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by abiloe 4y ago
> attitude towards user experience was more prevalent in mainstream OSs. > It's little things like errors automatically prompting you to open a graphical debugger If this is the concept of "mainstream" and sensible &quo
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by abiloe 4y ago
But but -- the New York Times had said this is just fine for over a year: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/picking-smart-deadbo... Notice that they essentially rake (with the godawful demonstration of &quot
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by abiloe 4y ago
Oh this again. The idiots at the WireCutter already covered this and they think it's just fine. Mass market smart locks are a dumpster fire and they have the full support of the mass media. The #1 Wirecutter smart lock pick has this ex
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by abiloe 4y ago
> Mostly everyone else seems to define the bitness of CPUs by their capacity to add numbers in one go, not by the address space they can address. Nah, only historically. Yes, "8-bit" refers to the ALU. Back in the day, 16-bit w
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by abiloe 4y ago
> They went from 95 and XP, some of the best operating systems from a user's perspective I mean that's some rose-tinted shit if I ever heard it, 95 especially. 98 OSR2 improved quite a bit on the situation, but I don't rec
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by abiloe 4y ago
> when was the last time you heard about someone having file corruption on their local OS due to using a bad filesystem technology? Quite frequently. It's not that uncommon at all. Bad disk cables, defective disks, etc it's not
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by abiloe 4y ago
> don't all modern file systems do that? Define this. But the simple, practical answer is no.
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by abiloe 4y ago
> the original process The "original process" of integrated circuit design was cutting rubylith - this was well into the 70s. The venerable MOS 6502 was done this way as was the Intel 8008. The verb tapeout was used for litho p
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by abiloe 4y ago
> Namecheap immediately resold the domain to a squatter No I don't see how their post allows one to infer that Namecheap "immediately" resold the domain. Their policy is a 30 day grace period, and within that 30 days the d
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by abiloe 4y ago
> My register doesn’t allow registrations longer than 1 year. Ummm.. then maybe get a better registar? It's not like there aren't many to choose from.
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by abiloe 4y ago
> When the 801 shipped, almost no system had hard coded microcode. 1990? No system without soft microcode? That's a very restricted definition of system for the field of computing in 1990.
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by abiloe 4y ago
> I think what I'm saying is that calling file I/O "blocking" is also not a useful definition of "block". Because I don't really see the fundamental difference between "we have to wait for main mem
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by abiloe 4y ago
> My argument is that disk I/O is more like memory I/O than it is like network I/O It depends on your network and disk - and yes SSD and "slow" ethernet are the common case, but there is enough variation (say an
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by abiloe 4y ago
> Sure it does! Main memory is much slower than cache so on a cache miss the CPU has to stop and wait for main memory to respond. The CPU may even switch to executing some other thread in the meantime (that's what hyperthreading is)
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by abiloe 4y ago
> If you really think about it, the only real difference between main memory blocking and disk blocking is the amount of time they may block. This is a somewhat confusing analysis you have here. Direct read/write from memory for all
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by abiloe 4y ago
> If you can't take pride in a job well done as a store clerk, why the hell does anyone think you'll take pride in a job well done as a developer? That motivation is internal. This is an absurd argument. They have nothing to do
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by abiloe 4y ago
Lol, are you trying to make a convincing argument? And if not, why bother replying with such nonsense. That short list provided is not "most software", thats a smattering of infrastructure type software. If you're into idioti
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by abiloe 4y ago
> we are in a world where open source is the way. I think you're in a bubble. The world still runs primarily on closed source and proprietary software and services.
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by abiloe 4y ago
If you're going to use language like "patently false" it helps to be correct. Keyless car fobs are not constantly transmitting. If they were, the battery would die quite quick. The key combinations to disable them help to pre
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by abiloe 4y ago
Someone owns a lot of TSLA.
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by abiloe 4y ago
Like Malcolm Gladwell but not an NYT bestseller, so cooler, or something. Also, minor point, he is a psychiatrist (MD).
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by abiloe 4y ago
What is an SB115?
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by abiloe 4y ago
If you view source, it is encoded in an s-expression equivalent.
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by abiloe 4y ago
Yes, that a company with $10B valuation must necessarily have somehow found a market.