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5 yıl öncediscuss

... the best usage of this phrase i've encountered is using it to shut down a requirements discussion

5 yıl öncediscuss

this is sort of exactly my point but inverse - X windows is awesome on a lan & due to the 'native' support for individual applications, but there is definately huge room for improvement w/r/t display protocol performance / latency issues which are largely a result of relying on X server drawing architecture

don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, in other words

5 yıl öncediscuss

> In my admittedly somewhat distanced opinion, Wayland's biggest mistakes were not launching with a coherent strategy for replicating functionality like screen sharing, screenshots, and to a lesser extent remote desktop/applications. They just punted and said "that's a compositor problem!" as though that was supposed to make it ok. People have thus harbored some inherent resentment ever since.

agree 1000% - really don't care about X per se, but remote windowing is an awesome and unique feature, and disrespecting it by treating it like some obscure/uneeded thing and qustioning why people are mad about it conveys alot about the attitude that i don't want to get behind

6 yıl öncediscuss

> Sound quality is also subjective at a certain level.

apples != oranges.

subjective sound quality (what I like) is always subjective at any level, and objective sound quality (how well it reproduces an input signal) is always objective at any level.

6 yıl öncediscuss

> Maybe it should be funded with tax-dollars then.

this presumes in some sense that they are not already.

6 yıl öncediscuss

commercial cdn solves that for most cases if needed

7 yıl öncediscuss

Umm:

    + all stateless Go or Java executables
    + running on a central shared Mesos cluster per zone
    + one service mesh
    + one IDL registry, 
    + one way to do routing
    + one managed Kafka infrastructure
    - handful of managed storage solutions
    + one big Hive where all the Kafka topics and datastores are archived, 
    + one big Airflow (fork) operating the many thousands of pipelines computing derived tables. 
    + Almost all Java services now live in a monorepo with a
    + unified build system. 
    + Go services are on their way into one. 
    + Stdout and stderr go to a single log aggregation system.

    = +11 singular/unified things, forming a single, larger system.

" It takes pretty strong justification to take a nonstandard dependency ... Even within most services you will find a pretty consistent set of layers ... "

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but how in the world do you get 'bazaar' out of this?

7 yıl öncediscuss

cooperatives seem great.

relatedly:

not sure why we don't create 'partner firms' a-la attorneys - the model seems a good fit.

7 yıl öncediscuss

Hey, don't complain - if it worked when the Germans sent Lenin over with a train full of gold, it can work again!

7 yıl öncediscuss

tinfoil:

1) false flag lawsuit directly planted by big tobacco

2) who will claim "hey it wasn't a tobacco product so our previous lawsuits didn't apply",

3) thus creating public outrage (think of the children) about this classification

4) leading to broad stroke regulation of vaping e.g. expensive certifications, etc, which will

5) quash the small time vape industry which in turn

6) benefits the tobacco companies.. who will

7) pay a pittance in fines to

8) regain marketshare in the vaping market and

9) profit!

7 yıl öncediscuss

> These people are not brilliant. They are utterly deceitful.

these two things are not mutually exclusive. one implies intelligence/skill, the other implies honesty/sound ethical principles.

7 yıl öncediscuss

On the other hand, your search is reducible to a single 'answer'.

To make a counter point - I was recently researching 'things about various electronic and motorized bicycles / scooters'- a subject which a 'good answer' would be some sort of curated content by a specialist individual who is interested in the topic or a specialized vendor who has lots of 'information pages' - but instead of finding much of this at all, nearly every search went to various amazon / alibaba / ebay pages with very little non-commercial general purpose content available.. (not even manufacturer pages were there really)

and 'conveniently', most of the 'organic content' these days is non-texual and tied to youtube, or hidden on non-indexed facebook groups..

net result: a network effect whereby walled gardens drive organic content off of indexes, indexes become more crowded with commercial content, and then commercial content has to be paid to get to the top of the list to get traffic, and one can go to youtube to be user profiled for targeted marketing - how exactly did my purpose-specific container tab yield targeted ads to a completely separate yahoo mail account again??

7 yıl öncediscuss

.. not to mention that most mass shooters don't have children and end up shot during the situation..

7 yıl öncediscuss

if it works for large scale and profitable webhosting companies, it should work for youtube.

granted, this is not exactly apples/apples, but it's not far off

7 yıl öncediscuss

Really looking forward to an expedia-like ad featuring charleton heston

8 yıl öncediscuss

> dismantling democracy

Isn't George Soros also 'dismantling democracy' by influencing elections in places he is not a citizen of?

9 yıl öncediscuss

Can take the alternate approach -

Run your builds in a hugely underpowered VM, and wait much longer.. your regular usage will be largely unimpacted, although the builds take longer.

Source: Currently running a ~1000 package dpb(1)[1] build of my needed openbsd ports on a dual-core KVM machine hosted on a 8-9 year old amd64x2 2.2ghz. 3 Days and counting, will probably be done around next weekend.

From there, incremental updates are mostly slight, and can complete overnight from a cron job.

.. [1] https://man.openbsd.org/dpb

9 yıl öncediscuss

Can build base+X11 BSD systems in a handful of minutes on modern hardware in one command. I don't have modern hardware, and build over NFS, so I can't give a precise figure.

But yes, windows includes lots of API's and frameworks and GUI apps and such. Probably something comparable complexity wise would be Base+X11+(1 of KDE or Gnome)..

9 yıl öncediscuss

don't think that would really require 'AI', no?

or is 'AI' the new 'Algorithm' like 'API' is the new 'server'

9 yıl öncediscuss

I suggest purchasing a scarf, growing a beard, wearing some flannel and extremely thick glasses, and getting some cold brew coffee to sip. Things will make more sense then.