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by Zhyl 6y ago
In related news, DuckDuckGo has gone up ~10m DAU in the last month (~12.5%) and has gone up ~30m average DAU since January (~60%). [0] [0] https://ddg.gg/traffic
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This was the topic of a video [0] posted by CGP Grey on the 25th August. Not mainstream, but I think the idea has been popular for a while [1]. >6.4 >A manager went to his programmers and told them: "As regards to your work hours
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"Stream your Steam Library" would be a pretty solid value proposition.
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And Chromebooks.
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I think it was pretty savvy. Windows had just released Windows 8 and was introducing the Windows Store and the idea of having 'apps' on a desktop PC. Neither of these took off, probably for other reasons than Valve decrying them,
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Here's someone from Collabra doing a talk on it [0]. The idea is pretty straightforward, but actually will fill an important niche in the compatibility and eventual archival space. On a higher level note, this shows that Valve is prett
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I always link to this blog post [0] by Jonathan Palardy. It was one of those eye opening articles for me that really helped me 'grok' it - and this is after having had a couple of stabs at learning it just from reading the text bo
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I with there was an issue tracking thing that you could clone as easily as a git repo. My first thought was email as an ongoing distributed solution, but as far as I know you can't just download an archive of issue tickets, bug reports
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I'm surprised this comment is (currently) more than halfway down the page, when this was my first thought when I saw the repo takedowns.
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s/Weather/Whether/ I think this post highlights something important - programming and automation have a very broad applicability, and it doesn't matter what industry you work in, there's likely some aspect of it tha
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Thank you, I will give his blog a read!
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Would someone from the KDE team be able to give an update on the Valve funding for KDE? [0] I remember being quite happy when I heard this, as it might be paving the way for a renewed SteamOS initiative, or another Linux offensive, but I do
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As someone who has invested time and energy into setting up Wine, I think you will be pleasantly surprised by how painless it is to set up a Steam game with Proton. That is to say, you click 'install' as if you were installing a N
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Proton may be your saviour* *unless the games you play are online games with Anti-Cheat.
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The UK Government is creating a catalogue of all its open data APIs(alphagov.github.io)
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I think if I were to pitch something like the small London theatres, there'd be a market. The differences: * Smaller screens * Comfier seats * Higher quality snacks * Plus beers, cocktails, small appertiser type meals (e.g. sliders or
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1) Tried this and it turns out there's a hyphen in between 'reload' and 'threads'. 2) This is excellent, has sped up my loading a lot. Thanks!
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A picture paints a thousand words, but a working prototype is worth a thousand concept pitch decks.
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Scrolled through to see if anyone mentioned video games before writing up my own comment, and pleasantly surprised to see Jonathan Blow explicitly mentioned! As a counterpoint to the article which is arguing that Books and lectures don&#x2
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Well I guess this is my larger confusion/concern: only people in the gaming space seem to be seeing this for what it really is. Media outlets so far seem to be running with the 'Epic is taking on the establishment' narrative.
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Not a monopoly, but they have a captive audience with one of the biggest gaming franchises of the current time. Many of their current practices with the Epic Store could be potentially seen as being anti-competitive, but they are currently
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It seems silly to me. Commodification of the platform would be massively beneficial for Epic. At the very least I'd be neutral towards it and just allow Valve to do all the expensive heavy lifting, then work on my own Linux compatibili
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You can leverage existing alternatives, which they already do to some extent. Epic has invested massively in Blender, for example. It's interesting that they've gone the 'pick a fight' route, when 8 years ago when Valve
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I think that's fair. As a shorthand 'why' is very succinct, but is definitely ambiguous. Even expanding to 'core purpose' I feel that many companies or movements mistake having one to having a catchy mission stateme
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To summarise the author's point, he thinks that 'why' is the wrong place to start and that 'who' is the correct place to start. Sinek argues that most companies lose their purpose and deviate from their core busines
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I believe TUIR is the de facto spiritual successor. https://gitlab.com/ajak/tuir
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I think Ctrl+F seems to be more popular than 'grepping' these days, although I would very much be in favour of bringing 'grepping' back.
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I subscribe to Youtube channel RSS feeds with newsboat, but you could also follow with any RSS reader.
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There was a great Cracked podcast about this recently. Preppers are basically preparing for some Hollywood doomsday scenario where the hero overcomes challenges by putting himself first and (sometimes violently) surviving by a series of phy
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In response to his specific points - this. In response to his response as a response to my response, I'd add that if he wants to see progress on these issues, Linux isn't ever going to burst into the room, take him by the hand a

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