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by itvision 5y ago
The only thing that goes for Ethereum is the fact that it's used for creating worthless numerous other pump and dump crypto currencies on top of its blockchain where Shiba Inu is the latest glorious example. Solves nothing, serves no p
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> It makes no sense to me how bitcoin is still number one cryptocurrency despite it's garbage fundamentals. Failed at everything it was supposed to do. It hasn't failed at not being controlled by people which fiat currencies ha
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> Bitcoin is often touted as a fungible and private asset [skipped] By whom? There's nothing like that here https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf > and digital c
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Blog post: https://deepmind.com/blog/article/Competitive-programming-wi... Demonstration: https://alphacode.deepmind.com/ This is scary and amazing. What's next? AlphaCode writing itself? Sup
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DeepMind says its new AI coding engine is as good as an average human programmer(theverge.com)
24 points by itvision 5y ago|21 comments
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I also have NoScript installed - it significantly decreases the amount of crap your web browser fetches and renders and thus makes browsing faster and consume less energy. And as mentioned by blakesterz in Private mode I have both uBlock Or
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Nvidia's ARM acquisition is no go(wccftech.com)
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There are so many lies and exaggerations both about Linux and Windows in this article it's simply staggering. Looks like it was written with people who understand nothing about computers in mind.
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> needing 1-2 weeks Sometimes up to several years or never. Are VirtualBox and VMWare host drivers included in the Linux kernel? Granted they are not "drivers" per se but anyways. OK, let's talk about hardware: literally t
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> Saying, "Don't call this FUD" up top doesn't prevent this from being possibly the most blatent FUD I've seen in a long time. Anything more concrete, please? The entire 12 thousand words piece cannot be wrong co
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> I'm someone who believes that it would be a huge benefit to the world if desktop Linux were 10X more popular than it currently is. Linux' unpopularity is a direct result of its bugginess and not adhering to certain popular pr
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A ton of anecdata, yet 1) Tons of Wifi adapters are not supported by the Linux kernel - you need to scavenge the web and compile random git repos 2) The games _you_ play work perfectly which means all others play well. Oh, great. Now please
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Linux fans are exceptionally good at diverting the blame and whataboutisms. This article is about the Linux kernel, Linux distros and their issues. Let's stop right there.
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Wayland and Xorg sections have been reworked. Most of your Wayland concerns have been addressed (but not all). If you still have other concerns and want to contribute, please do. Only like I said before, let's talk about items which ar
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> the portal API I don't care about lightweight virtualization solutions, I care about native applications. If we start talking about virtualization, let's forget about Linux as a software platform altogether. Why would anyone
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> you probably want to remove any paragraphs that have no sources, or ones that have low quality sources. Random Slashdot and Reddit posts are not a reliable source, and it makes your article look sloppy. Since there are no official&#x2
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Let's quickly disagree with you as well: > It's deeply flawed in a lot of ways. Again, a bloody insult. You carefully choose words to insult the author, are you like that IRL as well? > I'm curious what's your expe
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> This is wrong, please avoid making these accusations of bad faith, and please do not spread this misinformation about me. If you could stop being so rude and insulting I could discuss this further with you. _It was you_ who started wit
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I'm not a programmer unfortunately and given the fact that my brain has recently been deteriorating fast I won't even try. Perhaps I'll soon turn into a vegetable for all I know :-(
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> there are several other things that are really wrong or misleading in the article When I see generalization about a ton of stuff I instantly get suspicious about such claims. The article cannot be as wrong as you're trying hard to
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Linux apologists will never accept running Linux on top of a closed source OS.
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ReactOS is a pipedream which will never happen. BSDs are meant to be server OSes. Haiku sounds really promising but needs like 100x developers and money to take off which I don't see happening. Google's Fuchsia/Zircon is look
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From the article: > Keep in mind that this list serves the purpose of showing what needs to be fixed in Linux rather than finding faults in it.
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So, he welcomes games changing desktop resolution which pretty much all of them do? I'm not sure I've understood your refutation.
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Unfortunately anecdata is anecdata. Meanwhile in the past seven days: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/buglist.cgi?chfield=%5BBug%20cre...
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If it's all so perfect why this discussion has over two hundreds comments at least a half of which share the sentiment? Secondly, if it's pointless, why did you even (try to) read it? Pass on and live happily everafter.
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Explained in the comments below the article.
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> mostly low-SNR opinionated junk Care to expand on that? The poll under the article kinda proves the opposite.
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Windows 7 has long been unsupported, Windows 8.1 support has recently been dropped by most OEMs as well since Microsoft has deprecated Windows 8.1 earlier than expected. Four years ago anything you bought was fully supported by Windows 7 an
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> "Download the latest version." Yeah, and if you're running something like Debian 11, CentOS or Ubuntu LTS the answer will be, "Go compile the latest kernel".

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