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by billyjobob 6y ago
Linux on desktop used to be great, but does anyone get the sense that it is going downhill? I don't even touch proprietary Nvidia drivers, all my machines are Radeon or Intel GPU and they used to work fine. But currently on Radeon I h
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by billyjobob 6y ago
I’m guessing this is the issue being referred to https://github.com/mono/linux-packaging-msbuild/issues/1
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by billyjobob 6y ago
You’re far too generous. Open Source has always had a point, and it’s succeeded in achieving that point: the point is to take mindshare away from Free Software so developers use non-copyleft licenses that are preferable to big business.
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by billyjobob 6y ago
When this was written a married woman was required to obey her husband in all matters. This meant that she would vote for whomever he told her to vote for, effectively giving each man two votes. So it made sense to disallow this.
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A prerecorded message from Richard Stallman(peertube.qtg.fr)
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by billyjobob 6y ago
You are thinking of Source-Available Software[1], not Open Source. The sets of Open Source and Free Software licenses are (almost) identical. OSS == FOSS == FLOSS == FS, etc. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-a
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by billyjobob 6y ago
Your understanding is incorrect. Open Source is an alternative term for Free Software[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_terms_for_free_sof...
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by billyjobob 6y ago
What if you had a secret vote on whether to murder someone? Who would you blame? You would charge the people who recorded the outcome of the vote and did the killing with murder, and you would charge everyone who participated in the vote wh
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by billyjobob 6y ago
Ever since kernel 5.7 was released my i7-5500 will not boot. (Well it will boot with “nomodeset” option but then X doesn’t work so not very useful.) It’s still not fixed in 5.9.
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by billyjobob 6y ago
Many Java shops are only just upgrading to JDK 8 though.
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by billyjobob 6y ago
Slashdot was good for a while, then CNN and YouTube kicked off their trolls, and they all went to /. It's now the place to go, if you want swastika ASCII art. ASCII art trolling is not new. Penis Bird Guy was a hugely famous Sla
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by billyjobob 6y ago
This article is full of grammatical mistakes. I know usually we should focus on the content and not the presentation but it’s difficult to take seriously advice on writing from someone who isn’t a good writer. To address the content, I thin
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by billyjobob 7y ago
If someone values optimal architectural choices even when it damages the political cause of software freedom, then what is he doing in the Free Software movement? There is a sister movement that was set-up explicitly to be technical and no
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by billyjobob 7y ago
Stallman is GNU. GNU is Stallman. If the project maintainer has a problem with Stallman issuing orders then he has a problem with being part of GNU. If a GNU project has problems with GNU then the solution is to fork the project into a n
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by billyjobob 7y ago
Most young people are also daft and impatient. There was one golden generation, say born in the 70s and 80s, who grew up with tech that encouraged tinkering and learning. Anyone older or younger than this didn’t get the opportunity.
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by billyjobob 8y ago
Sure there are such licenses, but they aren’t Open Source. By definition they are proprietary.
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by billyjobob 8y ago
Whoever thought the placebo effect was a ‘trick’? It’s well established that the mind controls the brain which controls the body. (And the other way around, too). A physiological problem in the mind can cause a chemical problem in the brain
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by billyjobob 8y ago
>"If you're going to invest $20, $40, $60 in a tarot reading and you find it's irrelevant to you, or did you no good, why would that being any different than going to a reiki treatment and finding that didn't work?&q
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by billyjobob 9y ago
I would like hot corners on Linux, but all the programs that I find seem to be abandoned. https://github.com/brianhsu/xfce4-hotcorner-plugin looks most promising, but it needs updating to work with current XFCE.
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by billyjobob 9y ago
I used to think I had changed in the same way you did. Now I realize that the majority of (male) teenagers are narcissistic, manipulative and impulsive. Fortunately most of them grow out of it sometime in their 20s. See "A Clockwork
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by billyjobob 9y ago
For Java 8 it is about 200mb. Java 9 should be smaller because it should only bundle the parts the app actually used.
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by billyjobob 9y ago
Have you never installed an app that required the Dot Net runtime to be installed?
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by billyjobob 9y ago
The install size on disk is indeed about 200 mb including the Java runtime. However the claim here is that Electron uses 200mb of RAM, which is much more precious than disk Most of the Java runtime is not actually used by most apps so the
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by billyjobob 9y ago
Javafx includes a packager tool which creates a native application with the runtime bundled inside. There is nothing to install.
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by billyjobob 9y ago
I guess they think they are cool for being able to provide this feature through a library function rather than a language construct, but someone should tell them they really need to add some syntactic sugar that transparently invokes arrayO
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by billyjobob 9y ago
Starcraft was originally a Warhammer 40k game. They lost the license but published it anyway after changing the names.
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by billyjobob 9y ago
Nevertheless, you should still see a shrink. If you don't like the stigma of mental illness then see one who calls themselves a 'life coach' and say you're going for advice on improving your life.
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by billyjobob 9y ago
If you really are 0x then yes you're in the wrong job. But first read up on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome because tho
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by billyjobob 10y ago
Men are far more likely than women to be the victims of all forms of violent crime, so why are you 'especially' concerned about women?
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by billyjobob 10y ago
This assumes that shipping the game is the primary objective. While that will be true for professional projects, when working on an amateur project my goals are: 1. Have fun coding 2. Learn new technologies Actually shipping is way down the

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