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AlphaGo Was a Thinkpad* Running Ubuntu(reddit.com)
4 points by plg 7y ago|0 comments
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by plg 7y ago
Honest question: if apple software engineering has structural problems that sacrifice quality for splash, what is the reasonable alternative OS? Is it Windows 10? Is it Ubuntu? I suppose it depends on the user. I'm lucky, I'm an a
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by plg 7y ago
How many of you (1) wipe disk, install new OS, & reinstall apps & documents (2) let apple try to upgrade in place
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by plg 7y ago
first thought: ack! I may have to buy a Windows machine second thought: phew at least it will be a lot cheaper than my Mac and probably better specs per dollar ;)
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A Sociology of Steve Jobs (2011)(kieranhealy.org)
85 points by plg 7y ago|28 comments
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by plg 7y ago
+1 : my grad school experience was not like this. I'm sorry you went through this. For me grad school was the best time ever. Pursuing science while being protected and guided by a world expert, and doing so without grown-up responsibi
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by plg 7y ago
Man alive, all I want is a folder that syncs. That's all. I understand that Dropbox is a business and blah blah blah ... so what are my alternatives if I literally only want: - a folder that syncs on my devices - the ability to share a
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iPadOS(apple.com)
500 points by plg 7y ago|380 comments
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by plg 7y ago
serious question: who is going to buy this machine (and the very expensive monitor)? My best guess is that it's aimed squarely at video producers? Is there another market?
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by plg 7y ago
uh I guess? didn't know about that, haven't heard that before
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Ask HN: Cloudflare stock as a long term investment?
1 points by plg 7y ago|2 comments
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by plg 7y ago
What about Microsoft surface book? I have colleagues who are in science/coding/tech and they really like them.
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by plg 7y ago
Please don’t call it “free” if I have to “enroll” and hand over information in order to watch the videos. They’re not free. They cost me information/privacy.
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by plg 7y ago
Can I opt out if I'm not a Facebook user? i.e. opt out of having them store records of my face? PS don't tell me they don't have records of my face
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Ask HN: Doodle Poll Filler Outer?
1 points by plg 7y ago|0 comments
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by plg 7y ago
A -37% change in caloric intake (Fig. 2B) produces only a -4.5% change in body mass (Fig. 3A)? Seems odd no? Or am I mis-reading something?
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by plg 7y ago
I have colleagues that swear by some of the new Microsoft portable machines. The few times I’ve had a look at Windows 10 I’ve been seriously put off by all of the ‘junk’ that is automatically installed, e.g. candy crush etc. I also worry ab
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by plg 7y ago
yes in the browser
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by plg 7y ago
A Raspberry Pi running Pi-hole[1] works really well in my household. We have 20+ devices and 2 adults, 2 kids, connecting to a combination of wifi and ethernet and all get DNS automatically assigned to the Pi-hole. I routinely see ~ 20-30%
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by plg 7y ago
Tell that to math and physics. They seem to be doing just fine.
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by plg 7y ago
Stupid question but I didn't see it asked or answered: Does your rig make good tasting espresso!
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by plg 7y ago
Something I always try with new (to me) languages: write a short script to (1) load a .txt file containing space-delimited columns of data; (2) fit a linear model in which one column is predicted by a linear combination of the others; (3) p
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by plg 7y ago
nice use of a single .tex file to produce the full .pdf https://arxiv.org/e-print/1907.00847 (rename to 1907.00847.tex and then latexmk -pdf 1907.00847.tex)
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by plg 7y ago
What proportion of their revenues comes from ads?
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by plg 7y ago
Revel in your time.
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Full text: An epic Bill Gates email rant(blog.seattlepi.com)
9 points by plg 7y ago|3 comments
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Dropbox App Won’t Die(twitter.com)
28 points by plg 7y ago|7 comments
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by plg 7y ago
why
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by plg 7y ago
tried this (installing unbound) — seems to work well, easy install https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/unbound/#setting-up-pi-hole-...
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by plg 7y ago
Not long at all for the basic setup. For encrypted DNS setup I used this guide which worked: https://scotthelme.co.uk/securing-dns-across-all-of-my-devic...

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