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by qchris 6y ago
Gotcha; seems I may have misinterpreted your original post. I do think that the 2->3 GB update was meaningful; I believe that using a web browser like the Firefox ESR version on my current Mobian version can eat up some RAM, so the extra
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I'm running several-years-old non-flagship phone, but own a UBports edition PinePhone to tinker with. Personally, I'm interested in eventual higher specs because I think it enables more things down the line. For example, I have 2
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Maybe it's just because I'm not regularly re-building Rust projects with enormous changes, but I very rarely experience the compile time in Rust to be an issue compared with a language like C++ or even a Jupyter notebook that&#x27
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I don't have any experience with their hardware, but both of my personal computers run Pop!_OS. If you're looking for a distro in the Debian vein, and aren't hardcore Free software (I think they include drivers to play with p
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> If you want to take the amazing sound experience of HomePod mini even further, you can create a stereo pair. Two HomePod mini speakers paired in the same room create left and right channels for an immersive soundstage. Fwiw, it does lo
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I don't even really use any other Apple products, and have never really been particularly comfortable with smart assistants, but I have to say that the steps that they've taken here with E2E, non-AppleID-tied identifiers, on-devic
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It's also worth pointing out that once a version is published to crates.io, it can't be altered, specifically to prevent social engineering attacks. If you're worried about it, that means you can audit the frozen codebase for
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I just wanted to mention that I don't believe memory leaks are technically considered memory unsafe, and so while a leak is generally more difficult to create, it is possible to do in safe Rust vs. something like use-after-free.
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Hi, congrats on the launch! Potentially a little off topic, but I'm curious how you came up with the name Doppler. After the audio effect, or the Witcher creature, or something else entirely?
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I'm very much in the same boat. It's one of the things that has always confused me a little about Subaru, since they seem like they've been really well-placed to take advantage of the transition to electric vehicles. A lot of
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Not me personally, but I did see a couple surfers out! I was there for a kelp forest a couple miles up the 101 that I frequent for diving/spearfishing. If you don't mind carrying your board down a rough path, then you'll neve
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I tend to lean in this direction as well. A 4GB RPi4 would work, but the Pi itself costs $55, plus a dedicated USB power supply, uSD card, the HDMI adapter I usually need, webcam, possible case/cooling fan (Pi4's can get hot ), p
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Can confirm this--we had meaningful fog along the coast near Refugio State Park until at least 3p yesterday, when it normally burns off by at least noon. Obviously, that's just one day, but it general it seems to be more common since t
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As am I! I'm also perplexed by the parent's reference to a "parliament" of ravens. Not only have I personally ever only seen it in context of owls, the article actually uses "a parliament of owls" as an example
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I'm still somewhat annoyed that didn't lead to a complete blackballing of Swarm. A <$1M fine for a VC-funded space start-up actually doesn't seem that large, and I bet they probably saved a bunch of money by not following
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I largely agreee, with the exception of CAD design certificates for Solidworks, etc. I don't even have one, but everyone I've met who has are actually functionally better at CAD than those without, so I acknowledge it.
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I can't speak for people using actual modems, but my household cut the cord a while back and just uses a really big computer monitor attached directly to a dedicated cheap computer for pulling up Netflix, Hulu, etc. or watching local m
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Without jumping into the rest of the fray in this discussion, it does seem plausible for someone to profit while still losing part of their net worth, if the loss that they would have otherwise incurred is less than they otherwise would hav
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Hey, I've been writing on planning an article discussing some components of open-source and ethics, and I would really love to use a (variation) of your sentence. Would you mind if I did that, and if so, would you like me to include so
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I know halophiles typically refer to organisms like bacteria, but one of my personal favourites in that category is the Devil's Hole pupfish, a species found exclusively in Death Valley. They live in water so salty (4x the saline conce
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I would love to see a write-up and pictures of that incident. I think a lot of people, probably myself included, don't always give them the respect they deserve, and that would be a really neat story/visual to drive the point home
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I'm in a very similar position: I graduated a couple years ago with a MechE bachelor's but now work as a research engineer in a marine robotics lab, including writing a bunch of code. There's a few of recommendations I'd
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I began gaming for the first time (unless you count playing on my roommates' XBox in college) this past week, mostly for The Witcher 2/3--both on Linux. The Witcher 3 was never supposed to run on my platform, but somehow Steam and
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I upvoted your 'steak' puns, but wanted to point out that "the all mechanical switches fail" is not necessarily a useful observation. All things fail, and it's absolutely possible to design a product where either a)
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According to my one semester intro course, this is referred to in linguistics as either a "prescriptive" or "descriptive" approach to language. As I think you alluded to, while the prescriptive approach defines people&#x
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I've always found it a little surprising that companies haven't built/funded a open-source organization for parametric mechanical CAD, similar to Blender for games or KiCad for electronics/PCB design. The upside for a RO
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I've only heard good things about that program; if they somehow contributed to this effort, it would be another huge feather in their hat.
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> This is a myth. Modern "peer review" simply means checking to see if the claim is interesting and if the proper Word or LaTeX template was used. I got peer review from two reviewers on a paper submitted to Frontiers last week
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This is somewhat fair, but I think it's also worth pointing out that it's not a business model w/o precedence. Not too long ago, you could have argued that same thing about the Tesla Model S; "electric cars are only for
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Not quite the same; they're now selling two slightly different versions. One has 2GB of RAM, while the other has 3GB RAM and is usually marketed under a "Convergence" label. For example, the UBports CE and the pmOS hardware h

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