silon5

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by silon5 11y ago
IMO, GPL2 has all the stuff against tivoization already there (preferred form for modification -- if I can't modify it for actual hardware, it's not enough).
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by silon5 11y ago
Because they are enums done right. Enums in C and many other languages are often just a helpers to define integer constants (or abused in this way) and can be evil.
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by silon5 11y ago
IMO, before http is deprecated, we need public key in DNS support, bypassing the CA system. It would possibly be a lower level of security than CA cert, but would be good for many sites.
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by silon5 11y ago
Strongly agreed especially with your last sentence.
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by silon5 12y ago
DRM = SkyNet
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by silon5 12y ago
I notices Firefox sometimes starts busy looping on 2 cores while playing youtube (usually when "buffering"). IMO, they should really move the decoding threads into separate processes so they can be restarted easily (just like Flas
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by silon5 12y ago
Or losing data on crash because load/save cycle is untested.
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by silon5 12y ago
But it has to scan/mark all the objects, not just the the unused ones. This has large overhead in big-mem apps. Not to mention that usually this forces the whole app into RAM (makes swap useless) and also potentialy drains cpu caches.
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by silon5 12y ago
It seems like virtualization is about to become useless in the future and CPU-emulating+jit compiling systems are the future, because SGX can't be virtualized.
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by silon5 12y ago
My HTC hero was pre-bent and more durable than any plastic Nokia... I'd love 40% magnification of it, it'd last a week too.
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by silon5 12y ago
It's not a historic artefact. You can't trust the app to render in time... (that's also why client side decorations are worthless).
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by silon5 12y ago
Not that jailbreaks aren't a good thing, because I'd hate to be forced to use a locked (aka dumb) device.
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by silon5 12y ago
Agreed... I'm quite worried about unsafe code in libraries that I'd use.
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by silon5 12y ago
This is the way F1 turbo/engine is specified to work. Not specific to Mercedes. Only the split turbine/compressor is Mercedes specific.
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by silon5 12y ago
It's about time to progressively tax (VAT, not profit) companies in "monopoly" markets.
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by silon5 12y ago
+1 I have the same issue with alt+tab and have stopped using Gnome shell.
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by silon5 13y ago
If they do that, people will migrate off Gmail too. I know I will.
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by silon5 13y ago
IMO, using .txt extension is just fine and a good idea. But it will not help until MS fixes their notepad to handle standard Unix text files.