Adaptive

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by Adaptive 10y ago
iTerm2 is nice, but Linux has a zillion terminal emulators. I'm running images inside of urxvt right now using w3m. https://twitter.com/ethanschoonover/status/83422756684828672...
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by Adaptive 10y ago
Worth reading Tim Wu's "The Master Switch". He has a chapter that discusses the early history of wiring up the United States for telephony and how in the 1890s many of the early telephone lines in rural America were run by fa
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by Adaptive 10y ago
Out of three daily desktop drivers, one is an XPS 13, one an old repurposed T3500 xeon, and one a Mac Pro 2011 tower. Arch runs faster and smoother on that Mac Pro than OS X. I only really miss Adobe, but I was a heavy user of it. VMs/
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by Adaptive 10y ago
In 05 I was based in Asia. Macs were edge cases. From 99-03 I ran online ops for a large ad agency network in Asia. PCs were by far the norm outside of the video departments. By 07 I worked in the states for a mac software firm, so I was de
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by Adaptive 10y ago
"Linux can solve some pro needs, but not most. It’s a fantastic server OS but a miserable desktop one, and that will probably never change." When I switched in 2005 I had to convince friends I wasn't crazy. I advocated fo
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by Adaptive 10y ago
In junior high we had a couple Apple IIs and a lot of IBM Selectrics. We learned to code by typing out programs on the selectrics...
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by Adaptive 10y ago
I agree fully on the lame way Google rolls out (or fails to roll out) key features for Google Apps. Even when features do roll out, they are sometimes incomplete, for example, you can't set up Google Music family accounts with Google A
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by Adaptive 10y ago
Steam Link definitely undercuts sales. It's a great experience if you have a steam pc in the house. But steam box isn't dead. It's not like a console where the platform IS the hardware. Steam's platform is... Steam. Valv
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by Adaptive 10y ago
In 1996-97 I was working at an anthropology center in Thailand. I was using quicktime VR to capture the interiors Thai temples and cultural heritage objects in 3d. We used a gigantic pivoting rig for the large objects. This was all on fil
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by Adaptive 10y ago
I stopped reading after their horrific redesign a while back (it has since gone through some other mediocre rework). It was so hamfisted and mirrored the decay of content. Back in the early days I read Salon regularly. It was such a huge di
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by Adaptive 10y ago
I understand this concern. I've helped deploy chromebooks and linux based laptops and pcs at my daughters school. I am pro open source and would love to see lots of digging into understanding the systems. However I am also in favor of
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by Adaptive 10y ago
CUPS is better, no doubt. And from a sysadmin perspective CUPS is great, but there are still crazy gotchas. Part of this is the byzantine config of network discovery, CUPS, driver sources, etc. A big part of the problem is the pieces may be
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by Adaptive 10y ago
I've noticed that printing is still one of the poorest UX aspects of *nix/OSS and regularly seems to suffer from errors so egregious that they can only be attributed to OSS devs not dogfooding these features. I'm assuming the
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by Adaptive 10y ago
This. Here's a handy zsh alias that I use: alias tmosh='() {mosh $* -- sh -c "tmux a || tmux"}' so I can mosh into any of my ssh aliases and resume my tmux session seamlessly
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by Adaptive 10y ago
associative arrays are one of the biggest v4 advantages
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by Adaptive 10y ago
Great video. Was really hoping the baby would get up and do something when you clicked on it. Only partially joking. There was a mental pause where I stopped to think whether something was going to occur. Testament to the overall quality of
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by Adaptive 11y ago
those that ran commodore 64s will remember the same with the 1541 drive units. copy protection involved various methods of introducing errors onto disks. this played hell with the drive head alignment and sounded terrible. see: http:/
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by Adaptive 11y ago
rtsp://stolaf-flash.streamguys.net/vod/academic/academic/2016-03-31_ifc_symposium_one-4 is the higher resolution stream, fwiw.
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by Adaptive 11y ago
I have the previous gen xps 13 9350 in matte 1080p and it's great. I don't want higher res or touch. Plus lower power. I do wish I had 16GB in it, but that wasn't an option.
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by Adaptive 11y ago
I picked up a chromebook for my daughter the other day and was looking for web based programming apps. I came across "Run Marco", built using Blockly, which is fairly basic at this point but seems to be under active development.
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by Adaptive 11y ago
I'd like to point out that this is effectively VPNing your child on a USPS port.
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by Adaptive 11y ago
I can believe it. On the XPS 13, even when modifying or NULLing the master password on the internal sata drive, the unit's BIOS will reassign the BIOS (UEFI) admin password as a valid SED drive password, with no user intervention. It&#
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by Adaptive 11y ago
Another alternative: Self Encrypting Drives (which can be managed on Linux with hdparm). I'm using this currently on my XPS 13 (2015). Works great. However given the architecture of SED and its implementation in this case, it's no
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by Adaptive 11y ago
Came in to this post thinking of Joey as well. I use multiple utilities he's written. All on a small laptop and solar power. I don't know how much has changed since '12, but there is a nice summary of his infrastructure here:
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by Adaptive 11y ago
The little printf interjected: No, that's not what I mean, and he then added I mean it's funny that tools are meant to solve problems for us, but for you, the tools themselves have become a problem. HN homework should be to re-rea
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by Adaptive 11y ago
FWIW, regarding the ongoing complaints about the LP UI, they just released a beta update to their chrome extension a couple days ago. Still a ways to go, but they are/have been clearly working on the end user experience. https:/&
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by Adaptive 11y ago
I own an SP3 and ran Arch Linux on it for many months of constant roaming use, sitting, at tables, in bed, etc. I do own the detachable keyboard. I can say from extensive experience that it is very awkward to use on your lap compared to a t
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by Adaptive 11y ago
Not 100,000 years, but if you're looking for something that will last longer than paper, I recommend... paper. Rag paper. 100% rag, acid free copier/laser paper should be available at most office supply stores. I'd be mor
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by Adaptive 11y ago
This case isn't the future of monetization, it's just the present of marketing. Dollars to doughnuts that Apple paid for this, directly or indirectly.
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by Adaptive 11y ago
Google Cloud Print is definitely a weak link in my opinion. I've set up a full chromebook deployment for my daughter's school including rollout of GCP, and there are still occasional hiccups with printing (for example management o

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