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by sannee 9y ago
You would also probably need to have DISPLAY pointing to an X server (to get OpenGL), which is somewhat cumbersome for daemons to do.
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by sannee 9y ago
> I would expect that the social stigma would severely limit uptake in school though, which is why this isn't standard today -- kids can be rather vicious when they pick up on any hint of difference or weakness. Note that eye patche
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by sannee 9y ago
> I find it more shocking that we as a society put up with it. All the pharmaceutical companies would much rather find synthetic alternatives they can patent/control. Follow the money, as always, and it makes perfect sense. Why are
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by sannee 9y ago
Not really. FPGAs tend to be accompanied by a flash memory storing the firmware, which of course has limited erase cycles, but you can also upload the firmware through other means.
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by sannee 9y ago
Oh come on, soldering is fairly safe - the worst thing you can realistically get is a small burn. Compare that to say, cycling or skying (which is something many parents let their 10 year olds do).
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by sannee 9y ago
I mean, it's not exactly the most kosher thing to do (though you can usually get actual oficially released ebooks for the newer stuff), but you can usually get PDF versions of whatever textbook you want on the internet. I know about a
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by sannee 9y ago
KA lecture videos were much more in-depth and much more useful than any high school math lesson I ever received. I mean, Khan is obviously a top teacher, if he wasn't, he'd get replaced by Johnie Academy or whatever pretty quickly
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by sannee 9y ago
> Gates dropped out. > Zuckerberg dropped out. Both of them managed to get into Harvard, which is an academic achievement in itself though.
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by sannee 9y ago
> A drugged out, non-productive population costs a ton. Is the only reason you are not using opiates at the moment the fact that it is illegal to do so?
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by sannee 9y ago
Can you, for example, do os.rename to replace an already existing file with another one? That works on Linux, but chokes up on Windows as far as I remember. I wonder how does WSL handle that.
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by sannee 9y ago
> unless you plan to do gaming, stay away from Nvidia Or any sort of GPU compute / machine learning. That is actually my primary reason for buying laptop with a dedicated Nvidia GPU - it sucks performance wise, that's to be exp
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by sannee 9y ago
I have always imagined that dyslexia feels somewhat like mild dose of LSD. It's hard to describe, but the letters usually seem to move around (especially in peripheral vision) and one has to focus mostly on individual symbols making up
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by sannee 9y ago
As an european this really sounds odd to me - my university does not even know what my parents names are, let alone their emails.
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by sannee 9y ago
Sounds like nginx streams - http://nginx.org/en/docs/stream/ngx_stream_core_module.html . Really useful if you need TLS but the author of whatever you are running couldn't be bothered by adding support (
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by sannee 9y ago
Would be interesting to estimate if there are more MINIX instances or Linux instances running at this point.
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by sannee 9y ago
Why would you go to a doctor to get an ibuprofen in the first place? Go to a pharmacy. Is ibuprofen actually not OTC in some countries? It's like one of the safest painkillers ever.
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by sannee 9y ago
Trigonometry was important (presumably much more than calculus) for navigation/military applications at some point in history, so maybe it just stuck that way?
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by sannee 9y ago
We have IPv6, everyone has practically infinite amount of public (and hopefully static, unless ISP did a major fuck up) IP addresses these days.
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by sannee 9y ago
Do you know of a RISC-V CPU suitable for desktop use? As far as I know, no one yet produced any silicon for that market.
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by sannee 9y ago
The price of a plane/train is astronomical compared to what you have to pay for a pilot. I mean, you could literally buy a pilot for a millenia for the price of a jetliner (100M$ for jetliner / 100k$/year for pilot). There ju
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by sannee 9y ago
I don't think you need to be exactly a genius in order to watch videos on the internet. It requires even less effort than attending a lecture, and has many benefits (cheaper, you can literally replicate the best lecturer in the univers
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by sannee 9y ago
I think it's because people are attempting to somehow "improve" the current educational methods using techno magic assuming that "if we do the stand-in-front-of-a-blackboard thing except with tablets" is going to le
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by sannee 9y ago
> Once Titan has booted its own firmware in a secure fashion, it will turn its attention to the host’s boot firmware flash, and verify its contents using public key cryptography. Titan can gate PCH/BMC access to the boot firmware fl
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by sannee 9y ago
Also, university is essentially 4 years of full-time studying you can do. Spending 4 years "unemployed" while taking online courses/building your own projects/whatever would very likely look odd to potential employers (c
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by sannee 9y ago
Are French high schools reasonably homogeneous in their quality? Otherwise a merit-based system would be massively discriminating against students which made a poor choice (or live in an area without much of a choice).
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by sannee 9y ago
It doesn't help with things like firmware vulnerabilities (without some extensive reverse engineering). I can get LineageOS on my Nexus 5 just fine, but it doesn't have broadpwn fixed. (note that I wasn't able to actually rep
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by sannee 9y ago
It would also be interesting to hear about why there are no entrance exams in the dutch system (or at least the article does not mention them).
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by sannee 9y ago
This shows a pet peeve of mine: the Raspberry Pi does not have USB available in a way which would allow a HAT to interface with it in a more sensible way than wrapping around a cable from the "external" ports. I wonder if there is
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by sannee 9y ago
I think that for humanity to "move forward"/"become interplanetary" or what have you, this is a necessary step. Being selfish however, I am afraid of being rendered useless by the incoming generation of superhumans
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by sannee 9y ago
For anyone wanting to brighten their day with some thinkpads, it unfortunately looks like large chunks of magnesium are not flammable [1]. [1] http://www.fishercast.com/downloads/FisherCast_Magnesium_Whi...

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