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by galaktor 13y ago
Sorry if I implied that those are by me; they are not. :-)
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Collection of web-art by Rafaël Rozendaal(newrafael.com)
2 points by galaktor 13y ago|3 comments
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Verge: "We play with the Steam Machine, Valve's game console of the future"(theverge.com)
2 points by galaktor 13y ago|0 comments
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by galaktor 13y ago
from the article: Nasa played down the possibility of impact, with Don Yeoman, manager of the administration’s Near-Earth Object Profram Office, saying: "The current probability of no impact in 2032 [is] about 99.998 per cent. "Th
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Ukrainian astronomers: "Asteroid could collide with Earth in 2032"(telegraph.co.uk)
3 points by galaktor 13y ago|1 comments
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by galaktor 13y ago
the article seems to be dated "November 7 2013", nearly one month in the future. Clearly the author knows something about physics that we don't.
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by galaktor 13y ago
I have one. Doesn't get hot. CPU clocks down a lot when on battery, so "gaming monstrosity" only more or less valid when on AC. Battery perf in general not great, 3-4 hours in my experience. As a mobile workstation pretty goo
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by galaktor 13y ago
ditto. "flag" is gone. thought they might have changed something...
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by galaktor 13y ago
I know it's merely your opinion, but you seem to be using the terms "best" and "pretty" interchangeably. I find that very surprising, but maybe it's well-designed UX on Mac that you are referring to when you sa
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by galaktor 13y ago
agreed. tldr as I read it: "lol look at these long words I found in the German dictionary"
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by galaktor 13y ago
I'm going to play the devil's advocate here: couldn't you argue that whatever you did to win a Nobel prize is already (supposedly) a significant contribution to society, making additional contribution via taxes unnecessary (o
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by galaktor 13y ago
I wouldn't conclude that this is good customer service. More bad service as the support team couldn't (or weren't officially allowed to) kill the contract. This was just a case of ultimate escalation which was brought to reso
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by galaktor 13y ago
It doesn't need to be long. In fact the point is that you don't need to solve the problem. You just get better at working on it. Short means you can do it often, and make it a habit.
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by galaktor 13y ago
Since the VCS are distributed, you could always mirror a repository on a NAS at home or something. Edit: I might have misread the parent's comment. If CmonDev was referring to public availability, just a local repo won't do. It de
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by galaktor 13y ago
after reading around a bit [1], I get the impression that while the situation isn't great, it isn't a hopeless disaster, either. Apparently there's Linux drivers but only x64, and not in a Ubuntu-friendly format. Hopefully th
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by galaktor 13y ago
well that sucks. I'm curious, is that a driver limitation? how do they restrict it from working in linux?
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by galaktor 13y ago
thanks for the links. I was aware that they make use of it, just not how much. I recently got a Haswell i7 and was hoping to see more perf; the devs use Intel GPUs as well, and Haswell/Iris have very good OpenCL performance. Maybe thei
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by galaktor 13y ago
I love Krita. When I moved my personal computing into Linux, one of my concerns was that I might have to continue to use ArtRage in a Windows VM - that was until I found Krita. Similar goes for MyPaint [1] by the way, which emphasizes sim
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by galaktor 13y ago
As I mentioned above, I kind of had to change once I had kids and a day job. I might still be owling (heh) if my priorities weren't forced into a change that way. Good luck :-)
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by galaktor 13y ago
I posted that more because I found it interesting, not because I think it would be very realistic to adopt such a pattern in "modern days". If you want my advice (feel free to ignore me, I'm just a random guy on the internet)
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by galaktor 13y ago
I've been thinking about this a bit, too. It reminds me of an article I read (can't find the link) that described "segmented sleep" [1]; how our ancestors might have had two sleep phases because nights were longer (e.g.
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by galaktor 13y ago
> I envy people who regularly get tired in the evening rather than waking up and wanting to do stuff when the rest of the world shuts down. Here's some more from my personal experience (not saying it would work for any of you, and i
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by galaktor 13y ago
Very well possible. This sounds very much like my time at the military, though. Down to the point where I took naps throughout the day whenever I could. In my case I'm quite sure the main driver was not because I forced a different sch
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by galaktor 13y ago
Can someone elaborate on the relevance of this? I remember reading that scientists hope to find methane on Mars as an indication for life at some point in the past. How does all this petroleum/methane (now propylene) in Titan's at
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by galaktor 13y ago
I used to think of myself as an owl. I'd hate getting up in the mornings and my most productive hours were somewhere between 11pm and 3am. I actively started changing my habits a few years ago, meaning I changed my diet to high-fibre+h
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by galaktor 13y ago
might be nitpicking a bit here, but "information" != "data". It is hard to tell how little or much information I can extract from any amount of data. data + context = information
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by galaktor 13y ago
this makes a pretty cool phone/desktop wallpaper!
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by galaktor 13y ago
Clearly bad practice to be using raw integers here. They should at least be using enums. public enum Ingredients { BREAD, BACON } public enum Delicatessen { BACON_SANDWICH }
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by galaktor 13y ago
Hopefully they'll fix this in the next GTA patch.
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by galaktor 13y ago
I'm surprised yours is the only comment I saw pointing out the incremental approach to this "living room" goal Valve has been using. The steam box will obviously require some OS to run, and it seems perfectly reasonable to sh

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