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by blihp 7y ago
Godot's strongest areas currently are probably its 2D engine and that it's lightweight. I'd suggest trying it first to see if it's a good fit. From the needs you describe, it might be.
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by blihp 7y ago
It's quite a bit more expensive here in the U.S. The issue is that many of the people they are steering away from the free filing (i.e. low income) would benefit from it the most: they have very little money already and their taxes ar
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by blihp 7y ago
Fair point. I was more referring to the fact that the Debian project itself isn't actively looking at / working on anything to replace systemd.
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by blihp 7y ago
Moved... past tense. The bulk of distros completed the move a while ago. Sure, systemd has it's issues (notably scope creep) but for most use cases it is arguably an improvement.
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by blihp 7y ago
It's basically saying that nothing is changing. 'Exploring alternatives' is a nebulous phrase that says they're sticking with the status quo and keeps the options open but doesn't commit anyone to actually doing an
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by blihp 7y ago
There is absolutely nothing wrong with this (in fact quite a bit is right with it) as long as they have ensured that any of the original owner's data has been wiped. Re-using is far more environmentally friendly than recycling since
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by blihp 7y ago
Microcode. Back when C became a thing, microcode only existed on 'big iron'. That changed 20+ years ago. The microarchitecture is the 'real' architecture you're running on, the ISA that assembly language and C cod
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by blihp 7y ago
Attendance is irrelevant to most of your points: 1) Some can learn the material without attending. If they don't learn it, their grade will reflect that. 2) If one is present but doesn't participate, how does taking attendance he
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by blihp 7y ago
The negligence on this migration sounds breathtaking: they have a four-nines availability requirement and decided to do a big bang migration with what sounds like virtually non-existent, or at least grossly inadequate, testing and no abilit
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by blihp 7y ago
Probably easier to find women still alive at that age. (Here in the U.S. at least, women tend to outlive men by ~5 years)
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by blihp 7y ago
Every year the percentage of users willing to pay anything for standalone/prepaid software drops. And the price those left are willing to pay drops as well. The reality is that for the most part the prepaid consumer software market
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by blihp 7y ago
Applications like Pixelmator are likely depending on the growing userbase of the Apple ecosystem for their own growth. Should they ever see that growth stall out, expect them to move to subscriptions as well. Also, they have 'disable
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by blihp 7y ago
For many of the people taking their shot, the struggle to pay life's basic expenses and having no marketable skills is the alternative. It's not like most of the people are asking themselves 'do I pursue a career in tech&#
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by blihp 7y ago
From the standpoint of odds of success, it's probably not terribly different than trying to become a professional athlete, actor or musician. You have a tiny sliver of those who try who make it big, a much larger wedge who scrape by a
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by blihp 7y ago
You're right that the actual number is too low. But I think he, and Pine64, are just being responsible in managing expectations. The issue isn't just that the software isn't done, but also that the hardware may not be 100%
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by blihp 7y ago
In the case of the PinePhone, they aren't doing any OS/application development. So it will be up to distro spinners and upstream developers to solve the software problem. Part of what Pine64 is trying to do is kickstart an ecosys
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by blihp 7y ago
Funny you should compare it to the Internet. I remember the days when you could post something online and not worry about it because 1) only a very tiny fraction of the world was online 2) even if you were online, good luck finding it unle
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by blihp 7y ago
It's a pretty rich multiple if one believes their fundamentals have been deteriorating. Intel has spent the last decade abandoning market after market while simultaneously not being able to execute in the markets they were still in.
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by blihp 7y ago
To many developers, the main reason they contribute to open source software is for the benefit of leveraging each others work. If one is the sole author due to lack of contributions, from that perspective there is no value to the develope
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by blihp 7y ago
The article wasn't debating the stand so much as it was talking about the other 'accessories' (i.e. the wheels and cloth for the nano particle display.) So it appears that the stand was just testing the waters.
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by blihp 7y ago
Companies don't typically operate that way. All else being equal (especially when there's no $$$ in it for them) when given the choice between doing something and doing nothing, they usually choose to do nothing. It's often
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by blihp 7y ago
I suspect there are two main reasons: 1) Dilution comes with the game when going the VC route (which founders may or may not have realized ahead of time) and once you've started down that path, it's hard to reverse course since yo
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by blihp 7y ago
I doubt that this would be nearly as useful as you think since so many apps are dependent on Google services these days and even the client libraries for them are proprietary. And then there's the fact that you're constantly play
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by blihp 7y ago
Any Linux phone is going to be expensive vs. an Android phone for what you're going to get given the low unit volumes. For some, privacy is worth a premium. For others, the ability to just run Linux will be. That said, I'm proba
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by blihp 7y ago
One thing I've found with this particular author is that there typically isn't much meat to get to. The articles tend to be a verbose celebration of Apple's greatness commingled with speculation.
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by blihp 7y ago
In general, definitely. But it was only done for critical/high value tasks that either weren't feasible to do any other way or the cost savings from labor elimination made it cost effective. As recently as the 80's business
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by blihp 7y ago
If you're a manufacturer are you going to go after the 95-99% of the market that wants a set that's cheaper due to the bundled spyware or the 1-5% that are willing to pay a premium not to include it? Granted, I'm guessing as
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by blihp 7y ago
We had 3-4 decades (40's-70's) of 'lock in' when conventional computers were essentially 'big iron' that only large organizations had access to. If quantum computing ends up having useful general purpose appli
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by blihp 7y ago
I don't think its lost meaning as much as it has a completely different meaning than it used to. It seems pretty common when something goes mainstream, as computing has, for original definitions to be tossed aside while the terms get
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by blihp 7y ago
Probably not problems per se, but rather they didn't book enough production capacity. Sounds like the lead time is ~6 months so any course corrections will probably take about that long to see results of.

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