ePierre

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   by ePierre 7y ago

   > Looks like I’m going to rewind 13 years and use IE again(IE of today). Why not using Firefox?
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   by ePierre 7y ago

   The main difference is not in the OS itself, but in the services around. /e/ wants to provide a private set of services such as e-mail, files, etc.: https://e.foundation/e-solutions/
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   by ePierre 7y ago

   China is not a communist country, it's a “communist with Chinese values” country. I don't know what it means, but every time the topic is brought on the table, this is the official stance from the Chinese Communist Party. I guess
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   by ePierre 8y ago

   Thanks! I'll check this out.
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   Ask HN: Good resources to learn about design, UI, UX?

   1 points by ePierre 8y ago|3 comments
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   by ePierre 8y ago

   I've bought an AMD Radeon RX580 on my desktop for gaming, and it's been working great so far with the default open source drivers that come with Ubuntu (18.04 onwards). Didn't have to do anything.
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   by ePierre 8y ago

   I remember reading this article back when it came out, and it made me think a lot about software licenses. I encourage everyone here to invest some time to read the different libre and open source licenses out there and decide which one wou
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   MobiliZon: libre alternative to Meetups and Facebook groups(joinmobilizon.org)

   3 points by ePierre 8y ago|0 comments
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   by ePierre 8y ago

   Thanks for pointing this out! I'm currently using a feed reader installed on my web server so that I can access and sync my feeds between all my devices (home computer, work computer and smartphone). I use Firefox on all of my devices
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    by ePierre 8y ago

    Thanks for the answer! I've seen this advice before. Keep a streak and practice a little every day.
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    Ask HN: How do you find time to develop multiple skills?

    1 points by ePierre 8y ago|2 comments
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    by ePierre 8y ago

    I didn't know this! The Blender team is working on Blender 2.8 which will bring a lot of new features, including a lot of UI changes. There was an article about some of these changes a while ago on their blog [1], and more recently
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    by ePierre 8y ago

    Not only that, but in China, tech companies are blatantly sexist: http://laorencha.blogspot.com/2018/04/in-china-tech-companie...
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    by ePierre 8y ago

    Whooo... that 4kb is amazing! Very dark, very different from the usual technical performances, especially in that category! Thanks for sharing!
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    by ePierre 9y ago

    French newspapers Mediapart and Canard PC have teamed up and released a bunch of articles about the video game industry and its toxic practices. The articles are available online [1] but they're in French and some of them are behind a
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    Accessibility of sheet music software (OpenScore)(openscore.cc)

    3 points by ePierre 9y ago|0 comments
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    by ePierre 9y ago

    > The Dell power connector is a barrel style connector with an LED embedded in it. The LED appears to serve no useful purpose. It’s always on, whether connected or not and doesn’t change colour or turn off when charged. I believe the onl
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    by ePierre 9y ago

    Or just "Reader View" (Ctrl+Alt+R) in Firefox.
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    by ePierre 9y ago

    Well since January 1st, they cannot give you a plastic bag for free anymore. That's already a push in the good direction!
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    by ePierre 9y ago

    Yeah but the problem is that in Taiwan, a very popular drink is 珍珠奶茶, bubble milk tea... And you cannot sip the bubbles without a straw!
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    by ePierre 9y ago

    Wut?! No, they ask you to pay 5% more when you want to pay by card: it's the Visa/Mastercard fees.
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    by ePierre 9y ago

    I like to ride my bike to work because it's much faster than taking the bus (20 minutes versus 40+ minutes) . However, when it rains, I take the bus. And it rains quite often where I live (Taipei). Any advice from fellow bikers? Clothe
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    by ePierre 9y ago

    > it seems control-z does nothing Normally v2.4.0 improves this. As stated in their release notes: “Add undo support for masks and more intelligent grouping of undo steps”. Basically, in v2.2, even low-level operations that didn't h
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    by ePierre 9y ago

    I just assumed it was a work in progress... the rest of the pages seems finished, maybe they didn't put the final version of the index page online :)
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    by ePierre 9y ago

    Gimp and Darktable are very different beasts. Darktable is tailored to work on RAW pictures coming directly, unprocessed from your camera. Gimp cannot do that and only works on compresseda and/or rasterized images (thinkg JPG or PNG).
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    by ePierre 9y ago

    If you're into game programming, Casey Muratori's Handmade Hero [1] project is worth checking. From the website description, “Handmade Hero is an ongoing project to create a complete, professional-quality game accompanied by video
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    Contributopia(contributopia.org)

    1 points by ePierre 9y ago|0 comments
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    Dotclear is now mirrored on GitHub. PR welcome!(github.com)

    1 points by ePierre 9y ago|0 comments
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    by ePierre 9y ago

    Well... Fortunately, there is still Taiwan, the only Chinese-speaking country where creativity and freedom of speech is nurtured and not censored!
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    by ePierre 9y ago

    > Changes with nginx 1.12.0 12 Apr 2017 > *) 1.12.x stable branch. Well, thank you very much, that's a very informative changelog. :)