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by riprowan 10y ago
This is my problem. Audio editing on Linux is a joke. For everything else I do, Linux can get me there. So I need a Mac or a PC as an audio editor? Might as well just get a Mac or a PC. I'll have to maintain it anyway, and it can
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by riprowan 10y ago
One problem is that (apart from devs) Linux only supports "typical" computer users, and then only OK. For example a lot of Apple users are multimedia professionals and Linux multimedia apps are simply not in the same league. The
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by riprowan 10y ago
But how will the Sonder keyboard help you to remember hotkeys? Maybe I'm missing something. I can understand how it can show me that option-shift-2 is the Euro symbol but how can it show me that command-G is "Paste Only MIDI Not
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by riprowan 10y ago
Base your business on it? No. However I did put a Hackintosh into mission critical use for a bit. The machine was a ~$300 Dell Mini 9 which remains one of the all time easiest and most stable Hackintosh builds. To be fair it was a puny c
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by riprowan 10y ago
I think this trend becomes popular every time Apple's product line becomes stale.
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This was the correct answer.
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by riprowan 10y ago
> There is no reason to favor individuals investing into an unproductive investment (property) over productive investments (stocks and bonds). I beg to differ. I think that real estate, like farming, has critical societal benefits that
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by riprowan 10y ago
Yes, biology is terrifically complex and there exists a near-universal tendency to oversimplify it. However, the rate at which humans are improving our ability to understand terrifically complex systems is itself accelerating and 100 years
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by riprowan 10y ago
This seems like a practically perfect way to target individuals with trojans.
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> But program managers and CTOs and other non-engineers at a company care about scalability, performance, technical debt and quality, right? Rarely. Mostly they care about meeting quarterly goals and budgets; and ease of finding inexpen
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by riprowan 10y ago
Did you like this? [Yes / No]
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by riprowan 10y ago
I have the same belief. The business could easily be run with a fraction of its current overhead -- IF it was willing to accept a "small is beautiful" existence. The problem is, "small is beautiful" doesn't get
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by riprowan 10y ago
Baby-box-industry lobbying intensifies
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How can you know a general is not a sybil?
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by riprowan 10y ago
Byzcoin is interesting but like Bitcoin its security model depends on massively decentralized mining. Mining is a function of turning electricity into coins. Since coin generation rate is fixed through a difficulty adjustment, mining becom
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by riprowan 10y ago
If I could run the apps I need, I'd use it in a heartbeat. However I'm an audio and video producer / editor, and Linux A/V editors are not professional-strength. This issue right there is what has kept me out of Linux f
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by riprowan 10y ago
These offerings work well as a pure NAS - your data is backed up and available. Where they fall down for me as a home user is in their inability to offer other services. For example, photo sharing. I have a fast home internet connection a
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by riprowan 10y ago
This topic is very much in line with yesterday's discussion of ADHD.[1] I was particularly moved by this quote: "Collecting data on human learning based on children’s behavior in school is like collecting data on killer whales bas
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What the modern world has forgotten about children and learning(washingtonpost.com)
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by riprowan 10y ago
I was diagnosed ADHD when I was 7 and the doctors put me on Ritalin. This was the early 1970s when very little was known about how to prescribe the drug to children. The doctors put me on a dose of 20mg 3X per day. It almost killed me. I
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by riprowan 10y ago
I'll take Bugs Bunny and the Roadrunner v Wile. E. Coyote (supra-genius) over Disney any day of the week.
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by riprowan 10y ago
I learned to code in the early 1980s and studied it in university in the late 1980s and early 90s. Since then I've ingested and forgotten countless languages and technologies. At a certain point I realized that I had spent more than 1
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by riprowan 10y ago
Used to be there was "the guy" that knew the "secret formula." Like the guy that knew the Coke secret formula, or the guy that used to maintain Lay's potato chip fryers. Most everyone else was just a cog in a big m
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by riprowan 10y ago
What account did they log into?
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by riprowan 10y ago
You are already trusting that person enough to risk your business on them, if that server is still up and running after finding the security hole.
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by riprowan 10y ago
Ethereum did not reverse the transaction because the transaction was fraudulent. If that was the case, thousands or millions of crypto transactions would probably need reversing. Ethereum reversed the transaction because of a TBTF situatio
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by riprowan 10y ago
Consider reddit, where anyone can create - and curate - a discussion board on any topic; or wikipedia, where topics are often heavily trolled by the self-appointed "guardians of the holy page." In general, in these situations, i
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by riprowan 10y ago
It's at least as old as explosives. We used to call it "shell shock."
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by riprowan 10y ago
Why Milton Friedman supported guaranteed basic income: https://medium.com/basic-income/why-milton-friedman-supporte... Most people are shocked to hear that Friedman held these views.
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by riprowan 10y ago
I can't get paid for the musical intellectual property I create, so I get paid for the software intellectual property I create. Meanwhile everyone around me coding is listening to streaming music at $0.000003 per minute not imagining t

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