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by lbenes 10y ago
I flagged this article. It needs a [2003] tag to indicate that's it's completely outdated and obsolete.
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That's a terrible analogy. I use both cyanogenmod/XDA images on my phone and custom firmware on my routers. There is no comparison. The XDA images lack drivers, feature, and have strange bugs. While the DD-WRT is rock solid, years
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by lbenes 10y ago
I worked in IT for an engineering company that required all external emails to be PGP encrypted. Despite all engineers having Symantec PGP software installed and setup, training, and support of IT, they would often ignore this policy. The e
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by lbenes 10y ago
We don’t directly see anything. Our brains are trapped inside our head. The whole concept of "reality" and solid things is just a useful construct for beings made of matter. We evolved to see in the visible spectrum because it mos
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NES Classic joins the “can it run Linux” club, has custom distro installed(arstechnica.com)
3 points by lbenes 10y ago|0 comments
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It's not just your circle that determines what show up in your feed. The algorithms re-enforce peoples views by putting stories in your feed it thinks you will 'like'. If it thinks you're pro-Trump, you will have more pr
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by lbenes 10y ago
I use a flavor of Ubuntu, but Debian also has an update system for wine. Just follow the instructions here: https://github.com/wine-compholio/wine-staging/wiki/Installa...
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Broadcom Wi-Fi Datasheets(cypress.com)
204 points by lbenes 10y ago|63 comments
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by lbenes 10y ago
It's a Russian/EU Social network / messaging app. Never seen it in the US but could just be my circle.
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Yes, Wine implements the Win16 API. I just tried tetris and ski and the both worked fine in wine-1.9.22 (Staging). Didn't even need to even create a 32-bit profile.
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by lbenes 10y ago
Nothing, but if you read the other comments, people here are worried that he's over-estimating the market size. But we all wish him the best. Hopefully, he's either done his due diligence or he's primarily in it for the fun.
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by lbenes 10y ago
On the days leading up to the election, my feed was full of fake news stories. Every single one that looked fishy to me, Snopes had debunked. I posted a few replies, but I felt like it was a Sisyphean task of shoveling shit against the tid
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by lbenes 10y ago
The majority of AirBnB hosts are individuals just trying to make some extra money. The lobbyies are claiming these units prevent the homeless from finding homes. How about the people that avoid becoming homeless by AirBnB'ing one of th
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by lbenes 10y ago
CBS.com requires flash and has lots of great content such as "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert". Also one of my banks requires Flash for online check deposit. If Firefox dropped flash, I'd drop Firefox.
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by lbenes 10y ago
I routinely have to open large spec sheets for work. Have you ever tried to open any large documents with PDF.js? Chrome's pdf plugin can handle 100+ page documents with ease, while Firefox's PDF.js can make the entire browser unr
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by lbenes 10y ago
Haiku is a clone not based on the original BeOS codebase. So while it may run the same apps and look similar, does it have the internal design and optimizations that made the original so capable for its time? Could Haiku running on equivale
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by lbenes 10y ago
The cool, beautiful canopy of my hometown street was destroyed by Dutch elm disease. In the woods behind my house, my grandfather planted a row of hemlock trees before I was born. Now his legacy is being destroyed by another invasive from
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by lbenes 10y ago
C++ has many pure functional features that C lacks. For example immutable methods with const and Lambdas. Wouldn't these features make it easier target to C++ rather than C? Do these functional features only make it easier for a human
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by lbenes 10y ago
How can our government be failing us so miserably? Ensuring that our food is safe and properly labeled should be the most basic duties of a government. And yet they are failing us miserably. In April of 2011, a paper was published showing t
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by lbenes 10y ago
The authors' of the paper feel it is being misinterpreted and tried to submit errata to PNAS:[1] They tried to change the following sentence: “These results question the validity of some 40,000 fMRI studies and may have a large impact
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by lbenes 10y ago
No, message passing doesn’t solve all the problem of parallelism, but it is one of the most powerful and useful tools to have in our toolkit when attacking these problems. I hope it doesn’t dominate as OOP did in the 90s, as many other mode
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by lbenes 10y ago
Sucralose is 600x sweeter than sugar so it's sold by equivalent volume serving. I consumed the equivalent of 5lbs of sugar by volume in 6 months. This may sound like a lot if you eat out every meal, but I eat breakfast and dinner at ho
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by lbenes 10y ago
I know HN hate anecdotal stories, but here goes anyways. 6 months ago, despite my regular exercise routine, I was about 20 pounds over my college weight and prediabetic. Instead of following my doctor’s recommendations and going on Metformi
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by lbenes 10y ago
And for discussion of 3D analog of the original Mandelbrot, check out the Math Exchange discussion[1] and site dedicated to finding it.[2] The vanilla zoomed mandelbrot[3] looks 3d to me. It's interesting that actually turning them int
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by lbenes 10y ago
Stabilized version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5_hvVbxAAo
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by lbenes 10y ago
From Mobile OS/Nokia to Business Chat/Skype, MS has a knack for have all right pieces at the right time and still missing big shifts in the industry. I saw demos of Surface ( Now PixelSense ) almost a year before the first iPhone
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First case of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
3 points by lbenes 10y ago|0 comments
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Should we really be openly discussing our plans for an ‘off-switch’ on the public Internet? Shouldn’t there be some attempt to keeps the ideas/plans hidden in a way that they won’t be archived/read by an AI from the future? If I w
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by lbenes 10y ago
> insult to the tmux developers in particular Not just tmux, every opensource project that used established nohup practices. For example, now all of my virtualbox instances are killed when I logout of Gnome on rawhide. This was a feature
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by lbenes 10y ago
Do you have a source for that? From my investigation, this does not seem to be true. xdg-app's initial release was Dec 17, 2014. [1] While click seems to go back to 2013[2] [1] https://github.com/alexlarsson/xdg-ap

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