Viewing profile — qalmakka

One thing XML is very good for is semantic documents adhering to a well defined schema - and it's one of the few commonly used text-based data storage formats that do it well (with…

It's mostly useful to allow sandboxed AI apps to access external functionality. If an LLM has any kind of access to a CLI then it stops making sense, because LLMs are very good at …

This is clearly not how it's going though. Any advancement from any lab has been quickly (< 6 months) matched up by basically everybody else. Even Grok nowadays is decent, and that…

I never truly understood what the intended business model around LLMs was. Get them widespread through cheap pricing and then jacking it up? Being the only ones that had a viable p…

If those buses use DEF, have a anti particulate filter and are well maintained, their emissions should in theory be extremely low, with no heavy compounds. I hope local municipal a…

It is a serious crime. Diesel exhaust is s IARC type 1 carcinogen. Somehow people go nuts when companies pollute water but not when they pollute the air they breathe

To be fair is quite hard to actually understand what this White House is saying most of the time

It has been clear to every single human being reading it for hundreds of years. It was never up to debate until some person of this administration decided to go and question the me…

This is kind of crazy. The text of the amendment is as literal as it gets. If this had failed it would have basically meant emptying Congress of all of its powers, because now the …

To be fair a lot of it had also to do with the sheer immense amount of vast, mostly unused ,fertile land available in north America. I sincerely doubt the American experiment would…

While some parts of Europe got slightly warmer during the Middle Ages, only to then cool down significantly during the little ice age. Anyway all of those changes were slow, over t…

OT: It's sad that future generations will probably be robbed from the joy of being able to stroll around fields and nature during the summer, at least in Europe. The climate is so …

Yes, but - the apps almost always allow you to remotely increase your stay - the apps almost always allow you to pay by the exact minute instead of by the quarter/half an hour

You need to find a working parking metre which may or may not work, accept cards or give back change. Also most if not all of parking apps allow you to pay by the exact minute and …

> A very large portion of that ABI is already implemented due to both systems being POSIX. POSIX provides an API, not an ABI, and that API kind of ends at libc. Being compatible wi…

> IMHO the real Linux advantage is that it was using the gnu user land, and thus gcc worked well with it and companies started to sell commercial support early. IMHO what really di…

The BSDs would be much bigger today if it wasn't for AT&T going after them hard in the early '90s, exactly when both them and Linux were starting to take up speed. I think that thi…

> I'm not sure how it'd defeat the point of having their own kernel. Because then you'd need to both maintain your kernel AND your own implementation of the Linux ABI, an ABI you d…

> aving containers run hardware one owns, a bad or even shameful idea what? it isn't, it's absolutely a right you surely have. The problem is that a. Apple forces people to buy Mac…

macOS sandboxing is deliberately limited just enough to prevent anyone from truly implement Darwin-on-Darwin containers. People have been discussing about this for a while, see htt…

That's totally unrelated to what I wrote

This is all fine and dandy, but where are the native Darwin Jails Apple? Still scared that people will filling whole rooms of Mac Minis if you allow them to have multiple macOS con…

Linux and the BSDs take APIs one from the other all of the time. The issue with having a Linux ABI is that you don't need just the few APIs you're missing, you need to implement th…

FreeBSD has Linuxlator because there is a lot of binary only software that was never and never will be ported to BSD, so it's necessary for them in order to avoid bleeding users aw…

Does any older folk here remembers when NT was the Cool New Thing (TM) and it had by design support to multiple subsystems plopped over the NT API, and Win32 was just one of them a…