geophile

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by geophile 5y ago
Each release takes a while to settle down. I upgraded too soon once (19.10?), and was burned, so now I wait.
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by geophile 5y ago
I've had a Darter for a couple of years, and I'm very happy with it. I've been using Pop OS, currently 20.10. No hardware problems at all. I like the keyboard feel, and the touchpad is fine. My only complaint about the hardwa
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by geophile 5y ago
What OS? I have a 2+-year old Darter Pro, running Pop OS 20.10, which has been wonderful. Bluetooth just works (as long as there is only one user attempting to use it), the mic just works, the mouse just works. Also, System76 support is the
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by geophile 5y ago
Yes, SQL is about bags, not sets. And anything having to do with aggregation cannot be expressed in relational algebra.
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San Francisco’s Millennium Tower is still sinking(theguardian.com)
33 points by geophile 5y ago|9 comments
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by geophile 5y ago
The ASCII color codes for a terminal are in a 6x6x6 space. That’s 216. Does that explain the number of web-safe colors?
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by geophile 5y ago
Yes, and that's the problem. If you think that the laws protect you, an average iPhone user, you are sadly mistaken. Laws are dictated by the highest bidder, and by those in power. If they want to go after gays, or Jews, or Blacks, or
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by geophile 5y ago
"just" And who gets to decide what is illegal?
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by geophile 5y ago
Why is that?
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by geophile 5y ago
What I would really like is a Raspberry Pi in an iPhone from factor. (Or maybe a Gemini PDA form factor.) Apple has been doing nothing but pissing me off for years, definitely including scanning photos on the device and now this multicast i
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by geophile 5y ago
Check out marcel ( https://marceltheshell.org ), which does this exactly. E.g. to explore the current directory recursively, find files changed in the last day, and then compute the sum of file sizes by extension for the qualifyin
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by geophile 5y ago
Hey Tim? Your opportunity for saying things like this has ended permanently. You have trashed Apple's reputation for privacy and your own. Good job.
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by geophile 5y ago
I switched from my 2015 MBP to a System76 Darter Pro, and I've been very happy with it. (The MBP was dying, and the new MBPs had the execrable touchbar, and the broken keyboard.) There are no good iPhone alternatives. I now don't
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by geophile 5y ago
Why a 3:2 display? That is an extremely odd choice. I used 4:3 displays for years, and was very pleased when wider displays became available.
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by geophile 5y ago
TFA confuses cause and effect quite badly. Maybe the health benefits don’t result from having sex. I think it more likely that you stop having sex when your health problems make it physically impossible.
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by geophile 5y ago
I had a product idea, my company didn’t want to do it, so I took off 9 months to create it. I am an engineer and had no real sales or marketing plan, just software. I was scratching a really bad itch. I connected with a startup with a compl
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by geophile 5y ago
This is all fascinating, and I learned quite a bit from this article, but it seems to conflate intelligence and consciousness repeatedly. It isn't at all clear to me why the former implies the latter.
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by geophile 5y ago
GGGP here. I probably could have skipped my 5th startup, but psychologically, I couldn't see myself as retired. Startup #4 was, for a time, the most stressful job I've ever had. My part was distributed, and I was dealing with all
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by geophile 5y ago
I am aware of that. I was extremely lucky.
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by geophile 5y ago
This is mostly accurate but it misses one essential point. And so do many of the responses here. One of the reasons to work at a startup is to get a lot of responsibility for something interesting to you, the sort of thing that wouldn'
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by geophile 5y ago
That is quite charitable. Emotionally hollow and manipulative, and jaw-droppingly turgid and stupid dialog. Just a terrible movie.
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by geophile 5y ago
3:2 display. WTF?!
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by geophile 5y ago
My experience is mostly server-side, and there, I have found that smushing these things together leads to sadness.
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by geophile 5y ago
"Design" can mean a lot of different things. UI? Data structures and algorithms? API? Database schema? Whichever of these we're discussing, and whatever process we're talking about, I find it much faster to think and ske
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by geophile 5y ago
That seems incredibly wasteful to me. I have no problem with rapid iteration between design and implementation, but at least recognize that those are different activities, and that the latter is a poor way of doing the former.
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by geophile 5y ago
> Having multiple perspectives on design. Serious question: Why is any design happening while programming? Seems unwise to start programming before you have designed the thing you are programming.
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by geophile 5y ago
Isn't this putting the cart about 10 light years in front of the horse?
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by geophile 5y ago
TFA says: Macs are general purpose computers. No, they aren't, and they are getting less general all the time. Go to apple.com, and click on the page for any of their MacOS systems. The only use of the word "computer" that yo
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by geophile 6y ago
I may be a bigger MS ignoramus, I don’t know. This compatibility concern is from people to whom I’ve suggested LibreOffice.
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by geophile 6y ago
This is necessary, but not sufficient. The other necessary thing is getting Office to run on Linux. Not an Office-compatible suite, but Office. I use and love Pop OS (an Ubuntu variant), and I use LibreOffice for spreadsheets and text docum

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