necovek

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by necovek 8mo ago
I disagree, I think it is 92.7% (to be fair, article does say the number is handwavy). Though the assertion how (loosely) bad methods stumbling on a good result are reinforced vs good methods not leading to a hypothesis confirmation are dis
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by necovek 8mo ago
I see your point, thanks — it definitely rings true! I agree the scale will change, but most of the core FOSS we depend on today has started off when software development was not as lucrative as it was in the past 2+ decades — which means i
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by necovek 8mo ago
I have hundreds of ideas which I think can generate revenue of the sort you describe, but they need significant work each (execution). Note that $20k annually is already full annual salary in half of the world too.
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by necovek 8mo ago
Even that will pass (for most — for some, it might simply "end" :/). I've been sitting in a cellar and bomb shelters in 1999 myself: yes, your struggle is worse and longer, but it will pass. The information you need to
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by necovek 8mo ago
It helps to have lived through some of this (especially conflicts) in 1990s (former Yugoslavia), so it is really more of the same. Even the president US got, we have claim to being early birds ourselves with our current sitting president in
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by necovek 8mo ago
Ideas are obviously a prerequisite, but they aren't "worth anything" because there is so many of them and without them being executed well (or sometimes, executed at all), they don't really bring any value. So really, th
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by necovek 8mo ago
You think there won't be students or academics anymore? Arguably, most non-corporate-supported (when that became a thing) FOSS was created by students and academics. So what is really changing?
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by necovek 8mo ago
Nukes do not help against guerilla warfare: their destructive power is so big that they are really unreasonable attack weapon, and only a deterring factor instead. They protect against being "policed" by big world countries. Eg. i
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by necovek 8mo ago
This source puts that number at 35M of people with "some" Irish descent: https://overlandirelandtours.com/blog/why-are-there-more-iri... — that means that most of them probably have some other heritage too. P
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by necovek 8mo ago
You get exactly that with snaps/flatpaks which are not given access to your $HOME. But even with your example, you might need access to cover art from your graphics editing app, and very quickly you get to the same state. How about lyr
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by necovek 8mo ago
Yeah, search confirms it was limited to 16k rows.
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by necovek 8mo ago
That file name thing was from Win95 keeping DOS (FAT) compatibility by introducing FAT32/VFAT: long file names were truncated to standard 8.3 names from DOS (and by extension, Win3.11 too) with fs extensions used to store long file nam
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by necovek 8mo ago
I think you are mistaken. Just like neither Windows nor MacOS have really solved the desktop app sandboxing story, so neither has Linux. Because, as I said in a sibling comment and cosmic_cheese notes further below, this requires rethinking
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by necovek 8mo ago
https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions.html says otherwise. Most apps not using tight hardening are for different reasons though (files/folders org).
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by necovek 8mo ago
For many services that was solved even earlier: that's why things like Docker, podman and VMs are so popular. The hard bit is the desktop experience which is not fully there yet, but the technology is.
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by necovek 8mo ago
A person who is like that is rarely called a "lovely person": how does that lovely interaction look like when you point such an egregious flaw out to them? And tbh, this has nothing to do with being self-taught: by the time I enro
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by necovek 8mo ago
FWIW, Nokia did develop a pretty good Linux phone back in the day (Maemo/Meego) with Nokia N9 (it even received rave reviews from consumer tech sites like engadget), but it did get killed off as they got absorbed into Microsoft (we all
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by necovek 8mo ago
Do you have any source for that claim? That would be a pretty serious security issue even unrelated to any security hardening (eg. on a multi-user system, one user could read out the password from another user — even with desktop usage, sec
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by necovek 8mo ago
It comes from a history of using mostly trusted application sources like Debian/Ubuntu package archives with manual review being the norm. And few supply chain attacks. But both Flatpak and Snap offer this new model from the two bigges
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by necovek 8mo ago
Flatpak and Snaps are built to solve this. They do conflict with some expectations from users to be able to play around with things, though, so they do not have the penetration one might want.
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by necovek 8mo ago
Thanks both for the perspective: yeah, even if simply scaled down proportionally, you are left with too long garments that you can fold/shorten, so a much better situation than tall men who can end up looking like cartoon caricatures i
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by necovek 8mo ago
If you are in taller than 95% for men, and reasonably fit, you might need a bigger waistline (think 36 or more), which is still the same length for pants (up to 34) with your socks showing even when standing (depending on your individual pr
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by necovek 8mo ago
Depends on what was missing. If we used MacOS throughout the org, and we asked a SW dev team to build inventory tracking software without specifying the OS, I'd squarely put the blame on SW team for building it for Linux or Windows. (Y
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by necovek 8mo ago
Humans ask each other silly questions all the time: a human confronted with a question like this would either blurb out a bad response like "walk" without thinking before realizing what they are suggesting, or pause and respond wi
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by necovek 9mo ago
I specifically said "console terminal in Linux" (so not an emulator), but in Linux, at least xterm uses bitmap fonts by default.
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by necovek 9mo ago
Not disagreeing (my external screens have never been set higher than 30% brightness, but they've also always been matte, except a couple instances I had to use Macs for work). But I am sure none of this has been part of an actual study
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by necovek 9mo ago
If I understood you correctly, this might be an issue if you have multiple strokes (so multiple mins and maxes that you need to stay within) on a row of pixels (think all strokes of an N).
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by necovek 9mo ago
Black text on white background with no backlight is easier to read. Think black text on paper. When it comes to computer screens, usually set too bright to accommodate varying ambient lightning conditions throughout the day/year, it&#x
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by necovek 9mo ago
I honestly recommend any introductory type design book for all the considerations that go into achieving optical balance.
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by necovek 9mo ago
It's wonderful to see someone dive into this as deep. A simpler way to understand the complexity might be to try designing your own font. Pick up a book on type and start up Fontforge, and off you go. Be careful though, make an early c

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