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by blihp 7y ago
It's pretty much guaranteed it's not a representative sample of the total PC market but rather just the DIY/builder segment. The largest PC manufacturers (i.e. Lenovo, HP etc.) who ship the lion's share of the volume ar
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by blihp 7y ago
Nah, you're still a youngster. Got Perl 1 via Usenet in 1988 when there wasn't even a web yet.
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by blihp 7y ago
Something that can be listed as (intangible) assets on their balance sheet as well as for use as defensive/offensive weapons against other companies. The majority of them likely have very little actual value.
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by blihp 7y ago
After ~10 years[1] you will hopefully have developed a reasonable skill set and general competency as a programmer. Whether or not it is still interesting is entirely up to you. Assuming you've found an area of specialty in the indus
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by blihp 7y ago
Sure. As long as there is something compelling (whether game play, storytelling, graphics, AI... whatever) about a given game, it can still be a lot of fun even when you know how it's made.
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by blihp 7y ago
You can absolutely turn it off. I've been running with swap turned off on all of my desktop systems (Linux, Unix and Windows), and some servers, for over 20 years. The theoretical worst case scenario is that the system hits an OOM sit
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by blihp 7y ago
To your question re: why the downvotes (I wasn't one of them): it was an honest, but not very good, question. You essentially misunderstood the main focus of this site (Hacker News [1]) and asked, in a way that likely came across as
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by blihp 7y ago
Don't know as I'm right there with you using nVidia myself right now. While I'm going to be picking up a new Ryzen-based system soon, AMD's GPU offerings aren't where they need to be for me to shift away from nVidi
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by blihp 7y ago
Because until recently, on Linux AMD's driver story hasn't been good and performance has lagged. The driver situation is improving but it will take time to win people back. It also doesn't help that they don't (yet) ha
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by blihp 7y ago
A lot of the 'difficult' reputation lingers from the pre-2.5 days when the UI was quite different from anything most users had ever seen before. The 2.5, and now 2.8, UI reworking has gone a long way to remove this barrier for ma
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by blihp 7y ago
There are probably many more people in the industry today who are stronger in a single domain but far fewer who have expertise in multiple domains. Woz has serious skills in software, digital and analog circuits. You might say 's
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by blihp 7y ago
It's a combination of architecture and process that is helping AMD and hurting Intel right now. I don't think it's luck: Intel got complacent and AMD got hungry. We're seeing the effects of 10 years of that on both com
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by blihp 7y ago
Then 'real' non-farm compensation isn't really inflation-adjusted in a terribly meaningful way, is it? Also, often the premiums aren't paid entirely by employers.
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by blihp 7y ago
That would be the one! I posted a stackoverflow question along with my workaround not knowing the cause. Fortunately, someone else identified timidity as the root cause. Definitely one of the stranger issues I've run into using test
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by blihp 7y ago
As a long time Debian user, I think you're doing Debian a disservice giving that advice. Debian testing is stable... except when it's not. Tell people that it's relatively stable, not that it's stable. And please do
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by blihp 7y ago
I suspect that when most people refer to small towns they are implicitly including most suburban areas which are a big chunk of that 82%. (i.e. there are a lot of cities that don't have a significant downtown population but have massiv
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by blihp 7y ago
No, there was a story here about DIY CPAP about a month ago. None of this is new though efforts do appear to be gaining momentum. What is new is that the tools and technology (think dirt-cheap microcontrollers that you can easily (re)progr
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by blihp 7y ago
Back in the day it wasn't a bug, but rather more of a cheat to make your system feel faster than it really was: if the system actually gave the UI a fair share of CPU cycles, the system would feel incredibly sluggish. Conversely, if i
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by blihp 7y ago
You're assuming a precision in their post that I wasn't (i.e. that it's actually coming from the PCB, rather than 'the collection of parts called a PC sitting in front of me'... which would include the speakers for
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by blihp 7y ago
Generally it's cheap/poorly designed audio amplifier circuits. Even though modern PC audio is mostly digital, the final stage (getting sound out the speaker) is still analog. If the motherboard designer isn't careful about
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by blihp 7y ago
Apple's report covers all government requests regardless of the reason for the request. Only 80 of the nearly 30,000 requests were related to app takedowns.
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by blihp 7y ago
I'm curious why you find it a breath of fresh air? The Wikipedia link in the post you're responding to specifically states that composition over inheritance is an OOP principle. If one needs to abandon OOP to make use of compo
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by blihp 7y ago
The Pi 3 is no less usable than it was before the announcement. Why bother getting a Pi 4 when you haven't found a use for your 3 yet? I still use a Pi 2 with no complaints. One downside to the 4 is that it is moving from the low po
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by blihp 7y ago
For a while at least... the drama is exactly the use case you're describing: supporting old software/peripherals (esp. 32-bit apps for Wine/Steam.) If Ubuntu freezes 32-bit libraries at the current versions, it's likely
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by blihp 7y ago
Over time they'll be able to show that. It's going to take them several more years before the memory of their previous architecture (i.e. the 5-10 years, depending on who you ask, prior to Ryzen) truly fades and they are seen as
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by blihp 7y ago
In general, the developers are wherever the corporate sponsorship is these days. i.e most development on key packages these days isn't done as a labor of love by most developers anymore. Also, at least a significant fraction, if not t
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by blihp 7y ago
Open Source effectively is out of America or any other single jurisdiction: think of all of the people who have up to date copies of virtually every package all around the world. If the U.S. were to say tomorrow, as we used to do with cryp
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by blihp 7y ago
With (on Debian at least, wine32 is a recommended package for the wine64 install)
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by blihp 7y ago
True, but Wine and Steam are very common use cases on the desktop. While both applications could probably go the snap route, I'm not sure they'd be up to taking on then entirety of the 32-bit stack support across all platforms
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by blihp 7y ago
It's not that you can't find modern replacements for them, it's not wanting/needing to if you've got something that already works for you. Some of that crusty stuff from the 1990's and earlier works just fin

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