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by drpixie 3y ago
Three sitting around. They make very convenient small servers. One (a RPi4) has substantial mass storage and is a backup and media server. Another (an RPi3) is an RSS reader service and web proxy for some internal stuff. And the third (RPi3
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by drpixie 3y ago
I'm inclined to agree. Articles that are uncomplimentary of the industry ethos are few, and comments the criticize that ethos often see antagonistic replies or downvotes. There are plenty of people here who have their eyes open and mai
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by drpixie 3y ago
For me, the biggest problem is lack of meaningful feedback. Even a small keyboard lets you feel the edge & centre of each key, and feel when it's acted (the click). And a physical keyboard does not require you to be looking at it,
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by drpixie 3y ago
I accept your point that good mobile data is not universal. But for those who have a personal mobile device and poor mobile data, an actual email client would likely be a good choice. An actual email client uses much less data than webmail.
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by drpixie 3y ago
Web mail was great before mobile data became normal - when you used a work computer, and a home computer, and ...remember... internet cafes! But now mobile data is normal. Your phone/tablet's email is a almost certainly a dedicate
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by drpixie 3y ago
You sure about that. I was reading only yesterday (can't find the link - sorry) about how little each extra feature is used - that the vast majority of value & use is in the core. I see the other way around. Additional features are
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by drpixie 3y ago
> Scrum is a cancer that will eat your development team. Scrum is not for developers; it's another tool for managers to feel they are in control. Agile and Scrum are for managers who don't know what they want, but they'll
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by drpixie 3y ago
> I personally have been against developing mobile apps for years now for the exact same reasons described in here and other similar articles — as soon as you decide to develop mobile apps then you give control of your product/servi
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by drpixie 3y ago
Didn't mean to come across judgy :( Apparently the ancient Greeks didn't have much, if anything, in the way of symbolic algebra or calculus - what we mostly think of as "maths". Instead their normal tool for mathematical
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by drpixie 3y ago
Unless the sun was VERY close, the actual distance doesn't matter. What matters is that the sun (or a star, or whatever you use as a reference) is so far away that there is no practical difference between "far away" and &quot
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by drpixie 3y ago
Sure, share the documents, but running apps over the net - ha! I despise every time I open an MS Doc or gmail. Just now gmail loaded almost 13MB of "app" - just to show an almost empty inbox, what a waste! And (behind the scenes)
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by drpixie 3y ago
Daily. It has its faults but its WAY more usable than the MS trash. And it lives on my computer - no "cloud" garbage if I can avoid it.
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by drpixie 3y ago
I find it intriguing that memory is not just A bottleneck these days, but that memory is SO much slower than CPU. A big part of the performance difference must be the move off the main chip, but it just seems that when cache can be so quick
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by drpixie 3y ago
You're right there. As transistors got cheaper, we've got into the habit of using them en-mass to prop up horrible architectures with weird (but effective) tricks like enormous look-ahead, stupendous pipelines, and gigantic caches
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by drpixie 3y ago
Remember the Cray-1. It had no division instruction but could perform reciprocals. Division was performed as 1 reciprocal and 2 or 3 multiplications (depending on the precision needed). Thus division was only a little more complex than mult
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by drpixie 3y ago
Very impressive - but it would be terrible if they have to move house!
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by drpixie 3y ago
I find that it is often difficult/immpossible to get a sense of scale. The width and detail of streets is adjusted such that it is not obvious if I'm looking at things a few hundred metres apart, or a few kilometers! And there is
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by drpixie 3y ago
> Google or any other Browser vendor do not have a say on how websites use or misuse features. Seriously? Would you give the kiddies sharp knives and loaded guns, and then be shocked when someone is injured? If we let this become availab
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by drpixie 3y ago
This is DRM for browsers. Would you buy a computer from John Deer ... ?
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by drpixie 3y ago
Ah yes. This is one of the marvels of having browser APIs that want to give you (almost) complete control over the machine, and let you do (almost) anything... Upside: You can do almost anything. Downside: You have to manage (almost) everyt
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by drpixie 3y ago
This would be, de facto, DRM for whole browsers. It would have all the advantages (to incumbents) of DRM. And for users, all the disadvantages of DRM. If you think the John Deer tractor maintenance thing is terrible and disgusting ...
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by drpixie 3y ago
Same, in firefox (current version) but not in chrome. But the manifesto is good enough to deserve 2 downloads :)
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by drpixie 3y ago
6. The basic OS abstraction is typed objects. Objects are not serialised and stored in files, they exist (only) as the fundamental entity of the OS. These objects are not read/saved from disk, they exist until destroyed and are managed
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by drpixie 3y ago
From before the internet was so overwhelmed by late stage capitalism that it's almost impossible to conceive of something not based on sales and/or advertising. "Those were the days."
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by drpixie 3y ago
Yes please, something that doesn't have files, or processes. Both are too low level and require us to write or use enormous amounts of code to do very simple tasks that are performed by almost all applications. Very wasteful. But lets
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by drpixie 3y ago
I know plenty of people who use that approach for all but their most used accounts ... just click on the "reset password" link, use it, and forget the new password! It works but it's incredibly heavyweight. For every login yo
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by drpixie 3y ago
Nice. Anglos have a similar but not so common tradition where kids (usually female children) are named after their birth month (April, May or June are common) or occasionally their birth weekday (eg. Wednesday Addams)
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by drpixie 3y ago
The author touches on revocation - to me this is a MAJOR problem with "licenced" media. Publishers have shown, again and again, that they will not continue to "sell" (distribute) their product. Despite storage and transm
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by drpixie 3y ago
Unfortunately there is a serious version problem amongst existing English systems. The language does not provide a method to enforce use of particular versions, and there is no universal naming convention to identify "dialects". W
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by drpixie 3y ago
I assume you're be sarcastic ;) But the ongoing crop of security problems (eg buffer overflows and pointer hassles) are not so much the fault of the C language as they are of the various libraries.

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