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by II2II 2y ago
> Yes but if more than 50% of the GUI softwares you run fallback to XWayland (including terminals), it makes no sense. For an Arch user, that 50% may be valid since the distribution encourages the use of an eclectic mix of software. On t
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by II2II 2y ago
In some respects, I agree. Yet I don't think we have to put up with it all of the time. Most of the technology in our life is either frivilous or has a workable alternative. It is not as though we have to abandon technology in, or even
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by II2II 2y ago
I have a 2.5 GB/s USB to ethernet adapter. While I cannot say whether the performance matches that of built-in ethernet, transfer rates are fairly close to 2.5 GB/s. That is certainly faster than WiFi. Oddly enough, point (A) is l
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by II2II 2y ago
The author pretty much acknowledges that with the YouTuber example. And yeah, you can create a fairly long list of other reasons why people may want to upgrade. But here's the thing: in the 1990s, people pretty much needed to upgrade r
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by II2II 2y ago
I suspect the real concern is there would be a push to relax the restrictions once the industrial facility has been built. Astronomical observatories have faced such problems in the past, to the point where research goals had to be fundamen
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by II2II 2y ago
> People would rather go to Best Buy and get a new laptop than try something different. Some people simply don't have that option. Other people may have that option, but would end up with something worse simply because their budget
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by II2II 2y ago
I simply want minimal exposure of my personal data since I don't want to go through life thinking about risk models. Not only is it time consuming, but my creative juices simply don't flow when it comes down to exploiting people (
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by II2II 2y ago
You have inspired more questions about incremental saves: speed was an obvious issue with personal computers, but was it implemented on any minis or mainframes? These were multiuser systems (i.e. multitasking), so they could do background d
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by II2II 2y ago
Well known data structures and algorithms are well know because they have been used more than three times. That said: if you are dealing with a situation where you have to implement them yourself, you may want to consider whether the rule o
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by II2II 2y ago
> FWIW the least realistic step was the ship turning around to get him, because spaceships typically don't carry any extra fuel. The turning around and returning to Mars bit may have been realistic. They would have needed fuel to ge
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by II2II 2y ago
Even hard science fiction takes liberties since it pushes the boundaries of science or engineering. It explores the plausible, rather than what has been accomplished. If it didn't do so, it would not differ all that much from regular f
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by II2II 2y ago
I was mildly surprised when my university supplies office offered to sell some liquid nitrogen to me, no questions asked. Which was disconcerting for few reasons: I asked for dry ice, I lacked a dewar, and I would have to transport it on
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by II2II 2y ago
I'm not going to say it is impossible, but the thing to keep in mind is electronics test equipment benefited from incredible improvements in and the mass adoption of most of the components that go into them. While SEMs can benefit from
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by II2II 2y ago
That second example pretty much demonstrates why it is so dangerous. There were attitudes that were commonplace 30 years ago that are now considered racist, in many cases because they were racist, that people don't subscribe to today.
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by II2II 2y ago
With respect to keeping quiet about it: it may not have been selfless, but it may also have drawn so much attention to it that the owner of the set wouldn't have wanted to deal with it. After all, he had already dealt with one person w
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by II2II 2y ago
Russia is no stranger to the relationship between the economy and death. Both wars and economic mismanagement have led to famine in Russia. As for AI, we have no proof that it will work out for the benefit of humanity. Even if we did have s
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by II2II 2y ago
> No, the evidence cited is that a significant portion is also absorbed by companies making lower profits (and a small amount by higher prices). From the article: The authors calculated that about 62 percent of the wage increase was abs
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by II2II 2y ago
I don't understand why the effects would look worse at higher resolution, or why how they add contrast. The tacky part I do understand, as well as the point about screen fonts like Verdana. To choose a relevant counter example: the Mac
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by II2II 2y ago
Those who romanticize the past tend to highlight the best points and gloss over the low points, which is likely better than dismissing it altogether. It's also worth noting that some points mentioned either didn't matter as much,
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by II2II 2y ago
If your feed reader is refreshing every 20 minutes for a blog that is updated daily, nearly 99% of the data sent is identical. It looks like Rachel's blog is updated (roughly) weekly, so that jumps to 99.8%. It's not the least eff
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by II2II 2y ago
Expressing strings as null terminated or in a data structure that includes the size and data has no relationship to it being a higher or lower level language. They still need to determine where a string starts and ends in memory. The means
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by II2II 2y ago
On a personal level, I am not going to disagree with you. I configured Pine to use vi (or whatever vi variant shipped with AIX). I also seem to recall configuring lynx to use vi to edit forms (which made using web based forums bearable). Th
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by II2II 2y ago
> Removing the public static void main(String[] args) business seems like pandering to a non-existent audience, or at least a miniscule and insignificant one. Perhaps the audience doesn't exist because of that business. There are ma
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by II2II 2y ago
A reasonable third, and default, state could be collect diagnostic data locally. The user can choose to send the diagnostic data if they have issues with the device. After all, the term diagnostic data implies that it is being used for trou
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by II2II 2y ago
> Because it makes state-level or national-level advertising of prices impossible. Or even local-level in many cases. In large countries like Canada, and I would imagine the US, you probably don't want to advertise prices nationally
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by II2II 2y ago
With many schools banning mobile phones, and similar communications devices, there aren't many alternatives to paper. Also, my elementary school uses paper planners. Given that most elementary schools forbid students from carrying elec
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by II2II 2y ago
I heard rumours of such content on the Internet as a teenager in the 1990's. I was never curious enough to seek it out, but there are plenty who were and plenty of those didn't understand how it would affect them. The latter group
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by II2II 2y ago
In the Linux world, sure. The only reason why I've seen nano (rather, pico) on many non-Linux systems was because pine was installed, and that was only on multi-user systems.
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by II2II 2y ago
There are plenty of people who work with children yet may not have children: teachers, child care workers, medical doctors, psychologists, social workers, etc.. In each case, we see children in contexts that parents do not. In some of those
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by II2II 2y ago
You can look at that statement in a couple of different ways. Yes, experimental bias is one of them. The other is saying: we didn't see this effect, so we need to do longer term studies to see if it does exist. Regardless, that stateme

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