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by danieldk 7y ago
I am not sure about fresh food, but The Netherlands is world's second largest agricultural exporter (and no, it's not only flowers): https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/09/holland-... A
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by danieldk 7y ago
Don't get your hopes up (too much) though. They will have to rely on an open source reimplementation of Cocoa (e.g. Cocotron or GNUStep) to support GUI apps. These are a long way from providing a full implementation of the macOS framew
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by danieldk 7y ago
Besides comparing times, I guess the accuracies or FP/FN rates are also important. The linked article states 95% accuracy for the Bosch test. Are there any numbers for the 5-minute test?
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by danieldk 7y ago
Background: Apple is abolishing (third-party) kernel extension to increase security: https://developer.apple.com/system-extensions/
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by danieldk 7y ago
IANAL, but in most legislations you do not have to register a trademark for it to be valid. It is important that you defend you trademark, and you will lose your right to a trademark if you fail to do so. https://en.wikipedia.org
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by danieldk 7y ago
And markdown-mode provides similar easy table editing for Markdown. This is what I have been using primarily on Linux. On the Mac I also use TableFlip [1], which provides an Excel-like interface for tables and works with any Markdown editor
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by danieldk 7y ago
I am not using Ubuntu or an Ubuntu derivative. Thank god I am using NixOS, which makes it very trivial to switch between kernel versions including external modules such as ZFS. When it comes to Arch, there is a long thread about this issue
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by danieldk 7y ago
I am not sure if this will ever get better. E.g. Intel GPUs that were perfectly fine for quite a while, now have regular hangs with Linux 5.3 and 5.4 [1]. Since Linux 5.4 is an LTS version, various distributions have already switched to it.
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by danieldk 7y ago
Apple couldn't just go for ARM they'd have to adapt their OS for that and I assume by now there is a lot of code in there making use of x86 quirks not easily adaptable to ARM I don't think the OS is the problem. First, macO
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by danieldk 7y ago
Doesn't Windows download the drivers and/or doesn't your vendor offer driver downloads? (For Windows itself, you can just download the ISO from Microsoft's website and use the product key that is on the laptop during ins
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by danieldk 7y ago
Many developers are using Windows or macOS and roll out to Linux servers. HN news has a relatively large number of people that use Linux on the desktop. But if you go to big traditional IT companies, it's mostly Windows and some Mac
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by danieldk 7y ago
Interesting. I also just opened it on my MacBook Pro it uses ~300MB of memory with 5 extensions. emacs with about half a gazillion packages uses 91MB.
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by danieldk 7y ago
When I was 15-16, me and a friend ordered CD-ROMs from CheapBytes and sold them in The Netherlands (with a label applied to cover the CheapBytes branding). Most people didn't have credit cards in the 90s, so this scheme worked well eno
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by danieldk 7y ago
SuSE invented LiveCD, AFAIR, years before Knoppix claims to be the first LiveCD Linux in the late 90s. Yggdrasil Linux was earlier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X
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by danieldk 7y ago
as the previous gen still had processors of the U series. No? The base model had a i5-8210Y? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Air#Technical_specific...
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by danieldk 7y ago
but it's overall very usable and I see no reason yet to upgrade. HiDPI. Once I had used a HiDPI screen for a while, I can't really tolerate LoDPI displays anymore.
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by danieldk 7y ago
And the performance still isn't even close to a mid range desktop machine which would have cost 1/4 the price. I'm seriously considering selling my MBP buying this Mac Book Air top config (I need an OSX machine to develop iO
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by danieldk 7y ago
Maintaining a hackintosh is a drag. You never now if an update is going to break things. You have to jump though a lot of hoops to get things like iMessage working. Moreover, you have to be prepared to use random kexts from the net. You als
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by danieldk 7y ago
It is not more pixelated. It's like scaling up all fonts and widgets by 2x, but still rendering them at 4k. So, the fonts and widgets are retina-sharp. Imagine using 4k as the resolution, but rendering all 14pt fonts as 28pt. Though I
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by danieldk 7y ago
I cycled approximately 5000 kilometers per year (cycling to work + over the weekends), also through hilly terrain. I have never had my brakes eat my rims. Also, even if they did. Replacing a 800 Euro bike once per two years is peanuts com
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by danieldk 7y ago
My commute would be almost six miles by bicycle. I'm not especially looking to replace the subway with a bike trip. We cycled 8 miles to high school every day (so, 16 per day). Cycling 6 miles is not a lot, unless you have to stop ev
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by danieldk 7y ago
Also Morph, which is like NixOps, but stateless: https://github.com/DBCDK/morph
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by danieldk 7y ago
> What's fundamentally insecure about it? The permission model of the browser is better than that of desktop operating systems. And yet, sites exfiltrate enormous amounts of behavioral information. Whereas with a desktop app, I can
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by danieldk 7y ago
Agreed. I started with Spacemacs, which showed what is possible in Emacs. But it is so horribly slow and breaks so often that I couldn't use it more than a few weeks. Then I started with a blank init.el and just added packages (with
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by danieldk 7y ago
The real cost there is data usage, and just keeping the SIM live. Even with large volume discounts, that's not gonna be cheap. (Wireless carriers don't price machine uses cases the same way they do retail phone SIM cards.) I don
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by danieldk 7y ago
Yes, it works with some applications, like Jitsi. No luck with Skype so far.
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by danieldk 7y ago
Wayland has been the default on Fedora since Fedora 25, released in 2016. I think replacing X.org in 8 years is pretty impressive, given that many desktop environments and too some extend toolkits have been tightly coupled to X11 in the pas
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by danieldk 7y ago
Moral of the story: do not buy NVIDIA, except if you need it for e.g. CUDA. My previous machine had an NVIDIA GPU and despite all the great work, nouveau was almost unworkably buggy. The proprietary NVIDIA drivers did not work with Wayland
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by danieldk 7y ago
Upsides: more secure (in X.org every client can read every other client's keystrokes, pointer position, and do screen grabs), generally smoother rendering, better support for mixed-DPI setups. Current downsides: worse support for scree
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by danieldk 7y ago
Sorry, I should have been clearer about that. You are completely right that at some point things have to rely on some primitives that are 'magic' (in this case UnsafeCell). But I meant that RefCell itself uses standard construct

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