pksadiq

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by pksadiq 9y ago
> Humans are quite capable of violating the laws of robotics too! Well, that could mean that robots may too violate the laws of robotics!
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by pksadiq 9y ago
> A community of like-minded nerds :) Like minded nerds? No. I disagree[0]. :) [0] https://xkcd.com/309/
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by pksadiq 9y ago
> Dell officially supports Ubuntu... Meh. I'm writing this from an Asus EeePC which was once officially supported by Ubuntu, but now with broken graphics and wifi. The non-free graphics driver is not included in Ubuntu anymore and t
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by pksadiq 9y ago
I recommend every person who buy a hardware for GNU/Linux to buy one that runs well out of the box with Debian main. It is a hard requirement I suggest to my friends. May be they run Ubuntu/Fedora, but if it runs well with Debian
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by pksadiq 9y ago
> ... and some unlucky person gets convicted ... It could be worse. What if the world resources gets depleted and some people (who can control) decides to get rid of a major population? What if they act as someone said, "One way or
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by pksadiq 9y ago
I would recommend C: A Reference Manual (by Samuel P. Harbison and Guy L. Steele Jr.) along with K&R The C programming language. C has lots of edges where it's easy for a beginner to make mistakes. Say for example the minimal range
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by pksadiq 9y ago
> (defadvice ... For your information, defadvice is deprecated[0]. Alternatives like advice-add can be used instead. [0] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Po...
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by pksadiq 9y ago
> M-x doctor if you're feeling a bit down. Yeah. M-x doctor is really helpful, especially when you are depressed. For example, if you say the doctor that "I'm going to suicide", it will guide you the right way.
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by pksadiq 9y ago
> "Instead, Meltdown exploits side-channel information available on most modern processors, e.g., modern Intel microarchitectures since 2010 and potentially on other CPUs of other vendors." But their website faq says[0]: every
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by pksadiq 9y ago
> These people are mainly relatively unskilled. These companies are notorious for hiring entire batches of graduating students. I guess the best interview should also add a touch-type test and the candidate should require at least 30wpm
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Grow your skills with GNOME(blogs.gnome.org)
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by pksadiq 9y ago
I couldn't find the source code of Open Collective, at least not from their homepage. Is it like github that says it supports "open source" but the platform itself is not?
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by pksadiq 9y ago
> Choosing file transfer as the first goal seems like a great decesion to me. True. We still don't have a good way of doing this[0]. [0] https://xkcd.com/949/
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GNU Guix and GuixSD 0.14.0 released(gnu.org)
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by pksadiq 9y ago
When CDN like cloudflare are used (as in HN), won't cloudflare get the text I send? If so, doesn't that mean that cloudflare can know many of my passwords?
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by pksadiq 9y ago
There is also GNU zile and zemacs[0]. [0] https://www.gnu.org/software/zile/
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by pksadiq 9y ago
spacebar results in "_" only when the cursor is immediately after [a-zA-Z0-9_]. And if I really need space, I have Shift-Space. Also, pressing spacebar after a keyword (like char, int, if, else, etc) results in real space.
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by pksadiq 9y ago
I'm mostly a C developer that spend most of my time inside Emacs. I use ivy-mode instead of ido-mode, and avy instead of ace-jump. My setup includes yasnippet, flycheck, company, and ggtags mostly. I have issues using the number keys.
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by pksadiq 9y ago
I moved from ido-mode to ivy-mode, which I feel better.
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by pksadiq 9y ago
I myself use org-mode on my system. On my phone I use orgzly[0] which may be worth looking. [0] https://github.com/orgzly/orgzly-android
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by pksadiq 9y ago
> I plan .... I would recommend you to write these plans in a notebook (real notebook with pen/pencil). Write all of your plans, whenever you plan. The problem with software solutions is that once you reschedule, its history is lost
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by pksadiq 9y ago
> No seriously, how do you keep the browser from hooking you? This was a really big issue with me too. What I did in the past was to signup for low bandwidth internet connection (not by speed, but with yearly limit of 18 GiB), which made
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by pksadiq 9y ago
> Complain to the recruiter afterwards, if they bother calling you, but make sure you tell them that the particular interviewer was not good. That would be a bad idea. The recruiter knows nothing about the OP, and probably not much about
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by pksadiq 9y ago
Is your signup form felt like phishing? Its title is "SievePRO Onboarding (copy)" and it asks for all credit card details rather than forwarding to some payment gateway.
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by pksadiq 9y ago
> It is mostly users, not developers, who don't care about binary blobs. Partly yes, but mostly No. You are right that most people don't care about binary blobs. But the people who can enforce this are the developers. If all de
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by pksadiq 9y ago
> glibc is LGPL, so I don't see how that should change anything? glibc requires libgcc[0], which is GPLv3 (with runtime exception). The same for libstdc++[1]. [0] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Libgc
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by pksadiq 9y ago
> That's not true, as the Linux kernel is still GPLv2. So while you could swap out the userspace GNU utils, the device manufacturer can still lock the bootloader which is perfectly fine with the GPLv2. Yeah, probably. But the presen
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by pksadiq 9y ago
> That's one reason I'm still hoping for a Linux/Firefox phone. You should rather hope for GNU/Linux phones. Linux devices (without the GNU part) is most of the time, just another locked device (see your Android phone
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> Nobody smart enough to design that system is dumb enough no not understand the consequences. Do you remember the plain text password leaks from Yahoo? In the real world nothing has to be true/good/secure. All it has to be is
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by pksadiq 9y ago
> If it was something done for the CIA, I believe it would probably have been kept secret instead of marketed. If that is the case, we would have doubted about this too much early than it would otherwise (because there is a dedicated har

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