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OpenSolaris did not accept contributions.

Sun's hardware business is mostly irrelivant, and both IBM and HP are in the process of switching away from providing hardware (Especially IBM). SPARC was already mostly dead by the time that Oracle bought Sun.

The prize Oracle was after is Java, and they have already begun the long process of squeezing large enterprises with Java "commerical" features flags.

I doubt it would have met with long term success, Sun played a lot of the same stupid liscening games they did with Java.

WORKS4ME, bug report marked CLOSED

so we shouldnt care then either obviously.

Maybe there is a startup opportunity to sell spare kidneys, and even lungs and liver-halfs too! Maybe even a cash-for-corpses business, we need to get rid of these ridiculous self-serving medical regulations. DISRUPT!

heat is exsausted out the connector side on modern GPUs, placing that facing downward is an excellent recipie for a cooked GPU.

That speaks more to the insanity of the Node ecosystem than anything else.

polyfills in general are a really awful user experience.

They are typically pushed by people who use the latest chrome, so they have an excuse not to care about other browsers.

Their preformance, and usability is almost invariably terrible.

This is when somebody gets the bright idea to block all protocols other than TCP and UDP.

Hey you can just tunnel via udp right??

I fail to see how subscription vs one time purchase costs are any way related to how much a customer costs to support, both situations have edge cases of demanding customers eating up support staff time endlessly.

If anything per-customer support costs go way up in a SaaS situation because of the (mostly artifical) introduction of having to run the software on your own servers.

My linux install does not have "telemetry" (which is really just a polite word for what people used to call "spyware").

Stuff like this is fundamentally unworkable when the people pushing software updates are your adversaries. They already do stuff like ignore DNS settings and firewall rules to send harvested data back to microsoft. They will almost certainly break anything this does in the future too...

irssi is as much a TUI as weechat

That is not what airgapped means.

arc4random uses chacha20 on openBSD now, has for several years, OSX and FreeBSD are yet to update...

_something_ about the browser (either chrome or firefox, fresh profile, no extensions) is eating ungodly amounts of ram however, and it tends to be at its worst with JS heavy sites.

EDIT: no addons either

In a _single_ 100% synthetic benchmark. The apple chip preforms so much better than other comparable arm cores (3-4x faster) on this benchmark I view it with a lot of suspicion.

I can list about 150 programming languages that are "faster than C" if you apply similar restrictions.

http://wiki.c2.com/?AsFastAsCee

you are overstating things significantly, ARM is still way behind (an order of magnitude or more) on single thread preformance. Nobody cares about preformance per watt if it means everything lags a massive amount.

Nobody is even close to touching intel in its niche of high single chip preformance at reasonable power usage. PPC was way way behind when it got replaced.

its perfectly rational if it increases sales, there are indications this is the case with PC piracy, especially with titles that would otherwise lack exposure.

Its also rational if it allows them to move away from custom designs entirely, and save a truckload of money, more than they lose to the nebulous spectre of "piracy".

There is plenty of blame to go around, people running data broker services are far from blameless.

The only thing you do by "taking away their choice" is to force them to use alternatives that are not Google Chrome.

It is the reality of the situation in a vast amount of companies.

I think you are misunderstanding the point that is being made. The point is that inheritance belongs to everyone NOT just a single family. Its not about forcing everyone to begin anew by banging two rocks together, its about allowing the common whole to inherit, not just a select few.

The author is mischarachterizing how Adam Smith viewed the division of labour. While he viewed it as a gain in economic efficency, he also viewed it as regrettable, limiting, and damaging to people, especially when taken to an extreme.

     "The man whose whole life is spent in performing a 
     few simple operations, of which the effects are 
     perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, 
     has no occasion to exert his understanding or to 
     exercise his invention in finding out expedients 
     for removing difficulties which never occur. He 
     naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such 
     exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and 
     ignorant as it is possible for a human creature
     to become. The torpor of his mind renders him not 
     only incapable of relishing or bearing a part in 
     any rational conversation, but of conceiving any 
     generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and 
     consequently of forming any just judgement 
     concerning many even of the ordinary duties of 
     private life... But in every improved and civilized 
     society this is the state into which the labouring 
     poor, that is, the great body of the people, must 
     necessarily fall, unless government takes some 
     pains to prevent it."

The moral side of Adam Smith's arguements is often entirely ignored in analysis of his philosophy. He strongly condems many aspects of a free market/capatialist economy. Why this is never focused on isnt very clear to me.

OSX is effectively a microkernel in name only, its a microkernel with a single monolithic UNIX kernel client, and has virtually none of the advantages of a real microkernel setup with multiple clients sharing tasks.

We don't speak ancient greek.

modern non-apple x86 uefi systems cannot run PC-DOS 1.0 or the applications written for it either.

Pretty sure thats the point of the HN post.