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  1. > where to start researching

    start->run->wsl

  2. it's better than cygwin because it's not a port of user-mode code (eg `grep.exe`). it's a kernel API compatibility layer that runs existing ELF binaries (eg ubuntu's `grep` unchanged). `apt-freaking-get install nginx`, boom! what's not to like?

  3. well the distro this article is talking about is a scam. there are much better free alternatives available for WSL...

    however, if you're asking whether or not WSL is better then cygwin, then the answer is clear: absolutely.

    i started using cygwin around 2000, and used it pretty much daily up until a few days after i first installed WSL a year or so ago. i uninstalled it (cygwin) shortly after that.

  4. Re: I bet you on Google Investigating Issue With Blurry Fonts on new Chrome 69 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They don't?

  5. Re: Whats the deal on Google Investigating Issue With Blurry Fonts on new Chrome 69 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    dichloromethe (or ethyl acetate) leeching.

  6. Why doesn't Apache block all '.'-prefixed directories by default?

  7. Re:Don't be lazy programmers on How Linux's Kernel Developers 'Make C Less Dangerous' (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    Why not C++? Seriously. You can disable exceptions, RTTI, audit template usage and still get tons of benifits from the language that's missing from C.

  8. Re:Don't be lazy programmers on How Linux's Kernel Developers 'Make C Less Dangerous' (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    FYI. Windows is written in C++. Not modern C++, but C++ nonetheless (no exceptions, RTTI, std, few templates)

  9. Re: This is what you get on 'Gold Standard' State Net Neutrality Bill Approved By California Assembly (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Huh? This is about the last mile, in California.who cares about the routing. If you're delivering bits to my address, you don't get to throttle. Don't like it? GTFO.

  10. Let them. Maybe that will encourage people to seek out ISPs that don't treat their customers like dirt.

  11. He gets married. Tells his FB password to his wife, she changes it. she can be forced to testify against him.

  12. Best editor: a 9 volt battery and an old incandescent bulb harvested from underneath an old microwave. Stand outside, touch the bulb to the terminals of the battery occasionally. Time it right, many times. Those light pulses will propagate out though the atmosphere, away from your side of the Earth though the depths of space toward distant black holes. A select few of those photons will orbit just over 180 degrees around their incident planes and continue on a return trajectory to where Earth will eventually be, all arriving at the same time and place with enough intensity to cause a cascade of absorption a in a single atom in the upper atmosphere causing that atom to emit a gamma ray that will continue down through the atmosphere avoiding absorption and eventually colliding with a silicon atom in the then-ancient NAND flash inside your laptop's hard drive preserved in the "museum of best editors ever."

    Repeat.

  13. Re:Why is the FS a problem? on What Dropbox Dropping Linux Support Says (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Lol. You've obviously never actually used autocad and freecad!

  14. Re: Why is the FS a problem? on What Dropbox Dropping Linux Support Says (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    > I will instead write my own and find VC.

    Good luck. Lol!

  15. Re: Tesla bonds on Tesla's Limited-Edition Surfboards Now Selling For $6,450 (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Every stock not currently at its record high is down over some cherry-picked time period.

  16. Re: How about not blowing away work? on Windows 10 To Use Machine Learning in Latest Attempt To Make Reboots Less Annoying (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Windows locks resident files to avoid the obvious race conditions that happen when you have different versions of the same shared library in memory at the same time.

    Linux suffers from this also. Want to upgrade the kernel? Reboot!

  17. > I, nor anyone else working in AI or machine learning, have the slightest fucking idea what Q# is

    yeah, if only someone would post a helpful article with links to introductory material, maybe the source code. _something_ at least, jeez!

  18. wow. someone actually rtfa'd.

  19. ...need not apply.

  20. I read "eggos".

    So disappointed.

  21. Re: an anonymous reader on Tesla Short-Sellers Lose $1 Billion (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What a strange outlook. When a stock price goes up its because money was take from one place and moved to another. When it goes down its because money was taken from once place and moved to another.

    Your statement belies a complete lack of understanding about how he market works.

  22. Re:Thank you, Microsoft. on Windows 10 Spring Update Improves Linux On WSL With Unix Sockets and More (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    i dual-boot linux & win10 on this machine. the linux machine takes significantly longer to boot than windows.

  23. Re:Or - hear me out ... on Windows 10 Spring Update Improves Linux On WSL With Unix Sockets and More (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    so i have to fire up a whole VM just to run `sed`? no thanks.

  24. Re:Am I the only one... on Windows 10 Spring Update Improves Linux On WSL With Unix Sockets and More (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    why fire up a VM (and configure shared folder, network shares, bridged/NAT network cards, open ports in firewalls, etc...) when you can just run these tools natively. don't get me wrong, VMs are great for some things, but what this does, is not that.

  25. Re:pointless extensions. on Windows 10 Spring Update Improves Linux On WSL With Unix Sockets and More (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    i used Cygwin for the better part of 15 years. i uninstalled it shortly after installing Ubuntu on WSL. Cygwin was great. now it's dead.