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by madez 9y ago
I ran into issues with Nvidia graphic cards. Whereas, When I put in the AMD card and installed the firmware package (firmware-linux-nonfree in Debian), everything worked and no issues on upgrades. Now, for GL compatibility profiles, if they
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by madez 9y ago
It wasn't waste. It was investing time to explore the space of alternatives.
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by madez 9y ago
I recommend everybody intending to run Linux to avoid nvidia GPUs. The experience with amd and intel GPUs is vastly superior.
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by madez 9y ago
If he changes his opinion, which I understand to be models of the brain in this case, and each iteration improves the model, then that is perfectly fine. It would be bad if someone did not change their view in case of inconsistent evidence.
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by madez 9y ago
I still remember vividly the learning process when playing a game like Stepmania (maybe it actually was Stepmania, I don't remember the name). The first season was played very conciously and slow. After each season, I recognized that c
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by madez 9y ago
Why are they so obsessed with 60 fps? 120 fps looks considerably better, and there are other effects like smear and judder that significantly decrease even with significantly higher frame rates, say 480 fps [1]. [1] http://blogs.
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Librem 5 smartphone crowdfunding reaches its goal(puri.sm)
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by madez 9y ago
Electricity _is_ aggressive in that it does not weigh in the interests of the person and just does its thing, just like C. You can now insult and smear on people that write undefined code in C, but that does not change the fact that undefin
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by madez 9y ago
To put things in context, this discussion started because dvfjsdhgfv said they bought another device because of bad privacy on Android with Google. This means getting rid of Google was already a deciding factor when shopping for a device. &
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by madez 9y ago
Could you elaborate on the signal processing and the filter function?
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by madez 9y ago
> The way you treat others' emotions is an ethical matter. This is a fundamental conflict in ethics. Where does freedom end in the face of the freedom of others? Now, in this case, there is framing going on. One could say that group
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by madez 9y ago
That is an arrogant and aggressive appeal to emotion. But even following that non-logic, as soon as someone dies we are supposed to turn our head off and to shut up? I think quite the contrary, we should think even harder why it happened, a
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by madez 9y ago
Is talking about the obvious explanation now taboo? Do we really want to pretend the emporer is wearing cloths? I certainly do not. What is obvious to me might not be obvious to others. I learned that time and time again. That is why I&#x27
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by madez 9y ago
I think it is a great explanation. It makes the reactions understandable to me. Now it seems like an example of shooting the messenger of a disliked message (where the message here is not a fact, but a thought). There is a certain emotional
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by madez 9y ago
I disagree politely. Even the death of a beloved person is not above the scientific method. One may choose not to investigate, but that is a personal decision. I don't see a problem if someone far away speculates. Also, I don't se
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by madez 9y ago
Speculation without evidence is a fundamental tool to figure stuff out. You are given a situation you don't understand (He died young). You make a speculation that seems plausible (Maybe suicide). You look for evidence (They asked here
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by madez 9y ago
A sincere question: Why is it bad to speculate that it was suicide? I assume there is some intention-guessing or social norm coming into play that I don't see. Could you explain your reasoning? Edit: Is it that it is not considered oka
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by madez 9y ago
You got it wrong. He complained that speculation is considered non-PC here. Speculation is at the heart of science. We shouldn't forget that.
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by madez 9y ago
It was also my first thought.
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by madez 9y ago
This analogy is not good, because for a vegetarian there are other easy-obtainable things to eat. On the other side, in the case of handheld portals into the digital world, we do not have easy-obtainable alternatives. Besides this weakness,
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by madez 9y ago
Money shapes this world. It's not the voting booth where we voice our will, but where we spend our money. Many companies don't consider libre and open components economically relevant. If that changed, they would cater to that seg
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by madez 9y ago
There are a lot of devices that are supported by LineageOS. I lately bought one for a family member and the search did not take long.
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by madez 9y ago
You can use Android without Google. It's easy with LineageOS.
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by madez 9y ago
While it sounds intuitively correct that both open and closed platforms can be malicious, it is justified to a priori distrust a closed system significantly more than then an open one, because opportunity makes the thief.
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by madez 9y ago
How is large good in a democracy? Are the Netherlands worse because they are small?
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by madez 9y ago
I'd like to add that the patch was rejected because the maintainer had a use-case in mind, deemed the feature not a good solution, and therefore rejected the patch. I would comment directly on the site, but because the certificate is i
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by madez 9y ago
I use headphones, and have tactile transducers on my chair. The transducers make the audio sound much louder than it actually is. That is good for your ears and your neighbours. Because of this setup I need full-range stereo output on my he
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by madez 9y ago
> It then makes no sense, financially, to make two versions of the CPU. You are wrong. They offer countless different versions of CPU's, famously denying "enterprise" features like ECC to private customers. One can only wo
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by madez 9y ago
No, you do not control your machine. Controling your machine does not imply you always understand what it is doing, jusy like controling your car doesn't imply you always know exactly where it is and how it got there. You may give your
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by madez 9y ago
But the consequences affect everybody, all the time, even those that do not want to watch DRM'ed stuff online. That price is too high.

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