YokoZar

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by YokoZar 13y ago
Yes, this is what I meant. Cider does suck, because Cider is based on a proprietary fork of a 7 year old branch of the Wine code and couldn't keep pace with the open source version. There's a reason Transgaming abandoned Cedega
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by YokoZar 13y ago
I've been the Ubuntu developer responsible for Wine's packages for almost a decade now. Over the years I've encountered a lot of skepticism about Wine, with some people even wondering if we'd be better off without it exi
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by YokoZar 13y ago
Most industries that have "dress codes" don't actually formalize it either. There's nothing that forces lawyers to wear suits and ties other than a belief that you would look weird to other lawyers and the public if you
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by YokoZar 13y ago
The legal situation isn't particularly relevant so much as whether or not people will decide to cross the street before the light tells them to, and whether that has a higher probability of accident.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
The risk of someone dying due to distraction and a failure to avoid an out of control car is dramatically less than the risk of someone dying due to getting bored and jaywalking into traffic.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
Gfycat ( http://gfycat.com/ ) is a fantastic solution to this -- it loads HTML5 video or an animated gif depending on what the client supports.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
I highly doubt you're interpreting this correctly, Rackspace was founded by OSS developers.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
It does, however, have a common trademark office.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
When economists (or, indeed, anyone) talk about income inequality and compare relative and absolute income, they generally talk about it in "real" terms. Real means after inflation, so if you "stay the same" prices are
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by YokoZar 13y ago
I do wonder to what extent we can mitigate potential future volcanic activity by preemptively pulling energy out of hot spots like this. The odds are low, but a supervolcanic detonation in Yellowstone would be one of the most serious threat
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by YokoZar 13y ago
I do wonder to what extent the massive outbreak of war can be blamed on Eve losing its top behind-the-scenes diplomat.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
The text of the article says he won dark blue by 70%+, but the key in the map says by a 20% margin (which would imply 60-40). Which is it?
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by YokoZar 13y ago
It would put some useful bounds on the behavior. If only 1% of people look at usernames when posting replies, she could conclude it's a very small subset of people generating this nonsense. If everyone does, we don't learn much
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by YokoZar 13y ago
"Demand" can be a bit of a fuzzy thing. For instance, all those people who were now had "enough" clothes and were saving money from the lower prices were instead buying other things, creating increased demand for some o
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by YokoZar 13y ago
Hint: it's not spying
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by YokoZar 13y ago
The loom was an example of a technology that actually had a more egalitarian effect on wealth distribution: expensive skilled labor was replaced with greater numbers of cheap unskilled labor. Given the right prices, this sort of technology
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by YokoZar 13y ago
Bro as in a pun on "man"
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by YokoZar 13y ago
I used to be a brogrammer, but then I got bromoted to broduct management.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
So why doesn't someone just programatically search for a bunch of garbage domains from them?
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by YokoZar 13y ago
The particular packages you need might be obtainable from Launchpad PPAs, which Debian doesn't really have an equivalent of unless you're willing to maintain your own. If you don't want to phase-in updates rather than depend
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by YokoZar 13y ago
The 60 million dollar joke.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
At some point, yes, but the Ubuntu marks are still spread throughout dozens of different packages.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
In general Debian/Ubuntu packages do not prompt the user with debconf questions these days, although there are occasional leftovers in old packages if you upgrade via a terminal with apt-get update. You can define an environment variab
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by YokoZar 13y ago
Ubuntu, meanwhile, was willing to accept this tradeoff and distribute blessed Firefox, as Ubuntu also has trademarks that downstream modifiers (like Mint) need to remove. It would be nice if it was easy to remove said trademarks by somethin
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by YokoZar 13y ago
I'm not sure RSA would want to make that defense. Right now they're claiming that they made the changes to keep the NSA as a customer and because that customer demanded them and they didn't see the harm. To argue they were a
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by YokoZar 13y ago
The magic is that pipelight is actually still powered by Wine, we've just automated some of the more annoying steps through the use of packages. Pipelight even embeds its own custom version of Wine so you don't have to mess with
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by YokoZar 13y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it probably isn't moon-capable.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
"For that matter, you will be able to reach someone at the moon colonies, concerning which General Motors puts on a display of impressive vehicles (in model form) with large soft tires intended to negotiate the uneven terrain that may
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by YokoZar 13y ago
Because Disney's political corruption is dragging in the entirety of all creative works with theirs. I may hate Disney for its actions, but that doesn't mean I have to hate singing Happy Birthday too.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
Alternatively, computing power will get so cheap and easy to distribute that myriad small devices will be fetching saved data from the cloud and running the app locally with all the better latency that entails.

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