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by loudmax 7y ago
They absolutely do. If you're tech savvy, they're optional. If you're not, or not interested in learning this stuff, they're required. You can absolutely be tech savvy and prefer the ease of use of Elementary OS's
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by loudmax 7y ago
> I know MSFT technologies get a lot of hate here Are you reading the same HN as I do? In the last couple of years, I see a lot more positive than negative comments whenever Microsoft comes up. From what I see, Google is the company th
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by loudmax 7y ago
You can absolutely vote out the politicians responsible for for giving authority to these regulators. In fact, it's your duty to vote out crooked politicians. Even when both candidates for an office are crooked, they won't be eq
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by loudmax 7y ago
Unfortunately, they didn't make the far more compatible step of getting Windows to run on Linux.
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by loudmax 7y ago
To be fair, you can run systemd without NetworkManager or an automounter. For network access, you can run dhcpcd with systemd (on Arch anyway). I've never wanted an automounter on any system. Likewise, systemd doesn't prevent yo
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by loudmax 7y ago
I sure wish qemu were better documented. There's a lot of qemu documentation out there, but much is incomplete or out of date. A lot of Red Hat's documentation is virsh rather than qemu/kvm. It's fairly easy to get so
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by loudmax 7y ago
The fundamental problem is the near monopoly powers enjoyed by a select few social media and tech companies. If Facebook and Twitter's social networks were federated like email, it wouldn't matter whether they refuse to propagate
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by loudmax 7y ago
I used a Lenovo X230 for years and I loved it. One can be had for under $200 US and the Linux drivers are flawless, though make sure you install battery management utilities. The battery and hard drive are replaceable, and there's a
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by loudmax 7y ago
I have one of these as my work laptop. I agree, it's a lightweight powerful device and the Linux drivers worked perfectly in my experience (though I haven't asked much from the GPU). I ended up getting a Lenovo Carbon X1 (6th gen
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by loudmax 7y ago
Incidentally, I'm pretty sure that Sir_Cmpwn meant 32 threads, not 32 cores. Raptor sells an 8-core CPU bundle, and those cores are SMT4 capable, meaning 4 threads per core. So it will appear as 32 CPUs if you run `htop` or `cat &#x2F
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by loudmax 7y ago
Does anyone here have a good understanding of the relative merits of Zig, Crystal, and Nim? Especially compared to higher profile languages like Rust and Go? All of these languages seem to be statically compiled, and they all seem to promi
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by loudmax 7y ago
Maybe beneficial to the small game dev to focus on a single platform at expense of the ecosystem, not beneficial to the ecosystem. These devs have got bills to pay, and individually it's hard to push against the current, so it's
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by loudmax 7y ago
Best of luck to you and your game. I hope it's successful.
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by loudmax 7y ago
Nope. But if I were, I still wouldn't develop exclusively for a proprietary monopoly. We all have our own trade-offs to make. I don't blame anyone for focusing on where the money is. In the long run though, we'd all be bet
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by loudmax 7y ago
Locking your software onto someone else's platform is short sighted. I appreciate that indie game devs have limited resources, but a planning your game platform neutral from the outset will put you in a better opportunity to exploit o
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by loudmax 7y ago
Agreed. I don't mind paying for closed source games, but not if it's Windows only. Indy game devs should be able to sell their games for a profit, but it's disappointing when they're helping to prop up a monopoly.
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by loudmax 7y ago
Exactly. Overcoming Earth's gravity well is the reason building a space elevator is such an exciting prospect. The geosynchronous orbit is about a 10th of the way to the moon, so this moon elevator would go 9/10ths of the way tow
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by loudmax 7y ago
Agreed. This argument comes up a lot, especially in open source, that resources on one project would have better spent on some other project. Developer focus is not a fungible commodity. If the Golang devs hadn't been developing the
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by loudmax 7y ago
Lock-in is anti-user. If you don't like Chrome/Edge, then switch to Firefox. Open standards give you have that freedom. Unless, of course, you can't switch to Firefox because the set of people you need to work with are commu
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by loudmax 7y ago
It was from a company whose primary source of profit is vendor lock-in. Poorly supporting or not supporting open standards is SOP for Microsoft.
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by loudmax 7y ago
Alongside pouring resources into the Windows Subsystem for Linux, it would be nice if MS would put some resources into a Linux Subsystem for Windows. That is, do for WINE what they've done for Cygwin.
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by loudmax 7y ago
> Desktop applications typically do not fail due to a dialog box being popped up a few milliseconds late. No they won't fail but a responsive user interface is critical. A process running on an RTOS won't complete any faster (
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by loudmax 7y ago
It's all about the long form interviews. Each week, he puts out several of these long conversations with a very diverse set of subjects. Without being a centrist, his politics are pretty close to the middle, and he interviews folks a
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by loudmax 7y ago
The download page says "Investing in open source", but it also says "Not supported for Linux". I'm going to take a guess that no other open source operating systems are supported either, unless you count Android. M
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by loudmax 7y ago
The Original Kerbal Space Program is playable on Mac and Linux. If its sequel is a worthy successor, I hope it will follow suit.
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by loudmax 7y ago
The Rust Programming Language book includes tests and how to break down code into packages and other good habits: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ Coming from a background in scripting languages, Rust is still a lot mor
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by loudmax 7y ago
I really hope you're treating your job like a gig to tide you over until you find something better. That environment will crush your soul. Don't let it become your life. Regardless of what your employer thinks, you don't ne
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by loudmax 7y ago
Will it be possible to run a web browser on an SeL4 kernel some day, or is that completely beside the point? Obviously, formally verifying a modern web browser with a javascript engine and everything is a whole other undertaking, so I'
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by loudmax 7y ago
This looks nice! I especially appreciate the example images with simple code. This looks like it could be used to re-implement a lot ImageMagick fairly easily. I love ImageMagick (well, except for hijacking really generic command names li
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by loudmax 7y ago
I wrote a command line utility for finding duplicate images: https://github.com/nickaubert/pdupe Useful if you're trying to reorganize pictures after migrating out of one photo management service or another that m

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