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by danieldk 8y ago
We'll see whether the rubber seals keep out the dust permanently or just delays the speck of death. If the dust gets in it'll be a whole lot harder to remove with compressed air.
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by danieldk 8y ago
Those are two quite modestly-spec'd laptops with fairly high price tags. I bought a rebranded Clevo with pre-installed Ubuntu 4 years ago with an i7 and 16GB of RAM for around $1,000. Sure. I am just saying that there is no big marku
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by danieldk 8y ago
I tried, but I don't really feel much sympathy for someone who buys a product with a 40% premium that's effectively a status symbol masquerading as a piece of hardware. Oh come on, this is getting really old. A lot of people (mo
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by danieldk 8y ago
Practically any laptop has a good keyboard compared to the first two generations of butterfly keyboards. I have suffered through a MacBook Pro with the second generation butterfly mechanism. Although I liked the feel of the pristine keyboar
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by danieldk 8y ago
I think that people underestimate the cost for most people to switch to another system. If you use any system for years, there are many ingrained habits that are hard to unlearn. Then there are probably applications that they use that have
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by danieldk 8y ago
The charitable reading is that they meant 'Xubuntu'. They probably argue that Xubuntu is nice, but not the future because it does not do atomic upgrades with rollbacks. (I largely agree that OSTree-based systems are better, but Ub
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by danieldk 8y ago
Fedora has had Wayland as the default since Fedora 25 (2016). In my experience, it has been stable since Fedora 26/27. I am not sure what the situation is now, but Wayland pretty much excluded NVIDIA. The proprietary drivers did not ha
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by danieldk 8y ago
My experience is the same. I mostly use macOS on the desktop, so I am used to Lo/HiDPI screens to work together. On my Linux workstation, I tried several desktop environments, but GNOME on Wayland was the only environment to nail it 6-
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by danieldk 8y ago
I have used Spacemacs for a while (ex vi/vim user). It is a good gateway drug, but it is also buggy and slow. After a few months, I started to build up my configuration bit by bit with use-package, evil, and general.el. I largely use t
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by danieldk 8y ago
Plus creating image recognition training data for them. I am not interested in working for Google. Not paid, let alone for free.
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by danieldk 8y ago
Well, obviously, all royalty are going to have similar vectors. The skipgram is just an implicit matrix vectorization of a shifted PMI matrix. And most royalty will have similar co-occurrences. My point is that the vector components do not
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by danieldk 8y ago
Yep. For this reason I override the standard UNIX tools on macOS with Nix + home-manager. E.g.: ~ % which grep /Users/daniel/.nix-profile/bin/grep ~ % which sed /Users/daniel/.nix-profile&#x
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by danieldk 8y ago
There are clear places where “king” and “queen” are similar to each other and distinct from all the others. Could these be coding for a vague concept of royalty? This is a common misunderstanding and unfortunately strengthened by the exam
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by danieldk 8y ago
Yet, many people in the world cannot afford iPhones and have to use non-pristine Android versions where Google siphons data, along with a multitude of other shady parties that paid the vendor enough to put their apps or spyware on their pho
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by danieldk 8y ago
Even if languages have different typing regimes, that does not mean that they can be compared. They are means to an end after all. Outside the language itself, you can also compare ecosystems, available tooling, etc. For his ends, staticall
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by danieldk 8y ago
Chickenpox vaccinations are not mandatory in all of Europe. E.g. our daughter was vaccinated against chickenpox because we lived in Germany at the time (where they have been vaccinating against chickenpox since 2004), but kids in The Nether
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by danieldk 8y ago
The Black Magic Probe is really nice. If you want to try it out without spending the money for a BMP up front, it's also fairly simple to flash it onto a Blue Pill board that can be had for a few dollars. Most F103C8 Blue Pills are sol
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by danieldk 8y ago
But Apple does not support macOS for most Macs that long. E.g. last year's Mojave does not support iMacs from before 2012. You may be lucky and they might support the iMac Pro a bit longer, but it is unlikely that you'll get an up
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by danieldk 8y ago
I'm wondering if the appeal of these begins when you get older? I am 36, I had several iPads, but they always end up gathering dust in a closet. For work, I am several times more productive on a laptop, for occasional browsing, e-mai
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by danieldk 8y ago
You can get STM32 boards for the same price (Blue Pill/Black Pill). ARM does have 'apt-get install arduino'-level of convenience. You can actually use the Arduino IDE through stm32duino, which is literally a matter of addin
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by danieldk 8y ago
Blue Pills are nice, except that most Chinese Blue Pills have an out-of-spec pull-up resistor on D+. So, if you want to use the USB port, you have to replace the resistor. Also, on many of them the micro-USB connectors are not soldered to t
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by danieldk 8y ago
For £5 I can get an ESP8266 on a NodeMCU board - these have more GPIO, much faster CPU, WiFi, drop nicely in to a breadboard, etc. Unfortunately, many Chinese manufacturers 'improved' the NodeMCU design. The so-called NodeMCU v3
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by danieldk 8y ago
The Windows API may be old and rotting, but NT is a very modern kernel compared to Linux. It would make as much sense for them to support Linux binaries on Windows. Oh wait, they do ;). I think Microsoft would make quite a splash if they op
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by danieldk 8y ago
Yes, SUSE indeed started as a modified version of Slackware. For a long time, SUSE's package categories names were based on Slackware's disk sets names (even after rebasing away from Slackware). Later, SUSE hired the author of the
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by danieldk 8y ago
Note that if the other blog post is not licensed under a license that allows you to do so (such as Creative Commons Share-Alike), you are simply not permitted to copy images or text without explicit permission from the authors. It's no
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by danieldk 8y ago
Yes. For some reason people, even those running Ubuntu servers, are surprised to learn that universe has no guarantee to get updates for known vulnerabilities. Ubuntu is currently divided into four components: main, restricted, universe an
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by danieldk 8y ago
Indeed. I started using NixOS and Nix a bit more than six months ago and I was contributing patches within no-time. One can just submit a pull request on GitHub (with the proper format) and a lot of aspects are automated: e.g. the impact of
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by danieldk 8y ago
This post links to podman. But the podman website is completely useless, because it does not tell me what it does differently/better than docker, only that What is Podman? Simply put: `alias docker=podman` So, for someone who
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by danieldk 8y ago
I fully agree. There is a place for both. Even though I use TikZ every once in a while, if I need to draw some graphs really quickly, nothing beats a GUI program like OmniGraffle. Or if you need to touch up a photo, you could spend a lot of
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by danieldk 8y ago
But I think this really depends on your work-enviroment. If you have a lot of different servers I understand that this could get really annoying, especially with all the context-switching. I wonder why people even work on remote servers?

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