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by nxc18 10y ago
The Windows NT kernel is generally excellent and has a lot of nice things that make it more appropriate for things like the desktop (the existence of a stable driver model/API comes to mind). People clamor for Linux to be everywhere, b
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by nxc18 10y ago
This increases their user base. Every time you install WSL & Bash on Ubuntu on Windows, you are getting a full Ubuntu distribution. The only user base that shrinks is the Linux Kernel user base; Ubuntu and Linux are two separate concept
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by nxc18 10y ago
800 calories for dinner is perfectly reasonable; salad aside, it is hard to get a meal going out that is less than that. If you are very small you may need less than that. In that case, eat less. If they were to ship out 400 calorie dinners
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by nxc18 10y ago
This has a lot of great stuff, but I hereby dispute the 'don't take notes on a computer' claims. It is certainly true that typing out notes is generally a bad idea. I have and can take notes on a computer while basically unco
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by nxc18 10y ago
Bing offers a bit of a dilemma. On the one hand, its search relevancy is actually really great, its special search features (weather, elections, etc.) and graph tools are generally better than Google's and they overall just seem to try
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by nxc18 10y ago
I love my Surface and I tend to love the MS ecosystem, but they (and others) don't get enough flak for reliability. I have owned bunches of MS hardware, and only one device has made it through its life without needing warranty service.
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by nxc18 10y ago
The question is about whether the child will develop symptoms later in life, as the defective DNA was not 100% removed. The larger questions around issues like these is whether or not the fix will last. Solving a problem 90% can actually ha
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by nxc18 10y ago
I definitely agree people deserve second chances and make mistakes. Especially people who are young and have more money than they are accustomed to having. At the same time, it is really, really hard to look upon this charitably when he was
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by nxc18 10y ago
It's not fully cooked in general. Try killing explorer.exe and resizing a UWP app; Something that should have nothing to do with app windows is fiddling with app frames. General nonsense in how the UWP system works is responsible for a
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by nxc18 10y ago
Probably Silverlight, which they have already been using. The thing is, premium content is going to be DRMd whether Firefox users like it or not. The question is, will Firefox users be able to consume it once they kill off Silverlight? The
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by nxc18 10y ago
As for why Chrome didn't implement it early on, they likely just hadn't bothered to use the newer APIs/use the APIs properly. The reason why subpixel rendering is disabled in modern/WinRT/UWP apps, as I understand i
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by nxc18 10y ago
I'm impressed by the ability of the press to take any new tech idea and spin that into Apple being the latent dark horse that will win the category. Off the top of my head I can think of streaming TV, a physical TV set, AI, and self-dr
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by nxc18 10y ago
That's the point though; I'm not running low on iCloud storage. I've never put a single file in iCloud storage, at least not from my MacBook (my iPhone seems to automatically back up, but I'm not sure that counts as &#x2
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by nxc18 10y ago
Just to clarify, this is basically the same exact thing that macOS does with regards to storage. Try running low on storage and see how long it takes to get spammed with notifications to buy more icloud storage.
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Thanks for that! I stand corrected. Apparently they've had this product out for about a decade now; coincidentally its been about a decade since I've really done my research. Time sure does fly and its easy to forget that biotech,
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by nxc18 10y ago
Typically you don't need to worry about non-gmo food being contaminated with roundup - a scandalous fact about roundup is that it tends to kill plants that are exposed. You also don't need to worry about contamination of e.g. wate
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by nxc18 10y ago
Until about 2014, Chrome didn't support ClearType on Windows, which is why text looked so awful compared to other browsers. Mac's renderer happens to err on the side of drawing more pixels in case of ambiguity (e.g. calculation yi
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by nxc18 10y ago
I agree. When I'm tutoring students and they have a problem I point out things like 'Find Usages' and the 'go to' menus. Those things are useful. Unfortunately with Python, for to the nature of the language, there a
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by nxc18 10y ago
I like this a lot. My uni just switched to Python from IDLE a few years ago. While its nicer than IDLE, the complexity of the IDE can be a bit much for novices. Heaven help you if you accidentally select the wrong python interpreter at proj
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by nxc18 10y ago
Not an expert, but there is a lot that is probabilities. E.g. many genes play a part in disease, so changing one set may get you a risk reduction but not full prevention. The other issue is epigenetics. Gene expression is regulated by vario
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by nxc18 10y ago
Wow! They seem to be adding lots of the things that make Python feel more convenient than C#, tuples being big. Out parameters are going to make some things much nicer. I can certainly see local functions being useful as well. Out of all of
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by nxc18 10y ago
There are business owners who for some reason think it is appropriate to stick their customers with that burden. Those business owners are customer hostile and are worthy of neither my business nor anyone else's.
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In my experience as a college student, it is exceedingly rare to use cash, especially cash in amounts greater than $5, for anything other than crime. While you can argue that one should be able to reasonably break laws and not get caught -
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by nxc18 10y ago
Windows NT (the core OS) suffers none of those problems. The Windows (Win32) environment suffers those limitations. It also suffers 20+ years of strong binary compatibility, broad hardware support, and consistent reliability that systems of
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by nxc18 10y ago
I really like the GNU/k* notation; it highlights the separation between the kernel and the operating system in a very clear way. In this case it would be entirely accurate; Windows is standing on its head to look like a Linux kernel an
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Its special UNIX sockets. Actual TCP/IP sockets work fine. The workarounds for UNIX sockets not working typically involve switching to use TCP/IP sockets instead.
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Its just a fun little project. The idea is to make you question what it means to be a Linux desktop. Here we have very convincing (running authentic binaries!) Linux DEs, but there's no Linux.
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Its a bit of a mixed bag. Just getting them set up tends to be pretty iffy; they tend to rely on lots of sockets, which I gather aren't actually implemented by WSL. In terms of performance once they are up and running, things are actua
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Show HN: Boot Windows 10 Directly into Linux Desktop of Choice(github.com)
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This is a huge thing I've been thinking about lately. Very recently I was a pretty staunch advocate for IDEs and thought the whole VIM situation was crazy. It is unintuitive. It doesn't come bundled with lots of useful tools. It t

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