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by rleigh 5y ago
The inability of the GIMP developers to work with others to incorporate needed features was the primary reason. Look at the difference between how different open-source projects operate. Some foster collaboration and encourage outside cont
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by rleigh 5y ago
From today's persepective, maybe. However, it is entirely consistent with the terminal control sequences of that era which can't use CL for transmitting data. It's limited to control, or else you wouldn't be able to ca
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by rleigh 5y ago
I used to tune my shortwave radio to various frequencies emitted by my ZX Spectrum +2A. It had terrible shielding! You could hear the noise/tone change with various different types of computation, and for some frequencies listen to th
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by rleigh 5y ago
The most obvious reason would be this: preventing a repeat occurrence. We can't learn from our mistakes if we are prevented from finding out what the mistake was... If the virus did get released from a supposedly secure research facili
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by rleigh 5y ago
Likewise for me. I think the primary reason for this is the huge decline in the quality of Google search results over the last decade.
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by rleigh 5y ago
I used to get by primarily with print statements and occasional use of gdb either on the command-line or with the Emacs gdb mode. Back when I used Emacs and vim and I was something of a Linux zealot I never really considered anything else
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by rleigh 5y ago
It is called "secondary succession" (primary being colonisation from scratch on bare rock)
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by rleigh 5y ago
It was mainstream long before that. It was in common use with the Digital Research GEM desktop in the mid '80s (which used a .app suffix for applications), but was not particularly unique to GEM.
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by rleigh 5y ago
The Dig is one adventure game where these "unfair" puzzles make sense. As an explorer on an alien world, encountering and deciphering alien technology, isn't it completely expected that you have to do some trial and error to
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by rleigh 5y ago
Because it can often mean that they lack dispassionate objectivity. How often have you seen starry-eyed people like this push their pet technology into a project just because it was their passion, but without any view as to the wider techni
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by rleigh 5y ago
Broadly true. It's standard stuff. Think about Charles Darwin and his writing about the unusual diversity of the species on the Galapagos islands, which are small and isolated. There are numerous other examples, e.g. pygmy species o
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by rleigh 5y ago
Every major update e.g. 29H2 has reset the power settings the past couple of years. Patches don't do this, but the major updates do seem to reset a whole swath of basic settings and it's bloody infuriating.
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by rleigh 5y ago
I have already tried this and all of the other recommendations out there including Shutup10 (on Win 10 Pro). It's quite possible it was working and got reset on an update, lots of things seem to get reset. But whatever the actual case
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by rleigh 5y ago
I think this was somewhat hyperbolic, it's not that frequent, but it's still beyond ridiculous. I run VMs on vmware workstation. Every 2 or 3 days I come in to find the system rebooted during the night. I've tried every kno
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by rleigh 5y ago
Once you've used hydraulics, you never want to go back to cable. They are so much better on all counts that the tiny weight gain pales into insignificance.
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by rleigh 5y ago
I disagree. If a programmer cannot articulate their thoughts and ideas clearly, and cannot effectively communicate with others through writing, I would question whether they fully understand the concepts themselves, and whether they are ac
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by rleigh 5y ago
This is a permission which can be delegated to users on a per-dataset basis. See "zfs allow". It didn't used to work on Linux, but has been possible since Ubuntu 20.04.
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by rleigh 5y ago
I discovered that PyCharm had some nice R support a few weeks back. Not sure why PyCharm and not other IDEs, but what was there was simple but decent. Even embedded the graphics output in its panels and integrated really nicely. I can se
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by rleigh 5y ago
While I agree that "most" researchers start out with good intentions, I'm afraid I've directly and indirectly witnessed so many examples of fraud, data manipulation, wilful misrepresentation and outright incompetence, th
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by rleigh 5y ago
There is messaging through physical contact. It occurs at the speed of sound as opposed to the speed of light.
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by rleigh 5y ago
It works just fine. I've upgraded vdevs this way several times, and it worked without a hitch on every occasion.
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by rleigh 5y ago
Yes, it is. I went to interview at Google (a few years back now). Frankly, I was disturbed at the cult-like behaviour and attitudes of the majority of the employees I interacted with. For most of them, it was clearly their first job out
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by rleigh 6y ago
Also https://www.ftdichip.com/Support/Documents/DataSheets/Cables... They are genuinely useful.
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by rleigh 6y ago
It is generator-specific. Try "Unix Makefiles" vs "Ninja" and you'll see the difference.
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by rleigh 6y ago
An organisation where decisions are not arrived at, and where people work at cross-purposes to the disadvantage of the organisation as a whole. In a previous position, a failure to commit to certain key decisions led to over a decade of dri
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by rleigh 6y ago
I used to run it. Initially as a VM on Debian, later inside a jail on FreeBSD. It worked nicely. The main criticism I have of it is that it is a solution in search of a problem. Why would I use it in preference to either vanilla FreeBSD
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by rleigh 6y ago
Please provide some evidence for that claim. I've get to see even one bit of confirmation that this happened, just unfounded speculation by politicians playing political games (at the expense of their citizens' own health). The
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by rleigh 6y ago
You also need to bear in mind that it's much more subtle than the "risk of death". If you're vaccinated, the symptoms and complications are greatly reduced even in younger age groups. So a small risk is reduced to a ti
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by rleigh 6y ago
Really? We have over 200 years of vaccine use in public health programmes to control contagious disease. The most effective medical treatment humanity has ever devised. That has completely eliminated some of the most transmissible and de
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by rleigh 6y ago
> There must be no doubts with vaccines, 100% trust in them is essential. Completely unrealistic. Everything in life has associated risks, and vaccines do carry a (small) risk. It would be better to educate people about understanding an

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