell: Android Studio u
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by Postosuchus 2y ago
Pretty interesting. I guess it was way later, when they came up with the SUID semantics and appropriated the first character for symlinks (l) or setuid binaries (s)...
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by Postosuchus 2y ago
Nope. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by Postosuchus 2y ago
Second that. Microsoft Money was _amazingly_ practical and useful - head and shoulders above Quicken. It is a real shame, Microsoft didn't find a better solution than to sunset it.
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'Uncertainty' Drives LinkedIn to Migrate from CentOS to Azure Linux(theregister.com)
2 points by Postosuchus 2y ago|0 comments
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by Postosuchus 2y ago
I don't think VAX emulators were the thing back then. :-) In fact, our target platform was a cluster of commodity DEC Alpha machines running an early version of RedHat Linux for AXP. I know for a fact, that we were the first system tha
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by Postosuchus 2y ago
Yes, absolutely. You will be shocked how complex CMOs might be just to calculate plain cashflow on a tranche ( https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Mortgage-Backed-Securities-7... is a great standard treatise on the topic). Add t
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by Postosuchus 2y ago
Speaking of crazy applications of Emacs... Long long time ago, my team was tasked with rebuilding an MBS analytics system for one of the leading fintech companies. The original system ran on DEC VAX and was written in VMS Pascal (let's
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by Postosuchus 2y ago
Interesting timing (pun intended): apparently one of the recent Gnome updates in Ubuntu made terminal barely usable due to lagging - https://askubuntu.com/questions/1509058/input-delay-on-termi... I've notice
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by Postosuchus 3y ago
> wants it to be a kind of media center only Again, to accomplish this goal, one has to: - Build a credible software stack - from UI kits to audio and video codecs - Convince the streaming companies to build one more flavor of their apps
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by Postosuchus 3y ago
Doesn't make much sense. Building an ecosystem is far, far more difficult than throwing together a small embedded OS. Just ask Samsung and LG (and Google for that matter). Maybe Amazon has enough clout to force all streaming app develo
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by Postosuchus 3y ago
Exactly same scenario for me. They generously offered me to re-activate the domain for $55 "lapse" fee. I generously offered them to shove it and registered a slightly different domain with a more reputable registrar. Priceless le

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