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by II2II 1y ago
Something tells me that some designers care about fonts a heck of a lot more than most consumers do. As a consumer, I care about legibility above all else. There are plenty of metrics that affect that, but many of the freely available (albe
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by II2II 1y ago
That is a very serious design flaw, but I also believe it is a flaw that is addressed by SELinux. (Perhaps someone with a knowledge of SELinux can offer some input here.) That said, I'm not sure how widespread the use of SELinux is and
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by II2II 1y ago
> This seems like a misleading question. Based on what we know about the Maya civilization, the Inca Empire, Ancient China, or Ancient Egypt, I would probably agree that ancient, advanced civilizations roughly similar to how we imagine A
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by II2II 1y ago
I generally prefer to live with defaults, so the lack of theming and user interface customization in Gnome is a good thing in my opinion. I tend to take the view that software that requires too much customization is poorly suited to my need
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by II2II 1y ago
> Sometimes I wonder why there isn't more enthusiasm around theming. My guess: because it is difficult to develop software that can be themed and it is difficult to create themes that look good. Not only is it high effort, but it ha
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by II2II 1y ago
You're a developer who devoted time to develop a piece of software. You discover that you are not generating any income from it: few people can even find it in the sea of similar apps, few of those are willing to pay for it, and those
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by II2II 1y ago
We're talking about two separate things. I was talking about being able to play a game for 30 minutes (or even 5 minutes), then set it aside for later. That could be later in the day, or several days later. Quitting gaming altogether w
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by II2II 1y ago
The article claims that 95% of users won't be affected when enforcing the policy. Assuming the claim is true, not affecting 95% of users is pretty much the definition of not affecting normal users.
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by II2II 1y ago
One of the things I enjoy about many (albeit, not all) cozy games is the ability to step into them, step out of the game five minutes later, then pick them up several days later. Sure, some developers are going to do A/B testing to mon
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by II2II 1y ago
How so? The system only reboots once it has been locked for a particular duration. Setting it to 1 minute basically says: put the system into a more secure state (e.g. purge unencrypted memory) and ensure that it is ready to go when I next
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by II2II 1y ago
I'm not going to argue about your interpretation of the word unlimited and wish that its use was either banned or strictly enforced in this (and similar) contexts. That said, until accountability is legislated and enforced, it is not
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by II2II 1y ago
I also wonder how it is going to affect the US's ability to develop their electronics industry in the long term. It's not just manufacturing and components at stake here. Many people are exposed to and learn about electronics desi
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by II2II 1y ago
It's most likely meant to be Delta, as used in mathematics and science (which is typically smaller than the Greek letter). Not only is the Delta in the Greek character similarly shaped, but Lambda is similarly distorted in the greek ch
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by II2II 1y ago
Perhaps that mode of thinking is wrong, even if it is accepted. Take rote memorization. It is hard. It sucks in so many ways (just because you memorized something doesn't mean you can reason using that information). Yet memorization al
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by II2II 1y ago
I wouldn't do much calling it cherry picking as looking at people who choose something as a career path. For example: a high school student, or even a university student, working in fast food aren't fully supporting themselves wit
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by II2II 1y ago
Or it could be more like the golden age of search engines. It's hard to tell which way it will go because LLMs are a new technology. Some people see only its strengths. Some focus upon its weaknesses. What matters though is the long ru
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by II2II 1y ago
Most of my searches still use traditional search engines for two reasons: - If I am seeking technical information, I would rather get it from the original source. It is often possible to do that with a search. The output from an LLM is not
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by II2II 1y ago
Yes. It is done when they think the neighbouring structure is at risk of catching fire.
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by II2II 1y ago
> I think it's an unfair comparison here. Don't say that to a truck driver, construction worker, farmer, or fast food employee. > Using your body exclusively it can be tiring indeed, but at the end of the day, you will have
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by II2II 2y ago
I suspect the size hung around for a while for a couple of reasons. The physical size (on screen) didn't vary by much. If I recall correctly, 72 to 120 dpi dominated until the introduction of Retina/HiDPI displays, and 120 dpi was
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by II2II 2y ago
You pretty much need to use markup (or control codes) for rich text. Take bold, italic, underline, strikeout: those four can, and are, used in nearly any combination. You would need one bit for each of them. You would need two bits to speci
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by II2II 2y ago
Suggesting that something is unreliable is not the same as saying that it is consistently fabricated. As they say, a broken clock is still correct twice a day. To choose something less extreme: an unreliable employee may still show up for w
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by II2II 2y ago
> That Disney Corp can prevent you from viewing some collection of pixels, because THEY own it A world without copyright is just as problematic as a world with copyright. With copyright, you run into the problem of excessive control. Thi
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by II2II 2y ago
I would describe the Feynman Lectures as highly understandable in the same way that I would describe the Art of Electronics as highly understandable: while you will definitely benefit from prior exposure, these are the books I would choose
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by II2II 2y ago
In my opinion, yes. On the other hand, I have been using KOReader for many years. When I started using it, it was very rough. At one point there was a fairly significant overhaul. Since then, there have been smaller incremental changes (whi
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by II2II 2y ago
My take is that April fools jokes cross the line when they affect people you do not know. Put in other terms: if you can't deliver a direct and sincere apology, you're being a jerk.
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by II2II 2y ago
I ended up getting a faster Kobo! Thankfully, the slow load is a one time thing, per book. Depending upon when you tried it, KOReader has switched to a progressive model of updating it's caching (with most of it being handled in the ba
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by II2II 2y ago
KOReader is an amazing program that has progressed at amazing speed over the past few years, particularly when it comes to the user interface. (It can still be overwhelming, because of the sheer number of features, but it is much better org
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by II2II 2y ago
Telemetry may tell you the "what" but, at best, it will only allow you to infer the "why". It may provide insights into how people do things, yet it will say nothing about how they feel about it. Most of all, telemetry w
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by II2II 2y ago
Ask IBM how well that idea worked. I think it's fair to say that OS/2 had better Windows compatibility (for it's era) than Wine offers (in this era). The problem was that Microsoft introduced breaking changes with the introdu

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