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lysace
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  1. Something like sync(2)/syncfs(2) for filesystems.

    Seems like there's been a disconnect between users and kernel developers here?

  2. If that crash video on X is accurate he was racing on public roads. If so, zero sympathies.
  3. Realistic racing sim games have taught me not to want a supercar for daily drives. Way too easy to f up.

    Just one such example (1983):

    https://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/10/business/corporate-triump...

    https://archive.ph/gbrZv

    > CORPORATE TRIUMPH, THEN DEATH IN A FERRARI

    > The young president of a successful new computer company died Wednesday afternoon in a car crash in California's Silicon Valley, hours after his company had sold its stock to the public for the first time and he had become a multimillionaire.

  4. TIL/remembered GNSS satellites have onboard atomic clocks. Makes a lot of sense, but still pretty cool. Something like this, I guess?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubidium_standard

  5. > Signe Ratso, who is in charge of negotiating global access to the EU’s €93.5 billion Horizon Europe research and innovation programme

    My thoughts after witnessing Horizon Europe in action when I worked at a hardware/materials research-ish company in Sweden:

    - So much pork, so much product concept cosplay.

    - All of these grandiose pointless abstract "projects".

    - Gotta have like 10+ institutions/companies from lots of different countries involved in each grandiose project, leading to insane overheads.

    Just give the institutions/companies (demand equity?) funds instead - stop with the stupid cosplay.

    Europe needs to be smarter than the US in how to make this more efficient. Right now that shouldn't that hard.

  6. I was - thank you.

    Source:

    https://web.archive.org/web/20220301004131/https://sci-hub.r...

    > Alexandra Elbakyan: Why Stalin is a God

    The rest of my comment still stands.

  7. *2003, probably?
  8. Why would you want to destroy your enemies' industries, is what you're asking?

    Although I suppose that is predicated on seeing Russia as the enemy. Strangely not always the norm these days in the new world.

  9. Exactly. They couldn't really change it even if they wanted to. The implementation with all of its warts and quirks is now the standard.
  10. Yes, there will be edge cases. They need to balance historic compat vs one more fricking setting checkbox. I am thinking that you will never see this solved.
  11. Excel was completed at least a decade ago (probably two).

    This is obviously 99% marketing. Microsoft/Waggener Edstrom tend to be really good at getting mainstream media to report on the marketing activities.

    Example: For many Windows launches since Windows 3/95, there's been this media splash where Microsoft spends x million dollars on marketing and mainstream media then reports this, thereby getting (like) 100x millions worth of exposure.

  12. Programming efficiency isn’t about typing/editing fast - it’s about great decision-making. Although I have seen the combo of both working out very well.

    If you focus on fast typing/editing skills to level up, but still have bad decision-making skills, you'll just end up burying yourself (and possibly your team) faster and more decisively. (I have seen that, too.)

  13. Support for more than 7-bit ASCII characters. :)

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