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Comment · 6 days ago
If someone works for 50 years, and earns 100'000$ per year, he will have 5 million dollars at the end.

If he manages to not spend anything, like on housing, or food.

Comment · 18 days ago
I had it too on a Compaq Presario 90Mhz pentium multimedia machine.

One of my first contacts with a GUI. Windows 3.1 was the default, and soon Windows 95 was the "better" desktop.

But looking back, TabWorks was pretty cool and useful.

Comment · 1 month ago
Microsoft and Apple as leader dropped the ball. Microsoft's several dozen Windows-related teams dont care about UX (maybe UI). Apple is busy making money and mobile.

It really is currently the time and chance for Linux to finally innovate again.

* Alternatives to tree filesystem UNIX introduced (see WinFS, or how Android/iphone manage it)

* Alterantives to WIMP as discussed, specially for large monitors (37" - like 57")

* Every App should provide a REST API to access its functionality remotely (for AI and data exchange. Think OLE/COM in Windows, but good)

* PLAN9 anyone?

Comment · 4 months ago
Wow thats pretty cool. Even with plan9 images!

I would love to use this in production, but dont know how much it can break things. Proxmox should just implement this in mainline.

Comment · 7 months ago
Comment · 9 months ago
Like Microsoft Defender, which is now Defender Antivirus, or Defender for Endpoint if you have a real license. You will also get Defender for Identity, and maybe Defender for Office 365, which is probably not ASR. And Defender for Cloud, not to be confused with Defender for Cloud Apps.
Comment · 10 months ago
Nobody at Microsoft has ever used this with WSL, and doing a "cd /", and getting autocomplete for "$RecycleBin" and other windows paths? It completely breaks bash autocomplete, and every single suggestion is completely wrong, in every single command i type.

I, and probably most uses, just hoped this going away as soon as possible again.

Comment · 1 year ago
I also having a side project optimizing draw calls to french Minitel terminal. Instead of letting the generator create their own draw calls, just let them print in a buffer/array.

Drawing the array means finding out what changed, and then create optimized draw sequences: Like using delete-till-end-of-line, vertical cursor moves, or repeat-character-x. Very noticable on 1200/4800 baud.

Comment · 1 year ago
No tolerance for the intolerant.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Its not just this website. Since DOGE, China probably canceled all vacation days for their hackers, as its a free for all. Firing of most so many people including security departments and most likely the (good) femboy furry hackers.

Is the newly created user with name "bigballs" who downloads whole government databases a foreign TA or just DOGE? Who knows. Who cares, certainly not the Government.

The data and access gained currently by China, Russia, NK and SA will continue to be useful until and way after the next war.

Comment · 1 year ago
Pretty unrelated, but i like how it displays large amount of potentially diverse JSON events. Would need some better filtering and sorting, hiding of keys etc. Products which do this well are Elastic and Splunk, but are too heavy for my taste.
Comment · 2 years ago
Its not ideological, its to break out of the physical constraints setup by the US, to gain access to the pacific, and to the rest of asia. Simple geopolitics, just check a map.
Comment · 2 years ago
So the TL;DR is: Cassandra and ScyllaDB have bad performance when reading. So they put a cache in front.

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