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by frik 9y ago
Here is why - even if I risk more downvotes or getting flagged down: If someone flags your comment on HN, you can only post about 4 comments per day and news submit feature is "practically" disabled - HN displays a "slow down
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by frik 9y ago
Is KDE back to KDE3 functionality? If so I will give it another try. But KDE4.x was sooo bad, it was a complete rewrite and every single decision was ill-advised. In retrospective it almost looks like someone had great fun running both KDE
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by frik 9y ago
I actually like Unity (especially Unity of Ubuntu 12 and 14 LTS). And Ubuntu Mate with its Gnome 2 inspired shell sounds great. But plain Gnome 3 took the wrong direction, it's too tablet OS alike, a unfortunate regression compared Gno
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by frik 9y ago
How can one see the HN comment score? (except own comments) I think it was there some years ago, but vanished incl karma-ratio info when PG stept back.
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by frik 9y ago
Yes, thanks! It's hard to describe, but this page nails it including the screenshots! Love your own There are two kinds of objects and functions - those that are part of the standard DOM, and those that are from your own J
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by frik 9y ago
Munich should have switched to ChromeOS/ChromiumOS or Android or RedHat/CentOS or Ubuntu on thin clients, as the software is anyway usually web based in the cloud/intranet. But neither Google nor RedHat or Ubuntu are known to
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by frik 9y ago
Good to know, but at least for me actually occurs with MP4 files. I tried it on my own video MP4/H.264 files - loading the video with the video tag with plain HTML5. I am sure the FF devs know about the FF57 video bug and have fixed it
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by frik 9y ago
I had to take such a formal proofs course too, just with a different tool that had even steeper learning curve and rough edges (prof used us as alpha tester of his new tool), and came to the same conclusion as you. It seems very valuable to
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by frik 9y ago
There seem to be a bug with MP4 video processing it eats CPU and battery like crazy (for me both on macOS and Win7), but otherwise, the new FF is great.
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by frik 9y ago
'DOM' panel in FF DevTools unfortunately still doesn't distinguished between inbuilt native DOM nodes and custom DOM nodes from JS code - making the DOM panel still completely useless. Firebug grouped non-native DOM nodes (th
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by frik 9y ago
On Windows too, MP4 videos spins up fan - only with new Firefox (neither with Chrome nor IE)
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by frik 9y ago
Hasn't Outcast (1999) used the same/similar techniques for terrain rendering. The re-released it on GOG last year, and remade it this year with a Unity engine (all polygons now).
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by frik 9y ago
They are not individuals, but bots by companies. You just have to look at the bots that write pro-comments on HN, Reddit, etc. Think about, who has advantage from it?
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by frik 9y ago
If you don't mind, what do you use to generate crossword puzzles? Maybe it's an open source software?
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by frik 9y ago
The single source of truths, all the core Facebook users data (except messages) is stored in MySQL cluster. The issue you describe is that the same data is also cached in Memcached and by other means. But deleting is entirely possible, thou
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by frik 9y ago
I am not sure if your short summary is correct either. Isn't Windows is the reason why they want to tranformation from Linux to Windows? The original documents say something else. The original document mentions 89 million EUR. If the t
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by frik 9y ago
During dotCom era there was a Internet2 project. I remember PR statements dubbing it as the "new internet", replacing an decades old network with new infrastructure and modern protocols. It seems Internet2 project is still around,
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by frik 9y ago
Let's speak about Windows 10 and Office 2016, I have bought them, a very simple transaction. Everything I mentioned still holds. I regreted doing so. I am in the club who reverted back to good ol Win7 and Office 2010.
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by frik 9y ago
I thought so too, and in case of Apple I still too. But I got bitterly disappointed by Microsoft, I pay them for Windows and Office, a very simple transaction, right? Guess what, Windows 10 not only displays ads in the startmenu and taskbar
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by frik 9y ago
Nice photos. Most with authentic accessories. Including the the last photo out of a flat window of an eastern bloc soviet style concrete fab building (probably common in 1980s era Poland) Little nit-picking: The Duke Nukem 3D running on an
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by frik 9y ago
Hewlett-Packard (known for (school/desk) calculators, PC printers, chips and computer) bought Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) (known for server, mini computer) and Compaq (known for desktop and notebook computer). All three compani
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by frik 9y ago
Actually not a bad idea. Ethernet speed is one gigabit per second. And there are high throughput devices like LIDARs (eg Velodyne LiDAR known from Google/Waymo self-driving cars) that are connected via Ethernet rather than USB. Having
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by frik 9y ago
If you are looking for such monitors, look for gaming monitors with TN-panel, with 2ms or 4ms response time. Compared to office monitors or even TVs there is a big difference. (mind that TN-panel have pro and cons)
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by frik 9y ago
" Russia reports radioactivity 986 times the norm after nuclear accident claim " https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/21/russia-radioac... "Russia’s meteorological service has confir
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by frik 9y ago
It might be unpopular on HN, but use the older iRobot generation that is not "smart" aka no WiFi, no spyware, just a "dump" little robot vacuum cleaner. Do you think Mark Zuckerberg, or Elon Musk let such devices roam th
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by frik 9y ago
I meant a clone/copy of the (hopefully open) server software of LetsEncrypt stack running as a service on several well known cloud datacenters - of course under a different name. Why? Not a single point of issue. Given now that it has
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by frik 9y ago
How about distributing Let's Encrypt? Do cloud hoster offer a copy of the service from their datacenter? Otherwise it could be a single point of failure / single attack vector, right?
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by frik 9y ago
This nails it. Most first world countries managed to build most of their concrete infrastructure in the 60s and 70s. Unfortunately, little since then and maintainance isn't so easy. It's impressive what China builds - they were de
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World's largest aircraft Airlander 10 'ripped apart' in crash(bbc.com)
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by frik 9y ago
brushed = old tech = coal (which wears down and require replacement) brushless = new tech, no maintainance Brushes wear down and require replacement, brushless DC motors using power electronic devices have displaced brushed motors from many

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