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by loudmax 9y ago
The French Republican calendar is covered by the Revolutions podcast, from Mike Duncan who did the History of Rome podcast. http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/ Much like the metric system, the structure of the new calendar w
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by loudmax 9y ago
Seconding the "History of English" podcast. It's a fascinating subject.
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by loudmax 9y ago
Seconding this. I paid closer to $700 for my Thinkpad X230 in 2011 and it's still going strong with Arch Linux. Not much of a gaming laptop, but it's been very solid fox nearly six years now.
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by loudmax 9y ago
Brad Fitzgerald created a github bug to track the issue: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18892 From what I understand, the WebAssembly team is working on their own GC and the Go team would like to use tha
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by loudmax 9y ago
These types of stories bring to David Brin's approach to privacy: http://www.davidbrin.com/transparency.html Brin's argument is that as the technology to record everything becomes so cheap that the cost is trivial
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by loudmax 9y ago
> I'm obsessive about minimalist set ups and having a synchronized desktop/terminal tmux/vim setup for development I think a lot of us here on HN are the same way. But if you want a minimalist desktop, why in the world ru
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by loudmax 9y ago
On the other hand, we could be entering a phase where an open source developer might say "Why bother porting to Windows? Just target Arch/Ubuntu/SUSE."
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by loudmax 10y ago
We're still missing big AAA titles. But there are hundreds (thousands?) of independent titles and fantastic games to choose from now. A lot of the change is surely due to the Unity game engine.
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by loudmax 10y ago
Same here, I have a Linux Mint desktop set up for my kids and overall I'm happy with the performance. It hasn't been 100% smooth though. In particular updating from Mint 17 to Mint 18 took some effort to get things working prope
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by loudmax 10y ago
I've read enough about Threads to know that I absolutely do not want to see it. Just reading the story in the article makes me queasy. The article calls The Day After "reassuring and sanitized," but from what I remember, th
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by loudmax 10y ago
On a related note, NASA's Worldview makes images from Earth observation satellites available in near real time (a few hours): https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/
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by loudmax 10y ago
Well, Microsoft put OS/2 and BeOS out of business, and nearly did the same for Apple. While this was happening, FreeBSD and Linux emerged as excellent Unix variants, so when Apple and Google went to look for their own OSs to deploy, t
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by loudmax 10y ago
I agree that Tensorflow has a mess of dependencies. The docker image worked for me: https://www.tensorflow.org/install/install_linux#InstallingD... Worked with the GPU even, on my Linux Mint gaming desktop.
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by loudmax 10y ago
Presumably, those who oppose hobbyist languages believe that all the time and effort being spent on these projectw could be somehow harnessed and redirected toward improving existing languages, to the benefit of a wider community. I think
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by loudmax 10y ago
I got my first cassette tape player in 1982 and Prince's "1999" album to go with it. The lead track starts with distorted vocals, and I thought my player was malfunctioning. The intro is only about ten or fifteen seconds, s
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by loudmax 10y ago
A lot of the concepts in this talk are introduced very simply in this blog post that creates a working neural network in 9 lines of python code: https://medium.com/technology-invention-and-more/how-to-buil... Of course
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by loudmax 10y ago
I consider myself a pretty hardcore free software enthusiast, and I'm okay with using the Google-branded browser to play Netflix. My feeling is that if you're playing copyrighted content, you're in the restricted intellectua
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by loudmax 10y ago
I love my Arch laptop and desktop, but I would caution that Arch is a very Linux way of doing things. You're in full control and you take full responsibility. This is fantastic if you want to get an understanding of what your lapto
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by loudmax 10y ago
I love my wobbly windows. It's an effect that you can only do on an open source desktop. I don't doubt that Microsoft or Apple could implement wobbly windows if they really wanted to, but it's a silly effect and servers no
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by loudmax 10y ago
My 1st gen Moto G is still going strong. Loading apps may be a little slow, but things rarely crash randomly. I'm pretty careful about exiting out of apps that I'm not actively using though, especially Google Maps. I recently up
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by loudmax 10y ago
I remember watching some silly Hong Kong movie on TV one night when I was living in a hostel in Taiwan in the late 1990's. The people staying at the hostel were all fairly young and included Americans, Brazilians, French, Germans, Jap
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by loudmax 10y ago
Agreed. They don't need to make it impossible, they just need to make it inconvenient enough so for most users, copying stuff out of DRM isn't worth the hassle. This cuts both ways. It's more convenient to watch a movie from
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by loudmax 10y ago
I think I feel the same way as you, but it really comes down to expectations. I never had trouble with the GUI interface on an Arch or Gentoo install because I've only ever done command line installs. I've had other issues. For
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by loudmax 10y ago
Do you realize that Gentoo packages are distributed by source code rather than pre-built binaries?
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by loudmax 10y ago
I'm wondering the same thing. Nearly every other metric I've seen puts desktop Linux between 3% and 4%. I'd imagine that paranoid Linux users would be undercounted because they're less likely to let Mozilla collect sta
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by loudmax 10y ago
Maybe "hard" isn't exactly the right word, but it's certainly different. The sounds aren't hard to make, but using the wrong tone is like using the wrong vowel. You _have_ to speak each syllable with the correct t
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by loudmax 10y ago
Also known as 'lock-in' in some contexts.
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by loudmax 10y ago
Sounds like problems with the video card drivers. In Linux, it pays to research how well hardware is supported before you buy it, especially for video and wifi. Even then, you may still benefit from looking at alternative drivers or seein
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by loudmax 10y ago
For anyone who misses it, this is a reference to Apple's 1997 Think Different marketing campaign. The original ode is here: http://www.thecrazyones.it/spot-en.html I'd forgotten about this campaign, and I would
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by loudmax 10y ago
My 1st gen Moto G stopped receiving updates a while ago, but Cyanogenmod is still putting out new ROMs. It takes some level of understanding to put Cyanogenmod on a device, but nothing too challenging for the HN crowd. If your phone has st

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