RandomThoughts3

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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
That’s not the point. Evolutionary pressure doesn’t care if something is or isn’t useful per see. It’s all situational anyway. To simplify a lot, either you have offsprings and your genes spread or you don’t and they don’t. Evolution is not
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> Animals (and humans) evolved play because it has evolutionary benefits I know the turn of phrase is popular even amongst biologists but I still think it’s weird to put it this way. Evolution is a dynamic feedback loop on a multi-genera
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Yes, I agree especially for audio which is a typical exemple of a latency sensitive application (video games are generally purposefully design to be as latency insensitive as possible and will drop frames with no impact on actual gameplay).
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> Who needs throughput? Server software, but Linux is already dominant there and everyone's happy. For everything else, including desktop and mobile operating systems realtime sounds like a good idea. No, not at all. The actual ques
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
If your design is resilient to missing deadlines, you don't need a RTOS and the question becomes moot.
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Dbus is a (not very good) userland message bus. QNX is a realtime kernel. I don't really understand what you mean by: > Really interested to see if DBus really does underpin much of QNX, or whether this was just a time & place.
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Agree but I have seen more people wrongly think they need hard real time than people incorrectly picking their kernel.
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> I have been successfully using systemd for years You are writing that you have been unsuccessfully using systemd for years because of the annoying timeout. I'm replying that it's entierely your fault because it takes seconds
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> California is a major producer of food crops, and there are significant concerns about the racial and social disparities in exposure to pesticides. Ok, as a foreigner, I don't even know how to parse this. How is racial disparity
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
They are there from the start and were always the recommended way to do things in the documentation. I mean the command is literally disable . The command to list services enabled on boot is also completely esoteric: systemctl list-unit-f
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> The linked GitHub issue is one of the most aggravating exchanges Hyperbolic much? Because if you actually read the whole issue, here we have one maintainer acting out of line of refusing to process the issue until another one (Yu Watan
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> it often doesn't go well Plenty of people changes systemd configuration all the time and it just goes fine. You live in fantasy. Even op is basically saying: “my issue with systemd is that I dislike the timeout configuration of s
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
We don’t have to talk in hypotheticals here. Booting time benchmarks from the time systemd was released are everywhere and showed shorter boot times. It was discussed ad nauseam at the time.
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> with hate to the unix philosophy It's a suit of a tools each doing one thing and communicating together via a message bus. How exactly is that hating the "unix philosophy" whatever that means? From where I stand, it&#x27
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
I switched to systemd when Arch switched and from the get go, it was massively easier to parallelise with systemd than with the old system and that was with an HDD. Systemd already parallelises by default so I don't know what insanely
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
I mean if your why is related to having to hold shift or - gasp - using caps lock, I don’t know if I can’t assess the stupidity but I certainly don’t feel I’m clever enough to hold a conversation with you.
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> following non-Rust naming conventions […] impossible. That’s indeed the point.
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
How is that unergonomic? Go has proven at this point that the language spec is the correct place to settle stupid bike sheding especially when they lead to misfeature like this one. I understand that it’s not the most urgent thing to fix wh
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Clearly Apple uses iMessage to create a significant lock in effect in the USA. So, yes, as their main competitor, Google should want to attack the market share of iMessage. It’s probably the biggest thing standing in the way of Android. Pus
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Nobody cares because everyone in the US weirdly uses iMessage while the rest of the world uses either WhatsApp, WeChat or Line. Honestly, at this point, would probably be easier for Google to just push WhatsApp in the US despite it being a
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Rust could just have mandated that const have to be uppercase and disallowed variables starting with uppercase. It would be better than making a warning.
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> Sure. let's make food more expensive for poor people. The magic of deposit refund system is that you only pay more once. Plus really poor people can actually collect unreturned items to make some change. Have you ever considered h
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Sorry but that’s unsubstantiated non sense. To begin with, non monetary benefits have to be declared in most European countries and impact your tax rates and are taxed the same way than giving you more money so your whole dodgy reasoning im
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> As far as I am aware, those are mostly obsolete/moot/whatever. They won’t be if you start pricing plastic packaging generated externalities in the products prices. > it's practically impossible to have a fast food ind
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Don't turn the argument into a parody of itself because you don't like what it implies. No one is asking you about buying using refilable containers you bring to the store. That's not what's talked about when people talk
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Straws are useless. Plates and ustensiles can be provided by and cleaned at the place you eat. Takeout containers don’t take more space than the non reusable container you will have to carry back anyway. They can also be provided by your pl
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> [Company]: <yawn> if you don't want $X, there's the door. We have 35 other candidates in the hiring pipeline. That's partly bluff. Hiring a good candidate is costly. If they make you an offer, they have already sun
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> Do people negotiate net? Nobody negotiates net. It's not even practical. Your tax situation will depend of the other revenues you might receive on top of your wages and the deductions you are eligible to and your employer doesn&#
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Tarkovsky’s adaptation is incredible but it is only loosely based on the book (for the better as far as I’m concerned but Lem fans might disagree).
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Don’t go read random discussion about things you don’t want to be spoiled about. Nobody owes you anything with regards to what is or isn’t discussed.

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