fr4nkr

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by fr4nkr 5mo ago
Don't take it personally OP, but taskbar-as-a-service is objectively one of the funniest things I have ever seen posted on this site.
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by fr4nkr 5mo ago
The major data centers being built for AI are much more energy-hungry than car manufacturing, and they're being built at a pace that the US energy grid simply cannot accommodate in the short term... or quite possibly even the long te
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by fr4nkr 1y ago
No, we have convenient online services in spite of the endless security theater that permeates consumer tech. All it's done is gradually increase maintenance burden and technical complexity until useful features are slowly stripped o
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by fr4nkr 1y ago
Very nice site, but it seems to expect you to be following along with some other resource. The exercises each have links under the details tab, but the links are broken, and I cannot find the web pages they are supposed to be linking to.
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by fr4nkr 1y ago
I elaborated a bit when I edited my post, but to be more specific, I think LSP is a protocol that fails at its stated goals. Every server is buggy as hell and has its own quirks and behaviors, so editors that implement LSP have to add wor
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by fr4nkr 1y ago
The OP defeats his own argument. LSP was a collaborative effort that benefited from a degree of coordination that only hierarchical organizations can provide, yet it still sucks ass. OP blames FOSS for not providing an IDE protocol a decade
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by fr4nkr 1y ago
I understand the analogy, it's just ridiculous. You are conflating entirely unrelated things based on your personal feelings about them with no regard to historical or technical context. Hardware support issues are certainly understand
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by fr4nkr 1y ago
...what does Emacs have to do with any of this? And how does running Linux in a Hyper-V virtual machine magically make it better?
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by fr4nkr 1y ago
Google likely just doesn't care. They know most people won't bother using privacy-oriented services out of inconvenience or apathy.
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by fr4nkr 1y ago
My point about VSC is that brands itself as "open source" when Microsoft clearly intends for it to have a proprietary, tightly controlled ecosystem. It's not just RMS-unapproved, it's practically a lie. You can use it
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by fr4nkr 1y ago
I noticed this the other day when I installed VSCodium on my new Windows box. I had a functional setup for one day , then the next day I couldn't install a language extension I direly needed. It's left a very sour taste in my mou
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by fr4nkr 1y ago
Hurd isn't exactly a useful project, but using Doom as the benchmark for the capability of an OS is a bit ridiculous.
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by fr4nkr 2y ago
> While there are technical differences between Snap and Flatpak, the gist is the same. Offer a sandboxed, isolated, and universal package format for Linux. Universal package formats are an overall win in my opinion. And make Linux feel
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by fr4nkr 2y ago
Most Ghidra discussion I see online boils down to whining that it's not IDA Pro, so, probably not bad.
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by fr4nkr 2y ago
Seeing Brave New World references every time drugs are mentioned is tiring and pretentious. There is plenty to be said about the virtues of moderation and abstinence, and none of it involves invoking the most over-referenced book in modern
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by fr4nkr 2y ago
I've grown dissatisfied with it, but I can't be assed to switched to anything else since it's the only terminal emulator that renders fonts well, at least on my machine.
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by fr4nkr 2y ago
I would argue that what constitutes clever code varies a lot by language. There's always a "cleverness" threshold where being able to read or refactor the code becomes harder, but this threshold isn't universal. Python i
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by fr4nkr 2y ago
Unsurprising, but I'd still totally buy a Superfest glass set with this in mind. I've owned glassware that was both fragile and prone to exploding into jagged particles, and it wasn't very cheap, either.
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by fr4nkr 2y ago
If I had to guess, people who judge Linux security based on niche desktop distros with no security features enabled.
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by fr4nkr 2y ago
I've used Lisps on and off for a decade or so, and my experience with it is pretty much in line with the Grammarly devs' summary: misuse of macros is one of those things people just assume is a major problem, but in reality is qui
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by fr4nkr 2y ago
Powershell feels a lot like Microsoft wanted to appeal to *nix users, especially system administrators, without really understanding them, presumably because D̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶C̶u̶t̶l̶e̶r̶ ̶s̶h̶o̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶m̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶s̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ Microsoft's way
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by fr4nkr 2y ago
> People are perfectly free to have Android devices and side load apps on to them. And people who do not like "unsafe" technology are perfectly free to not use it at all. If you make something idiot-proof, they will simply prov