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by fxfan 7y ago
runaway success of oss Linux on the desktop? I'm a full time user but I can't tell you how much I hate he constant hardware issues. it's 2019 and I cannot hibernate or sleep my laptop reliably. the backlight doesn't work
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by fxfan 7y ago
When does CoreRT ship?
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by fxfan 7y ago
fossil from the creator of SQLite
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by fxfan 7y ago
Reminds me of the time there was a comment wondering what the OS on Microsoft watch was- someone responded with a speculation - an erlang vm with js for gui
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by fxfan 7y ago
I hit the comment limit earlier but thank you for writing in detail about what's actually going on behind the scenes so I can take care to not let the problem affect me much. That said, and despite your yourself having mentioned that t
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by fxfan 7y ago
Some of use bernie supporters were also called comrade and bernie was maligned for having had his honeymoon in Soviet. I hate Trump based on what i've seen him say first hand but of late I'm beginning to form an opinion that media
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by fxfan 7y ago
Forcing upon users is wrong but calling it backdoor, as someone who sounds reasonably intelligent to other reasonably intelligent people is misleading and wrong too.
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by fxfan 7y ago
You haven't worked for large companies have you? Intel ME is NOT a backdoor. It may have vulnerabilities, sure. But none explicitly put in there. It was designed for a specific purpose- troubleshooting enterprise computers. And it does
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by fxfan 7y ago
If one mistake tarnished reputation forever then after Iraq war none of CNN, Fox, NYT, MSNBC, WaPo should be in business, specially since all of these were accomplices in and not victims of falsehoods.
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by fxfan 7y ago
I don't know about the LEO numbers but quick back of the envelop calculation assuming 1000 km means this latency would be nearly 3 ms.
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by fxfan 7y ago
This is super cool, thank you for sharing!
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by fxfan 7y ago
XeTeX in particular does but my problem is with the uncertainty around the whole process and the frustration when a search fails on a 300 page document
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by fxfan 7y ago
EDIT: Release notes: https://tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html# One technology that has stood the test of time- amazingly well designed TeX by Donald Knuth and LaTeX by Leslie Lamport. Plain TeX
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by fxfan 7y ago
That's not how OSS contributions work. C# is wildly popular in enterprise, and most of New york runs on F#. How often do you see .NET repos on Github?
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by fxfan 7y ago
I never thought I'd oppose he decision of transferring ICANN control to outside of USA- it seemed increasingly and inevitably for the greater good. now I'm no longer so sure why it was done.
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by fxfan 7y ago
I've heard great points and experienced myself how utterly legible go is. But nobody on earth has ever praised anything about the language design itself. I wonder if go came from somewhere not google- how would it fare.
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by fxfan 7y ago
I'm surprised nobody mentioned this yet- a rust rewrite means you are more likely to invite contributions from a larger community.
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by fxfan 7y ago
And the 3 dozen GitHub to Gitlab migrants are trying to find ways to come back while still saving face. I have personally seen people who, for example, not only use powershell (on Linux of all places) but also build tooling around it and fi
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Fun little diss on Functional programming(youtube.com)
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by fxfan 7y ago
a Loren ipsum I will actually use. now if only plain tex would include this as a package
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by fxfan 7y ago
where is my jump list from task bar! "omg m$ sucks"
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by fxfan 7y ago
Not really. I'm a progressive and we're trying to have a balanced discussion under the other comment of mine.
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by fxfan 7y ago
That doesn't work. India relied on GPS and Clinton turned off (regrettably IMHO) India's access to high precision data in the 2000 Indo-Pak war. India went on to build their own. EDIT: Year was probably 1999, not sure.
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by fxfan 7y ago
At this point the whole thing feels like Iraq 2.0 and I wonder if I'm getting suckered by media. What only worries me as a progressively-disenchanted but firmly and forever a supporter of Bernie Sanders is that even sanders seems to ha
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by fxfan 7y ago
Do traders track RAM firms using electron-primary-app-firms? Or use one to hedge against the other ;). Perhaps add Intel too in the mix somewhere!
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by fxfan 7y ago
I'm still waiting for something like scala.js for Rust. I don't like the thought of using two different programming languages and currently it seems scala.js is the most dependable front-end library
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by fxfan 7y ago
There was a time when people named stuff after positive things. If you asked my psychologist ex about people who name things after Saurons and Cockroaches, she'll jump to some 'priliminary conclusions'. This country needs fre
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by fxfan 7y ago
Ballmer was also hamstrung by the 10 year antitrust deal
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by fxfan 7y ago
Microsoft is closing fast on AWS. This is going to be an XBox vs PS again except with no japanese loyalty to help the PS. Better link- https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/25/microsoft-hits-1-trillion-ma... without t
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by fxfan 7y ago
What's IAS? Is it a big deal?

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