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baldfat
9y ago
How to debug PulseAudio problems https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_PulseAudio_probl...
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9y ago
> JACK = less fuss WHAT? That is crazy talk. JACK is the most complected audio setup I have ever worked with. I owned a Record Label and a small studio. If you have to setup JACK from scratch it can get crazy complicated. Once you get i
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9y ago
John Carmack on his 10 year old son's first program. > I’m still taking a little heat from my wife for using an obscure language instead of something mainstream that is broadly used in industry, but I have nothing but good things to
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baldfat
9y ago
> you will end up needing something that is only available for the most popular 5-6 languages The thing that is the Special Sauce for Racket is it's macro system. You can build your own language for specific things easily or you can
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9y ago
I use it daily at work and QuteBrowser. They have worked really great for my needs. The backend is a basically a Chrome browser I don't see pages render incorrectly like I did with Opera.
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9y ago
I think all governments hate the crypto part of the currencies. You can't tax what you can't track. You can't manipulate what you don't have. I personally fall a little to the left of currencies. I think these monetary s
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baldfat
9y ago
AS a kid I remember those days. I spent like $100 because the IDE was going to help me crack all the gamez. Whelp that was a sorry waste of money.
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baldfat
9y ago
Well this seemed to be pretty straight forward? - http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/a-note-to-our-reade... We published the article with the firm belief that it was accurate. Given all of these reports, how
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baldfat
9y ago
Linux runs pretty poorly on Apple Hardware. I have tried 2 times and the rule of thumb is 2 generations back has the best support since it takes a while to iron out the bugs. I laugh at people when they say they use Linux on their new Macbo
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baldfat
9y ago
So what was the most popular laptop? The second closest I came across was the Dell XPS 13. I would say around 50% were running with Mac Books.
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baldfat
9y ago
I don't know when they asked the founder what his biggest regret was it was that story.
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baldfat
9y ago
For the last 10 years at all Linux events the number one laptop is a Mac. How are we to have nice things on Linux Desktop if people don't even know what it feels like.
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baldfat
9y ago
Um what did you install? Personally I have been an OpenSUSE guy for almost 10 years now. I would be surprised that you would have a problem. Ubuntu should also be found. Stay away from Fedora and Arch unless you don't mind getting into
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baldfat
9y ago
I am ALMOST right there. I have had a few minor paper cuts. I love that I can get Ranger working.
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baldfat
9y ago
It doesn't display ligatures.
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baldfat
9y ago
So then if you lose a connect to the first server you lost all your servers?
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baldfat
9y ago
If you only connect to one server yes.
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baldfat
9y ago
When your work computer is Windows.
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baldfat
9y ago
https://www.slant.co/topics/1552/~terminal-emulators-for-win... PS Sorry I just ruined your morning productivity.
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baldfat
9y ago
> don't "see" the colors if they aren't defined but that they haven't learned to distinguish between them Just a difference in linguistics? You can't see what you can't define.
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baldfat
9y ago
WHY does codeface not show ligatures? They only have them in the mono space example? Hack is my second favorite, but just the last year I switched to Fira Code: monospaced font with programming ligatures. I like the zero being a slash as op
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baldfat
9y ago
Referencing an old RadioLab podcast "Why isn't the Sky Blue." http://www.radiolab.org/story/211213-sky-isnt-blue/ That podcast states that Homer never used the color blue. As somewhat of a dead lang
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9y ago
I switched to MOBAXterm for this years ago. I need to give this a try. MOBAXterm does have a full X server and X11-Forwarding which is very handy.
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baldfat
9y ago
I have mostly left Python and moved to R, Racket and Lua for my needs. It is hard to see how Python won't stay the predominant first language for decades to come just due to momentum and the good reputation. My first language was Basic
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9y ago
So does that mean AMD is about to lose their number one customers? China has almost a monopoly on mining due to access to low to no cost electricity. The miners preferred AMD Graphic cards and make AMD cards hundreds of dollars more valuabl
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baldfat
9y ago
I believe that would be distro dependent. On my Linux base I just use the RPM until I added a repo.
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baldfat
9y ago
I made one with Auto Hotkey a while back. Works pretty well for the time. I think if I used headless Chrome I could get it to be even a little better.
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baldfat
9y ago
I should have stated that I still use VIM mode and bindings. It is the reason why I am there. I tried Sublime, Atom and other text editors and VS Code's VIM mode was on par.
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9y ago
I left VIM after 20 year to VS Code. I find that the ecosystem at VS Code to be the best I have ever seen. Great job by Microsoft and I use it on my Linux box all day.
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9y ago
Let's not forget who to blame for this. Pharmaceutical companies and Doctors. West Virgina is the most effected - http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/eric-eyre These articles shouldn't make you sad but MAD. "
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