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by rmk2 14y ago
Funnily enough, this site isn't blocked from within JANET ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET )
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by rmk2 14y ago
I'd imagine you'd be hard pressed to find a video of "expert players" playing D&D. And even if you did, I really doubt it would be overly thrilling to watch. For what it's worth, RPGs are a rather specific thing, since they can only wor
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by rmk2 14y ago
This is technically incorrect, since both Gnome and KDE are first-class citizens (and so is XFCE). You get to choose upon installation, and all three DEs are in the official main repository. (This is just a minor correction. By all means, g
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by rmk2 14y ago
This is what someone said about why the times don't seem to get easier despite everything being seemingly more advanced: > Die kapitalistische Produktion strebt beständig, diese ihr immanenten Schranken zu überwinden, aber sie überwinde
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Nudity, e-books and censorship: How Apple became Big Brother(theglobeandmail.com)
6 points by rmk2 14y ago|10 comments
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by rmk2 14y ago
I, personally, am very much in love with DeaDBeeF[1] on openSUSE. When I was still using windows, I was using foobar and continued to do so in wine on Linux. However, I did want an open-source alternative that would integrate better with
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by rmk2 14y ago
This still seems incredibly vague, though. The radeon driver is part of the kernel, as well... And how exactly they will "consolidate and perform" the cpu-related work in other locations without the people who have been working on it is a b
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by rmk2 14y ago
Since when is direct democracy completely void of any form of value? Following your "extreme", then, means that every election means simply projecting all your private hopes onto someone completely void of any coherency, other than that pro
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by rmk2 14y ago
How does a politician become "more connected" to the populace if said populace is only encountered as an integral function of a wider statistically significant effect? "Dear Candidate, you will have to see people in that part of the country
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AMD closes Operating System Research Center (which housed the linux devs)(translate.google.co.uk)
1 points by rmk2 14y ago|0 comments
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by rmk2 14y ago
I experienced the same behaviour with Chromium 24 on openSUSE Tumbleweed x86_64. Looks like a good start for a more linux-centered experience, doesn't it? ;) [edit] Put in a smiley at the end of the second sentence to convey my less-than-se
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by rmk2 14y ago
This is indeed an interesting question and I would be interested in hearing more about this, yet none of the articles I have seen so far said anything about putting something else on it. Looking at both the Raspberry Pi and my normal laptop
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by rmk2 14y ago
On top of that, they are better for thermal management on notebooks. Now, I might be a bit bitter because I had two different nvidia chips in two different laptops die on my a grand total of 4 times, all due to faults on nvidia's part, acce
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by rmk2 14y ago
> but I know how much work companies are doing for the 400k price tags I absolutely agree, by far the biggest portion of most redesigns isn't so much "just" the logo, it's changing the whole corporate design that is attached. Letterhea
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by rmk2 14y ago
The normal projected benefit for this kind of social model is that people don't have to work for sustenance. Instead, the whole range of human motivation can become a driving force. It is assumed that you get more focused, happier and more
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by rmk2 14y ago
My problem is that the article makes great sweeping points, pretending to talk about some sort of general truth while in fact catering to a very specific readership, HN possibly being exactly that. I am aware what HN is, what bothers me i
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by rmk2 14y ago
Well, the comments here certainly do. Apart from that though, there aren't all that many "other" professions where you can "just" invent something new and go and become an entrepeneur just like that. They have a higher entry barrier, so I
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by rmk2 14y ago
And here we go again. The article's essence: "All you pesky, silly little humanities students, go do something useful like we CS people/engineers. No really. Build an app . Become an entrepeneur . Fail horribly, sleep on somebody's couc
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by rmk2 14y ago
Why is it a false dichotomy? Do you honestly believe that people will all of a sudden flog to STEM subjects just because somebody tells them they will forever be unemployed otherwise? We might just have this arguement because this is, after
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by rmk2 14y ago
No, but companies are all about making things into money. That's why they choose a number of subjects (and degrees) that they deem useful and disregard everything else. What people fail to understand is that a degree in the humanities also
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by rmk2 14y ago
Maybe everyone should become an engineer, so everyone can be happily living in a technocracy were we make everything remotely tangible into money. Maybe we should tell people to stop doing psychology, art history, history, political scien
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by rmk2 14y ago
No. His problem is that not every editor is vim. Or at least like vim.
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SUSE and Secure Boot: a proposal not just for SUSE(lists.opensuse.org)
3 points by rmk2 14y ago|0 comments
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by rmk2 14y ago
You have a point there, especially when you name the economic situation, which arguably changes behaviour patterns. To expand a bit more on my previous "anecdotal in nature" point though, I think that the articles we see here are not just a
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by rmk2 14y ago
The most interesting thing about this is the feedback loop. These kind of stories seem to strike a chord and in turn more people will post about this. Yet the discussion always goes along the same lines. The problem is that all of these are
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by rmk2 14y ago
The term "concentration camp" actually describes exactly what Guantanamo Bay is. I'm linking to wikipedia because it nicely gathers all the dictionary entries alongside the genesis of term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_camps
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by rmk2 14y ago
The point is that if you come from a low income background, there is a very good chance you will never make it to university, because you will probably never quite make it to gymnasium (or through it) to begin with. For those who speak Ge
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by rmk2 14y ago
Why does Microsoft get to use UEFI and others do not? If it is such a valuable tool in fighting malware, why is the only certain option "Microsoft or turned off"? Surely, if UEFI is indeed the remedy people claim, then having it on as many
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by rmk2 14y ago
I'm not sure if this is the right answer or not, but the Linux kernel has supported PAE[1] for ages, which allows for more than 4GB of RAM in a 32-bit OS (though it remains unusable by a single process, if I understood that correctly). Mayb
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by rmk2 14y ago
For your reading pleasure: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/computerkonzern-verkla... [süddeutsche.de -> in german] http://www.thelocal.de/society/20111026-38449.html [thelocal.de] http://www.geek.com/articles/apple/apple-want

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