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by dataflow 8y ago
> Sure x86 is more ubiquitous (or is it really? Many arm cores and embedded AVR are released embedded) I can't make sense of this. Is your logic "there are more ARM CPUs than x86 CPUs => there are more programmers dealing wi
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by dataflow 8y ago
Learning doesn't happen in a vacuum though. People generally try to learn things that will be handy for them. AVR or ARM assembly are far less handy to know than x86, so telling people to ditch x86 and learn those instead kind of misse
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by dataflow 8y ago
If you're going to add something, add something better than the old Calc, unless you really need some feature that only exists on that Calc. I use their PowerCalc Powertoy for Windows XP. [1] There's also SpeedCrunch which in some
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by dataflow 8y ago
"Essential" and "useful" are not the same thing. A web browser isn't an essential part of a desktop OS the same way a network card isn't an essential part of a computer. Even though network cards come with most
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by dataflow 8y ago
Wow, that's hilarious. Did he get creeped out at seeing his own name?
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by dataflow 8y ago
> Modifying the code segment to include direct function references is also not a great approach because it means being unable to share the code segment between processes Realistically how big of a deal is this? I feel like it's over
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by dataflow 9y ago
> No. Nothing was broken. The updates you had asked for were about to break something if you installed them. The error message was the package manager stopping you from breaking your system. Uhm... two things. First: you see this screens
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by dataflow 9y ago
>apt was telling you something important: you chose to just ignore it because "too confusing" or whatever What "it" are you even talking about? I didn't "choose to ignore" anything . I Marked all Upg
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by dataflow 9y ago
> Those package dependency graphs are there to protect you. I'm sorry, what kind of protection is this that only after trashing my installation Apt decided to inform me that it can't handle the package dependencies? And on to
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by dataflow 9y ago
> Really, Steam seems to be the closest thing Windows has to an application/package manager I don't understand this obsession with package managers. You guys really have less trouble with package managers than Windows installer