lbenes
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Comment · 6 years ago
For anyone wondering who he was or his contributions:
> Manning has been working in the Internet industry since 1979 when he started working at Texas Instruments and helped in building its IP network. After which he joined Rice University and made SESQUINET. He played a significant role in the migration of MIDNET and SESQUINET from NSFnet regional networks to commercial networks.
> He worked on the COREN and CALREN-2 technical committees. At ISI he worked in the Routing Arbiter Project.
> Bill has been working with the the IETF and IEPG as an individual participant, working group chair, and code developer. He specfied the method to add NSAP support to the DNS.
Comment · 6 years ago
I've seen this accusation thrown out there on social media a few times now. When I've asked for examples, no one been able to provide a list showing that this is actually a systemic problem. With resources like the Internet Archive it should be trivial to prove that this really a problem. Can you back up your claims?
Journalists are people and make mistakes. But overall, respected institutions like NYT, WSJ, WaPo, and Bloomberg show good journalistic integrity and print retractions in both print and online.
If you really are seeing this problem regularly, i suggest you find better sources for your news. Above all avoid getting it from social media. The actual fake news that is rampant there is a much, much bigger threat to our society than the few bad apples or mistakes behind the problem you are describing.
Comment · 7 years ago
When I want to get back to a pristine state, I prefer
$ git reset --hard origin/master
over the suggested
$ git reset --hard HEAD
If you use git and don't know the difference, read this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8196544/what-are-the-git...
Comment · 7 years ago
> a natural question would be "why are you starting a GNAT LLVM project from scratch instead of building on top of DragonEgg?". If you want to know the answer, check the file README.dragonegg in the repository!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but from the README [1], the answer appears to be:
> The dragonegg plugin works with gcc 4.5, 4.6, 4.7 or 4.8
But a little more digging reveals that there are patches so[2]
> DragonEgg works for for GCC v8.x
Lack of Google-fu or am I missing something? If they believed dragonegg is flawed, why not just lay it out? I prefer that over a goose chase that doesn't fully check out.
[1] http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/dragonegg/trunk/README
[2] https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-August/116705...
Comment · 7 years ago
Hangouts Chat
* Can't communicate with anyone without GSuite
* Can't talk with our customers who use GSuite on another domain.
* Can't communicated with the "old" Hangouts, so it's utterly useless.
Another failure from Google. Whatever management structure incentivizes this crap needs to be fixed, if they ever want to expand out of their current domains.
Google had a winner with Hangouts. Instead they left it to die, while they moved on to Duo, Allo, and now Hangouts Chat. Meanwhile slack stepped in and took what should have bee their market.
Comment · 7 years ago
Besides high quality hardware support and device availability. The fact of the matter is the core of Android is OPEN SOURCE. I can and have built every last bit of software on my Moto X4 thanks to LineageOS, which is based on AOSP.
Comment · 7 years ago
> Drivers written for Vista didn't necessarily work on Windows 7
This is patently, provably FALSE[1]
MS goes out of their way to NOT to break APIs. My ancient ATI netbook can run Windows Vista graphics drivers on Win 10. MS only breaks driver API when massive kernel/underlying APIs demand it. ex. 98->NT, XP->Visa.
Now contrast that with Linux. Linux kernel devs are openly hostile to binary blob drivers so they make no attempt to preserve ABI stability. I've see this happen multiple times with ATI binary drivers in GNU/Linux and when I was running cyanogenmod on my phone.
[1] https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/how-to/windows/how-get-drivers...
Comment · 8 years ago
If you don't mind using a desktop app, there are still many great tools for hobbyists and for teaching.
Recently I've used: Qucs: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qucs/
Circuitmod: https://sourceforge.net/projects/circuitmod
These were also in my bookmarks of tools I've explored: CEDAR Logic Simulator: https://sourceforge.net/projects/cedarlogic
Logisim: https://sourceforge.net/projects/circuit/
For teaching LogicWorks is still my favorite.
Comment · 8 years ago
Can't speak for OP, but I tried migrating some of our workflow to Windows. First annoyance I hit was this one:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30418886/how-and-why-doe...
This may be by design, but there has to be a better way. Unix/Linux consoles have allowed mouse copy/paste for as long as I can remember and I've never experienced this bug over there.
Really annoying when you go out to lunch with a job running, only to come back to find that it's right where you left it. So many solutions to this problem like making the copy/paste mode harder to trigger accidently. Visual feedback that it's in that mode, or allowing the buffer to expand indefinitely when copy mode is triggered.
Pausing the job is the last thing I'd want, especially since this seems to easy to trigger accidentally.
Comment · 8 years ago
Take WordPress press for example. If you've never before setup a LAMP stack to run WordPress, you probably be running a WordPress container. And if you don't regular check the log files and monitor system resources, then you're asking for these problems.
I wouldn't run a server with a pirated version of Windows and I wouldn't run a dodgy container from an untrustworthy source. Yet people do. I wouldn't blame MS for a pirated Windows that came with malware like I wouldn't blame containers for this either. It's all about Trust.
Comment · 8 years ago
We supplement our dogs raw diet with grasshopper flour.[1] I chose that along with eggs as a more humane source of protein.
I've eaten bugs in Thailand(they were actually quite tasty), but I haven't had the urge to try this flour yet.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Cricket-powder-made-100-22/dp/B00OMCT...
I’ve had 2 purebreds in a row with major health issues, even though I searched for working line breeders. I’ve given up on purebreds, and now have a GSD mix. He’s a gorgeous animal, going on 11 without any hip issues or health issues.
The AKC in their pursuit of the perfect look and willful ignorance of genetics has destroyed the German Shepard breed.
https://www.handicappedpets.com/blog/german-shepherd-back-le....