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by morb 11y ago
The whole point of this whole thread in a nutshell is that speed is greatly underrated. Besides this thread we had a bunch of "We discovered that adblockers clean up and speed up browsing experience by x%. Now why is that?" thread
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by morb 11y ago
I don't do soylent or clones, so I don't talk from experience. From what I've read, farting is a problem for most people when changing diets and suddenly adding much more fiber than they were used to before. It lasts for a wh
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by morb 11y ago
While I agree that the this video isn't that good as far as sound as video quality goes I think we need more of these. They are very valuable. I'd rather watch this than something written by professional writers, vetted by PR depa
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by morb 11y ago
Now that would be unrealistic. You can't really guess which distro someone is using just by glancing over their screen for a second. You can tell which DE they are using but not distro, except in the case of Unity and Pantheon, those a
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by morb 11y ago
"I see you're running GNOME" snippet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQM5fU7V-MM
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by morb 11y ago
Back button doesn't work right on that site. It gets you back to the top of previous page, it doesn't take you down where you were on the page. I love modern web UX. (Firefox & Chromium. )
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by morb 11y ago
Works in Chromium on Linux for me. In Firefox (my default br.) the message is: "Youtube on TV is not supported on this device, for more info go to: www.youtube.com/devicepartners" which is unclickable and unselectable. Modern
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by morb 11y ago
For me, the no-BS standard looking UI was the reason to choose Foobar, as compared to Win Media Player or Winamp and other weird looking ones. (Remember Sonique? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonique_%28media_player%29
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by morb 11y ago
"You cannot sell Android phones unless you pay licence fees to some company"? Of course you need to pay licence fees to "some company" if you are selling Android phones, they're the ones making it. Why shouldn'
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by morb 11y ago
I also recommend YAYOG program. It's $3 now for the app and I really think it's worth that price. I think it was $7 when I got it, and it was money well spent. Timers, videos, descriptions, warm-up and cool-downs, everything is se
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by morb 12y ago
A mistake? All I see is pure malice. The guy threatened the developers with bad press, and then he followed through with it. I don't see how that is a 'simple mistake', it was plain extortion. Talking about reputation, what
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by morb 12y ago
Firefox is kinda special because they get a lot money from whoever pays them to be the default search engine, doesn't matter if it's Google or Microsoft or Yahoo. There's only so much software that can get away with that, GPG
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by morb 12y ago
I don't think it's helpful to consider this ban a non-issue because it's easy to bypass. It's easy to bypass this time, next time it may be a bit harder, depending on what the government orders ISP's. And there prob
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by morb 12y ago
I didn't downvote, but... It's actually pretty irritating that discussion of any project not hosted on GH gets "Why not Github?" question, every single f-ing time. I hope this will end, together with LinkedIn invites.
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by morb 12y ago
So, I decided to buy the album, but first I downloaded the "free bundle" as they call it. It's the free sample of the work. It downloaded without problem with my client of choice (rtorrent). Then I paid for the full bundle, p
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by morb 12y ago
Just out of curiosity, HN seems like a good place to ask: Does anyone actually here use unix-likes in a multiseat fashion, like they were used 30-40 years ago? Like described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multise
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by morb 12y ago
So, basically give in to bullying? Let the bully back into the forum, to potentially harass other users, continue doing whatever he was doing that got him banned? What's the point of having admin/mod rights if you aren't goin
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by morb 12y ago
Even that 4.5MB doesn't seem particularly small to me. Podkicker Pro, Android podcast client takes 2.15MB on my phone. App itself take 792KB, and feed metadata takes 1.38MB.
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by morb 13y ago
What does this even mean? The name GNU itself is a joke. I mean, the project wants to create an operating system that looks like UNIX, acts like UNIX, smells like UNIX, but from scratch with appropriate license that allows usage and access
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by morb 13y ago
Usually people are skeptical about Slackware package manager (slackpkg). I thought I'd just throw in some links to alternatives. If you want to try another package manager you can install it and start using it in under one minute. Pack
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by morb 13y ago
Last 3-4 Slackware releases I installed over the net. It supports FTP and HTTP package sources on the Internet. Or NFS and SMB shares on the LAN.
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by morb 13y ago
House of Sand and Fog. Yes, excellent movie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Sand_and_Fog_%28film%...
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by morb 13y ago
Well, there is Stylish add-on for Firefox and Chrome, try it with style that suits you. For instance: http://userstyles.org/styles/12503/hacker-news-skinnier
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by morb 13y ago
Radiolab had an interesting segment about the Pitch Drop Experiment, interesting to listen: http://www.radiolab.org/2013/feb/05/never-quite-now/
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Original Slackware project announcement was 20 years ago today(linuxquestions.org)
2 points by morb 13y ago|0 comments