danieldk

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   by danieldk 7y ago

   Our 5yo has an iPod Touch to play music. But she also has a Linux PC (she enjoys typing things and playing gcompris). But probably our best purchase is a Micro:Bit. Her programs are still simple, but it’s clear how much she enjoys being cre
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   by danieldk 7y ago

   Perhaps I'm falling behind the times... I don't know, weren't iPad sales stagnant for years? [1] Peak iPad was from 2013-2015. It may be that (only) Apple believes that iPad is the future computing platform. [1] https:&#
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   by danieldk 7y ago

   How is that a Linux-centric vision? Linux distributions have always tightly coupled application updates to OS (distribution) updates. In fact, this was often a criticism of Linux and one of the motivators for a lean immutable system like Fe
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   by danieldk 7y ago

   Not if you use Wayland. GNOME with Wayland works fine with screens with different DPIs.
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   by danieldk 7y ago

   I have used GNOME with HiDPI for two years on Wayland and it is great. Even Tk apps seem to support HiDPI these days. However, this is all assuming that 2x scaling is fine for you, support for fractional scaling is not great yet.
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   by danieldk 7y ago

   We are considering to move to PyTorch, we really dislike how the Tensorflow 1.x -> 2.0 transition is handled. For years a lot of stuff has been added to tf.contrib , some things were only in tf.contrib and now that it's dropped i
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   by danieldk 7y ago

   There are a lot of mom and pop shops, which just do what is their passion and they want their customers to be happy. Money is just a means to support themselves. E.g. I frequented a lot of local record shops and it was clear that their owne
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   by danieldk 7y ago

   For instance, supposing they want to show you a welcome screen with all of your documents from your Documents folder (or anywhere else) - I don't want some asinine popup asking me for permission. Word is a well-known application. I in
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   by danieldk 7y ago

   Yes their recent trend of moving user privacy to the forefront is one of the few really positive trends i've seen out of apple in the past 2-3 years. Apple has moved privacy to the forefront for a much longer time. Apple was the firs
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    by danieldk 7y ago

    I think another issue is that on Apple's platforms the changes are quite abrupt, whereas most other platforms are gradual. E.g., if you wrote a Qt (the toolkit) application in 1996, you could have slowly transitioned your application t
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    by danieldk 7y ago

    The wiki page: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_on_ZFS
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    by danieldk 7y ago

    Am I misreading this or is Ted T'so really suggesting that we should all just stop worrying and love the secret and compeltely unauditable RNG offered by the same company that has literally backdoored every CPU they've sold in th
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    by danieldk 7y ago

    Red Hat doesn't have developers to support Btrfs, and it takes a lot of support if you're going to depend on constant backporting of fixes and features. Given how many kernel developers and filesystem developers they have, it wo
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    by danieldk 7y ago

    I didn't have any problems on NixOS thus far. Of course, it doesn't use or need DKMS. Also, doing a root on ZFS install was as simple as installing root on brtfs.
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    by danieldk 7y ago

    I often feel hopeless as well and feel that there is a chance that things well even be worse than the IPCC projections due to unforseen tipping points, to the point where large parts of the world will be uninhabitable to humans (which bring
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    by danieldk 7y ago

    And before people start bashing systemd, the cause for boot hangs was actually collection of randomness for a Xorg/Xwayland MIT cookie through gdm. So, Linus' e-mail linked by the parent is somewhat inaccurate. https://
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    by danieldk 7y ago

    It's also because the smartphone became mature. Many of the earlier iPhones had gigantic deltas: 3G, Retina + front-facing camera, Touch ID/secure enclave, > 4 inch display. Now (or at least for now) the changes have become mor
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    by danieldk 7y ago

    I don't really use my phone much anymore besides for calling, messaging and occasionally checking email. Whatever productivity boost I'll get on my phone doesn't matter much in practice. Battery life is also no problem. The 6
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    by danieldk 7y ago

    I also have an 6s. Haven't found much reason to upgrade. I like the smaller form factor. I guess upgrading to the 7 or 8 may be nice at some point for water resistance (a heavy rain shower killed my SE).
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    by danieldk 7y ago

    Or one could provide a package manager that allows user installs of software, like Nix. (Depending on the threat model, of course.)
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    by danieldk 7y ago

    Or alternatively, they buy a competitor to sink it before they become too powerful or falls in the hands of another larger competitor.
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    by danieldk 7y ago

    Also, I noticed that some submissions unfavorable to Google seem to be flagged heavily (at least, they were posted more recently and had more upvotes, than higher-ranking submissions). Of course, posting and flagging may not be intentional
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    by danieldk 7y ago

    Realtek has the RTL8710, which is a lot like the ESP8266 but with an ARM Cortex-M3 (while Espressif uses the rather obscure Xtensa architecture), which has the advantage of getting an LLVM toolchain for it, which means you can program it i
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    by danieldk 7y ago

    Plus they are a Shanghai-based company and can be compelled by the Chinese government to place hardware back doors. (They are great for makers though, very affordable, lots of features.)
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    by danieldk 7y ago

    But let me give some random examples that annoy me: - macOS used to follow very consistent UI guidelines. Now Apple's applications are all over the place. It gets even worse with Catalyst. - Stagnation of the development of low-level f
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    by danieldk 7y ago

    s/MB/GB/g I hope ;). 4MB may be enough to play DOOM though.
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    by danieldk 7y ago

    Laptop model: MacBook Pro 2018 CPU: 2.3 GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 (8259U) RAM: 8GB Screen: 13" Personal comments: The hardware is great. Haven't had problems with the keyboard of this generation. Touch ID is awesome. The touch b
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    by danieldk 7y ago

    In the Nix store ( /nix ): % which cp /run/current-system/sw/bin/cp Each package has its own path in the nix store: % readlink $(which cp) /nix/store/l96gc2qb8ysnf5hcq1hp5a
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    by danieldk 7y ago

    On NixOS: % find /bin /usr /bin /bin/sh /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/env /usr and /bin are only there to provide sh and env for compatibility wi
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    by danieldk 7y ago

    Functions can also be generic over references vs. move/copy semantics, e.g.: fn foo<T>(frob: T) where T: Borrow<Frob> { // Do something with frob.borrow() } Due to monomorpization, foo is spec