alxlaz

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by alxlaz 4y ago
That only works if icons remain consistent and reasonably detailed over long periods of time. Nowadays all icons are abstract, monochrome shapes. They are similar enough to each other, and vary enough from one application to another, that o
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by alxlaz 4y ago
> That can't possibly be a valid claim, right? It's not, but good luck talking to a human at Youtube when the video gets taken down. > Again, that doesn't sound like a valid suit. Surely she would win? Assuming she coul
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by alxlaz 4y ago
What else would it be?
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by alxlaz 4y ago
> Firing easily and hiring easily are two sides of the same coin. If you can be fired easily, you will find a job easily. If companies can go down quickly, new companies can be formed in an instant. > In Europe where firing is almost
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by alxlaz 4y ago
No, GP asked: > How do you propose that people work *for free* at the behest of a leader directing such unpaid contributors how to o their work? (Emphasis mine) No coercion is involved, but they don't work for free, either. Free vs.
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by alxlaz 4y ago
> How did Linus convince hordes of people of contributing to his kernel, his trademark, for free? You will find -- unsurprisingly -- that most of them are not contributing for free. That's not to say there aren't people contrib
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by alxlaz 4y ago
> Honestly though I don't get the Wayland hate. It's been stable to use and a joy to configure. If you think Wayland is stable and a joy to configure today, you would've loved XFree86 around 2002 or so!
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by alxlaz 4y ago
There is a considerable cultural overlap between "people who think no-JS, fast and responsive software is cool" and "people who think the design of Reddit or Discourse is really awful". (Man, especially Reddit, I swear t
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by alxlaz 4y ago
As in, excellent information density so there's more actual content than empty space, high-contrast text that you can actually read, and colourful, stylish icons that you can tell apart from each other even if they're not 128x128p
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by alxlaz 4y ago
For (effectively) state-owned companies, politics trumps economics 101. Removing sanctions will cause a marginal drop in natural gas price for a few weeks, but no more. At this point, the European natural gas market is sufficiently skewed b
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by alxlaz 4y ago
> I expected her to be mortified and sue and hide. She did, and she also got counter-sued: https://people.com/celebrity/hilton-salomon-end-sex-tape-leg... . "Owning it" worked fabulously for her for a whol
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by alxlaz 4y ago
No, I am not trolling you here. First of all, real-life data sets have hundreds of thousands of endpoints, and it's easy to classify a few hundred, maybe a few thousands endpoints for a single person. So scaling it up to a point where
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by alxlaz 4y ago
That's what I'm saying. Classifying one data point is very straightforward and brings negligible value to a company. Reliably classifying hundreds of thousands of them is very complicated and not at all easily supervised. And if y
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by alxlaz 4y ago
Surely if it's such an easy job, you can fit it along your other tasks. If you can't then perhaps it's worth re-examining if it's as easy as you think it is.
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by alxlaz 4y ago
If it's such an easy job, why outsource it instead of doing it yourself?
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by alxlaz 4y ago
> I wonder how others do this kind of thing. Assuming I have 100k text blurbs I want to classify of sentiment and/or emotion and want at least 95% accuracy, what are the options? Others who successfully do it have exactly the same s
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by alxlaz 4y ago
There is no absence of evidence, not by a long shot. There are fewer written records in the traditional sense (books, letters, legal documents concerning things like transfer of property) but there is no shortage of inscriptions on various
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by alxlaz 4y ago
That's because the person on the original thread has the non-free codecs installed and whatnot. @danpalmer is right to point out that their availability is not something you can rely on. Although this is definitely the wrong way to che
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by alxlaz 4y ago
I'm pretty sure there have been better ways to do that for many years now, e.g. the media capabilities API. Hanlon's razor is tricky to apply with Microsoft, they have a bit of an, erm, history with these things.
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by alxlaz 4y ago
Oh, yeah, politically that took like four years to happen, if not more.
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by alxlaz 4y ago
I was (a very small, and only part-time) part of a team that did a migration from a Perforce-era VCS to git. It was about 6 weeks of 100% background work -- as in, we prepared cheat sheets, changed or rewrote relevant parts of the CI and de
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by alxlaz 4y ago
Ask the guy who tried to call 911 from a phone whose software was just good enough for an MBA's next bonus ;-).
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by alxlaz 4y ago
> Most people just don’t spend the time to find the stuff they like. Which is particularly surprising considering that there appear to be like twenty contemporary artists whose paintings are neither random paint splatters, nor monocolor
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by alxlaz 4y ago
I was under the impression (based on the USSC's opinion back in 2015, see e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co... ) that this was not true even in the US. Has anything c
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by alxlaz 4y ago
It's particularly unnecessary when you can easily get 30px of useable height back just by using widgets of sane sizes. Like, computers have trackpads and mice, no need to make everything bulky fingers-friendly.
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by alxlaz 4y ago
> I use KDE now as main driver which has a ton of options compared to macOS and they use the same format. Those of us who remember the old tree-based layout from before Kirigami took over were about as happy about the change as macOS use
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by alxlaz 4y ago
Any distribution can do that -- at the end of the day, you can always get e.g. the linux-kernel deb-src and set the option in Kconfig. That will not solve the rest of the problem -- interaction with other kernel config flags, or side-effect
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by alxlaz 4y ago
VS Code "Pro" is very 1998. My money is on VS Code 365.
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by alxlaz 4y ago
> In which case you specify service dependencies and systemd will start them one after another, you know, you have the After= option in your units just for that. First off, After= specifies order, not functional dependency. This doesn&#x
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by alxlaz 4y ago
First off, dependencies aren't just other services. You can have "when the network interfaces are up" as a dependency, for example, so this isn't just about how many programs run at once and in what order. Second, you ca

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