braveo

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by braveo 10y ago
I couldn't get hardware acceleration without recompiling the kernel.
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by braveo 10y ago
Do you have a link to one of these?
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by braveo 10y ago
I just switched from AMD to NVidia because of driver issue. I run Arch Linux, and my experience is that installing NVidia drivers is miles ahead of AMD.
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by braveo 10y ago
didn't know that, thanks for the tip.
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by braveo 10y ago
I've not really noticed a spam problem at all, but I do things like sign up using microsoft+trap@domain-name.com, but even then I haven't really noticed a lot of traffic through that account. OTOH, I'm pretty anal about prote
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by braveo 10y ago
I've been using FastMail for several years and have nothing but good things to say. You can configure gmail to forward everything to a different email account, that's what I did when I moved. I have filters in SmarterMail that fi
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by braveo 10y ago
hmmm, that's interesting, I may have to take a look at it again. I was a part of the original mass exodus from Digg to reddit back when men were men, reddit was pissing off the lisp community, and reddit was mostly technical. That dam
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by braveo 10y ago
An analogy isn't a proof. When someone uses an analogy they're not trying to prove anything, they're trying to get you to see things from a specific perspective, or they're trying to communicate an idea. You can still wa
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by braveo 10y ago
I think you're getting downvoted because while you may not necessarily be wrong, you're also not really disagreeing with what I said, just making a distinction that isn't all that important (in the context of this conversatio
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by braveo 10y ago
If an analogy were perfect it would cease to be an analogy and would instead be the thing being discussed. That's just the nature of an analogy, but that doesn't make it useless or fair to attack the speaker for using an analogy.
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by braveo 10y ago
We're talking about a conversation amongst kernel/software developers about a very technical software issue. Anyone who doesn't understand why the risk was so small doesn't belong in the conversation. Can you even imag
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by braveo 10y ago
What's shocking is how badly people understand the purpose of an analogy. It's to communicate an idea to another person in a way that can also convey subtleties, and not just the literal words being conveyed. In this case, he was
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by braveo 10y ago
Don't bother, it's obvious they're not a pet owner and don't understand the sort of companionship one can have with pets. When I first got my cat (for mousing) I was shocked at how quickly I grew attached to her. I had
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by braveo 10y ago
Anyone who thinks about it at all understands that reddit gets manipulated pretty heavily. And for what it's worth, I stopped using FB and stay in specific subreddits now in large part due to the politics surrounding Trump. I'm a
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by braveo 10y ago
This was basically my read of it as well, I actually stopped reading right after the latina woman vs white male comparison for the very reasons you laid out.
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by braveo 10y ago
I have 32G in one machine, and 16G in another. I recently moved over to the 16G machine to do my dev work in, and I run a few VM's in it. I've found myself wanting to upgrade it to 32G ram, but honestly that's about the only
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by braveo 10y ago
It's a technique known as Reductio Ad Absurdum, and it's absolutely a valid way to point out the flaw in someone's argument. Your issue is that you're too entrenched in your way of thinking to accept it, which is not the
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by braveo 10y ago
No, hey, you're right, that CEO was probably sexist against men. Or was he racist against minorities? I sometimes can't figure out which thing I'm supposed to be offended about, there's so many to choose from.
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by braveo 10y ago
I once had the CEO of a company roll his eyes at me in the middle of a meeting and say roughly "you tech people are all the same". Did I scream discrimination or did I pass it off as the powerplay of an asshole? I passed it off as
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by braveo 10y ago
it's worse than that, the poster doesn't understand what the reasonable person test for law actually is, even though a wiki article on it was posted.
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by braveo 10y ago
The legal idea of a reasonable person is not the same thing, they share a similar name only.
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by braveo 10y ago
No, you're right, I'm sure that somehow Sony managed to hire an entire team of sys admins that were so incompetent that none of them actually realized just how vulnerable their system was. like... every. single. one. of their sys
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by braveo 10y ago
Since it apparently wasn't obvious: We should be putting "abrasive jerk" in quotes. The point that was being made by both of us is that these abrasive jerks aren't actually abrasive jerks, they're just going agains
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by braveo 10y ago
I stopped reading when the blogger started talking about the "brilliant developer who could code circles around us", and then referred to him as a "10x developer". These are stereotypes, and quite often bloggers will mak
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by braveo 10y ago
> So it makes sense that something described with a different name changes the act in "God's eyes" -- the same way that e.g. killing someone to take their money and killing someone to stop them from killing you are not bot
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by braveo 10y ago
The context of the discussion is the topic of the article, whether or not he's interested in the general discussion, he needs to be willing to read a fucking article. Or are we to believe this person is somehow well informed when they
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by braveo 10y ago
so exactly like Christians.
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by braveo 10y ago
ooooh, I guess God was ok with killing people as long as it was mass killings so you could call it something besides murder. Because apparently the exact name somehow makes the act better (or worse?) in God's eyes. https://w
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by braveo 10y ago
except for you, right? You're the special snowflake drowning in the sea of below average social skills.
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by braveo 10y ago
You would think someone who was good at this newfangled "empathy" stuff would've managed to start off their comment in a more positive way. It's all necessary for writing software, but when someone starts telling me one

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