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by hvis 6y ago
I wonder if this could be the case where Chrome's dominant position would bite Google in the ass. Because if you're just a website, you do what you can with the information provided to you by the user agent (browser). But if you&#
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by hvis 6y ago
I'm pretty sure it's the other way around, and Microsoft has similar agreements with most of its partners. Ubuntu's however, is a free OS, so any cloud hosting can use it without major repercussions even without any support c
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by hvis 6y ago
That extracted wealth should flow back into the country and translate into well-being of your citizens. Not just continue lining the pockets of the president's closest friends. I'd rather have our military strong on the borders of
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by hvis 6y ago
Because Linus has no problems with Red Hat? And because Red Hat employs a lot of the key contributors to the Linux kernel? Also: https://www.infoworld.com/article/2671387/linus-gets-tough-o...
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by hvis 6y ago
Apparently, Intel's RST is not just RAID, but it's also supposed to help when a laptop is equipped with two storage devices, one small and fast (SSD) and another big but slower (HDD): https://superuser.com/a/1
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by hvis 6y ago
> Which is what I've done when installing Linux. Am I losing performance? Power efficiency? Features? From what I read a year ago before doing this, you don't lose much, and software-based RAID (if you go for that sort of thing
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by hvis 6y ago
You turn it off in the BIOS before installing your system, and that's it.
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by hvis 6y ago
The Vulkan drivers should be at least as available as OpenGL on both Windows and Linux. So it would make sense to target Vulkan and thus benefit from a shared codebase. And if their Mac client base is not big, it should make even more sense
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by hvis 6y ago
But they would have both a macOS port and a cross-platform Vulkan port then. "Two birds, one stone" kind of scenario. And it's hard to imagine Java2D would have more complex requirements for Metal than the games that are alre
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by hvis 6y ago
Xorg 1.21 is still unlikely to be released. Just minor backports to 1.20 (and there are ongoing developments there).
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by hvis 6y ago
Yeah, I do think he's doing us a favor, on balance. And I pay for a subscription. Just surprised to see a news about a minor _library_ release see more upvotes than the "Linux on iPad" thing, for instance. With the whole love
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by hvis 6y ago
Interesting to see lately how these relatively minor news from Phoronix gather significant numbers of votes here on HN.
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by hvis 6y ago
This happens on the visitor's end. So it depends on the ISPs of individual visitors of your blog.
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by hvis 6y ago
Wasn't that proof using a paradox, though? Then that basically really proves the existence of paradoxes. It doesn't disprove the existence of all other kinds of statements, of course. A statement 'x == 1' might be contex
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by hvis 6y ago
Apparently Linux 5.4 and newer can. Most other peripherals are barely working, though.
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by hvis 6y ago
I've read Godel, Escher, Bach, and I've read this. It's a very nice explanation. But everywhere I see, Godel's theorem is touted as some kind of deep philosophical insight, whereas from what I understand, informally it c
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by hvis 6y ago
IIRC the complaint was about the "circumvention" algorithm in the code.
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by hvis 6y ago
I'm on the mailing list ;-) The issue is brought up repeatedly, but there's no real movement right this moment (or for the last several months, really). There are several proponents of SourceHut thanks to its email-based workflows
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by hvis 6y ago
Thanks for the reply. It's more than I expected (even if the UI and the lack of interactivity inside the browser are still a problem for me). Looking forward to experiencing it in practice someday. Maybe Emacs will finally migrate off
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by hvis 6y ago
Can you comment on individual lines of a changeset in an email and reply to such comments separately, and then see such conversations in the context of the diff? And then mark them as resolved when that happens? Can you read those discussio
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by hvis 6y ago
> A government could obviously do it. A medium-sized corporation? Not likely. A medium-sized corporation can be an Internet provider. Or have a deal with one. > Those other governments can just outlaw encryption then entirely. If the
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by hvis 6y ago
Err, no. This is explicitly about scaling. I use 200% scaling on the desktop, and this exact checkbox makes Steam use 2x as well.
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by hvis 6y ago
I'm saying it can and should work. And that it's possible for you to discover a configuration on your machine that would make it work. And if it's still a no go, you can file a bug report (which you wouldn't be able to d
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by hvis 6y ago
I'm using it with GNOME 3.36 (Ubuntu 20.04). With 200% scaling set in the Display settings GUI.
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by hvis 6y ago
> no hidpi support It's been added quite late, and who knows why it's off by default, but there is a checkbox now in Settings -> Interface called "Enlarge text and icons based on monitor size". Works well here.
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by hvis 6y ago
Muscles are different between genders, on average. A woman's 1RM is a lower percentage of her body weight than a man's (on any exercise, on average), but she will usually be able to do more reps at e.g. 70% of 1RM. So it makes sen
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by hvis 6y ago
> You think Linus Torvalds wanted donations when he published Linux? If you look at the mailing list with the announcement, it was "look ma, no hands" kind of moment. Just letting people know of his experimental project, with e
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by hvis 6y ago
The government could, and any medium-sized corporation could as well. Ahoy, industrial espionage! Don't forget the Moore's law as well (even though it's taken a hit lately). Come next year, it will cost 15000, in another few
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by hvis 6y ago
Removing guns from easy access means removing the very means that a lot of crimes are perpetrated with. Including crimes of passion (non-premeditated ones). Not so with encryption. And since the terrorist cases are really aberrations in o
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by hvis 6y ago
So only use encryption that can be decrypted by anybody who really wants to? That sounds useful.

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