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by acomjean 3y ago
Ubuntu and Nvidia are difficult. We have a Linux work station and attempt to get an Nvidia card working (drivers anyway) failed. Its was confusing and even those with more skill/experience couldn't make it work. PopOS (which is
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by acomjean 3y ago
Could anyone read this? I got page covering pop ups and couldn’t navigate away. It was “scanning my device for viruses”. Sigh
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by acomjean 3y ago
To be fair, the post which tells you “you don’t need html” is html. Which either is whimsical or a little odd. I can see ascii art being a nightmare for screen readers.
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by acomjean 3y ago
It might be a MS pr move. But it seems a lot of competitions are for boosting an industry. The Oscar's celebrate movies, he Grammys promote music, "the game awards" promote games. I imagine a fornite competetion would be sp
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by acomjean 3y ago
Computer chips are designed from software Programs. It used to be a language called verilog. (According to wikipedia based on ADA, pascal,C and Fortran) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verilog
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by acomjean 3y ago
Plants are wierd. “Polyploid organisms have more than two sets of homologous chromosomes. For example, humans have two sets of homologous chromosomes, meaning that a typical human will have 2 copies each of 23 different chromosomes, for a t
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by acomjean 3y ago
I'm that way too. But I wonder how good the program is on the disk. Everytime I put a disc in the console it downloads a huge file of patches and bugfixes..
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by acomjean 3y ago
>N There is a boss blocking your path demanding a C 64 floppy There is a serial cable There is a DEC 20 > Jokes aside they seem to call these games “interactive fiction” now. I did like the infocom games (I had Zork
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by acomjean 3y ago
I’ll second pop. It’s basically Ubuntu. I’ve been daily driving it on my work laptop the past year and it’s been great. I thinks they’re using Ubuntu LTS as a base so stable but not cutting edge.
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by acomjean 3y ago
I get more buzzing with the first and third as well. I like the go biting doesn’t seem to change it for me.
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by acomjean 3y ago
I feel for Java. Everytime I've used it, I've been pleasantly surprised by the language. It has some truly amazing features (steams where very cool). Then I get to the tooling and it's just such a pain, if it's working
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by acomjean 3y ago
They knew Michael Abrash from working at Microsoft who went to id, told them to "you should use our engine". They went to id and walked out with the quake engine, and some advice from Romero. Sometimes it really helps who you kno
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by acomjean 3y ago
There are some government programs to limit the spread. I know there is an Asian longhorn beetle program and some others for invasive plants out west (source my brother worked on them).
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by acomjean 3y ago
Anything Adobe falls into that camp saddly.. Luckly fewer and fewer bits of software remain.
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by acomjean 3y ago
I interviewed at a travel company. One thing someone said they didn't like about working there was that they're customers are really the airline and hotel chains that pay them, and anything that closes the deal at a higher price
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by acomjean 3y ago
They are trying. Not surprisingly there is pushback from airlines (and other businesses..) https://wapo.st/47cBuSJ
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by acomjean 3y ago
I haven’t used in a while, but handbrake did have really useful presets for a variety of devices: it was useful because there are a lot of video compression knobs to turn (you can still do so after selecting the preset) It seems like prese
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by acomjean 3y ago
It’s a little pricy. But it’s a bundle with YouTube music which is better than I expected. I think the payments to creators are a little greater because of that. It’s also a little bit moot because YouTube creators often in-line their own
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by acomjean 3y ago
I played through Black Mesa the game after visiting the “crowbar collective” booth at pax east, and missing half life the first time around. Really loved it. https://store.steampowered.com/app/362890/Black_Mesa&#x
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by acomjean 3y ago
>Anything you can run on Itanium is almost certainly going to work better on AMD64. I worked on a project targeting hp superdomes (PA RISC). When that architecture was on its way out they started looking at amd64 as a replacement though
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by acomjean 3y ago
I had similar. Contacted them, they didn’t have the part but had the Clevo part # for the fan which was easy to buy and replace.
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by acomjean 3y ago
I have a system pangolin (AMD 6800) and I can get 5-8 hours routinely. Daily driving for work and it’s been great. My 6 year old oryx pro gets about 2 hours (on nvidia). It can game though… (steam is kinda amazing) I really like matt scree
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by acomjean 3y ago
Wired earbuds are back (Acording to some… and I’ve seen a few more lately out and about). I’m still using full over the ear headphones I bought 15 years ago. I had to get new pads but other than that they still sound great. https:/&#
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by acomjean 3y ago
A lot of Bird Guides are done by artists (not photographs). Roger Torry Peterson/ Sibley. I like them, as there is a fair amount of "variation" in birds (age/season) so the guides with photos sometimes are too exact, a
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by acomjean 3y ago
To be fair, there are birds where the name is the description. Red Wing Black Bird, Blue Jay, snowy egret...
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by acomjean 3y ago
I agree, but thought it was an attempt to explain where SBF who claimed to be a "good guy" came from. Especially since his sequoia profile mentions he thought books useless.
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by acomjean 3y ago
"Oh, and birder is the word you have to use. One is a birder. If you say, 'I'm an expert bird watcher' you've automatically tipped off that you aren't a birder" From the always entertaining "how to b
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by acomjean 3y ago
They put out an plain old article: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/02/technology/sam-bankman-fr... via there "share" feature..
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by acomjean 3y ago
I see the idea of sql lite, but a mysql / Postgres store a lot in memory so no disk access required (if not the data the indexes stay memory resident) We have an old web based tool that uses Java and luncene indexed file system based d
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by acomjean 3y ago
And everyone dunks on Craigslist for not modernizing it’s design….

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