delta_p_delta_x

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by delta_p_delta_x 4d ago
This single comment of yours has in my eyes made your entire post worthless. SystemD has single-handedly consolidated and streamlined Linux administration. I think valid criticism is useful, but calling it malware is a non-sequitur.
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by delta_p_delta_x 6d ago
Also in aviation, but with caveats; you want to take off and land with a headwind, because the headwind gives a greater airspeed which means greater lift.
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by delta_p_delta_x 6d ago
Calling the Weather app an 'app' is doing all the Win32, WPF, WinForms and WinUI developers a huge disservice. It is essentially an entire Chromium instance around msn.com/weather.
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by delta_p_delta_x 6d ago
Not to be confused with the other R#, which is ReSharper. https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/
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by delta_p_delta_x 6d ago
lld-link is already a big step up from link.exe. Although the latter has incremental linking, which none of the Unix-like linkers have.
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by delta_p_delta_x 6d ago
I feel Vista was by far the best. 7 simplified it a bit, but that Start orb and black taskbar on Vista, man, that was glorious.
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by delta_p_delta_x 8d ago
There is much to be said about the irony in said New Worlders refusing to get with the programme, and instead obstinately clinging to an ancient, Babylonian-Roman-Anglo-Saxon-Viking hodge-podge of units instead of something modern and unive
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by delta_p_delta_x 8d ago
For science education, I am strongly for using the units directly to describe everything at first, with these looser comparisons in brackets, rather than inline prose. So I would've instead said, 'is 500 km in diameter (roughly th
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by delta_p_delta_x 8d ago
Lovely article. Although: > Enceladus is far smaller than the Jovian ocean worlds, roughly the size of Ohio Why not just say 'has a diameter of about 500 km'? The propensity of astronomers to compare diameters of a small spheri
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by delta_p_delta_x 9d ago
Io is in orbital resonance with Europa and Ganymede, which causes its orbit to be slightly elliptical. Due to Jupiter's immense gravitational field strength, Io experiences a very high changing tidal force, which causes a changing stre
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by delta_p_delta_x 9d ago
> only RF down the TV antenna input Holy shit. RF to zero-click exploit is a new one. I guess digital-everything wasn't always a good idea, this probably wouldn't ever have been a problem with analogue antennas and CRTs. What a
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by delta_p_delta_x 9d ago
On any Windows release, you can switch all of those off, and GPE out the update channels for non-system-critical changes. Windows Enterprise doesn't even get the so-called 'fun stuff'.
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by delta_p_delta_x 9d ago
> how much nicer a (well supported, well put together) Linux distro is, compared to Windows As someone who regularly uses both, and even in spite of the ad avalanche that (a bog-standard home install of) Windows has become: [X] to doubt.
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by delta_p_delta_x 11d ago
Win liao lor[1]. I wish they made the Circle line terminating like it was before; it makes much more sense that way. Oh well. At least one can board a train in the morning and never get off, and exit at the same station eight hours later. [
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by delta_p_delta_x 11d ago
I wish they hadn't got rid of STARIS 1[1]. It was highly intuitive and informative, and showed you everything you needed at a glance, and was visible from nearly anywhere within the carriage. In fact I am not very happy with the little
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by delta_p_delta_x 13d ago
*10 metres
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by delta_p_delta_x 14d ago
MTE is essentially hardware-accelerated AddressSanitiser[1]. [1]: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/AddressSanitizer.html
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by delta_p_delta_x 20d ago
> OLED market share increasing I'd anticipate Windows moving away from it at some point too Quite the contrary: many new OLEDs are moving back to an RGB stripe subpixel arrangement.
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by delta_p_delta_x 21d ago
I posted this comment[1] in the previous discussion. Reposting here, because I don't like slightly-derivative typefaces that are just FontForge tweaks of a typeface that was designed from the ground up, even less if they have given it
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by delta_p_delta_x 22d ago
KERNEL32.DLL (in spite of the name) provides user-mode system services for the Windows API. The CRT provides the C99 API. There are many entry points to the same thing on Windows; you can do any of `malloc`/`HeapAlloc`/`new`/
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by delta_p_delta_x 22d ago
Interesting to bypass CRT and work directly against the Windows API. That said, these rely on USER.32.DLL and KERNEL32.DLL to do the majority of the heavy lifting. It's a bit like 'smallest hello world in assembly' but the co
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by delta_p_delta_x 22d ago
Threatening assault on a paying customer for not knowing tipping norms is just one of the many reasons why American society is in the state it is. I've seen similar things like 'be glad I didn't spit in your food', &#x27
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by delta_p_delta_x 28d ago
> It's more than a little funny that you disparage syscalls being Linux's stable interface, and then immediately praise Android, which only works because glibc isn't uniquely privileged the way you seem to want. I never di
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by delta_p_delta_x 28d ago
> The linux platform is these system calls. Everything else is userspace. This is exactly what makes it special. This is exactly the attitude I meant by 'the kernel developers also have to take responsibility for, rather than shru
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by delta_p_delta_x 28d ago
> Linux has a stable system call ABI This is a noble but practically worthless ideal. Hardly anything is written against the kernel ABI except glibc itself. End-user application developers don't write against the kernel interface. P
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by delta_p_delta_x 28d ago
Indeed. I was just about to point out the fact that the CRT only provides the C standard library; Windows applications can run perfectly fine without one by linking only to the Windows API DLLs.
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by delta_p_delta_x 28d ago
I think the grander point is that there is no real 'system CRT' on Windows; as I mentioned, there are multiple entry points each at an appropriate level of abstraction available to both platform and application developers (not tha
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by delta_p_delta_x 28d ago
> Windows explicitly does not want you to link the system libc This is categorically false; UCRT[1] is a thing. The 'U' stands for universal . Unlike Linux, Windows allows developers to choose their ABI boundary and also ship
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by delta_p_delta_x 29d ago
And for some books about Windows system programming: - Windows Internals, Parts I and II - Windows 10 System Programming, Parts I and II - Windows Kernel Programming, Second Edition - Programming Windows, 5th and 6th Editions
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by delta_p_delta_x 29d ago
> fastest & leanest Surely you mean leanest and meanest :P I'd also say that tooling on Windows is simultaneously better and easier to use than on Linux; the noob case of green play button in an IDE is taken care of, but if you

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