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by m000 6y ago
Any guesses why Paragon decided to GPL the driver now?
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by m000 6y ago
I don't think it is. Chrome these days feels like it's being maintained solely as a platform for running Google Docs. And Edge is based on Chromium, a good indication that Microsoft is not very interested in aggressively engaging
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by m000 6y ago
Mozilla Corp. need to recognize that running Google Docs better than Chrome is a battle they can't win. It will always be a catch-up game. I believe that a viable strategy for them would be to instead focus on making Firefox better tha
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by m000 6y ago
There's another category, that I find even more annoying. It's the people who claim that because it is in the TOS, Apple is 100% right and their actions justified. The absence of a personal moral compass and the reliance on some T
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by m000 6y ago
Apple and Google also being prepared doesn't mean much for the final outcome of the case. Even if Apple and Google have wargamed the move and found out they would definitely lose, would they do anything without first being confronted?
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by m000 6y ago
For real? In the HN thread about Apple removing Fortnite [1] the Apple apologists seem to vastly outnumber people who are in favour of what Epic did. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24146987
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by m000 6y ago
There are these: > When you have encrypted, there is no way to know what it is. I personally believe government should not allow those types of lies or fraud or child pornography. > Being big in the social media business is no simple
818.
by m000 6y ago
a.k.a. steganography
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by m000 6y ago
Mozilla needs a more focused leadership to survive, not a perpetual gofundme campaign. The current leadership focused on free lock-in features (Firefox Lockwise, Pocket integration etc). But that's how you play when you have deep pocke
820.
by m000 6y ago
Python and English are meant to be general purpose languages, so they are kind of expected to be large and occasionally inconsistent. SQL is (by definition) a domain-specific language which has grown out of proportions. Are there really any
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by m000 6y ago
> A free trade agreement must be abided by both parties. Is there a free trade agreement that China infringes? > Americans aren't renouncing their values or losing the moral high ground as long as companies from other free countr
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by m000 6y ago
> People are not being paid for being skilled or educated, but for being useful. It's not a given that Millions of people have something useful to do. That's the line of thinking that leads to an abundance of low-skill, low-pay
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by m000 6y ago
What puzzles me in this transition is how does Apple plan to manage lower grade chips yielded by the fabrication. Intel's product line is largely built around the need to sell lower grade chips, rather than having them binned. What&#x2
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by m000 6y ago
Disappointing. I was expecting a webcam hack or something, that literally caught them with their pants down.
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by m000 6y ago
Intel's handling of ICC has always puzzled me. I'd bet Intel could live without any of the money it made them. Yet, they never open-sourced it so that GCC/LLVM could catch up faster with any tricks that gave ICC a performance
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by m000 6y ago
I'd bet India also had an export surplus to the UK when it was a colony. So, thank you for shedding light on the whole of the German plot. I hadn't realized that the Eastern Europe countries were admitted to the EU so the German i
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by m000 6y ago
FWIW, units on macOS (not GNU) handles conversion of `10 degC` to `degF` correctly, although it dates back to 1993. It seems that GNU units at some point added support for several non-linear units, which may have prompted them to rethink th
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by m000 6y ago
And that's the problem with the EU. It will happily turn a blind eye to corruption as long as the exports keep flowing.
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by m000 6y ago
I'd bet this has to do with capacity, similar with network equipment. If you operate below capacity, it's hard to tell apart a high priority packet from a low priority one. You will start noticing delays in low priority packets on
830.
by m000 6y ago
> why can't I choose a shipping option that costs something less than 50 cents to anywhere in the US? Not an American, but I believe there's a 2006 bill that prevents USPS from selling services below the cost. Learned about it
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by m000 6y ago
> It’s sickening when I have to pay $5 to send something within the US, yet the same item would cost $.50 from China. What's sickening about this? It's different quality of service. Your $5 package will be received in a few day
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by m000 6y ago
It's not about stealing users from macOS. It's about stealing developers. Hell, Apple is at the mercy of Microsoft and Adobe right now. I'd bet they had to line their pockets very well, so that they don't get any funny i
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by m000 6y ago
Apple will singlehandedly make 2021 "the year of Linux on the desktop".
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by m000 6y ago
> So it may well be more expeditious to start over. There are many other models, and if nothing else, whatever success those models have will provide more capacity. That may also draw away students and force them to lower prices. The pri
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by m000 6y ago
> as employers embrace new skills-based certifications, many students may question the value of the traditional four-year degree Of course employers will embrace skills-based certifications, as they essentially offload the cost of any sp
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by m000 6y ago
Nope, completely different. Xpra is resistant to network failures, while X server requires a stable network connection to keep the apps running. Xpra is also completely agnostic to the applications GUI: it just streams video and input event
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by m000 6y ago
You only need a couple of line to plug in automatic m4 preprocessing in Makefile. And perhaps add a .SECONDARY line if you are debugging to prevent the intermediate .dot files from being deleted. %.dot: %.dot.m4 m4 < $<
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by m000 6y ago
3. dot pairs nicely with m4 [1] and a Makefile. Without m4, it's a pain to apply a uniform style on groups of nodes. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4_(computer_language)
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by m000 6y ago
There's a EU-wide standard for passport photos. Your head has to be properly aligned within a specific frame. You must not show any facial expression. The lighting must eliminate shadows and "shiny" spots. Regular automatic b
840.
by m000 6y ago
Give this man his Ig Nobel Prize!

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