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by cowmix 6y ago
I dunno, I think my kid's 4900U laptop is the single core king. Right?
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by cowmix 6y ago
Look, software always sucked and has always been enjoyable. It depends on where you are on your personal journey. I've been around long enuff to have suffered true burn-out more than a few time. When I take the 30K view, in the almost
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by cowmix 6y ago
Thank you! When my kids tried to explain TikTok to me I responded, "So it is Vine?"
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by cowmix 6y ago
This is all well and good but I still can't get mono output going out of Ubuntu 202004. The audio stack under most distros is still a weird mess.
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by cowmix 6y ago
Not a huge Curry fan but I'm REALLY not a fan of the co-host of his podcast. I have been reading John C Dvorak, in real-time, since the mid-80s. I challenge you to find someone so consistently wrong about technology and be wrong in the
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by cowmix 6y ago
They nailed the landing of the booster and I yawned. Amazing.
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by cowmix 6y ago
I don't know all about this PC Master Race stuff. Basically, I wanted my kids to have to maintain, build a system to play games. When my kids were young Minecraft JUST came out. They both learned A LOT about modding early. If they were
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by cowmix 6y ago
Now that my kids are officially "grown" (18+), here were/are my tech rules for the house: 1) We (my wife and I) do not want to know any of your passwords. 2) No content filters on any device or router level. 3) Mixed OSes (we
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by cowmix 6y ago
This a huge reason why I bought a 2013 Volt. Here in Phoenix I had many friends who had battery issues with their Leaf by mid-2013.
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by cowmix 6y ago
Coherent made a fatal choice at the wrong time. Mark Williams Company started to ramp up their marketing right before Linux really started to his. When they had to make a choice to add either XWindows or a TCP/IP stack to Coherent, the
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by cowmix 6y ago
When I had my ISP in 1993, I gave every new customer a copy of Stoll's first book. Great book then, great book now.
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by cowmix 6y ago
What is the difference (pros and cons) of using Square to trade stocks over Robinhood?
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by cowmix 6y ago
Back in 1983, i/o was much, much slower... which slowed everything else down. Floppy drives, cassette recorders, 300 baud modems, etc.
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by cowmix 6y ago
100%.. for all the crap Docker gets these days, it has been a great tool for my software dev processes.
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by cowmix 6y ago
Nope, stupid patent. People were rendering SQL results in HTML for at least two years when that patent was filed. When I say people, I mean me. On publicly available websites. :)
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by cowmix 6y ago
I use pipelines as much as the next guy but every time I see post praise how awesome they are, I'm reminded of the Unix Hater's Handbook. Their take on pipelines is pretty spot on too. http://web.mit.edu/~simsong&#
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by cowmix 6y ago
For gmail, gmvault is great: http://gmvault.org/
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by cowmix 6y ago
And, ironically, it doesn't seem to work in ChromeOS (Chromebooks).
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by cowmix 6y ago
This is great for some situations. However, my personal policy is to upload my protest content to Google Photos asap (if appropriate). This makes sure your content is off your device if your phone gets confiscated AND it provides (be it thi
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by cowmix 6y ago
Javascript is what will be used to program the James Web Telescope is/when it ever goes into orbit.
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by cowmix 6y ago
While I love WSL2, my biggest beef with the install process is I had to turn on almost every crap privacy-busting feature back on. I had 'decrapified' my Windows 10 install previously and the WSL2 reversed almost all that.
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by cowmix 6y ago
Hence the factory in China... which is fully owned by Tesla.
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by cowmix 6y ago
They are delivering as much value as fast as possible given X metrics. The cheapest Model 3 price is within the ASP of the average US car, and it is good value. As soon as they can do cheaper, they will.
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by cowmix 6y ago
I'm pretty much as much of a 'superfan' and you can get in regards to all of the Musk ventures. Elon's handling of the COVID19 thing, for me, has been a bridge too far. While prediction models for the pandemic have been
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by cowmix 6y ago
As a Musk fan and Trump not-a-fan, I can see your point. BTW, most Musk fans do not think this way. Most are frustrated by some of the crazy crap he says or does (and therefor creates headlines) but 98% of what he does and says is mostl
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by cowmix 6y ago
At the time, this ventures were not "another" online payment venture. This class of startups were the first, period. As I have stated in my other replies, at the time there was an opportunity like no other. Musk put his goals on h
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by cowmix 6y ago
He is working for financial gain, but as a means to get to the end of his goals: 1) Going to mars. 2) Sustainable energy / transport
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by cowmix 6y ago
Only through action and example will this start to happen. Before Musk kicked the car and rocket industry both in the nuts, there were hardly any startups in both sectors. Now, there are many in both. As he's showing, it won't be
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by cowmix 6y ago
I'm the same age as Musk so I can offer some perspective. Musk's first love is/was physics and he intended to work on electric cars at the get-go. However, at the time (and as I can attest to) the Internet was JUST starting t
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by cowmix 6y ago
Thank you! I've been using it on and off for years.. I'm still not sure what exactly it is or under what circumstances I should be using it.

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