Skunkleton

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by Skunkleton 3y ago
> I prefer to actually own my device What do you mean by that? Its an odd take in an article about Android users learning they don't own their device. > and because Android is overall more secure and I personally care about this
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by Skunkleton 3y ago
Is it true enough in c++ to be useful though?
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by Skunkleton 3y ago
At this point most of the reasons to buy a particular phone are inertial or emotional. A high end android phone and an iPhone both provide roughly the same functionality. I miss the times when new phones were more exciting.
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by Skunkleton 3y ago
> Yet, the Pixel 8 and iPhone 15 lines are price comparably. But this isn't how pricing works. Even if it did the CPU isn't the most expensive component in the bom, and it isn't the most important component for user experi
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by Skunkleton 3y ago
Baldur’s Gate 3 is a truly great game. It’s interesting to discuss how that may or may not be replicated. Still, we’ve been going through years of mediocre cash grab after mediocre cash grab. So many beloved franchises have been basically r
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by Skunkleton 3y ago
2-3 days? I charge my watch every day, or I risk it dying in the middle of the second day.
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by Skunkleton 3y ago
Its their model. Its discussed in TFA too.
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by Skunkleton 3y ago
Why is this called an air gap? It’s not. They are just firewalling off workstations most (not all) of the public internet.
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by Skunkleton 3y ago
Firefox is maintained by paid employees. This is not the same thing. There is no talk of making this a paid only release anywhere. Please avoid strawmen.
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by Skunkleton 3y ago
Most Free Software projects are not professional. Time is spent on them for personal reasons. Those reasons may not align with users of that project, but that is just too bad. If you don't like it, all you are entitled to is the source
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by Skunkleton 3y ago
Even the term "volunteer" implies too much responsibility. This is a project to which people contribute their time, for whatever personal reason motivates them. If they don't want to do a release ever again, or they don'
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by Skunkleton 3y ago
Dunno if you can/should edit it, but at first glance I read that as C++ being easy to learn and easy to read.
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by Skunkleton 3y ago
I have a friend with a business in a niche market. His business is driven almost entirely by ads place with google. He’s tried other platforms and had much worse results. Something must be working.
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by Skunkleton 3y ago
Even better would be to have tools share configuration files. Plain make files don't have this problem. Build scripts also don't have this sort of problem. Ofc once you start with autotools, things go pretty bad. Build scripts usu
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by Skunkleton 3y ago
Yes. The linux kernel has many things.
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by Skunkleton 3y ago
You’re so old that your username has a stand alone FPU >:)
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by Skunkleton 3y ago
This is firecracker, so less than a second I guess?
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by Skunkleton 4y ago
GPT-4 says: A more accurate and balanced title might be: "Comparing Bard and ChatGPT in Puzzle Solving: An Examination within the Context of a Word Game"
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by Skunkleton 4y ago
I’ve had the same experience with eyesight. I would also add that it brakes very naturally. Much better than other similar systems I have tried.
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by Skunkleton 4y ago
Nit: Many can still be a minority.
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by Skunkleton 4y ago
IMO using socket activation via systemd is a reasonable approach. I don't see any reason a non-service account should be running a service on port 80.
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by Skunkleton 4y ago
Looking at California's total water usage [1] I would guess we are somewhere around 40 MAF per year (I hope. That can't be per day right??). Based on the probably incorrect numbers above, that translates into around a 20 GW demand
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by Skunkleton 4y ago
I was somewhat skeptical, but it does look like this comment is correct on the whole. An average household uses around .75 cubic meters of water per day, and it takes around 3.5 kWh to desalinate that much water using reverse osmosis (at sc
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by Skunkleton 4y ago
It's certainly my favorite. Pragmatic, simple, and complete. What's not to love?
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by Skunkleton 4y ago
I would like to defend arch here. In my experience, Arch's main focus is on upholding a simple consistent architecture. There are tools that do something like the bare minimum required work, and then excellent documentation so that the
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by Skunkleton 4y ago
Maybe they are arguing that GenZ should commute to the past? That way they can spend their 2022 dollars on good value 1970s products?
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by Skunkleton 4y ago
Sounds right to me. When you look at markets where reliability is important, you see appliances that are the same. You can get good quality commercial washing machines.
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by Skunkleton 4y ago
Software engineers are usually not tracked hourly. There are common exceptions such work done for government programs, or contracting. Even in these scenarios, hours are not usually tracked by any authoritative system. In the end, the only
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by Skunkleton 4y ago
It was also based on existing open source. None of this is to say that Chrome wasn't an amazing accomplishment. I do wonder how much crunch time the Chrome teams face now that Chrome has customers?
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by Skunkleton 4y ago
Those same satellites will cover land as well, right? I would guess that they are hugely over provisioned for their maritime usecases in support of their main mission.

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