krylon

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by krylon 2y ago
I know of Nix, but I know little about the project itself. Can someone shed some light on the reasons for forking?
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by krylon 2y ago
It's good the system offers that option, but right now for most people it is not necessary (yet).
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by krylon 2y ago
Just using the virtualizing features Windows already has (and has had for years now) to provide application sandboxing in an accessible manner (think QubesOS) would go a long way. I'm not saying it's easy, but it's possible
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by krylon 2y ago
"Buy the new Red-Balloon-Special warranty package - when your car explodes and you survive, we'll send you flowers and red balloons straight to your hospital room, and a refurbished car will be waiting for you as you get released
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by krylon 2y ago
While that suggestion is music to my ears (I've been using Linux/BSD on my private machines for over 20 years), for the overwhelming majority of users, that is not an option. Tons of applications are available only on Windows, and
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by krylon 2y ago
I had a similar experience when I tried to learn Smalltalk. Pharo By Example is a thing. I haven't read it, but I assume it is forked from or inspired by Squeak By Example, which made things click for me (at least a little). https:&#x
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by krylon 2y ago
I am an emacs user at heart, but when I was using Windows at work, I did use Notepad++ from time to time, it handled laaaaarge files much more smoothly than emacs.
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by krylon 2y ago
Yeah, that sucks. Used to be, one could just replace a single component to upgrade one's PC, soon you could no longer just replace the CPU, you needed a new motherboard, which also required new RAM. We lost something there.
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by krylon 2y ago
My first PC had a Cyrix "P166+" running at 133MHz. That CPU used almost twice the power of a Pentium running at the same clock speed, yet many PC vendors put the same fans on both. As a result, under heavy load, my PC would crash
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by krylon 2y ago
I could tell. It loaded nearly instantly and rendered as fast it was loaded. (Also, I read that article on one beautiful afternoon in the summer of 2008.)
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by krylon 2y ago
> [The Pentium II] was the first processor (I knew of) to have completely documented post-RISC features such as dynamic execution, out of order execution and retirement. (PA-RISC predated it as far as implementing the technology, however
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by krylon 2y ago
Thank you very much!
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by krylon 2y ago
I use MATE, but I prefer PcManFM-Qt over Caja most of the time. It is really good.
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by krylon 2y ago
A long time ago, the Python documentation was available as texinfo, it was very nice to use. But the Python devs switched to ReST, which I read was kind of a pain to convert to textinfo, and so it is no more. :(
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by krylon 3y ago
> Due to a slight problem of undercapitali7ation[sic], I found this incredibly low price still a bit high. Alas, a situation I am only too familiar with, even though computers and peripherals are so much cheaper these days. Also I love t
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by krylon 3y ago
EDIT: gNote is written in C++, not Vala. My bad.
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by krylon 3y ago
I switched to Amarok, then Clementine (Amarok 1.x fork), lately Strawberry (Clementine fork). It's really nice (IMHO).
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by krylon 3y ago
That's how I remember it, too. I still miss F-Spot.
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by krylon 3y ago
There were a couple of Linux/Un_x desktop applications written in C# back in the day - Tomboy, F-Spot, Banshee, Beagle come to mind. They were pretty good at what they did. But the GNU/Linux camp was rather hesitant to adopt .Net
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by krylon 3y ago
One thing that set SGI apart from the rest was that their cases were so incredibly pretty. Even today, the most beautiful PC cases barely play in the same league (IMHO). When Apple started building those colorful cases around ~2000, they re
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by krylon 3y ago
I don't anyone is disputing that, but why did the department head see a need to point that out?
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by krylon 3y ago
Look upon my source tree, ye mighty, and despair!
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by krylon 3y ago
I second this recommendation. This particular episode is unfortunately one of the shorter ones, but it is very good. The entire podcast (at 18 episodes as of today) is brilliant. You can find it here: https://fallofcivilizationsp
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by krylon 3y ago
Hooray! I've been running successive release candidates in a VM for a couple of weeks now, just upgraded to 10.0-RC6 this week. Guess I'll do another upgrade soon.
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by krylon 3y ago
I know. I think he retired a couple of years ago. He was a fairly competent producer, if he had gotten a better director on board, things might have worked out differently. Postal, though, is brilliant, IMHO, because the movie captures the
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by krylon 3y ago
At the time I installed Windows on a free partition on my desktop PC for the sole purpose of playing FarCry. It was great fun. The graphics blew me away. I watched the movie a few years later, it was ... not as good as the game. But movie a
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by krylon 3y ago
Thanks for pointing that out, I was confused about that.
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by krylon 3y ago
I watched the first six episodes so far, I like it. They made some changes to the characters, but I think it worked out rather well. I imagine to someone who hasn't read the books, it could be confusing. But that can be avoided by read
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by krylon 3y ago
In Germany, we have cities with identical names, too (Frankfurt, Halle, most likely others I am unaware of). But being a much smaller country, it doesn't lead to much confusion.
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by krylon 3y ago
It's funny to me that there are two cities in New York named Troy and Ithaca.

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