epcoa

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by epcoa 5d ago
No this is completely incorrect. The filesystem doesn’t break a link just if you open it. Your editor or higher level utility is free to do so (by unlinking and copying the data into a new file/inode), but this is not how the filesyste
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by epcoa 6d ago
Trying to shoe horn multiplatform UI into MFC? Just look at Unicode. It’s an unholy mess. The only toolkit to do what it does? Qt does what it does, even if the approach is not the same (arguably superior), there’s also Tk. There’s also lib
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by epcoa 13d ago
> wxWidgets uses the native OS interfaces. Audacity was fooling no one that it was a native MacOS app, or even a particularly well designed GTK app. The fundamental idea of WX is not sound. Turns out MFC is not a great abstraction for Ap
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by epcoa 3mo ago
Are you talking about for the AI Pac-Man or the ghosts? Because the ghosts in real Pac-Man don’t have cornering.
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by epcoa 3mo ago
NtCreateProcess was not a public Windows API. NT was flexible, that’s not what was being discussed, which should have been clear from the context.
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by epcoa 3mo ago
This is not true. NT never had fork, was always based on the assumption of an MMU and Dave Cutler was a well known fork hater in the 80s long before this paper came out and made it cool to be so. By the time Windows 95 was out, the baseline
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by epcoa 3mo ago
> It's weird to leave out a mention of copy-on-write For the intended audience of such a paper this is base knowledge.
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by epcoa 3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob You can go straight to hell for making me feel old.
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by epcoa 4mo ago
Absolutely not to defend what happened but that GAD diagnosis sets in motion the anchoring, because now you have an “established” (and recent) psychiatric diagnosis and it’s all too common that an ED is going to heavily prioritize this as a
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by epcoa 4mo ago
That’s exactly how all the current cloud chat bots and agents work now.
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by epcoa 4mo ago
There was no snark. If you have something of importance running and the inevitable discovery of an LPE is something you don’t have defense for or can quickly mitigate you’re doing a bad job as a sysadmin. For all general purpose OS in commo
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by epcoa 4mo ago
You literally said: “They sell something in their videos and do things in videos that are different from their true self. ” “Inauthentic” was I still think a close enough reference paraphrase of your statement. Not a value judgement. You ev
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by epcoa 4mo ago
So, this wasn’t a dick sizing contest about who contributes to open source. The point is there is a certain extent I will go to maintain my ideals of using certain systems and it is more than average even for here (the peanut gallery), and
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by epcoa 4mo ago
I use Linux as a daily driver, write and modify kernel (mainline and out of tree) and userspace drivers, have reverse engineered various things. ie beyond most of the HN peanut gallery. That said I use an iPhone because I have a day job and
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by epcoa 4mo ago
Anyone relying on a 30+ year old monolith kernel written in C to not have some exploitable LPEs lurking should stay in basket weaving and out of sysadmin.
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by epcoa 5mo ago
So maybe I’m wrong but the belief is that debit card protections are worse than a credit card in the US. I really don’t have the personal time to test this, but I do know that when I dispute on a credit card it is initially removed until p
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by epcoa 5mo ago
In addition to nominal fraud prevention (and how is any debit card better) there’s nothing better to claw back transaction fees, so what the fuck am I supposed to do?
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by epcoa 5mo ago
Well good for you. Us poors in the US like them for what they’re worth.
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by epcoa 5mo ago
The Dreamcast charm is partly how simple it is, a jellybean CPU. The PowerVR is competent but it’s not outside the norm for 3D accelerators of the period (and there was a mass produced PCI card available of it). Nothing about the Dreamcast
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by epcoa 5mo ago
Not sure how any of these except maybe the Dreamcast (and then not by that much - it was almost literally a contemporary arcade board clone) were examples of “ahead of its time”.
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by epcoa 5mo ago
That is really not the takeaway from this video, at all.
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by epcoa 5mo ago
No. Ethanol and tylenol compete for CYP2E1 that produces toxic NAPQI, so no, acute alcohol intoxication has a protective effect at least where it comes to tylenol toxicity.
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by epcoa 5mo ago
lol
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by epcoa 6mo ago
> I'm cautiously optimistic that AI will let us build full operating systems using other OSs as working examples. Why? No one has shown that LLMs produce particularly good code. You can get a lot of useful shit done with what is sti
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by epcoa 6mo ago
It’s pronounced “Allman Brothers”
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by epcoa 7mo ago
> vastly more complexity. Doom is ingenious, but it is not terribly complex IMHO, not compared to a modern networking stack including WiFi driver. The Doom renderer charm is in its overall simplicity. The AI is effective but not sophisti
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by epcoa 7mo ago
You know, there are external drive USB controllers that linux blocks/blacklists SMART passthrough when using UAS due to paranoia and historical problems, but this can overridden. https://www.mcgarrah.org/usb-drive-smart
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by epcoa 7mo ago
For nearly a decade, Chicago does allow MC cable in a number of circumstances, basically up to 25 feet branches where you don’t want to open up a wall.
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by epcoa 7mo ago
So outside of a few notable examples, the materials rarely fail, galvanized duct work should easily last half a century in a properly installed and maintained system, properly installed copper pipe or PEX and even (C)PVC, properly installed
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by epcoa 7mo ago
No, Uponor AquaPEX.

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