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by luser001 14y ago
Ok, thanks. I didn't realize people were working around limitations of the Nvidia driver etc.
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by luser001 14y ago
I just went from the open source Nouveau drivers to the closed source one a few days ago. My CPU was literally running hotter from the radiated heat from the GPU due to the driver not doing something right. Things seem to be cooler with the
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by luser001 14y ago
Thanks a lot! This is the most useful thing I've read in this thread. I own two green drives. I installed two Caviar Black (b/c of the 5-yr warranty) drives in a RAID array a few months ago. The RAID edition drives aren't even significantly
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by luser001 14y ago
What is the network file system to make ZFS available to your other computers? NFS and Samba?
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by luser001 14y ago
Interesting. Can you please point me to a more authoritative source for this? I also had a "green" drive fail surprisingly soon. How did you confirm that they spin up and down "several times a minute" by themselves. Are you sure it wasn't y
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by luser001 14y ago
Thanks for the info. I guess it's more complicated than I thought.
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by luser001 14y ago
Saw a build on a post in the the hackintosh sub-reddit, the link to which was posted here on HN. Great site. Since you're here, I'm going to file a bug. :) I just noticed that the following motherboard isn't showing an amazon price for me:
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by luser001 14y ago
Can you elaborate? Both pages below imply that you get 100% if you return within 30 days. http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_r... http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_9... In contrast, the n
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by luser001 14y ago
Heh, me too. Also, I just discovered http://pcpartpicker.com/ yesterday. Looks pretty cool. I might do my research there and buy on Amazon. I might feel a little less guilty. :) The restocking fee policy (which screams "shady retailer" to
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by luser001 14y ago
You can never have enough processing power when you're editing and re-rendering videos. Hell, I find lightroom able to use all the CPU I can throw at it when I muck around with ~400 photos that I shoot in a day. I have no doubt that video w
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by luser001 14y ago
The rationalwiki article linked above links to that article and several others. So IMHO your charge of "name smeared in a vague way" is incorrect.
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by luser001 14y ago
Ubuntu doesn't contribute to upstream? What do you mean? The limitations you point out on publishing changes are nits imho. It's far better than nothing, and social pressure has been successfully used in many cases to make sure proper SCM
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by luser001 14y ago
I went ahead and donated to the FSF after reading this article instead of venting here on HN. You lose, ESR. :) https://my.fsf.org/donate/
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by luser001 14y ago
off topic: i hope you meant 'disassemble' :). 'dissemble' means "to put on a false appearance : conceal facts, intentions, or feelings under some pretense" according to http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dissemble .
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by luser001 14y ago
AFAIK, Netflix doesn't use Amazon for delivering streams to their customer (they use Level3's CDN). They use Amazon for batch jobs like transcoding and to host their API servers. Using Amazon for API servers is a little surprising, btw. I w
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by luser001 14y ago
I'm going to be taking a serious look at this for my own projects. I like Format: https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/master/folly/docs/For... Histogram is going to come in handy. :) fbstring seems to be exactly what the doctor ordered
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by luser001 14y ago
Are you sure? When a lens claims to be f/2.8 at all zoom levels, it usually means that that the maximum aperture (i.e., minimum f-number) is f/2.8. It can do f/11 etc also. If it is indeed a lens with just a single aperture setting, can y
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by luser001 14y ago
One (space per engineer) is much more controllable than the other (pay per engineer). Hence it gets controlled. You've got to cut what you can, not necessarily the biggest expense.
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by luser001 14y ago
This explanation makes sense: one (cost) is easily measurable, the other (productivity) isn't. The first gets optimized.
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by luser001 14y ago
"I think his point is not that "ls" needs less flags, it's that it needs no flags." Then don't use the flags. The default bare 'ls <wildcard>' is sane 99% of the time for me, and I consider myself a junior power user.
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by luser001 14y ago
I'll try: they're sharecroppers (e.g., http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePla... )
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by luser001 14y ago
People who know better can answer this more authoritatively. My two cents are: 1. Stocks are never priced "appropriately" in the US. Companies rarely adopt the Google-style book-building process (kinda like an auction). 2. FB like others wa
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by luser001 14y ago
Studies have shown that you're correct. Doing shared activities is the best way to network, not at a pre-talk mixer.
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by luser001 14y ago
I admire what you're doing, but I just wanted to point out that there's a HUGE difference between denying yourself something because you can and denying yourself something because you can't afford it. The $3 beer incident was poignant.
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Retina MacBook screens: Already here -- and pricey(news.cnet.com)
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by luser001 14y ago
I may concede it's not citricsquid-newsworthy. But the guidelines say that anything gratifying one's intellectual curiosity is fair game. Isn't a quantum leap in the quality of documentation regarding the execution of an innocent person gra
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by luser001 14y ago
This article is newsworthy IMHO. I have yet to hear of a case of wrongful execution where the case for innocent was so clear. The previous best-documented instance was the Willingham execution in Texas. for me http://www.newyorker.com/repo
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by luser001 14y ago
A bedrock principle of a civilized society is that the price to be paid to ensure that no innocent is ever falsely convicted, is that some guilty might be acquitted. The death penalty is the ultimate irreversible penalty. Don't you think it
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by luser001 14y ago
This is the worst comment I've ever seen on HN. This amounts of borderline cyberbullying. IMHO. You really should apologize.
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by luser001 14y ago
Hmm, there's a HUGE difference between LA-style suburbs and the Bay Area. In LA-style suburbs, you have drive about 10 miles to a shopping mall, i.e., residental areas have no businesses apart from the occassional gas station. That's beca

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