darkpuma

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by darkpuma 7y ago
> I think 25% of our Dell motherboards broke in the spring of 2006 because of a batch of bad capacitors The capacitor plague. Pretty much everybody in the industry was hit by that to at least some extent: > "Major vendors of mo
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Why should it be a common practice for individual developers when it's completely unnecessary with the right (cheap!) support contract? What you're suggesting seems insane to me, like setting money on fire to stay warm instead
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by darkpuma 7y ago
By making computers more reliable, a company like Dell could dramatically reduce the amount of computers that require on-site servicing in the first place. For instance, what percentage of Dell XPS's have their keyboards fail within
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> it's part of the cost of doing business. I think the point you're missing is that it needn't be a requirement of doing business, unless you insist on using Apple products. And, even if I have a full closet of old com
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> for certain operators AFAIK it works for any operator that takes two operands (or more, but it makes less sense to be using it with three or more operands.) e.g: > '(arg0 . operator . arg1 arg2) '(operator arg0
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by darkpuma 7y ago
From a practical standpoint, basing everything off balanced parens (or square brackets, that makes no difference to me) makes the language much easier to write in. Being able to jump to the matching paren makes it trivial to copy/pas
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by darkpuma 7y ago
M8 the "dude dell" phase ended back in 2003; there will soon be people working in this industry that were born after it ended. That is a long time ago. Since that time, Dell has been taken private, then public again. That ad
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by darkpuma 7y ago
That some technically proficient people will find ways around it is beyond doubt, however it may prove to be an effective system for information control despite that, if the common user finds it difficult to circumvent.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I'm not sure, but that's how I've been using it. For me it replaced python for fun and casual programming.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Are you suggesting that house cat claws are vestigial? That simply isn't the case. Their claws improve their hunting success rate dramatically since they use them to snare their prey. A declawed cat may still have some success in h
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I guess you disapprove? I don't take it personally, but neither do I understand your characterization. Wouldn't the stereotypical American position on this matter be one of hyper-individualism and prioritizing your property (y
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by darkpuma 7y ago
They should have banned outdoor cats at the same time. Cats shouldn't be declawed and neither should they be outside, but if they're going to be outside it is better for the native wildlife if they have been declawed (making the
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I'm not angry yet, I'm just concerned. If it actually happens, then I'll be angry.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "From a community perspective, the rub is that the "many people" for Racket syntax is a barrier are mostly people outside the community. It's fair to ask who would benefit. It's difficult to ask a community to
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by darkpuma 7y ago
The RX 590 should be good to go with the kernel driver since last December: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RX-590-L... What that practically means is that any linux distro with a kernel at least th
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by darkpuma 7y ago
In the case of Fry's, you have evidence that they've received a counterfeit product from a single supplier. It may be rampant, or it may not be. With that single datapoint, it's hard to say. In the case of Amazon, we know
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by darkpuma 7y ago
You don't need write access to a remote for that remote to be useful. Two or more people can collaborate using public repos that others may fetch from but not push to. Then, in lieu of github PRs, you request other people pull fro
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Are you sure that you bought a modern system? ATI hasn't existed since 2006 and I believe AMD stopped using the brand name almost a decade ago; it's all AMD now. Also AMD GPUs have had really good FOSS support in the mainline k
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Do you need it to be a commercial service? I just use nfs over wireguard, hosted at home on some old hardware I already had. Total cost: $0 Setup took no more than a few minutes. Obviously that's not suitable for everybody for a nu
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by darkpuma 7y ago
A single repo can have many remotes. Adding additional remotes does not prevent you from also using old remotes, nor do you ever have to remove a remote that you intend on using again in the future. Obviously it's a moot point for yo
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by darkpuma 7y ago
In America, nothing is more sacred than cash.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
That's not something you decide once at the beginning and get stuck with it. You can reevaluate that decision at any point and easily add more remotes to a git repo on the fly.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
20 years ago, software that included advertisements was called adware, and it was widely considered to be a form of malware. And software that sent out telemetry without the informed opt-in consent of the user was considered spyware, anot
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Au contraire, it exists despite your refusal to see it.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "this guy works in Douran (شرکت دوران) company, proudly stated in his page (Which screams amateur and narcissist)" You really decimate your credibility when you say absurd things like this. If you're willing to miscon
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "US promotes values I am interested in," What, like overthrowing democratically elected governments, as they did in Iran? I really hope neoconservativism dies with the boomers, but I fear you're young.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Why, so the CIA can ruin it again for them?
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by darkpuma 7y ago
The solution to that is to build it bigger with a wider footprint. Obviously this is an expensive way to build, but if you engineer it right (and throw enough concrete at it) you can create structures with nearly arbitrary shake resistan
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by darkpuma 7y ago
The result is genuinely hilarious. I'm sure I wouldn't have enjoyed a faithful translation nearly as much.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "Well, in a populist culture without an aesthetic hierarchy" Closing your eyes doesn't make things disappear. Otherwise, I'd be a wizard.

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