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by baghira 11y ago
While I'm not a fan of this development either, the position w.r.t. darktable was frankly unreasonable: the library in question is not meant to be a system library. Indeed I believe also digikam had similar problems. Having a modicum
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by baghira 11y ago
Right, but in that case you lose completely the crucial gatekeeping function. Already now arxiv.org is full of papers with glaring technical and conceptual mistakes. Imagine what would happen if submissions to arxiv.org where they way one d
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by baghira 11y ago
It puzzles me that the most significant problem with open access receives little mention, in discussions on HN: it changes the incentives structure of publication, from one where the publisher has to please the ones buying the journal to on
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by baghira 11y ago
By the same token it doesn't even have a window system, I don't think it is a good argument. Chrome/chromium should simply depend on libnotify, just like it depends on gtk2.
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by baghira 11y ago
At this rate I also foresee a clash with Phonon and Plasma from the KDE project.
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by baghira 11y ago
This doesn't sound as a good name given the existence of: https://vmware.github.io/photon/ Granted, in the context of atom and electron it makes sense, but still.
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by baghira 11y ago
True, but if that is the case you won't be running dmd in the first place. And automated conversion/runtime translation will be a possibility even with different service managers, e.g. systemXVI. I'm not really convinced by t
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by baghira 11y ago
1. The solution to this is to write a translator from systemd units (those of .service type) to the desired kind of unit. I haven't looked into dmd, but this should be possible at least for the majority of units. 2. This was going to b
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by baghira 11y ago
Selinux should block the VENOM vulnerability in Qemu: http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/71489.html See also http://www.selinuxproject.org/page/SVirt Keep in mind that Grsec (which is definitely underdepl
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by baghira 11y ago
You can definitely extend the definition of factorial to the complex numbers using Euler's Gamma function, but the notation is different (indeed ! is reserved for integers). As far as the second question goes, that's taken to be t
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by baghira 11y ago
It's been pushed to Fedora 24. Still, supposedly with 23 everything should work the same (instead on 22 there were still features missing), allowing to iron out the bugs (well, some of them).
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by baghira 11y ago
You are right, of course (although I'd argue that the term layman is poorly defined, on HN I'd expect a significant fraction of readers to know what a differential equation is). Still, there is the kernel of the correct explanatio
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by baghira 11y ago
The rubbersheet economy (as a dialogue): 1. Prices move according to the law of supply and demand. 2. Right: why do they move though? 1. Simple: every hour the central government determines the current supply and demand for all goods, and c
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by baghira 11y ago
A decent explanation is here: http://www.physicspages.com/2013/03/30/geodesics-paths-of-lo... (I haven't checked all the calculations though). A similar explanation is shown in Feynman's lectures: h
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by baghira 11y ago
I still disagree: the problem is not the number of dimensions, the problem is that the physics is wrong. If one flips the rubbersheet, the geodesics are the same, but clearly now the model doesn't match our intuition. Indeed the object
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by baghira 11y ago
I strongly disagree. There's a regime in which Newtonian gravity describes the world. There is no such regime for the rubbersheet model of GR, since the Earth's gravity is responsible, not the sheet's curvature. It's the
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by baghira 11y ago
Yes, that part is definitely wrong. The free falling observer crosses the horizon in a finite time. It's the external obsever that see the infalling object redshifted to infinity. An the curvature scalar is finite everywhere except tha
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by baghira 11y ago
It's a great tool, but the problem with DRM to me is not the technical difficulty of removing it, it's the validation of a business model predicated on denying ownership of the books by the users. It's like buying an iphone a
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by baghira 11y ago
Similarly Springer ebooks have your name as a watermark at the bottom of the page, but no "real" DRM. It's a pretty reasonable compromise.
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by baghira 11y ago
Right, I kept using "wheel" to mantain the terminology in the github page, but clearly this created confusion. But my point was that, regardless of whether you use sudo or su, on GNU/Linux or on *BSD, if the account used to e
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by baghira 11y ago
Sure, although I never found that reason to hold much ground given that in reality most distros ship with accounts that can open a shell (instead of having a list of allowed commands) and have the timeout not set to zero, so any security be
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by baghira 11y ago
You misread my post, what I meant was that your day-to-day account is vulnerable, since you run your applications with it. If that's the account belonging to wheel, once your user account is compromised the attacker is root as well. On
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by baghira 11y ago
Sure, it always bothered me that guides show whole lists of commands prefixed by sudo, instead of teaching people to disable the timeout and use "sudo -i" or "sudo -s" to get their stuff done. See also the fact that OSX
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by baghira 11y ago
What I found problematic (unless I'm missing something) was the suggestion that your day-to-day user should be in the wheel group: if that's the case, once your user is compromised the attacker can edit .bashrc to change $PATH and
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by baghira 11y ago
It does work in urxvt and konsole (and there's an option to turn it off). And as tempodox said, this is just VT100 stuff.
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by baghira 11y ago
It's not that simple. Changes in the syntax for strings and environmental variables are going to bite precisely newcomers who would benefit the most from fish. And sourcing happens. I do know that all these problems result from fish ha
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by baghira 11y ago
For Atom/RSS canto should cover your needs, provided you are looking for a terminal based reader. It runs as a daemon with a ncurses interface. http://codezen.org/canto-ng/ Newsbeuter should be interesting, but I&
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by baghira 11y ago
Both krill and baleen whales are filter feeders (i.e. eat what they find filtering water). Baleen sounds like a good name for PyQt GUI to krill.
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by baghira 11y ago
1. Yes, you have higlighted a source of frustration: currently to limit certain features one must either install half a dozen extensions on chromium or firefox, or stick to ESR versions of firefox, or gtkwebkit browsers (which I'm afra
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by baghira 11y ago
Ok, I guess that I misread the tone of your post (i.e. we largely agree). I don't however think that the web it that broken without those features (javascript being the harder one to police). Judging from the browsing habits of my f

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