Mekantis

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by Mekantis 6y ago
Sorry, but "good people" who are involved with all the evil things Facebook does by working for them aren't good people. I know it's hip to absolve yourself of responsibility by saying "I just work here" or &qu
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by Mekantis 6y ago
They should, actually.
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by Mekantis 6y ago
It's not just the US at risk here. I feel like nobody here pays attention to what China does. Look at all the tensions between China and... Literally nearly every country around them. This isn't a US-only problem.
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by Mekantis 6y ago
I'm not sure a bunch of techies who have no clue about geopolitics and have zero interest in the welfare of the US or even European or non-Chinese populations to be the arbiter of what's okay or not okay. Apple/Google are tur
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by Mekantis 6y ago
National security issues override your freedom to use a spying app by a country's primary geopolitical opponent. That's just how it is. You paint China as this innocent party and the US as the sole aggressor, which is utter hogwas
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by Mekantis 6y ago
> I wonder why one would chose a phone with Ubuntu Touch over some non-linux phone. This is a false equivalency. If you don't like Ubuntu Touch. Try Mobian (Debian) or Manjaro for Pinephone. The Linux phone is still in its infancy,
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by Mekantis 6y ago
If you say that, then I don't think you've paid attention to what they did to ROM sites in recent years. No other company has been as aggressive as they've been on this front.
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by Mekantis 6y ago
I'd say it's worth it to use JoyCons even if you're emulating the games on PC. When they're not drifting, they're great controllers (if a bit cramped). I sold my Switch but I do miss the flexibility of holding my ha
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by Mekantis 6y ago
They're right to be paranoid. Nintendo is one of the few game companies that's extremely aggressive about protecting their IP (particularly when it comes to emulation and ROMs). They've forced a lot of sites to stop distribut
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by Mekantis 6y ago
Look at the comments. He has barely any files on that server. "Yeah, you can use ZFS with barely any RAM ." (if you don't have any files) Doesn't do me much good with my 10TB's of data.
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by Mekantis 6y ago
Why wouldn't I want deduplication though? "You can use ZFS just fine, just turn off one of its most useful features." Really? And I'm being downvoted for it. Thanks, guys. You realize my home desktop is doubling as my st
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by Mekantis 6y ago
I'd love to switch to ZFS, but the RAM requirements are absurd. I don't have a separate storage server, and I'm not really to sacrifice 10GB of RAM (1GB/TB of storage if I'm to believe what I find through Google) on
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by Mekantis 6y ago
I'm not aware of any neuron that functions differently from other neurons. You have a soma, dendrites, synapses, electrical impulses and glia. Even if there are subtypes, they are all based on this basic functionality. Care to elaborat
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by Mekantis 6y ago
> there is basically no way for me to properly debug and solve this problem, whereas solving your problem on Linux would be relatively trivial for anyone with a bit of experience, even if it is in fact a bug in Pulse. I've never bee
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by Mekantis 6y ago
Probably Linux. I don't understand how people put up with things like PulseAudio. If I use Windows, the audio sinks behave like I expect them to. They use the device I expect them to. They don't mysteriously set the volume to some
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by Mekantis 6y ago
It's too bad people look at proprietary software with such disdain. Yeah, I'd love it too if all the world adhered to open source, but there are too many useful and awesome applications that simply aren't open source, where t
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by Mekantis 6y ago
rupa/z Being able to type something like "z ab g f" to reach a fairly deeply nested directory is almost akin to magic. I absolutely hate cd'ing everywhere, and often I'm cd'ing between the same couple of direct
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by Mekantis 6y ago
A part of what makes the brain so special and capable is how it's able to structurally and functionally layer regions upon each other with their own specialized functions which all funnel their outputs up and down as needed. So even if
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by Mekantis 6y ago
This looks incredibly interesting. Going to give it a try.
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by Mekantis 6y ago
I have no idea how anybody can look at TikTok with a straight face and not see that they're a threat. Maybe if you've conveniently closed your eyes to the CCP's behavior in the past, say, 10-20 years regarding corporate espio
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by Mekantis 6y ago
There's also the question of how open open source programmers might be to some UX/UI designer stepping in and trying to force their vision on the project.
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by Mekantis 6y ago
It makes me wonder. Is there enough research and sufficient good data to make evidence-based software engineering? It's not something that comes up much and whenever I do see research, it usually feels disconnected from realities in so
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by Mekantis 6y ago
I'm still mad about Campo Santo. I couldn't give two shits about Alyx or Half-Life or any other of Valve's games. But they had to consume one of the most promising story-focused indie studios and relegate them to making gam
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by Mekantis 6y ago
> This is wrong, misguided and naive. I'd appreciate it if you didn't jump straight to insults. > International trade when done with effective reciprocity and managing the trade deficit, can lead to competition on a larger s
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by Mekantis 6y ago
Well, you have external constraints that prevent you from doing so. The suggestion is that, without such external constraints, it's fairly likely that you would be waking up with looking at your phone. But even if you didn't, it w
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by Mekantis 6y ago
I think the issue with comments is that they lose all temporal and situational context. You see a comment next to code, but you have no idea if it's actually still addressing that piece of code. How out of date is that comment? Nobody
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by Mekantis 6y ago
People like to pretend that protectionism is such a bad thing. But Western nations built themselves through protectionism, it's something China has been doing to great success and the Asian tiger economies (primarily South Korea) did a