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by sqeaky 9y ago
> everyone would be using Unity 3 months ago I would have agreed but they have announced that for their next LTS 18.04 they are dropping unity in favor of Gnome3. I agree that improved interop would be good, but I am grateful for how wel
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Today I learned: god is nearsighted.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
How big is your screen? Depending on your eyes that would be entirely reasonable on an 18 inch lapzilla or preposterously tiny on a 9 inch ultrabook.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Tiny font person reporting in. I can easily read 9pt font scaled to 80% or 90% in Qt Creator on my 4k monitor. Some of my other coworkers are unsure if I even have text on my screen. I do it because I can fit 4 split views of 120 columns te
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I am glad -> was included, but why not ==. Isn't that a comparison operator in many languages?
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Could I get a link to the package manager and list of packages? This is news to me, unless its another one microsoft's crappy marketplaces, and I would like to do some reading.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
So... Linux is the worst desktop, except all others. I agree with most of your gripes, but fragmentation is more an more just becoming a reality. UIs won't look the same anymore, it just doesn't make sense to. So people will expe
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I will not use any OS that serves me ads and I have to pay for it. I will not use an OS that spies on me. I will not use any OS that is not open source so I can see what it is today should I need/want to (and I will gladly investigate
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by sqeaky 9y ago
> Wine, which drastically lowers performance I have had performance decreases and increases with Wine. I would not call the change drastic. The larger issue with wine is that not every game works. I encourage you to measure both and see
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Nothing you said is wrong, but it doesn't change the fact that quality doesn't sell. Once a game is "good enough" it often comes down to marketing, and the studios putting out for Linux do not control a majority of the m
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by sqeaky 9y ago
It was made by a bunch of college students who were trying to start their own company who got bought by Valve partway through development.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
What is this you say about audio delay, I have had no such problem with Pulseaudio or Alsa
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by sqeaky 9y ago
In some ways we are, but unlike every other animal we can choose to destroy or create a new ecosystem. For an extreme example, how much do astronauts participate in any natural ecosystem, and what is the ecosystem of thousands of square mil
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Nothing about either is harder in principle to duplicate. You would just take different approaches to designing the algorithms or if using deep learning be sure to include the relevant data in the training data.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I clicked it and read it, and I see no reason to believe such, could you point out what is wrong to me?
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by sqeaky 9y ago
When there is feedback in neurons, what do you think that conveys? I agree it is not some simple error correction like what is propagated backwards, but it happens often and I presume its something useful or it wouldn't be there.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
People in the US have a disproportionate amount of money so serving them ads provides Google disproportionate value. Could they exist without the US market, Maybe, I don't know. But I can't imagine they want to go without it.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
What is special about stumbles that makes them impossible to fake?
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by sqeaky 9y ago
> fee is based on the byte size of the transaction Aren'y all bitcoin transaction really close to the same size? The amount being transferred doesn't change the size an integer contain 1 and another container 1,000,000,000 take
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Self driving cars are already safer than people when their sensors are not screwed by the weather. As soon as solve the snow and rainy night problem the self driving beds will be a thing and much safer than you or I driving. Sure some idiot
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by sqeaky 9y ago
People don't give up luxuries or quality of life. Everyone knows smoking kills people, its gone down with that knowledge but leveled off at millions of smokers who do it for the pleasure and damn the consequences. Now that vaping is a
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Its only been around a few years. If they fail and everyone is talking about some other transport service you will eventually consider the others or start walking. What process led to "trust" Uber can be duplicated. And many peopl
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Disease from Mosquitoes pose such a large threat that even if this goes terribly it will still likely be a benefit.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
I don't really care it does disrupt an ecosystem, because the total disruption will be reduced. Humans suffering from horrible diseases disrupt much. Disease is one of several things that keep people in poverty. People dying is expensi
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Surely there are some negative side effects of more a trillion dollars of debt!
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by sqeaky 9y ago
That is crazy. Negotiating Salary is just about the only place a worker as an advantage and can get ahead. I though all the anti-consumer and anti-employee laws were in the US.
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by sqeaky 9y ago
The point is still valid in the states that aren't New Jersey or Oregon. In Nebraska, Washington, California, Iowa, Ohio and Kansas, all the places I have lived in or worked in my memory I have seen no gas station attendants. This is l
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by sqeaky 9y ago
You are presuming people or racism is logical. It is common for someone to say one thing then mean another, it is so common we even have words for it. It is also entirely possible the racist person did this intentionally to maximize the inc
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by sqeaky 9y ago
But when you have president that is a rallying point for racism and actively says a major existential threat to humanity is "a chinese hoax", it is hard not to view that person as a threat and enemy. He has demonstrated a stunning
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by sqeaky 9y ago
Could someone explain the downvotes this guy is getting. While there are logical fallacies, like the implications asians can't be racist, they are the kinds of fallacies renters might use.

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