galgalesh

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by galgalesh 5y ago
Black and white pictures are generally much more precise. There's a lot of image manipulation involved in consumer grade color images (which the copter has). More info: https://youtu.be/Wah1DbFVFiY
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by galgalesh 5y ago
The terrifying truth is that we have no idea what the future holds and what the long-term result will be of our actions. Since the future and the result of our actions is uncertain, society is basically executing a search algorithm. This co
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by galgalesh 5y ago
I'm one of the people who agrees with both sentiments. I think decreasing child mortality is great and that humanity needs people to eventually die. Dying in itself is not an issue. Early mortality is an issue. Give everyone the chance
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by galgalesh 5y ago
Centos was mainly used as a "free but otherwise identical" alternative to RHEL. Centos typically attracted an incredibly conservative and stability-focussed crowd. People who wanted all the benefits of a stable enterprise distro b
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by galgalesh 6y ago
My employer has this, but the password change form requires you to also input your previous password so that's how they do it without saving your plaintext passwords.
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by galgalesh 6y ago
In case you did not know this; he took a break a while back to work on his empathy and communication skills.
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by galgalesh 6y ago
It's often hard for experienced people to understand what is trivial and non-trivial for less experienced people. This is why writing documentation is so hard when you're completely submerged into a project.
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by galgalesh 6y ago
> With windows, (and I suggest systemd) you're either all in or all out. This is not the case with systemd. Although these projects live in the same repository, distributions can pick and choose them depending on your priorities. Gr
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by galgalesh 6y ago
A bunch of the people involved in creating the fsfe have publicly stated that is was founded because of disagreements with the FSF and it's leadership. If I recall correctly, the about page of fsfe stated this for a long time. The fsfe
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by galgalesh 6y ago
Would you use NetworkManager on a server?
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by galgalesh 6y ago
Slight correction: you can easily download a Snap from a website and install it like you would do with a Deb package. It's the repository that's locked; Snap only supports a single repository; the "Snap Store".
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by galgalesh 6y ago
It's what I think of when I hear "bare metal management". It manages a fleet of physical servers and provides an API to provision servers, configure networks, and install operating systems. Basically an easier alternative to
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by galgalesh 6y ago
In case you didn't know this: autism diagnosis is heavily biased towards how autism typically expresses in males. Autism expresses differently in females, causing to a very high number of women on the spectrum being misdiagnosed as hav
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by galgalesh 6y ago
The more I read about fusion, the less I think it's anything near to a star. The kind of fusion is completely different. A sun wouldn't work on earth because it doesn't produce enough energy per square meter. It isn't ev
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by galgalesh 6y ago
Users running a game in proton show up as Linux users, not windows users. Because of this, many games already show a bunch of Linux players even though the game doesn't have a native port.
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by galgalesh 6y ago
The "about" section of the website says > Since 1997 Perl.com has been the home for quality articles about Perl programming, news and culture. The website is managed by the The Perl Foundation. They might want to update this if
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by galgalesh 6y ago
It uses energy from the sun to turn xenon gas into plasma and shoot it into space. This makes it use 10 times less propellant than conventional systems. The xenon gas is the propellant. This still comes from the earth so it's far from
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by galgalesh 6y ago
Rust is designed to integrate into legacy codebases so security critical code can be rewritten in small steps. See the URL parser I Firefox. Moreover, the initiative this post is talking about uses rust to rewrite small parts of a C codeba
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by galgalesh 6y ago
> So many practices in that book would get me and my entire team fired it’s hilarious. Such as?
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by galgalesh 6y ago
Microsoft joined the open invention network; a defensive patent pool protecting Linux (kernel and distributions). This directly cut into their patent revenue and removed some of their leverage towards Android OEM's. This matters a lot
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by galgalesh 6y ago
SQLite tries to detect when the database is on a network share and changes it's behavior accordingly.
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by galgalesh 6y ago
I watch that video and I see an internet and logistics nerd who proudly explains he found the best way to build a company around it. Although it's clear that profitability is important to him, the video also shows he's deeply pass
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by galgalesh 6y ago
The first amendment right only bans the government from infringing on free speech. It doesn't say anything about private corporations. There are many practices by US companies concerning free speech that would be illegal in European
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by galgalesh 6y ago
Not necessarily. A number of stages in the evolution of life require a planet devoid of more complex life forms. Spontaneous generation of cells, for example, requires very high doses of molecules that more complex life forms eat.
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by galgalesh 6y ago
Cefaly really helps me with my headaches. It uses electric pulses to overstimulate the nerves that end up in the pain-producing parts of the brain. I've been using it for more than a decade now.
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by galgalesh 6y ago
Caffeine can have both effects. Long-term use triggers it. Short-term use helps. Speaking out of personal and family experience.
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by galgalesh 6y ago
Gmail is an immensely popular email provider with 1.5 billion users in 2018. It has 65% of US market and even on a global level it's the leading email provider. This is not some esoteric email client that a handful of developers refuse
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by galgalesh 6y ago
There is a sea of difference between your initial statement of "having done all the useful things it could do ages ago, and not finding anything new" and your new statement of wanting conclusive proof that Arecibo has "a uniq
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by galgalesh 6y ago
You don't need to change config files. `git remote rm origin` `git remote add origin new-url`
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by galgalesh 6y ago
Spotify, Blender, Chromium, Firefox.. The situation has improved immensely over the last 4 years.

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