Mikeb85

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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Because early agriculture was all about planting things in flood plains... If you live on a flood plain you get automatic irrigation, all the nutrients in the soil get replenished every year, you get some fish, etc... Most ancient civiliza
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But they're both statically typed GC languages that compile to native binaries. Versus Zig which has no GC and is more akin to C, Rust, Ada, that sort of thing...
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> face recognition on random people in photos Except they're not. They just match faces to itself and the user has to tell Google photos who it is. Google Photos isn't running faces against a database to ID people, it only m
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> that Google has market dominance. Having market dominance isn't illegal. Abusing it is. Google only has stipulations that, if you want to call your device a Google or Android device, you need to have the Play store and a few key
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The real issue is that Indian tech companies want to be able to bundle their crap with Android phones and still take advantage of the Google phone/Android brand. They're welcome to sell forks and bundle all the alternative softwar
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So figure out what's wrong with the US and why voting out incumbents works for other countries.
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But Google doesn't require Android makers to bundle it's apps unless they specifically want to be called a Google device (and thus take advantage of the free marketing). Plenty of Chinese manufacturers ship without Google bits.
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> Why hasn't this basic democratic tool worked for the last 150 years? It's worked in many places that aren't the US.
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Wayland's fine if you don't use Nvidia (which seems to be true of many things that Nvidia breaks). That being said, I didn't mind Unity or Mir.
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> codecs Most websites people care about use open codecs these days (Google and Netflix use VP9 and AV1, both are open and royalty-free). Never had an issue with font rendering. And cutting edge being too cutting edge might be an issue
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I do but replacing the establishment needs to start somewhere.
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> Fedora is very much NOT an all-ready-out-of-the-box experience, unless you are a FLOSS dev. Nah it's pretty close if you have an integrated Intel or AMD system, you really don't need closed-source drivers for much except Nvi
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Not to mention, closing so many stores, forcing curfews, etc... just packed more people into the same store at the same time. Literally the opposite of social distancing. I used to always shop for groceries at 10pm because the store was mo
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That's why you get involved in grassroots politics and change the make up of the parties themselves.
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Vote them out. It's the only way.
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Yup. However not just because of insider trading... Governments around the world mandated that (mostly) small businesses have to close and that blue collar work had to halt (due to relying on in-person interaction), all while pumping up th
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by Mikeb85 4y ago
The Ubuntu Pro ads and this release have all come at an interesting time... Fedora and the stock Gnome eco-system are getting better and better... Debian voting to include non-free software. Google is using Debian for things these days, S
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> It's 2022 and you got to go through crazy hoops and loops [1] to use an Nvidia card and an Intel integrated graphics chip in a dual monitor setup. And it is IMPOSSIBLE to do if you are using Nvidia drivers. Sounds like an Nvidia p
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Do we actually know they died? And didn't just migrate? Also can we write off illegal Russian fishing? https://www.theepochtimes.com/alaskan-snow-crab-fishery-clos...
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Constantinople was part of the Roman Empire (as the name implies, it was 'founded' by the Roman emperor Constantine) and considered itself the Roman empire until it fell.
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> Microsoft will buy Canonical before the decade is out is my thought. People have said this for a decade and it still hasn't happened... IMO it won't either. It's privately owned and even if they do go public it's
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Yup. Seems like they consistently invent their own thing that's different than what RH/Suse/etc... come up with, then give up and just use that thing (Upstart vs. Systemd, Mir vs. Wayland, Unity vs. Gnome Shell and now Snap
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It indicates a least a bit of popularity. No one uses it = 0 revenue.
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Suse (the company) has double the revenue of Canonical. Fair to say plenty of people in the real world rate it.
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I didn't say Android or Linux make as much money for companies as MS does off, say, Office, only that it is the OS that runs the most devices and websites we interact with. Winning looks like a race to the bottom because the abstractio
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> The key part is "abstracting all of the hardware in your life". > When I switch between them pretty much nothing changes - I have access to the same core apps: Office, Obsidian, 1Password, web browser. > There needs to
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> C# for Unity Scripting doesn't count for this comparison. Unity is still a C++ engine.
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It looks fine. Some people just complain about change because they hate change. I for one welcome it and far prefer modern software design to old paradigms.
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Thanks for the recommendation. Reading the synopsis and reviews it does mirror some of what I've seen in society and some of the less successful/ambitious men my age that I know so has already got me curious. Will probably pick
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C++ can be more pleasant to write than Rust, especially if you limit yourself to modern features, OO-style, etc... It's also extremely mature, has a library for everything, is on every platform known to mankind, etc... C++ has a lot o

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