Arizhel

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by Arizhel 10y ago
Sure, if you want to work for the government or one of its contractors....
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>I also wonder about the ergonomics of working from some ad-hoc office. I'd prefer a real office with a standing desk + proper office chair to whatever a coffee shop can provide. And I have to wonder how someone who values "erg
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Yeah, it doesn't help that the Gnome developers have steadfastly refused to work with KDE or anyone else. KDE has made many attempts to reach out to them to improve interoperability, to no avail. As far as the Gnome devs are concer
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>There is no standard Linux UI. This is completely wrong. It's like saying there's no standard init system. Except for a few weird exceptions like Slackware, there is: systemd, because all the mainstream distros have adopted
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Or maybe your kids/family are different from other peoples'. I've seen some peoples' kids who were a complete terror and nothing could make them stay calm and quiet. Some kids are just better than others that way. You
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by Arizhel 10y ago
This is why lots of people like to work at coffee shops. You get to be around other people, but it's generally pretty quiet: there's no loud conversations about some stupid sports game the night before; any conversations are usual
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I completely disagree about him becoming 10x more valuable. That only works if he's actually evaluated on these things. He probably isn't, nor are most technical workers. Now, if he were a manager/team leader, this would b
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Good luck finding a decent employer that'll give you an office with a door these days.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
That might work for you, but every time this discussion comes up around here, there's a whole bunch of parents complaining how their spouse and kids simply will not stop disturbing them, no matter how much they try to explain that th
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>You may want it copying Windows, but I for one would switch away from whatever distro tries copying Windows, because I detest it. That's fine, but Linux is never going to achieve any significant marketshare (and thus get support fr
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>The ubiquity of earbuds says otherwise. I never said that everyone was like this, but from what I see, it's usually young people wearing earbuds, and not necessarily for that long either. How many people do you see wearing earbuds
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Exactly: the people this hurts the most are usually the ones voting for these politicians. So I don't even have any sympathy for them any more. If they want to vote to screw themselves over, who am I to tell them they're wrong?
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>this sounds ridiculous, but my ear cartilage is sensitive, so I can't wear earbuds and over-the-ear headphones are only comfortable for an hour or two Can't you get some full-size headphones which don't even touch your ea
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>It's frustrating. If my kid is having trouble focusing on his math homework, my first thought is to make sure he is free of distractions and can work in a quiet place. I don't tell him that he should wear headphones and listen
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Not everyone is good at having the discipline to get work done at home and to separate home and work while they're at home. Also, people with young children are naturally going to have a big problem. Lots of people who try it complai
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by Arizhel 10y ago
I'm sure the Romans thought that too, and the Athenians before them, and the Babylonians before that.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Much of the asteroid is likely not that valuable; it's not like there's pure ingots of metals floating around out there. So you'd want to have some kind of refinery in space which can capture the asteroid and extract the val
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by Arizhel 10y ago
If they wanted to add concentric rings, then they screwed up big-time by sticking the thing next to a river. Though with the military budget, rerouting the river shouldn't be that hard to do. But the river also constitutes the boundar
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by Arizhel 10y ago
To make a quality product and offer a better user experience? Users may not notice the slowness right away, but if they run a bunch of applications at once they probably will, and they're more likely to notice it while running on batte
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by Arizhel 10y ago
C++11 makes a LOT of things much, much easier. Yes, it does pile on top of existing complexity because they're loathe to eliminate any backwards compatibility, but the nice thing is that you don't have to use older features or me
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by Arizhel 10y ago
They should have adopted Qt; it makes it easy to write native C++ code that compiles on different platforms, so you get the performance and RAM usage of C++ but still most of the benefits that web coding offers, without so many drawbacks.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>And in fact C/C++ can be as fast, or even faster than hand-rolled assembly most of the time (with few exception) This is generally true, but to be fair the reason is because we design CPUs differently these days. Modern CPUs use i
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Stop being so literal. Rome is still there, and has been for 2000+ years. It just isn't a terribly important city any more, globally; London will be similar.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
>The strength of the city lies not solely as it relates to the EU, but because it is the capitol Not quite true. London is the capital of England, not the capitol. A capitol is a building, not a city. Anyway, typos aside, you're s
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by Arizhel 10y ago
The Empire is long since dead and gone, and small has-been nations with little significant industry cannot retain world-leading status forever on inertia alone. Just look at Italy; where are they now? They make some great olive oil I gues
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by Arizhel 10y ago
So has Rome. But Rome isn't exactly a globally-important city any more.
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Because they don't live in London just because they like Big Ben; they go there for the jobs and the economy. With a hard Brexit, that all disappears because the only reason London is the economic powerhouse that it is is because of i
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by Arizhel 10y ago
Profitable and successful parts of otherwise failing companies do not simply disappear. They either get spun off into separate companies, or sold. There's been a lot of consolidation in the semiconductor market in the past several ye
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by Arizhel 10y ago
You seem to not understand the segregation in the South. If you're black, you're not going to be well-accepted if you move into an upper middle-class all-white neighborhood. Yeah, there's lots of black people in Atlanta, bu
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by Arizhel 10y ago
The amount of performance (particularly CPU) you get per dollar is very low. Mainframes are all about lots of I/O with ridiculously high reliability and availability, but for an absurd amount of money.

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