Epiphany21

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by Epiphany21 5y ago
The above article made false claims. I have refuted them. End of conversation.
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
>science confirms it’s true "The results of the research point to the theory being correct."
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
Mozilla makes money hand over fist and they squander it. This is unrelated to their finances or the source model of the product.
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
>isn’t that exactly what Rosetta 2 does? The original Rosetta software provided during the PowerPC to Intel x86 transition was an instruction and system call translation layer. I haven't used Rosetta 2 but it's probably similar
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
Usually I complain about the terrible design of websites if I mention it at all. This one has a fantastic design, in my opinion. Easy to read, easy to navigate. It was all around a real pleasure to visit and read the article. I wish every s
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
What you are describing is a toolkit problem. GTK and Qt are not built on top of the X toolkit intrinsics, which is why apps built with them often have poor or non-existent X resource support. Toolkits designed around Xt have this stuff bak
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
>Can we learn from previous wars/incidents If previous wars/incidents are any indicator, no.
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
This is a toolkit problem then. Apps that use an X11 native UI toolkit like Xaw or Motif will respond to the -xrm flag. It's not the fault of X11 if third party software refuses to follow existing specs.
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
Apps that don't support that flag can be used with the -xrm flag instead. You can put a bunch of these into a wrapper script like this xterm -xrm "someresource: color"
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
>X resources don't have good answers if you want the same program set up in a few different ways (several setups of xterm, for example) This isn't true. Let's go with the example program provided. XTerm supports the -name
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
Indys weren't truly that slow. The problem was the base models were memory constrained to the point where IRIX could barely boot. 16MB was not enough, and IRIX 5.x had memory leaks that made it even worse. An Indy with 96MB+ will run I
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
>Does anyone know how to refer these people to law enforcement for prosecution? Or, you know, you could just call the school during active hours and ask them politely to unlock it. They'll probably be more willing to accommodate you
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
People have such short memories. It wasn't so long ago that mainframes were rented at exorbitant prices and all the users connected through dumb terminals so they could run bottom of the barrel user-hostile software (which was often al
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
After getting a decent workstation I can never go back to a laptop only. IMO laptops border on luxury toys. I use mine almost exclusively for checking emails and programming in places I just can't lug a desktop into, like the outdoors
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
Absolutely beautiful. I love to see these FPGA accelerator cards being used as drop-in replacements for retro systems. This makes me wonder if it's possible to make these into PCIe cards for a normal PC that would provide hardware-assi
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
>Good money is money that exists to be lent out over many years for people to buy homes and to pay people to do jobs for other people. Couldn't disagree more. Good money is money you own outright and control entirely. Before crypto
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
Serious question: Have you ever had an alcoholic beverage made with hard liquor? Alcohol has a very strong flavor/burn. Even half an ounce of cheap vodka, the "flavor-neutral spirit", will throw off the taste of a glass of so
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
I don't see why this was downvoted; you're right, even if the idea you're conveying is an old one. This is an inherent problem with blanket substance prohibition. Here would be my proposal: I'm sure there are already res
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
Is there cheap reference hardware yet? The micro controller boards are fine for what they are but they aren't very useful for porting desktop or server apps that require a full Linux or BSD system. The BeagleV was exactly what I wanted
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
Even if this was the case I doubt it would create a strong enough vacuum to move the lid. I think the threads just slope downwards a little more than other jars and they let gravity do the rest. Maybe the lid is lined with a slippery rubber
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
>The gap is still 7% overall. Please provide a source. If you're the primary source, please present your findings and methodology. Workplace discrimination like this already illegal and pretty well enforced in the US, so if it'
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
"Americans Need VPNs. The CIA Hates Them."
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
It depends on what it is. If someone is being physically harmed I would go to law enforcement immediately. For "lesser" legal issues, like harassment or fraud, or anything that could blow back on me, I would get an attorney and do
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
>FreeBSD is a great option for a modern stable OS that can run pretty much everything linux can If you compile your own user space software or it's already ported, then yes. But it doesn't have the same driver or virtualization
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
>One theory of why you see so much symmetry in biology is that it takes less information to build something using symmetry than specifying the whole directly. This makes a lot of sense. It works the same way in computer programming. Inst
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
Giving people Fentanyl for pain management is almost as bad as bloodletting to cure a respiratory illness. It's a very dangerous substance, even in moderation. It needs to go the way of leaded gasoline for the sake of public safety. Th
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
They do. But the only way to get legislators to budge is by appealing to their owners directly. Psychedelics will never be legalized unless it benefits big pharma.
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
>banning alcohol made the problems much much worse The difference with drugs today is that a lot of them can easily kill you or create a physical dependency after the first use. Alcohol won't do that unless you're just chugging
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
Probably because it's expensive and complicated, and harder to cool. A lot of the old workstation backplane designs used custom ASICs to connect all the system boards. I'd love to see a modern desktop PC with a backplane design bu
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by Epiphany21 5y ago
Even rarer are those who do both.

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