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by krylon 5y ago
I second that, mynoise is amazing!
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by krylon 5y ago
Compared to, say, Python, Perl requires a more conscious effort to write readable code, but in my experience it is a) possible and b) not that big of an effort. One can write equally unreadable gibberish in any language if one has the min
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by krylon 5y ago
To be fair, most non-technical users have no clue what FTP is. Twenty years ago, some non-technical people knew, because a lot of downloading was going on involving FTP servers, but that was... well, twenty years ago. I do not see the ben
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by krylon 5y ago
This makes a little sad, but only a little. I honestly do not remember when I last accessed an FTP server from a browser. I do use FTP every now and then, but I do so from the command line or file manager like mc (or far manager when I am o
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by krylon 5y ago
I remember, many years ago, seeing some trade magazin publish an "announcement" of "Microsoft GNU/Linux" as an April fools' joke. After the last couple of years, this is not as big a surprise as it would have b
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by krylon 5y ago
That is an amazing idea. Then run SAP on top of that and turn it into an art installation.
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by krylon 5y ago
So when chess was first played, this game was already ancient. That is pretty cool.
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by krylon 5y ago
I am not 100% sure, but I think write support for NTFS has been a thing for at least 10 years. At least with the ntfs-3g FUSE driver.
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by krylon 5y ago
I don't recall the launch as such, but in my memory, it was pretty popular throughout the 1990s. I don't have any first hand memories of the broken optics and the mission to put "glasses" on it, so I think it must have t
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by krylon 5y ago
I'm definitely biased, on my private machines, GNU/Linux has been my OS of choice for more than twenty years now, except for ~3.5 years of using a Mac. Having said that, I really, really like MATE, especially because it doesn&#x27
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by krylon 5y ago
I was 9 years old when Hubble was launched, today I am 40 years old, so it has been around for all of my adult life and then some. Also, it has provided lots and lots and lots of beautiful pictures that are stunning to look at even for peop
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by krylon 5y ago
Good point, I hadn't thought of that. The last time I played anything on Nintendo hardware was Mario Kart on a Nintendo64 (which was awesome!), so I missed quite a bit of evolution there. Valve could try to create games that are more
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by krylon 5y ago
If Valve goes through with this and sticks to the device, it could become a serious competitor, though.
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by krylon 5y ago
Those specs sound quite impressive for the price. I wonder if one could run a custom Linux distro on it? It looks like a sweet device, but I'm not enough of a gamer to spend that kind of money on a device I can only play games on.
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by krylon 5y ago
You're thinking of the EeePC, the Netbook (I happen to own one as well, still working). The EeeBox was a desktop PC, although I think internally it used pretty much the same hardware.
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by krylon 5y ago
I'm a little bit embarrassed to admit I don't have any computer that low-spec. My most puny device is an Asus EeeBox, which has an Atom N270 (32bit, single-core, two threads) and 1GB of RAM.[0] The biggest problem in this challe
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by krylon 5y ago
Same here on Firefox, I have not tried another browser. Makes me feel all warm and tingly with nostalgia, though.
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by krylon 5y ago
It's been a very, very long time (~17-18 years) since I last touched it, but as I recall, Slackware had an init system back then that was similar to FreeBSD's.
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by krylon 5y ago
The article is a bit vague about what "sans ARM" means exactly. Are they going to design their own ARM core as Apple did with the M1 (and its predecessors), or are they going with another ISA?
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by krylon 5y ago
I've migrated to git for my personal projects, mainly because magit (emacs frontend for git) is awesome. But fossil is a pleasure to work with, especially on Windows, because a) it comes as a single executable that one can just copy to
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by krylon 5y ago
Decibel, as in the volume at which users yell at their display. ;-)
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by krylon 5y ago
For environmental reasons. Also, AFAIK, a significant portion of traffic accidents on the Autobahn could be avoided by introducing a speed limit. But like I said, I do not consider it likely because it is not popular at all. And frankly, we
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by krylon 5y ago
Yes! That analogy sums it up perfectly!
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by krylon 5y ago
Personally, I would welcome a speed limit on the Autobahn. OTOH, I don't own a car, so that's very easy for me to say since it wouldn't affect me. However, I don't think this is going to happen anytime soon. Outlawing mu
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by krylon 5y ago
From what I've heard, Acer's support is nothing to brag about either. I never owned one myself, but I've heard complaints about their laptops from several people regarding reliability/longevity. At the last company I wor
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by krylon 5y ago
Yes, that fits. The best English equivalent, I think is the saying that "no good deed goes unpunished".
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by krylon 5y ago
Given what the article reveals about the hardware specs, I suspect they fear that full 3D won't be achievable at good performance. Or they want to avoid facing direct competition against Xbox and Playstation.
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by krylon 5y ago
It's weird. From reading the article, I kind of like the concept of the console. But expecting third-party developers to create great games exclusive to a platform that is likely to sink like a rock and sell them at a price point that
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by krylon 5y ago
Is this new information? I thought it was well known that Venus is dry as a bone for quite some time now. Anyway, Venus is hostile to life (as we know it) in so many ways, the lack of water is not even the biggest problem, as far as I can t
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by krylon 5y ago
Memory-safe languages do not guarantee absence of bugs or security issues. I remember when Heartbleed was discovered, and people were groaning how that would never have happened had OpenSSL been written in Rust, one of the OpenBSD developer

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