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by hd4 10y ago
As long as you still have a working memory, you can learn anything at any age, I don't go along with this 'old-dog-can't-learn-new-tricks' thinking. Though obviously when you're younger it's markedly easier to
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by hd4 10y ago
I've been taking cold showers since 2015 and have noticed a huge difference in my cold tolerance and also in how my body reacts to the food I've eaten. There is a point (around winter unsurprisingly) where it becomes too stressful
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by hd4 10y ago
30 push-ups and 8 pull ups every morning. I've built a noticeable amount of upper body muscle and lost about 1.5st weight over about a year.
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by hd4 10y ago
Is there a reason they went with LXDE instead of LXQt?
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by hd4 10y ago
Even a distro-specific script would do the job in many cases. Elementary is a good example of where some kind of advanced script/package setup could possibly replicate what the developers have done. What you mention regarding extending
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by hd4 10y ago
Maybe this needs a separate thread but for a long time now, there have only really been 5 (or 6 depending on who you ask) upstream distros, Debian, Fedora/RH, Gentoo, Opensuse, Slackware, Ubuntu. I get the reason for offshoot distros t
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by hd4 10y ago
>do companies in general want to allow home brew on game consoles Nintendo generally seem to be very anti-homebrew/community lately, using the DMCA to shut down fan projects seems to be their way of destroying that reputation that t
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by hd4 10y ago
>more prosperous and economically stable is a good thing for This is such a crucial point. No one in the world needs an unstable, angsty nuclear-armed state. >think China will come to realize that, as a major investor and driver of ec
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by hd4 10y ago
And before Afghanistan, the Soviet Union. And as you say, the mutual interest in containing the threat posed by India. If anything, Trump courting India as much as he has been doing, at the same time talking tough against China means we hav
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by hd4 10y ago
Traditional? Not really. The UK or France could be considered traditional allies. Pakistan was more of a conveniently-located 'strategic partner'. I say this as someone of Pakistani origin. The people of Pakistan are hugely skepti
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by hd4 10y ago
There is no mechanism to stop someone taking an analogue copy of the picture with a secondary camera even if it's on Snapchat/a server somewhere and then "using" it later. The whole idea just seems poorly thought out. U
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by hd4 10y ago
good to know, i thought The Wind Rises was his swansong
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by hd4 10y ago
As I got into reading the article, I just knew he would the guy behind Conway's Game of Life. And lo and behold..
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by hd4 10y ago
From the hn guidelines: "Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."
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by hd4 10y ago
This should be a massive wake-up call for anyone using Gmail (i.e. 99% of those who come to HN), and at the very least we should diversify away from using purely Google products, i.e. consider Outlook for business/banking-related email
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by hd4 10y ago
Carl Sagan said it best, "The cosmos is also within us, we are made of star stuff"
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by hd4 10y ago
All it would take was 2 big messaging companies to let their apps talk to each other and the floodgates would open. I'm hoping Facebook will at least let WhatsApp talk to their own Messenger, seeing as they own both.
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by hd4 10y ago
1. Use a predefined adblocking hosts file on your system, if you have Linux, just replace your existing /etc/hosts file with this https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts This will kill 90% of popups and autoload
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by hd4 10y ago
Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12911310
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by hd4 10y ago
The Dell XPS seems to get recommended a lot. I have a 2012 HP Pavilion which works fine with Ubuntu 16.04.
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by hd4 10y ago
Too late, I will never buy Lenovo again, there are too many other reasonable choices of companies who don't make anti-Linux decisions then backtrack when they get covered in shit. Once bitten..
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by hd4 10y ago
Just curious, are any people in this thread already using Eclipse BIRT, Jasper Reports or Pentaho? Would you mind sharing your experiences/use-cases?
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by hd4 10y ago
While we're discussing codecs that effectively obsolete the ones that came before, I thought I should mention the absolutely incredible Opus codec, which is interestingly based partly off the Skype codec. Basically you get equivalent
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by hd4 10y ago
Where I live, buzzwords probably a longer shelf-life than normal. Also, industry tends to become aware of buzzwords a few years later than everyone else so the dynamic is a little different there.
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Ask HN: Is OLAP/SSAS data just a buzzword for 99% of companies?
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by hd4 10y ago
Fluctuating rather than tanking.
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by hd4 10y ago
Preaching to the converted here, but this is yet another incentive to switch to a Linux distro, thanks Microsoft. Also worth remembering that Britain is still de facto in the EU for a few more years.
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by hd4 10y ago
What's wrong with Unity? And where did they admit it was bad? It does the job, it doesn't need a lot of RAM, it's good-looking, stays out of the way. By far the best experience I've had as a developer on desktop Linux.
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by hd4 10y ago
Even China can only limit their citizens access to the extent that it doesn't totally hinder economic growth. They would never be able to completely insulate themselves from the "outer" internet without massive harm to themse
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by hd4 10y ago
There needs to be some kind of new censorship metric for governments, the weaker the government, the more they try to censor and hinder use of the internet by their citizenry.

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