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[ssokolow]

There's more than one way to do it on Linux, depending on the level of abstraction you want.

For example, CUSE (Character devices in USErspace)...

[ssokolow]

That's not how combinatorial complexity works. (Source: I'm a programmer and I have a comp. sci. degree, so I have a pretty good understanding of what...

[ssokolow]

Which is a good thing in this case, because it maximizes the chances that it will fail when the developers do QA testing....

[ssokolow]

I beg to differ.

nVidia drivers have always worked as reliably for me on Linux as on Windows (Usually rock-solid, but some versions causing...

[ssokolow]

Because graphics are much more complicated than network drivers. They're half-way between network drivers, which push Ethernet frames, not having to care...

[ssokolow]

I'm perfectly fine with staying on X11 until this dies and I buy an AMD card. In fact, even if I weren't one of the people who fully agrees with the KDE...

[ssokolow]

That depends. I always consider portability to be one of my primary goals when not addressing a Linux-specific problem, so "no hard dependency on...

[ssokolow]

As someone who only upgrades hardware when it dies (aside from the occasional hard drive purchase), who is on a GeForce GTX750 because AMD's performance...

[ssokolow]

They use those abbreviations because Rust draws a lot of influence from functional programming languages in academic circles, which in turn developed...

[ssokolow]

Lua is designed for embedding, so it's easy to integrate and easy to expose a restricted API to.

I haven't tried embedding Haskell, but Python...

[ssokolow]

It was taken closed source. You can still use the last open-source version....

[ssokolow]

I generally only have one PC fast enough for both "main" use and gaming, on which I only upgrade my CPU when part of the CPU-motherboard-RAM...

[ssokolow]

That said, I often find situations where I wedge my compositor or nVidia binary drivers badly enough that I have to Ctrl+Alt+F1 or SSH in to get the system...

[ssokolow]

Yes... I'm just not sure I'll have the budget to make my main machine and my gaming PC separate machines. I don't currently.

(I'm still running...

[ssokolow]

I'd have to double-check the system requirements, but I'm pretty sure that "Standard Mode" in versions of Windows prior to 3.11 for Workgroups...

[ssokolow]

It's been around a lot longer than Ryzen... they've just been unable to settle on a consistent name for it and don't trumpet its presence on their website....

[ssokolow]

Better archive that quickly. The Wayback Machine obeys robots.txt restrictions retroactively....

[ssokolow]

I hang out in /r/rust/ and, the most recent time someone asked about a good web framework, Actix web was the one that was recommended for people wanting...

[ssokolow]

Killing off 32-bit multiarch entirely would be the straw that drives me stop procrastinating a move to Debian.

I'm BIG on application compatibility....

[ssokolow]

"App", a shortening of "Application" which, if I remember my 90s computing culture correctly, was Apple's 68k Mac-era, by-convention...