alexmcc81

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by alexmcc81 5y ago
> Plasma doesn't support Wayland yet Plasma does support Wayland and has for some time. Some distros are even considering defaulting to Wayland now. There have been substantial improvements to Wayland support in the last few months
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by alexmcc81 5y ago
I'm an engineer working with the best physicists and engineers in wireless technology. None of us know anything about biology. Why would we? The only time I have ever seen anyone consider biology has been work outsourcing modelling han
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by alexmcc81 5y ago
I used to think that too until I saw a family member dump Windows for Mac. iPhones are a hell of a gateway drug.
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by alexmcc81 5y ago
I don't see how Google's bad behaviour with Chrome installers excuses Microsoft in any way. Arguably Microsoft is still worse since they intentionally obfuscate system settings so even informed users have difficulty changing their
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by alexmcc81 5y ago
I don't see it backfiring much to be honest. I see a lot of people keeping Windows 10 as long as possible... until Microsoft pushes an update to their machines with increasingly annoying messages until they accept - a strategy they hav
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by alexmcc81 5y ago
I've had to set aside several hours to set up family members Windows laptops for that reason. It's crazy to have to jump through hoops to get an offline account, battle the OS to use their browser of choice (possibly reverted by f
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by alexmcc81 5y ago
I kind of agree. Cynically I see Windows 11 as a big leap for Microsoft in terms of getting to their own ChromeOS. Mandatory online accounts, integrated Teams, very dark patterns to force Edge usage (with all the associated tracking), pushi
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by alexmcc81 5y ago
Mandatory Microsoft accounts also mean a concrete, cross platform identity for advertising/tracking and an account to drive One Drive/Office/cloud services purchases (already heavily advertised throughout the OS in the case o
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by alexmcc81 5y ago
More info: https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mulanpsl-2.0/
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by alexmcc81 5y ago
I agree about the 'everything in lua' config. I've found it frustrating.
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by alexmcc81 5y ago
Neovim is great. I've moved from a very large custom vim setup to a slightly modified LunarVim [1] config (requires Neovim 0.5+), which takes full advantage of tree-sitter and LSP. Loving it so far. [1] https://github.com&#x
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by alexmcc81 5y ago
I used this to create my family tree (several hundred entries, previously only on paper) as a gift to a family member when they married. It was actually easy to use. I'm glad there is a good offline version instead of the online altern
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by alexmcc81 5y ago
Obviously this is a reason otherwise Fuchsia would have the same licence. However Google probably doesn't care that much about having an option to keep it closed source. Antagonism to the GPL comes mainly from Hardware vendors.
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by alexmcc81 5y ago
Shingles can cause blindness. Early treatment is very important. A friend of mine was hospitalised and left with bad scaring because they delayed seeking help. At least she didn't have any large bills because she was not in the US. No
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by alexmcc81 5y ago
I'll definitely check this out. Two questions: 1. How does it compare to seaborne? ( https://seaborn.pydata.org/ ) 2. Any tips for plotting large amounts of data with matplotlib?
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by alexmcc81 5y ago
Do you have any major new features in mind you would like to implement (assuming you had time + help)?
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by alexmcc81 5y ago
I was wondering why I recognised your name - you're the main developer of ffsend. Thanks for all the work! I really hope you get more people interested in maintaining and developing Send.
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Fastmail to end support for operamail.com email addresses(fastmail.help)
44 points by alexmcc81 6y ago|47 comments
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by alexmcc81 6y ago
You would really have to stretch the definition of religion to breaking point to justify that comparison though. Secular humanism is fundamentally different in the way it was born, how it tenets are formulated and how it's practised co
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by alexmcc81 6y ago
> Literally just plug in the hard drive and not think about it. First you have to know that utility exists. Will most biology students know about Windows Backup? I doubt it. Even if they do, they're using a college administered PC.
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by alexmcc81 6y ago
> they should have figured out a way to back that stuff up. That's incredibly naive. Not everyone has a Comp-Sci degree. Not all specialised programs will allow users access to the data easily. Even if they do, the student/staf
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by alexmcc81 6y ago
So much for empathy. Not all students are as technically literate as HN readers or in the same position to understand or manage the data they deal with. Let's not rush to blame them. Some students and staff likely use specialised (ofte
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by alexmcc81 6y ago
You've already given them a lot of money. The German government gave BioNtech $445 million dollars in a grant last year alone. It's not unreasonable to be concerned that a small number of pharma companies are trying to generate ma
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by alexmcc81 6y ago
General statistics on site usage would be interesting. But what about all the other data that could be extracted, both on a personal and national level? You could, for example, determine which areas are more likely to access HIV information
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by alexmcc81 6y ago
Am I the only one who thinks it's creepy that the largest advertising company in the world, and particularly one based outside the country, has so much data on what UK citizens access on their own government websites for health, tax, s
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by alexmcc81 6y ago
I see there is an F-Droid compatible repo linked. Is there a reason it has not been submitted to F-Droid proper? Sounds like a perfect addition to the default repo.
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by alexmcc81 6y ago
It's a shame Remote SSH etc are closed source and MS has no plans to open them. The extensions even check and refuse to run under non-MS vscode builds.
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by alexmcc81 6y ago
It would very naive to believe extremely wealthy interests did not play a very large part in Brexit. One example of such dark money is the funnelling of half a million euro through Northern Ireland [1] to influence London voters. [1] https
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by alexmcc81 6y ago
If you're on Android, I can't recommend RedReader enough [1] . It's open source and customisation (also installable via F-Droid). I browse with a compact display and thumbnails turned off. [1] https://play.google.c
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by alexmcc81 6y ago
>I think you might be confusing the Linux distribution with the desktop environment. I'm definitely not ;). Please reread my comment. If you know the answer to the question, please let me know.

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