BearOso

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by BearOso 4y ago
I've never understood the reasoning behind this. Creativity can't be forced. The books and world are a product of GRRM's thoughts and state of mind. If you have someone else write it, or push him to hurry against his desire,
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by BearOso 4y ago
From D2 to D3 they completely tore out the Christian mythology and association with the existing legends. Things became kid-friendly. Pentagrams were changed to imprecise scribbles in circles. Angels became "angels" in name only,
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by BearOso 4y ago
I thought the videos looked corny as hell. I'm pretty sure they're going to make Diablo 4 resemble a Saturday morning cartoon, just like Diablo 3. And from the the descriptions of the mechanics, those don't seem to have impro
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by BearOso 4y ago
There's two schools of thought regarding high DPI displays, the Apple way, and the Windows way. The Apple way tries to make the DPI change transparent to the application, resizing behind the hood when necessary, and only using integer
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by BearOso 4y ago
I thought it was funny that rtings.com's live burn-in test ( https://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/real-life-oled-burn-in-test ) for CNN had the "Breaking News" text clearly visible. If all news is "br
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by BearOso 4y ago
The idea behind Pulseaudio was fine, but the implementation was horrible. Lennart didn't have audio programming experience, and focused heavily on the bluetooth music streaming use case. Performance-wise it was awful, particularly for
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by BearOso 4y ago
That environment variable just was there for software to read and auto-config your card. If the jumpers were default it wasn't needed. Most programs I remember just used it as a hint. There would usually be menu settings that were the
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by BearOso 4y ago
It loses a lot of connotation, too. Philosopher's implies abstract, referring to the stone's elusive, impossible nature: having never been discovered, only theorized. In a story where everyone is a sorcerer, it dumbs that down a
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by BearOso 4y ago
Kif Kroger is actually BASIC. Four million lines of it!
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by BearOso 4y ago
I imagine the toxic method of action is similar with zinc oxide, but it hasn't been widely used in food. Or maybe it has?
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by BearOso 5y ago
It seems they are not aware that most of Huawei's contributions are board-specific to their own hardware, not code running on 99.999% of built kernels.
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by BearOso 5y ago
For the first part, look up Stacking Window Manager on Wikipedia. As for Windows XP's transparent corners, I used to make msstyle themes back in that era, so I happened to know how the theme engine works.
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by BearOso 5y ago
> From what I can tell up to and including Windows XP the painting was done in software, i.e. the CPU was processing all the pixels of the window. I also believe that the frame and the client area were painted into the same pixel buffer
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by BearOso 5y ago
It's amazing how many workarounds never get removed from big codebases. For example, look at Chrome/Chromium's about:gpu page. Some driver workarounds are still applied for bug reports that haven't been looked at for a d
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by BearOso 5y ago
A snap has Ubuntu-specific package dependencies. That's totally not a cross-platform concept. The only thing snap solves is sandboxing, but there are better ways to do that.
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by BearOso 5y ago
Observation is part of science, but we're also limited by it. There's a lot of deeper workings that we just can't get at yet, maybe ever.
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by BearOso 5y ago
This adds an hour more darkness in the morning. Schools start earlier than most jobs, so the kids are bearing the brunt of this. If I was a kid, I'd certainly be grumpier about waking up and less alert.
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by BearOso 5y ago
I don't see anything specific about Arizona in the bill. I wonder if they'd just be permanently one hour different.
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by BearOso 5y ago
Said the pot about the kettle.
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by BearOso 5y ago
There's a lot of delusion among these "stonk" reddits, but also a shining light: The affair has shown many people just how rigged the stock market is against outsiders. The market isn't luck or insight-based. It's b
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by BearOso 5y ago
Me, too. I expected it to be regarding the discontinuing of open source support for old QT “LTS” versions. Fits the title.
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by BearOso 5y ago
That assumes the origin is Africa, but it could have just risen to prevalence there. We know the original COVID-19 was spreading around the world when at the time we thought it was mostly China. It needs only a 12-hour plane ride to get to
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by BearOso 5y ago
Didn’t you know? “GPU scheduling” is a change that makes the Windows driver behave more like Linux ones. There’s nothing to implement, it’s been done that way the whole time. edit That’s only if you use mesa, though. Nobody has a clue wha
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by BearOso 5y ago
Could be a low-frequency PWM backlight. Anyone have any info whether these models use DC or PWM dimming?
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by BearOso 5y ago
I doubt these stories. The number of people who get a smart TV and don’t connect it to the Internet are a minority. It’s just not worth the cost for any company to develop advanced features to spy on that limited subset.
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by BearOso 5y ago
The M1 Pro and Max just have more CPU and GPU cores and more RAM modules. The architecture and single-thread performance are the same. So, no, if you don’t need more cores or GPU performance, it’s just as good.
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by BearOso 5y ago
Yep, this whole article misses the point that the gamma wasn't being corrected for, so the opacity wasn't linear relative to the requested percentage. Sadly, the only thing that ever did this correctly was Firefox, and it no longe
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by BearOso 5y ago
I’ve said it before, but the Microsoft-made extensions download and use proprietary binary blobs that obviously aren’t open source, essentially all the intellisense-like ones.
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by BearOso 5y ago
I vote completely progressive, but I agree there are demons on the left, just like on the right. The point at which common sense flies out the window and emotion becomes the driving force, it's extremism or cultism, not politics.
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by BearOso 5y ago
Was looking for someone to say don’t read Binderman’s translations because he’s a hack.

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