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by qchris 6y ago
As a user of Mobian, just wanted to give everyone a friendly reminder that the project has a LiberaPay page at https://liberapay.com/mobian/donate , through which you might be able to help encourage/enable the deve
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I have this exact same problem. I'm not exactly sure why, but finding useful examples has been a serious pain point for me. It seems like there's a serious dearth of material between the "here's the absolute smallest t
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I know that there's a formal definition of capitalized "Open Source" by the OSI, but I'm also not enchanted by that being the only definition for lower-case "open source". I think that the lower case open sourc
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In my (somewhat limited) experience, I'd be surprised is Boston Dynamics robots are, wholesale, on the list of export control. ITAR classification isn't usually an arbitrary designation, there's typically some aspect in parti
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I help out as a maintainer for an open source machine learning group, and first learned about the switch in Travis CI's policy from your blog. Not too long after, the projects the groups repository owns all got switched over to Github
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I've been playing Witcher 3 on Pop!_OS 20.04 recently using Steam/Proton. There's a few edges that occasionally popped up. For example, the wireless keyboard I was using would freeze the game when I tried to change the volume
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I moved to SoCal from New England, and I miss the weather there so much! I don't hate 70s and sunny, but I genuinely miss thunderstorms, clouds giving way to downpours, the quiet after fresh snowfall, the shock of stepping outside on a
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Genuine question: are there real-world image recognition tasks that requires training on more than, say, 10 or even 100 classes? I'm personally aware of only one that might come close, and that's because it's an image-based s
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Actually, I found watching The Good Place to be really enjoyable in part because of how well it acted as an introduction to philosophy and ethics. There's some great scenes explicitly addressing concepts like utilitarianism and it&#x27
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Fwiw, my default method of managing the NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu 18.04 is by installing the System76 driver package using the directions from their site. I found that to make it way easier than doing it manually, especially bc I needed to m
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This seems a little disingenuous, especially considering that System76 manufactures their own desktops, rolls their own custom distro that is tested to play well with their machines' hardware, and (I've heard) actively engages wit
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I, for one, would be very interested in reading a more in-depth exploration of this idea, and would encourage you to write and publish that blog post.
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I might agree with you, except in my experience their money-making products still largely suck. The Mozilla VPN app on both my Android devices randomly logged out weeks ago, and has put me in an unbreakable log-in loop since). They still
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I'm under the impression that's what the Remote Network Interaction clause of the the Affero GPL license is supposed to do. The "boundary" is then if someone is interacting with the AGPL code at all, so when you use the
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I'm genuinely curious; both of these changes seem to be exciting due to the ability for people to extend and implement specialized code/features using the kernel. Since the Linux kernel is GPLed (v2, I believe?), does this mean th
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And that's totally within reason :) Just wanted to point out that they may choose something outside that. I know, personally, I was in a similar position, where my folks were willing/able to help, but I also chose a university tha
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For many of the smaller, just-make-it-easier tasks, I definitely agree with you regarding the greater accessibility on Mac. It's certainly not in exactly the same bucket as Windows. I think the thing I had in my head was the lack of de
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I can agree with this, which is why I added the "(to a lesser degree) Apple" caveat. I think, especially now, it seems they're moving in a less hacker-friendly direction in terms ability to progress from write-a-script to bui
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> I'm far from being rich, but I plan to pick a private but modest school / university for my children. Even if I were multimillionaire I wouldn't change this. I'm genuinely a little confused by this sentence. You lay
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I was discussing this with someone yesterday. A materials engineering PhD candidate, who took an engineering coding class during undergrad, but found everything so complicated that she never looked back and actually learned how to write a s
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Look, I'm actually interested in the topic, and this piece actually seems to have some useful information in it, but please please please, stop publishing technical/math-heavy articles on Medium. Putting pictures of equations mid-
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I wonder what the stats would be on risk for regular transport. I've often heard that for many "dangerous" jobs, the actual most dangerous part is literally driving to and from the site. I'm assuming that even without ne
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I hadn't heard about the new support for MMS, that's fantastic news! It's such an important part of group messaging in the U.S. that not having access to it was a huge blocker for me in terms progress towards daily driver sta
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"Someone did something unethical, and we can probably benefit from it. And since people will probably do the unethical thing again, and the system which enabled people to do the unethical thing isn't perfect, we don't even re
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I'd imagine that this can be pretty tricky with more complex systems, where the buy-in for even getting off the ground can be pretty high. In software, that's usually not the case, but I can imagine a number other instances where
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HN has always seemed to me to be a community that is moved by data-driven approaches, and this topic has a pretty clear motivation to reduce police violence. As a result, I think some people may be interested in reading up on Comapign Zero&
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> But by-and-large, past-me is an idiot and I have no reason to believe future-me won't feel that way about me, too. Every now and then, I come across something phrased in such a way that it makes something in my brain click. This i
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Just wanted to add that this is a superb and informative book, and was one of my favorite non-fiction reads in a long time.
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I actually might argue the opposite direction; anything involving electrolyzers is likely wasteful. It's inherently an inefficient process even a theoretical maximums, and we can probably put that capacity to better use through other m
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Side note: Dennis Gabor's "Personal life" section seems to have a strange bit of editorialization. > On 8 August 1936 he married Marjorie Louise Butler with whom he lived in a harmonious marriage. They did not have any chi

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