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by transpostmeta 1y ago
I always assumed it was because it was a Subsystem for Linux that allowed it to be run as a guest on a Windows host. But your version works too. Microsoft ist really terrible at naming things, that's for sure.
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by transpostmeta 5y ago
What if you want to write the name of an ESL speaker, who might well come from a country where names often don't only consist of ASCII characters? Or do they tell you to knock that off too?
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by transpostmeta 5y ago
If you call a pseudo-random number generator, you get the next random number in a strictly defined sequence of numbers derived from the seed. So the generator has state, and needs to be called exactly the same number of times in the same or
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by transpostmeta 5y ago
It's not infeasible. The smart contract in the block chain just pays a third party to access real world data. The business model of the oracle provider is to provide accurate data and get paid for it. It works well enough for data that
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by transpostmeta 6y ago
My solution: Increase taxes on all alcoholic beverages. Make pharmacies able to sell 20% by volume alcohol mixed with water that is drinkable in non-branded, medical-looking bottles. Addicts with little money can buy that and mix it with fr
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by transpostmeta 6y ago
You must realise that many people use desktop applications for their work. The Office suite, the Adobe suite, AutoCAD, ArcGIS: whatever program is in use in the industry you are in.
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by transpostmeta 6y ago
It's not the same. There really IS footage of USA police shooting innocent black people. There exists no such footage in Switzerland. Swiss people protesting against Swiss police because of this footage from the USA makes no sense. US
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by transpostmeta 6y ago
It's interesting. Microsoft agreed with this philosophy and fought tooth and nail against tabbing in browsers, opting instead that each browser tab be it's own window and accessible from the task bar. After all other browsers had
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by transpostmeta 7y ago
Then why aren't we programming in English? Why aren't we expressing mathematical expressions in English?
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by transpostmeta 7y ago
If you have an unregistered version of Windows, they impose some restrictions. One of them is that you can't change your wallpaper.
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by transpostmeta 8y ago
This cannot be overstated. 90% of the advantages of VIM is the modal editing interface, which can be used beautifully in Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ IDEA, and other nice IDEs. The VIM way is a very good way of editing text.
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by transpostmeta 8y ago
Managing large businesses is complex, and requires complex software. Spreading the complexity between various codebases does not make the software less complex. Large codebases in COBOL, Java and C# are what make the world go round.
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by transpostmeta 8y ago
You can save the window arrangement, and restore it with a key chord.
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by transpostmeta 8y ago
It works for the label, but does it enable the artists to live off of their music? I doubt it.
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by transpostmeta 8y ago
You can use VIM style keybindings in an IDE. I have been using VsVim in Visual Studio for years, it's great!
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by transpostmeta 8y ago
No, CUDA is not supported by WSL. They hope they can support it at some point, though. Use Conda on Linux.
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by transpostmeta 8y ago
Email is a decentralized system.
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by transpostmeta 9y ago
Yes, this is a selfish opinion. Traffic kills a lot of people, and it's not just the ones doing the driving. Traffic is terrible for the environment, causes noise pollution and respiratory illness. I can understand that some people nee
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by transpostmeta 9y ago
Resolving scalability issues is not as simple as "rent more servers".
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by transpostmeta 9y ago
Oh, so if you don't pay for a tool you can't control the development of it? How unexpected!
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by transpostmeta 9y ago
The assembly code might well have been created with lots of macros.
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by transpostmeta 9y ago
> it is a computer algorithm, so by definition it is trivial to reproduce results, you just run the program again. Not really. Deep learning is still quite a lot of dark voodoo where random initialization and data shuffling can matter si
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by transpostmeta 9y ago
I always wondered why companies don't try to catch each other cheating. If would seem that if Ford wanted to, they could easily figure out VW was cheating, and go to the press and government with that info.
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by transpostmeta 14y ago
Windows has millions of users. If Microsoft went out and said: "Hey, this game you all like has a bug in 64-bit versions, here's the source, any ideas?", I bet tons of people would have invested a couple of days. As you see in the blog post
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by transpostmeta 14y ago
And with bitcoins, nobody can print money. That is the advantage.
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by transpostmeta 14y ago
The problem with votes being weighted upon previous upvotes of content submitted by that user is as follows: The chance of upvoting a post is related to its length and complexity. One-off puns or silly remarks are much more readily upvoted
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by transpostmeta 14y ago
The PlayStation 3 has 256 MB of RAM, not exactly on par with a current PC gaming system, which can easily have 16 GB. I would argue that the rising production costs to produce games that actually make use of ultra-advanced hardware are more