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by pja 7y ago
When Tesla's competitors stop designing and electric car and start designing a really great car that just happens to be electric then Tesla will have competition. Until then all the supposed Tesla competitors will be a joke. BMW elec
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by pja 7y ago
I agree that the links are there on the front page, but the page as a whole is so busy that they’re hard to spot! I think the OP is right that the Debian homepage could probably do with some simplification - there’s nothing wrong with havin
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by pja 7y ago
UEFI makes bios flashing easier & with fwupd (thanks RedHat / Richard Hughes!) it “just works” for those manufacturers that do the work to integrate with the fwupd infrastructure.
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by pja 7y ago
Definitely not my area of expertise! But go read the blogs of people that have been successful at it - plenty of tips there.
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by pja 7y ago
First rule of publishing: money flows towards the author, not the other way round. (Not necessarily very much money mind, but it’s the direction that’s the important bit!) No reputable agent charges authors directly for their services - the
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by pja 7y ago
What’s worse is that these companies are tracking you using your phone wifi connections to these networks & selling that data on. (If you’re lucky, it’s only sold in aggregated form, but I bet personal data is available to insiders).
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by pja 7y ago
Currently in incoming btw: https://incoming.debian.org/debian-buildd/pool/main/f/firefo...
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by pja 7y ago
There has been a recent tightening of the interpretation of IR35 by HMRC which has been applied to the public sector first. I imagine it’s to this that the comment you’re replying to is referring. (Essentially as I understand things they’re
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by pja 7y ago
talks about the instructors like they are real people That’s because they are real people! Working people who are doing a job, not actual friends of course. But still: real living, breathing, actual human beings. Although I do wonder if b
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by pja 7y ago
More “Cheat Book” than “Cheat Sheet” :) Looks like it could do with typesetting in LaTeX - I think the author started doing this here: http://mathscheats.weebly.com/ but never entirely completed it. Plenty there to chew on
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by pja 7y ago
So far, AMD has only been exposed to the Spectre (branch cache) information leaks haven’t they? They aren’t vulnerable to Meltdown or any of the recent MDS information leaks because they don’t speculatively execute if the thread doesn’t hav
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by pja 7y ago
> We're optimizing for click through rate. That's it. There's no editorial judgement... I think Google in general needs to start taking seriously the idea that this is an editorial judgement. There’s nothing necessaril
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by pja 8y ago
The compiler for these source files has been lost. You can play the zip files that were released commercially with Parchment, but because the copyright on those has not expired you wont be able to do so legally on the public internet I beli
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by pja 8y ago
So it’s trying to create for at-risk students some part of the support networks that other students get from their peers or family? Makes sense.
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by pja 8y ago
Twine has been remarkably successful in this space. ( http://twinery.org/ ) Parchment seems to work well for Z machine games: http://iplayif.com/?story=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ifarchive.org%2Fi...
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by pja 8y ago
It must be admitted that I got a lot quicker at taking notes in a very short time!
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by pja 8y ago
But surely taking notes on the fly when you have been barely introduced to the subject isn't going to help with that. I found that taking structured, detailed notes in lectures forced me to pay close attention & work constantly t
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by pja 8y ago
I'm sure that installing Atom and VS Code would introduce me to two more file pickers. Having just checked, both Atom & VS Code use the GTK/Gnome file picker. LibreOffice is also using the GTK/Gnome file picker.
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by pja 8y ago
My XPS13 is plugged into a 4K display (thunderbolt -> displayport adapter) right now. Works fine. Can’t promise projectors will work, but I would expect a thunderbolt -> HDMI adapter will work just as well as the Displayport one does.
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by pja 8y ago
Not so much about political positioning, but simply that the quality of the straight news reporting was high & there were no ads, so viewers were flocking to the BBC website in preference to other commercial news providers. This was dee
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by pja 8y ago
One hopes that they had thought of that, but who knows? Looking at the warehouse videos, it’s clear that under the robots is a vast sea of individual towers of plastic boxes, all packed in tightly. I suspect that once that plastic was burni
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by pja 8y ago
So their award winning sprinkler system clearly didn’t work. Will be interesting to read the investigation report & see what actually went wrong.
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by pja 8y ago
IIRC BBC Online was deliberately gutted by the top brass to keep the (Conservative) government happy because it was perceived as competing too effectively with commercial news providers.
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by pja 8y ago
Coil whine seems to be a problems with lots of current gen laptops - work colleague had to return a brand new top-of-the-line Apple laptop a month or two ago because the coil whine was ridiculously loud.
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by pja 8y ago
What you’re missing is that in all these cases, some sort of series economic fallout was inevitable. The German economy was going to be forced into crisis & deep, unending depression by war reparations that it couldn’t afford to pay, Zi
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by pja 8y ago
> The total amount of money commands a fixed set of resources. Increasing the amount of money in circulation does not matter at all for reality. It's just an abstraction. An accounting fiction. If the government spends, there'
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by pja 8y ago
Weimar Germany had to pay reparations which were not denominated in Marks. Zimbabwe had to import food, which had to be paid for in $. Neither had an economy that was capable (at the time) of sustaining these payments. Hyperinflation was th
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by pja 8y ago
No, MMT is pretty much how the monetary system operates in modern fiat currency economies where the government both prints and taxes in a currency they control. The essential insight is that taxes & spending are not joined at the hip -
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by pja 8y ago
Not once I turned off battery optimisation for the apps I wanted to run in the background (BBC Sounds / Radio apps, a couple of fitness related apps.) The total lack of any feedback as to what was actually killing these apps in the fir
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by pja 8y ago
It’s there on my Nokia 7+ running Android 9.

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