mrbabbage

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by mrbabbage 13y ago
I use Clementine, which is a fork of Amarok before it went 2.0. It's pretty spiffy. http://www.clementine-player.org/
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by mrbabbage 13y ago
IMO since OSSv4 was proprietary for a while, the kernel folks invested most of their efforts developing ALSA, so by the time OSSv4 opened up and became a viable choice, ALSA had much better sound card driver support. Another big issue is th
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by mrbabbage 13y ago
Incandescents release more mercury into the enviroment over the course of their lifetime because they use more electricity, since much electricity is based on coal mining (which inevitably releases some mercury). [1] Also, if you're co
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by mrbabbage 14y ago
> You are completely wrong about CD prices. Nope: http://books.google.com/books?id=Yd2Hm8BlzZUC&printsec=f... CDs frequently cost $17 in the early 1980s; LPs cost $9. It's a few pages before chapter 2, which unfortunately isn't av
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by mrbabbage 14y ago
An apple isn't the best analogy since the apple market is competitive. The market for "Principles of Economics: Global Financial Crisis Edition, 6th Edition" (or any other book or ebook) is a government-granted monopoly, so the two situatio
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by mrbabbage 14y ago
ddd is a graphical frontend to gdb and a few other debuggers (like jdb). ddd's UI is straight out of the 90s era of commercial Unices, but I prefer it to gdb since it visualizes source code with breakpoints and the ip and has some nice vari
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by mrbabbage 14y ago
The problem is that "Save As" has a very specific meaning that Apple's new implementation doesn't respect. In every other DE / other OS X applications / prior versions of OS X, "Save as" means "take the current working copy and save to disk
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by mrbabbage 14y ago
I teach sections of introductory computer science classes at a certain California university with an excellent CS department, and the profs have gender data on CS classes / major declarations going back decades. Back in the 80s, when CS was