talideon

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by talideon 10y ago
Personally, the only issues I've had have been with some old GTK+2 software and Steam. That's been a little annoying as sometimes I'll spin up GVim to edit stuff, and the combination of GVim 8 + GTK+3 + Unity is still buggy l
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by talideon 10y ago
Two thumbs up from me as far as the 5510 goes: I've had mine for ages, and aside from some bumps early on (WiFi driver issues solved once I moved to Ubuntu 16.04.1), it's been great!
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by talideon 10y ago
> So, basically, no leadership at Google. Those certainly the optics. > The funny thing is gChat was well-loved. They had a great starting point! I know! And did practically everything their current 'solutions' attempt to do
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by talideon 10y ago
> Why try to fix a system that denies most people the representative they prefer? Consider it a stepping stone, and the most effective first step: if you have gerrymandered constituencies, you can still end up with non-proportional resu
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by talideon 10y ago
Most of Europe would beg to disagree. The great advantage of coalition government is that it the partners act as a moderating influence on one another. Also, you tend not to get 'grand coalitions'. Instead, you get a senior member
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by talideon 10y ago
And STV works well for Ireland, and I think would also work well for state-level elections in the US. The only thing is that it doesn't scale up super well, and might not work quite so well for congressional elections, though IRV might
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by talideon 10y ago
If there's one dental treatment I'd gladly pay for, it's enamel restoration to get rid of tooth sensitivity.
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by talideon 10y ago
I think, though I have no way to confirm this, that it's down to internal siloing: gChat was there doing its thing, and meanwhile somebody was experimenting with Hangouts because they either couldn't or didn't want to deal wi
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by talideon 10y ago
This is why I see no sense in even bothering with Google's IM offerings. Is there any other company that's gone through quite as many IM offerings as they have?
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by talideon 10y ago
The main issue is syntactic: Python's syntax is such that reduce() isn't terribly useful. If Python had an equivalent of blocks in Ruby or at least the ability to write non-trivial lambdas, I can see reduce() being useful, but as
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by talideon 10y ago
> Why does virtualenv exist? A similar reason. The reason why virtualenv exists is because different apps may have conflicting requirements, and you have apps that need to be deployed in different environments with different versions of
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by talideon 10y ago
It's essentially a Precision 5510, which is what I have. I have no complaints about mine at all: Ubuntu 16.04.1 works perfectly.
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by talideon 10y ago
You see that little dot to the left of the Dell logo? That's the camera.
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by talideon 10y ago
It's basically the Precision 5510, which is a nice piece of kit.
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by talideon 10y ago
I say it as I wouldn't expect it to be compatible with 32-bit BeOS.
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by talideon 10y ago
64-bit Haiku would maybe be a good opportunity to fix the security model, but I've no idea how feasible that would be.
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by talideon 10y ago
The right solution would've been to go for algebraic data types or at least nullable types. The justification for not going down the former route was that they overlapped too much with interfaces, which is a justification I'm not
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by talideon 10y ago
Sometimes I wonder if the solution to this isn't just to add a second tier of pages to Wikipedia, alpha (canonical) and beta (non-canonical): with pages starting in the alpha Wikipedia, then being moved to the beta Wikipedia if they&#x
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by talideon 10y ago
The brain is a series of tubes.
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by talideon 10y ago
There are some counterexamples, but every single one of those I can think of is self-funded and doesn't rely on VC or bank funding beyond what would be strictly necessary for any business. You can do it, but it's a hard slog, and
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by talideon 10y ago
You don't even need to think in those terms: just think in terms of some idiot who doesn't bother properly recycling the things. If they're not safe in that circumstance, then they're a potential safety hazard, much as a
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by talideon 10y ago
> Ok, tell me what good it is going to do to consider those things. Well, assuming you're American, you can look at the decline of Detroit to see what happens when you don't think of these things. Or Wales and the North of Eng
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by talideon 10y ago
With a job, at least you've an outside chance of feeling useful.
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by talideon 10y ago
> We need universal basic income to soften the impact of the rise of automation in the workforce. People need to feel useful. Universal basic income doesn't give that to people by itself.
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by talideon 10y ago
> I don't see how the things he discusses have to do with empathy in Silicon Valley. Driverless trucks, for instance, have nothing to do with empathy and a lot to do with simple economics. Someone is going to build them if they can
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by talideon 10y ago
It was the Phoenicians who invented alphabetic writing (well, actually an abjad), not the Israelites, who, as with the Greeks, borrowed and adapted the Phoenician script.
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by talideon 10y ago
There are many reasons why they do this, not least of which is that they handle Steam keys, and by imposing a minimum cost, it means bad actors can't as easily get tonnes of Steam keys for resale or using their purchases to game Steam
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by talideon 10y ago
This is the bit I have a problem with: > but it's a way of pointing out that the claim that the Python 3 VM can't be made to run Python 2 code is also nonsense. And that's why I wrote: > For a Python interpreter to supp
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by talideon 10y ago
> The author is - quite obviously - staying the Python 3 VM should run Python 2 code, in the same way the JVM and CLR run other languages. There is no "CPython VM": no version of Python guarantees bytecode compatibility between
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by talideon 10y ago
Most registries did a better job on constructing their IDN tables than Verisign did. :-(

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