shadowofneptune

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   by shadowofneptune 6y ago

   What I can recommend against is heavily modifying GNOME 3. The extension system tends to break with major updates.
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   by shadowofneptune 6y ago

   Thanks for the recommendation.
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   by shadowofneptune 6y ago

   This is the main reason I'm skeptical that other forms of media are distracting from streaming. Someone could easily turn of Dota 2's music and listen to Spotify in the background.
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   by shadowofneptune 6y ago

   How small are we talking? I recently tried to make a 48-page statement-sized booklet. My conventional stapler couldn't handle 24 pages of printer paper. Could these 360° staplers handle that size? I could either use needle and thread o
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   by shadowofneptune 6y ago

   Simple answer might just be that there's only so much that can differentiate one streaming service from another. If we're making comparisons to the traditional music industry, the streaming services might not be the labels -- they
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   by shadowofneptune 6y ago

   Thanks for the link, it's a cool story.
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   by shadowofneptune 6y ago

   Yes, that's true. C Programming is largely a C89 book with small segments about C99.
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   by shadowofneptune 6y ago

   As an learning project, I recently typeset Eric S. Raymond's "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" essay in LaTeX. I was surprised to find that as I got more familiar with the text that I disagreed with it quite a bit. Raymond was t
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   by shadowofneptune 6y ago

   If an absolute beginner were to use K&R as a start they'd be learning C from 35 or so years ago. It's well written, but not helpful as a reference. Even something as simple as how a function is organized has changed. C Program
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    by shadowofneptune 6y ago

    Yeah, I scoffed at first reading it but by the end I was impressed. Definitely agree with the point that metaphors are less relevant in a time where many people know how to use computers. A virtual assistant with the power of a command line
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    by shadowofneptune 6y ago

    Are you concerned that lack of progress could lead to a sort of "self-driving winter," like the AI winters experienced in the past?
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    by shadowofneptune 6y ago

    One thing that has changed is federal employment protections. That's huge, opens up a lot of the country to us. Federal housing protections could be possible as well from the precedent set.
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    by shadowofneptune 6y ago

    I'd say they are roughly the same from a user's perspective, though the file systems are very different of course.
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    by shadowofneptune 6y ago

    My mistake, a Critique of Practical Reason. Pure Reason handles metaphysics and not ethics. There is also Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, which is similar to Practical Reason but written earlier in Kant's career
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    by shadowofneptune 6y ago

    Depends on your age. If you are in college, taking an introductory course or two on ethics and metaphysics could be useful. If that's not possible or realistic, Nicomachean Ethics, A Critique of Pure Reason, and Utilitarianism were the
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    by shadowofneptune 6y ago

    Thanks for the link. I'm a sucker for GNOME's disk usage visualizer, so it's nice to have something similar on Windows.
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    by shadowofneptune 6y ago

    If that's true we're not too far off from where the idea comes from: religious wars over which side you should start peeling a hard boiled egg.
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    by shadowofneptune 6y ago

    Thank you for the correction. I had been following the news about Arecibo mostly and had not investigated NSF's total funding.
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    by shadowofneptune 6y ago

    There is no money for this. The National Science Foundation, the primary source of funding for Arecibo, has been trying to shut it down or offset its cost for years. NSF is a part of the US government, so it has been a victim of the cuts to