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by krylon 4y ago
The secondary school I went to taught Latin as the first language, and someone had - before my time - written "Romanes eunt domus" on the school wall next to the main entrance. I did not get the joke until I watched Life of Brian,
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by krylon 4y ago
I don't expect this to become reality. I'm just saying that if we are about to use "AI" for all kinds of increasingly disturbing and dystopian purposes, at least I want to get a second season of Gravity out of it.
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by krylon 4y ago
Snarky answer: If you overdose on heroin, there is Naloxone. Slightly-less snarky answer: If you find that question interesting, you'll probably enjoy reading Infinite Jest.
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by krylon 4y ago
One thing I really want to see in my lifetime is an "AI" I can feed episodes of a TV show and have it generate more episodes. Like a second season of Firefly or Gravity. Or re-create the finale of Battlestar Galactica and give t
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by krylon 4y ago
I felt kind of lost when Gnome 3 landed, but I discovered MATE, which forked off of Gnome 2. Gnome 2, IMHO, was the peak Unix desktop experience, and I felt so relieved to discover it does live on. Gnome 3 confused (and continues to confuse
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by krylon 4y ago
At some companies, some people equate watching video with slacking off / not working. And even if that's not the case, unless you have headphones, in a multi-person office, playing a video with sound can be perceived as kind of ru
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by krylon 4y ago
This sounds like a very useful feature for a personal RSS reader, like the text-equivalent of a thumbnail, so you can decide if the article is worth reading.
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by krylon 4y ago
As I recall (vaguely) Microsoft did release a few security fixes for Windows XP and Windows 7 after their respective ends-of-lives on a case-by-case basis when the security issue was especially bad. I am by no means a fan of Microsoft'
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by krylon 4y ago
It's true. I'm using Linux and/or BSD on all my private machines, but from an outsider's perspective Microsoft appears to have undergone some significant changes since Nadella took over. From what I know, if someone had
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by krylon 4y ago
Somehow this makes me think of a Homer Simpson quote: "Lisa, monkeys don't have feelings. If they did, then my experiments could be considered cruel!" Why would anyone think infants do not feel pain? Sure, they react to pain
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by krylon 4y ago
Funny side note, Perl fakes fork() on Windows using (I believe) threads. I am not sure if that is better or worse than Windows having fork() natively, though. Some people would probably argue that if you use Perl, you have much bigger probl
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by krylon 4y ago
The devil, as they say, is in the details. But to be fair, the only times I can recall using fork() without exec() were forking network servers, and that was mostly me learning about doing network stuff, and a forking server was the easiest
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by krylon 4y ago
I never thought about it, but with his big bushy beard, the similarity is remarkable. :-)
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by krylon 4y ago
I had a great history teacher in school who would use every opportunity (and there were many, obviously) to drive home this point. Not just Rome: most, if not all, major historical events and developments are driven by multiple causes.
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by krylon 4y ago
Reminds me of a story from "I Sing The Body Electronic" by Fred Moody where a programmer leaves a playful entry titled " Slayer Sucks Live A Vacuum " in an almost-relase-version of Microsoft Encarta. Fortunately, the goo
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by krylon 4y ago
OpenBSD ships tmux in the base system. I would be very pleased if more systems did this.
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by krylon 4y ago
coreutils-ng? It would be nice to have a bunch of these in one package.
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by krylon 4y ago
I usually listen to Podcasts on my desktop/laptop, though. I use gPodder, which does not access Apple's directory. I could switch to another client, ... but I'm a creature of habit. I might try building my own Podcast clien
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by krylon 4y ago
Thanks for clearing that up! I have noticed a trend, though, for Podcasts to no longer provide a "raw" RSS feed, and point you to "wherever you find your podcasts". It is usually possible to find an RSS URL, but it takes
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by krylon 4y ago
I like Thunderbird's UI. It doesn't get in the way, and more importantly, I have used it for a long time, so I know my way around it quite well. A lot of attempts to "improve" UIs end with things like Microsoft's Ri
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by krylon 4y ago
It has become increasingly difficult to find RSS feeds for podcasts. More and more podcasts have moved to the various "platforms" like iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and finding a plain old RSS feed has become quite the heroi
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by krylon 4y ago
Fascinating read. It's funny to me that IBM - a company not known to promote fun and games - ended up providing the processors that powered the PS3, XBox360, and I think the GameCube and Wii, too. Thank you very much for the deep dive,
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by krylon 4y ago
The story of BER's troubled birth confirms your view. German satire website Der Postillion (roughly equivalent to The Onion) ran a headline once that Berlin would get a new airport by moving the entire city to some place with an existi
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by krylon 4y ago
> European construction seems a lot better Unless the situation in the US is really, really REALLY horrible, I doubt that. I don't remember where, but one country is in the process of building a nuclear power plant, that is AFAIK
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by krylon 4y ago
> They make daily backups just in case Doesn't everyone make daily backups in production environments? Also, aren't all backups made "just in case"? No sysadmin ever arrives at the office, thinking "Today that ac
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by krylon 4y ago
I like both. Tumbleweed has the advantage of having very up-to-date packages, new kernel version drop fairly early, a rolling release distro. The downside is that a) you get relatively frequent (once, twice a week or so) large batches of up
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by krylon 4y ago
Yes, FreeBSD these days does not really have any unique selling point. Anything you can do on FreeBSD, you can do on Linux. But you can also do them on FreeBSD, and usually do them well. But having some variety is good thing in itself,
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by krylon 4y ago
SuSE was my first Linux distro back in 2000, and I started using it again a couple of years back. I have one laptop running Tumbleweed and one running Leap, I look forward to updating the latter over the weekend!
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by krylon 4y ago
> I'd say, though, that if you like Slackware, then you'll probably like FreeBSD more Hehe, someone saying this exact thing to me was what made look into BSD for the first time, and whoever said it to me was correct. On the des
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by krylon 4y ago
I remember reading a blog post years ago (don't remember where or by whom, unfortunately) that claimed the compiler market was also eroded from the other end - many small-ish companies building compilers were acqui-hired by large compa

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