qplex

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by qplex 7y ago
Here is one recent example of a failed attempt to scam money: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22348721
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by qplex 7y ago
We have very little actual knowledge of pre-historic humans to speculate about their sexual behaviours (and as with all other human behavior, I'm sure there is and has been great variance in this). In any case bonobos would not write K
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by qplex 7y ago
Hugging is actually something that is very natural and has a lot of measurable physiological and downright physical benefits. That said I happen to know a person who finds all hugging awkward, and he basically told the same story as you - n
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by qplex 7y ago
Indeed the core of it is the capability for complex sexual fantasies, and human behaviour is not limited to simply just jerking off. I'm not saying humans 200 years ago were incapable of such things. What I'm saying is that bonobo
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by qplex 7y ago
The point was that the sexual behaviour of bonobos does not match "full human range".
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by qplex 7y ago
I find the modern (free) alternatives are more reliable. No more netsplits. I can't remember the last time I couldn't send a message because of a technical reason. But I do miss the culture of the old net and IRC. These days only
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by qplex 7y ago
>Bonobos are highly sexual and their sex habits match the full range of human sexual behaviors. I think not. But matching a basic subset perhaps. E.g. I don't think you'll find many bonobos jerking off to internet porn.
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by qplex 7y ago
C.
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by qplex 7y ago
Making games, selling games and making a living are three different things. Many do gamedev just for the sake of the art. It's just excuses if a $100 million project can't deliver what a couple of people without any real budget ca
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by qplex 7y ago
No. This is what the AAA publishers/studios think, because mostly they make games just for the money. They don't really care for their customers and DRM usually doesn't work in Wine and hence 'the game doesn't work&
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by qplex 7y ago
Money can't buy you happiness, and marshmallows ain't the same thing.
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by qplex 7y ago
Yes. I think you're just not famous enough ;) (and neither am I). But it's interesting to ponder when the whackos start to gather and why.
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by qplex 7y ago
You make it completely optional. Just opening an outbound connection can be a privacy issue for some users. And preferably you don't ever ask normal users to enable telemetry (and if you do ask, default to no). Telemetry is only a feat
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by qplex 7y ago
X is very smooth for me. No tearing or other issues. It's usually a driver configuration issue if you have tearing.
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by qplex 7y ago
It's not just the Wayland/EGL stuff with Nvidia. They've been called 'the worst company to work with' by the Linux kernel devs and are locking their GPUs down with signed firmware. Nouveau driver development is no l
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by qplex 7y ago
They're very popular in the countryside. Pick-ups from Ford, Mazda, Isuzu are also locally made in Thailand. They're used a lot as utility and work vehicles. Road conditions can be pretty bad especially during the rainy season. In
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by qplex 7y ago
While strictly true, if you can download at link capacity it usually means the upstream is okay too.
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by qplex 7y ago
I've been using the wget method for a long time also. I think the only downside is that you need to know what you're fetching and from where. Edit: And for latency, there is /bin/ping
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by qplex 7y ago
A poor mans container (at least under unix-alikes) is simply running the program as another user with 'su' or 'sudo'.
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by qplex 7y ago
Or you could just install F-Droid. I agree that most people probably need Google Play because the apps they use aren't available anywhere else. But then again most people probably don't have the skills to install LineageOS to begi
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by qplex 7y ago
It would be fair to mention that Linux actually includes two other schedulers in addition to CFQ: Deadline and Kyber. Firewalls: Linux, and no mention of bpfilter?
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by qplex 7y ago
I recently did this and can confirm it works. You can also use Rufus [0] to write the XP image to a USB stick and skip the hassle with CD-R(W)s. [0] https://rufus.ie/
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by qplex 7y ago
Ah, you're right. So what I should have said is 'depend on having a working computer'. I can't even begin to list the things; everything.
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by qplex 7y ago
I think this is a valid thing to worry about. It's almost the same thing as worrying about a car breaking down if you're 100 miles from the nearest town. Yet we don't have a specific "fobia" for that, because it&#x2
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by qplex 7y ago
As far as I know the Xbox One needs to dial home before you're allowed to run a game. So when the DRM servers are shut down, these devices will become just useless paperweights (if nobody manages to crack them).
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by qplex 7y ago
I agree It's pretty amazing what a resource the web has become, but I don't think it's all that clear what trade-offs have been made, and if the implications of those are just mere annoyances.
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by qplex 7y ago
So the release of Metal to the public was over 6 months after the release of Mantle. But my point was that Apple couldn't use Mantle even if they wanted to, because it was proprietary.
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by qplex 7y ago
- One sentence describing what a project does (preferably the first sentence of a README)
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by qplex 7y ago
While I understand not wanting any useless eye-candy for functional purposes, I think there is also pleasure derived by simply "looking at pretty things". It does not need to involve any external motivations.
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by qplex 7y ago
Mantle was released before Metal. I think it's worth noting that Mantle was proprietary, and Vulkan is an open standard that was later spinned off it.

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