silon7

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by silon7 10y ago
It's only correct for modern automatic transmissions. Plus sometimes start/stop. Probably not for old "3 gear with torque converter" or similiar.
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by silon7 10y ago
This applies to my computer as well. I use it to drive on the information superhighway.
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by silon7 10y ago
Lack of touchscreen was a + point when deciding to buy my current car. IMO, if the touchscreen serves as more than one button/action while driving, it's a broken design. Even the BMW "wheel button" is a better one.
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by silon7 10y ago
This is why you don't buy DRM and root your devices.
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by silon7 11y ago
Perhaps browsers should have p { max-width: 72ex; } by default. And a user setting for this, just like default font size.
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by silon7 11y ago
Disband all corporations > 1000 people.
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by silon7 11y ago
How much power does that use? I run linux a firewall/router on an older laptop + usb ethernet(2) and it's about 20w. I'd prefer < 10. Perhaps I need to try Raspberry Pi next.
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by silon7 11y ago
Is it because of an in-house software maintenance problem, or mostly due to being tied to 3rd party software and would have to buy new licenses / migrate?
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by silon7 11y ago
I've used at times it to crash the program (core dump), producing a cleaner stack than abort().
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by silon7 11y ago
Killing XUL has the potential of killing Firefox. I bet the last good XUL version will be forked.
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by silon7 11y ago
My eyes filter all that out already.
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by silon7 11y ago
There's nothing structured about core dumps. Better to do nothing so the developer can see a clean core dump.
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by silon7 11y ago
+1 I really don't understand the fights about GNOME3 and Unity UI. They both suck for me. KDE is okay-ish, but needs a lot of polish compared to Gnome 2.
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by silon7 11y ago
This reminds me of the good old days when you could actually set your own fonts and colors in a browser and disable javascript. The inventors of CSS have failed greatly.
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by silon7 11y ago
We need a declarative hypertext web back desperately. (I am running NoScript, but I have to enable it for too many sites)
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by silon7 11y ago
I don't think this type of DRM (you get what you pay for, it's an appliance) can be fully compared to DRM in a computer which is designed to limit the use of a computer.
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by silon7 11y ago
The problem is not encryption, S/MIME works well enough for that. The problem is you don't have public keys for people you send to. And there's not a reason for many to get the keys. I wish I could say "I'll read yo
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by silon7 11y ago
Not when you have companies forcing online registration, expiring software, cloud services/storage, DRM, ...
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by silon7 11y ago
That's why web is/was better for many things, especially when you could increate fonts only (unfortunately, many sites have bad css that breaks this).
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by silon7 11y ago
Looks like squares to me.
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by silon7 11y ago
It's achievable with a diesel and not too-heavy foot easily (possibly with some extra NOx ;-)
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by silon7 11y ago
FF will be forked if that happens (also for classic theme restore, and others).
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by silon7 11y ago
noscript better keep working. Also view-source.
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by silon7 11y ago
ulimit may help. Perhaps it could (maybe already is) be added to Chrome per-tab process. Not sure of Windows equivalent, Microsoft has deprecated Windows System Resource Manager, not sure of a good equivalent (except going fully to Linux).
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by silon7 11y ago
Rust is safe(r) and could be integrate/replace with C incrementally.
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by silon7 11y ago
Can I install Linux on it? If so, count me in.
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by silon7 11y ago
This exactly where I observe MSSQL dropping to table scans too soon. If indexes are cached (or when using a ssd), they will be much faster for many many records than a table scan (which will always require disk access in a realistic scenari
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by silon7 11y ago
I want my queries to always behave the same and fail without an index. (you can't have a reliable system with random behavior where system drops to table scans when statistics are incomplete or something) And yes, ordering requires an
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by silon7 11y ago
To me, a major important thing about NoSql is the predictable behavior (because all queries are simple and there is no "query optimizer"). If I could ensure SQL never using index/table scans and make it fail without proper in
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by silon7 11y ago
That must optional, surely. Otherwise it's a dead end.

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