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by trelane 3mo ago
> Netbooks didn’t need Microsoft’s help in dying. Amazing how many of Microsoft's competitors don't need the help, yet receive it. > Nobody bought more than one of them, the experience was that bad. https://www.cn
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by trelane 3mo ago
> What's the meaningful difference between a netbook and a modern 11-inch laptop? Being cheap, commonly available, and shipping with Linux come readily to mind.
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by trelane 3mo ago
I really miss netbooks. They were an amazing moment for Linux. No surprise Microsoft killed them.
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by trelane 3mo ago
Maybe 2027 will finally be the Year of Apple on the Desktop!
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by trelane 3mo ago
Holding it on your hand is insufficient. Using it may require an external server or certain chosen proprietary software that could be taken from you at any time or itself requiring an external server. The bits you want to own must be entire
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by trelane 3mo ago
> The only difference between those files and, say, a DVD, is that the encoding is more space-efficient. Also that it's (depending on the format) perhaps not illegal to use the content in the file wit any viewer you choose.
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by trelane 3mo ago
Or praying silently to yourself in a No Praying Zone!
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by trelane 4mo ago
I suppose the bulb could get hot enough to burn the media storing the books.
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by trelane 4mo ago
My favorite teacher strike was when the teachers stopped doing work when they weren't being paid. The district quickly caved.
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by trelane 4mo ago
> is there shortage of teachers in USA? No, there is a steady stream of teachers being fed into the maw of public education. The pay is low and job security is terrible until you get tenure. My wife was a teacher; I have heard horror sto
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by trelane 4mo ago
> unwillingness to fund education. "The United States spent $15,500 per FTE student at the elementary/secondary level, which was 38 percent higher than the average of OECD countries3 reporting data ($11,300). The United States
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by trelane 4mo ago
> It's literally less traumatic for a child to be in an active war zone than to be separated from their parents. Unless they happen to go to war themselves, vanquishing an evil queen with the help of a lion and becoming kings and qu
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by trelane 4mo ago
> Yeah, but if I’m not customizing it, Linux is just worse in every way I strongly disagree. You can customize Linux, but that's not its only benefit. > If you are going to do that why not just buy a Mac Because I don't wan
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by trelane 4mo ago
> If you ban loud bass I don't think I'd mind Not sure what you mean. I've been to many lakes and have yet to hear any bass.
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by trelane 4mo ago
> I don’t have time to futz around installing Linux distros instead of getting laid like I did as a teenager Good news! These days, you can just buy a computer with Linux preinstalled, with support! Just leave the distro it shipped with
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by trelane 4mo ago
Ah, dang. Thanks for responding anyway!
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by trelane 4mo ago
Fascinating! Only tangentially related: I've definitely heard of PMMA, and didn't realize it was plexiglass! It's used regularly in semiconductor fabrication. https://kayakuam.com/product/structsure/
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by trelane 4mo ago
Where is your thesis available?
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by trelane 5mo ago
Or the soviets did to believers, for that matter
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by trelane 5mo ago
> should open their eyes to the world around them Amazingly brazen assumption right there.
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by trelane 5mo ago
That is a lot of words for "my negative steroetypes about you and your country are fine, actually. Don't take it personally, bro. Maybe you're one of the few good ones!"
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by trelane 5mo ago
> Most of HN readers/writers are American, of course they won't do anything unless they personally profit off it, the entire culture is built around this mindset American culture is highly varied. For some this is true, for oth
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by trelane 5mo ago
> someone has to pay for administrators Turns out, this is also research grant money. Half or more of every grant usually goes straight to the university.as "overhead." The universities could change this so more finding wen
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by trelane 5mo ago
For women: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0d59e7wjlo
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by trelane 5mo ago
I also still daydream and have well before and after kids. If anything, sleep depravation with a newborn made it more vibrant and integrated.
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We Built Something That Didn't Exist. Today, We're Sharing It with the World(lovelace.ai)
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by trelane 6mo ago
> Wasn’t the original intention behind facebook to accumulate a directory of hotties, probably with the aim of bringing them ‘closer’? Sort of. Wikipedia @ 2: > Mark Zuckerberg built a website called "Facemash" in 2003 while
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by trelane 6mo ago
> lots of people encounter problems with sleep on linux Yeah, because they buy a Windows laptop, slap Linux on it, and expect it to work. OSX sucks even more by this metric; it won't even install!
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by trelane 6mo ago
Exactly. This is precisely why I stopped buying Windows computers and started buying System76. Well that and the support. Looks like Framework has started heading this direction too, which is nice to see.
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by trelane 6mo ago
Yeah. The reason is that a lot (almost all?) consumer hardware is broken, but in ways that either minimally impact Windows or which are worked around in drivers.

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