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by apetresc 9y ago
Thank you for the clarifications :)
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by apetresc 9y ago
So does that mean that if you wanted to port, say, Xmonad to Wayland, you would have to reimplement compositing logic again? (Since the existing compositing-logic implementation also handles things like window placement that you would want
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by apetresc 9y ago
I'm getting confused about the term 'compositor'. I thought it was something like Compton, which sat between the application and X to combine layers on the GPU. The word has a similar meaning when talking about, say, browser
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by apetresc 9y ago
> So technically this version has lost every game it's ever won. No, they've also played it against AlphaGo Lee and AlphaGo Master. The SGFs are available at: https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v550
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by apetresc 9y ago
> I think it just goes to show that there is still a lot of work required to get Windows down to the same footprint as Linux. ... huh? They're not running Windows on these Pi's, are they? Nothing in the article indicates that t
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by apetresc 9y ago
Literally the next sentence after your quote was "However it's crazy how quickly it affected their publicity."
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by apetresc 9y ago
Haha yup, he's edited his message. Now I just look like a jerk :)
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by apetresc 9y ago
I suspect Universities themselves, being an abstract concept rather than a living being, don't actually write any of the things attributed to them. The document is hosted as a handout for a Stanford course, I don't know why it w
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by apetresc 9y ago
It appears this was the discovery, they're talking about it on stream now: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1733/ (ESO Telescopes Observe First Light from Gravitational Wave Source) The stream is at: h
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by apetresc 9y ago
I guess I'll be that guy and say that I highly doubt the author has taken more than a cursory glance at more than half his list. He certainly hasn't had the deep epiphanies he's implying from each of them. Seriously, he expec
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Uber's New CEO Just Sent an Amazing Email to Employees(inc.com)
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by apetresc 9y ago
Another filter I think is very important: only courses that have video lectures.
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by apetresc 9y ago
I've been told by multiple sources that freezing with one agency is enough - other agencies automatically pick up that freeze.
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by apetresc 9y ago
The article doesn't specify, but I assume that "weekly" means "one boot per week", right? The kinds of malware that this type of check is trying to prevent would easily circumvent an OS-level check, no? I assumed th
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Announcing the XFree KWin Project(blog.martin-graesslin.com)
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by apetresc 9y ago
I always hear this story about post offices forwarding mail with old addresses, but in my life (having moved a ton), I've never received mail at a new address with an old address printed on it, while I have received huge volumes of
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by apetresc 9y ago
There's favoritism, and then there's pragmatism. This seems like very sound advice.
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by apetresc 9y ago
I usually love these kinds of war stories, but this one was anticlimactic. This would have been the first instinct of anyone who's ever tried to open a PowerPoint they got over e-mail – "oh, one printer shows the wrong font? I bet
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by apetresc 9y ago
The best feeling in the world is running `ps aux` on a fresh Arch installation and having the output all fit on half the screen, and you can precisely identify why every single thing line is there. And then having that still be true two mon
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by apetresc 9y ago
I'm not a camera hardware expert, but my understanding is that (like most things), the booting process uses up more power than the same duration of time in a steady state. So the "five minutes" number is misleading; if that 5
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by apetresc 9y ago
Worth noting that the author's other book in a similar vein, "Hacking the Xbox", was made freely available by No Starch Press in a kind of protest after Aaron Seartz' death: https://www.nostarch.com/xboxf
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by apetresc 9y ago
Do you find "I want a completely overhauled education system with higher standards nationwide" and "I thankfully got myself transferred out of teaching at a bad school immediately" to be at all at odds with each other?
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by apetresc 9y ago
> I don't think any sane person doubts intelligence is genetic and inheritable. Are you kidding? It's probably one of the most controversial statements you can make in the general population.
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by apetresc 9y ago
Looking at the commits for GitLab CE, I can't really find a single recent contribution by someone not employed by GitLab. So I doubt it "gets fixed faster" than the enterprise version.
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by apetresc 9y ago
I don't know very much about geopolitical whatevers, but can anyone explain-like-I'm-five why everyone assumes that taking out the North Korean government has to involve 25 million refugees (which is the entire population of the c
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by apetresc 9y ago
Saying Apple makes the best smartphones has been very contentious for years now.
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by apetresc 9y ago
I agree. The guy's accusation doesn't make sense on a number of levels. I'm just quoting him, not endorsing him: https://twitter.com/indirect/status/900461424865980416
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by apetresc 9y ago
He didn't delete it or replace it, it was never there. There's no code shared between this project and Gemstash, it simply `require`s Gemstash the way any Ruby project would depend on any other gem.
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by apetresc 9y ago
The author of Gemstash is clearly trying to wring as much outrage from this as he possibly can. This is blatantly NOT a fork, it's a wrapper. On Twitter he's stepped down from the "fork" accusation and downgraded it to &
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by apetresc 9y ago
I think you may just need to read more carefully. It's abundantly clear what he's saying, and "what side of the fence" he's on.

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