The original Lemmy developers are hardline Marxist-Leninists, they make no secret of this. https://dessalines.github.io/essays/dessalines_marxism_study...
On rock solid functionality: https://github.com/domoticz/domoticz/issues?q=crash segfault, leak and hang are also fun ones. Apparently the massive memory leaks in the python integration has never been fixed. Not…
> payment processing This is outsourced. > customer support "Can't find the solution you're looking for? Here's how to get help from our experts. Note: We currently don't offer support by phone." And half of what they…
> Simple, rock solid functionality. Don't ever open that C++ code base unless you have a barf bag. I started making contributions and gave up because I have better things to do with my time then ruin my soul. I will…
> In the 90s I used to edit out CSAM related groups, from the downloaded list in Netscape's built in NNTP client. This list gets downloaded from whatever server you configure and is then local to your machine. Editing…
> alt.binaries killed usenet. In 2023 Usenet is solely commercially viable for alt.binaries.
Some of us work/worked for organizations doing hardware, marketing, sales to every corner of the planet and dealing with supply chain with 1/8 of that workforce though (more than 2 decades ago - productivity should be…
> To me, this why AVX didn't get widespread use. This is flat out false. The rest of the comment is therefore superfluous.
> Can simulated hospital simulate efforts by staff to quickly add into many charts a medication Rx - by taking one patient note and copying 1 note, then pasting that into several? What CPOE system involves notes? None…
reposurgeon. It was what was ultimately used to transition gcc to git. Just to be clear, ESR is still a tool: https://np.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/1b1wbl/clos_is_an_ugly... http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8730 He's also…
Sort of goes with the territory with proclamations including words like "everything" and "everyone". "almost" feels like meaningless filler.
You don't have to go by anecdotes, you can go by published testing then. Dust may be a special case, and perhaps certain occupations may be better off with a top loader for work clothes, but for everyday stains and body…
> is they unavoidably have mold and mildew problems due to the design. Keep the door open. The water evaporates. Never had a problem avoiding mold.
> Cool. How about brain surgery? Clarification: how about brain lobotomies? Many of the indications for open heart surgery are no longer valid or standard of care today, replaced with either vascular access or medical…
Gold has been around a lot longer.
> I think the tricky part with innovation, is almost everything innovative looks like a bad idea to almost everyone. No. No. The steam engine, modern refrigeration and open heart surgery all probably had some naysayers…
> But I think many efficient machines do a poor job at cleaning. Not in my experience. A good high efficiency front loader tends to get the clothes cleaner - and notably with much less wear than conventional top…
Well, sure it's related (and MacinTalk is still builtin to modern macOS and iOS - you can use them for the system TTS voice). But DECTalk and MacinTalk weren't the only speech synthesizers available in 1999 by a long…
Whew boy -- the reminder of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect is powerful on this one. I can't imagine it would not be more than a few minutes of downloading the image from archive.org and running it on any VM - I would be a…
> Maybe instead of criticising us, you could have helped us. I mean, I did? While the reply was brusque I did name what the topic was about: boolean satisfiability, "It's pretty damn clear from the context of complexity…
I interpreted "introductory post" to mean that it is introductory within the blog and possibly a lead in to further articles as the author hasn't written on the topic before. Not that it is necessarily an introduction…
Then maybe go read one of the many introductions on the topic? Not every blog post has to start at the beginning to be interesting here. There is nothing condescending about not starting every piece of technical writing…
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> Qt vs WxWidgets all over again. Not sure how to interpret. Pro Qt or pro wx? I'm assuming the latter. But I don't even agree. Qt is/can lay claim to native as much as anything else on desktop Linux/BSD. The quality of…
The original Lemmy developers are hardline Marxist-Leninists, they make no secret of this. https://dessalines.github.io/essays/dessalines_marxism_study...
On rock solid functionality: https://github.com/domoticz/domoticz/issues?q=crash segfault, leak and hang are also fun ones. Apparently the massive memory leaks in the python integration has never been fixed. Not…
> payment processing This is outsourced. > customer support "Can't find the solution you're looking for? Here's how to get help from our experts. Note: We currently don't offer support by phone." And half of what they…
> Simple, rock solid functionality. Don't ever open that C++ code base unless you have a barf bag. I started making contributions and gave up because I have better things to do with my time then ruin my soul. I will…
> In the 90s I used to edit out CSAM related groups, from the downloaded list in Netscape's built in NNTP client. This list gets downloaded from whatever server you configure and is then local to your machine. Editing…
> alt.binaries killed usenet. In 2023 Usenet is solely commercially viable for alt.binaries.
Some of us work/worked for organizations doing hardware, marketing, sales to every corner of the planet and dealing with supply chain with 1/8 of that workforce though (more than 2 decades ago - productivity should be…
> To me, this why AVX didn't get widespread use. This is flat out false. The rest of the comment is therefore superfluous.
> Can simulated hospital simulate efforts by staff to quickly add into many charts a medication Rx - by taking one patient note and copying 1 note, then pasting that into several? What CPOE system involves notes? None…
reposurgeon. It was what was ultimately used to transition gcc to git. Just to be clear, ESR is still a tool: https://np.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/1b1wbl/clos_is_an_ugly... http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8730 He's also…
Sort of goes with the territory with proclamations including words like "everything" and "everyone". "almost" feels like meaningless filler.
You don't have to go by anecdotes, you can go by published testing then. Dust may be a special case, and perhaps certain occupations may be better off with a top loader for work clothes, but for everyday stains and body…
> is they unavoidably have mold and mildew problems due to the design. Keep the door open. The water evaporates. Never had a problem avoiding mold.
> Cool. How about brain surgery? Clarification: how about brain lobotomies? Many of the indications for open heart surgery are no longer valid or standard of care today, replaced with either vascular access or medical…
Gold has been around a lot longer.
> I think the tricky part with innovation, is almost everything innovative looks like a bad idea to almost everyone. No. No. The steam engine, modern refrigeration and open heart surgery all probably had some naysayers…
> But I think many efficient machines do a poor job at cleaning. Not in my experience. A good high efficiency front loader tends to get the clothes cleaner - and notably with much less wear than conventional top…
Well, sure it's related (and MacinTalk is still builtin to modern macOS and iOS - you can use them for the system TTS voice). But DECTalk and MacinTalk weren't the only speech synthesizers available in 1999 by a long…
Whew boy -- the reminder of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect is powerful on this one. I can't imagine it would not be more than a few minutes of downloading the image from archive.org and running it on any VM - I would be a…
> Maybe instead of criticising us, you could have helped us. I mean, I did? While the reply was brusque I did name what the topic was about: boolean satisfiability, "It's pretty damn clear from the context of complexity…
I interpreted "introductory post" to mean that it is introductory within the blog and possibly a lead in to further articles as the author hasn't written on the topic before. Not that it is necessarily an introduction…
Then maybe go read one of the many introductions on the topic? Not every blog post has to start at the beginning to be interesting here. There is nothing condescending about not starting every piece of technical writing…
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> Qt vs WxWidgets all over again. Not sure how to interpret. Pro Qt or pro wx? I'm assuming the latter. But I don't even agree. Qt is/can lay claim to native as much as anything else on desktop Linux/BSD. The quality of…