vrighter

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vrighter,

you’re wrong for valuing peace of mind.

/s

vrighter,

it’s because taxes vary per state. I don’t think it’s a good one, but it is a reason

vrighter,

because it doesn’t work. case in point: it hasn’t. It improves on one aspect, and regresses (very very badly) in every single other aspect.

vrighter,

it’s an acronym (as opposed to initialisms, which are not pronounced as a single word). There is no rule on pronunciation.

scuba nato laser

We don’t do this for any other acronym. There is no rule about the pronunciation. It’s arbitrary. The creator chose “jif”, so that’s the “canonical” one.

vrighter,

and arm do not manufacture chips. Usually tsmc or samsung do. The fact that chips exist is orthogonal to the argument of who ends up manufacturing them

vrighter,

pretty hard to do computation on a pdf. which is what risc-v is. You need someone to design and build a chip according to what’s in those pdfs

vrighter,

i was replying to the point that all hardware is made by large corporations. That will not change, irrelevant of whether the isa is open source or not.

vrighter,

you replied too quickly! You’ve ruined it now.

vrighter,

and even worse, sometimes they even reply days later!

vrighter,

cheers!

vrighter,

don’t worry about it. I understand

vrighter,

That’s the first one i’ve learned to use and I have a hard time actually using the escape key. it’s just so out of the way

vrighter,

you can just unplug your pc: and that way you won’t incur downtime for the rest of the house.

vrighter,

cat isn’t the one writing to the drive there.

vrighter, (edited )

cat is writing to a file descriptor. Which is pretty much transparent to it. it’s just sometimes redirected. What happens when cat writes to it is not up to cat. In fact, I looked at the source of coreutils. there are two sub implementations of cat. copy_cat, which uses copy_file_range when the input and output are a regular file, and simple_cat which does a simple read/write loop. In both cases the target file descriptor is STDOUT_FILENO. So the target file descriptor is hardcoded to 1. Cat is not aware of where the data is coming from, or where it’s going. It is hardcoded to only ever write to stdout.

edit: re the reflink thing, you were probably thinking of cp, not cat.

vrighter,

it’s pretty much just arch without systemd then. which is enough of a dealbreaker for me, as I think that systemd is the best thing to happen to linux since sliced bread.

vrighter,

but if they were “built to last” then surely we shouldn’t have needed much more produced after market saturation. And yet, they actually are vanishingly rare today. Which means most did break down

vrighter,

so how come they’re so rare nowadays? I mean everyone had one back then, why aren’t the overwhelming majority of these appliances still with us? Survivorship bias, that’s why

vrighter,

“that thing you used to do is now impossible to do consistently across different implementations, if at all. But it’s all ok, because we have decided it’s not our responsibility!”

That is not what users want to hear. From a user’s point of view, it is broken.

vrighter,

yes, if i combare kicad with blender, neither is broken because they have different features. But also, nobody is telling users that kicad’s days are over and it should be replaced by blender. If they did, and a user wanted to design a circuit board, the user is out of luck. The user is told that it is a replacement. From the user’s point of view it most definitely is not.

The probeem isn’t just that wayland doesn’t do everything x does. But that users are told that it will replace x, deal with it and quit complaining.

We have to keep in mind that the fact that we know what wayland is in the first place puts us squarely into the “technical user” category, not regular users. Regular users are the ones who don’t even know (nor should they have to care) what wayland even is

vrighter,

quit fucking saying that! I still get random flickering on the desktop and flickering in games on a 1080. X11 is the only thing that lets me actually play games onmhe thing

vrighter,

i have a “no cats aleowed” sign on the door to my study. At the cats’ eye level, of course

vrighter,

callipygian

vrighter,

lots and lots more IPC. So lots and lots of context switches. So worse performance

vrighter,

mandrake was my first linux distro. I got it from a german magazine in 2004

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