shellac

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by shellac 4y ago
Name your exchange after bitrex is a very clear warning, at least. What were they thinking?
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by shellac 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware (Hence the key combination cmd-opt-O-F)
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by shellac 4y ago
I only see the Apple Music app when I open it explicitly. Are there situations where a 'default' music app might appear?
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by shellac 4y ago
> You can share externally with Onedrive for business... Yes, but not (simply) with OneDrive, as the branding would suggest. Lesson learned, anyway.
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by shellac 4y ago
> OneDrive truly is an abomination built on top of archaic Sharepoint. OneDrive _for business_ is built on Sharepoint. Onedrive ... erm ... not for business (?) is an entirely separate product, and they don't interoperate. Which is
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by shellac 4y ago
Which search engine are you using?
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by shellac 4y ago
"Is Betteridge's law of headlines correct?"
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by shellac 4y ago
The Bat book fell off a high shelf and killed my cat. Ok, I may be lying, but if the sheer mass of that book was more than sufficient to convince me to never try configuring sendmail.
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by shellac 4y ago
> What Microsoft did in the 90s was pale by comparison You really don't know what you are talking about. The issue with Microsoft was not bundling a piece of software and not fixing the box model. Microsoft (of the 90s) deliberately
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by shellac 4y ago
I don’t see the click bait there, and the article makes a reasonable case that she preempted the pioneers of abstract art (though I agree she’s also a less swirly mystical artist). From the article: > Interest in her work grew after a 20
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by shellac 4y ago
That is a lovely way of putting it. (I wish they'd never mentioned 'Free Will' since people get hung up on that) Always keep in mind that Bell himself was quite a fan of Bohm's theory, which is the canonical hidden varia
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by shellac 4y ago
That act was repealed this year. It is “as if the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 had never been enacted”. Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_and_Calling_of_Par...
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by shellac 4y ago
> That would require a lot of Tory MPs to rebel Yes, it’s practically impossible currently given both the size of their majority, and also the clear indications that a large number of Tory MPs would be personally voting themselves out of
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by shellac 4y ago
> untested combination of reducing tax (for high earners) and increasing borrowing Oh, it was tested: in 1972 the Conservative government tried this, and it didn't go well.
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by shellac 4y ago
> Their track record is abysmal. And just to reinforce this, a decade ago Google supported a cross platform messaging standard: XMPP. And then they stopped it https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/goo
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by shellac 4y ago
> If everything is treated as async, you will need to await everything In go you work rather differently. You let tasks go off and do their thing, and provide a channel to communicate. Pulling a response from the channel is the 'awa
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by shellac 4y ago
One of the joys of moving from the 6502 BBC micro to the Acorn Archimedes was the Acorn RISC machine had a multiply. It felt like cheating. (They used ARM2 which added MUL and MLA - multiply with accumulate)
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by shellac 4y ago
From very start of the article: "Leaders | What to do about myopia". However 'myopic' is certainly used metaphorically. This is one of those cases where you just have to read the article.
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by shellac 4y ago
In English 'corn' is just a general term for any cereal grain or similar (e.g. barleycorn, peppercorn, even 'corned' beef in reference to the appearance of salt). In the US it got associated particularly with maize for w
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by shellac 4y ago
It's more accurate to say Loom is [a particular type of] continuations in the JVM, which can be used to implement green threads / fibers. You can see the implementation of VirtualThread here: https://github.com/ope
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by shellac 4y ago
> "The deadly gold wars of Lesotho" would probably have been a more accurate title Not really. The involvement in illegal mining comes later, and violence was part of the Famo before that. There's some suggestion that it w
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by shellac 4y ago
I think your source is overstating it. OED says "a letter addressed to a particular person or persons but intended for a more public readership, as by deliberate publication in a newspaper or journal.", which sounds about right to
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by shellac 4y ago
> it's still not performant enough for them to write all the syscalls in the standard library in it I'm not sure why you are inferring that. They aren't replacing openjdk vm intrinsics using this immediately, but that&#x27
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by shellac 4y ago
Yes, perhaps better thought of as a distribution or packaging. Somewhat analogous to linux distributions. I thought Azul was a bit more customised around the gc, so not quite the same JVM?
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by shellac 4y ago
Yes, that won't change anything internal. However: > ...JVM's internal string representation is UTF-16 Hasn't been try for a while. They switched to using a byte array internally for storage, plus an encoding. Currently th
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by shellac 5y ago
I crafted this conditional to make no actual claim at all. Personally I don't consider the funding an issue, their processes seemed sound. But if you do then Tor is pretty much a lost cause from the beginning. Edit: no worries :-)
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by shellac 5y ago
The Tor project was largely funded by the US government initially. If you use Tor currently it's already that compromised, if you consider that an issue.
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by shellac 5y ago
> HPC systems generally use LustreFS Or IBM's GPFS / Spectrum Scale. Same deal, really, although GPFS is a more complete package.
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by shellac 5y ago
*BSDs mostly followed this semantic, as I recall. Probably inherited from a common ancestor.
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by shellac 5y ago
Yes, I would have skipped the fsync thing, which carries a lot of baggage, and concentrate on this. Btw, are you sure those spinning disks are actually flushing to rust? Caches all the way down... ;-)

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