tux1968

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721.
by tux1968 6y ago
They were distracted. Why on earth would you object to the idea of better feedback? If the lever is locked until the plane is willing to engage the landing gear, it's more safe than the current UI.
722.
by tux1968 6y ago
The fact that the landing gear lever was pushed down into the extended position, and then the plane decided not to deploy the landing gear because of the overspeed issue is a horrible UI. The lever should refuse to budge unless moving it wi
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by tux1968 6y ago
That was my initial feeling about GIMP when I first tried to use it years and years ago. After many false starts and head scratching, the logic of it finally sunk in and now I find it pretty straightforward and logical. You just have to f
724.
by tux1968 6y ago
Don't attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by malice. It's only stupid if you accept their ostensible rationale, but it makes perfect sense if they're trying to pry open the data of the average citizen, not som
725.
by tux1968 6y ago
That's interesting, how do you sue a company that hasn't been in business for 20 or 30 years?
726.
by tux1968 6y ago
It's reclaiming the Perl name since Perl 6 has abandoned its connection to Perl and is claiming to be a completely separate unconnected language. This is the logical conclusion to this divergence and will mean that going forward people
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by tux1968 6y ago
One small example that i've struggled with is logging. It used to be I could reuse my editor knowledge to search and read log files. Now every time I want to look at a log I have to re-read the man pages to figure out the proper i
728.
by tux1968 7y ago
You're completely discounting the risks associated with the economic lockdown. Maybe we should be more conservative with our economic livelihood.
729.
by tux1968 7y ago
I always assumed it came by naming the person who sat in the special seat after the seat itself.
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The universe's biggest gear reduction(youtu.be)
1 points by tux1968 7y ago|0 comments
731.
by tux1968 7y ago
Right, because people of colour love having overly bright lights blasting into their eyes. Lights aren't set for photography of any skin tone, they're set at a level for comfort and to provide enough light for us to operate.
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Scientists discover a blue light-emitting diode from a semiconductor material(eletimes.com)
4 points by tux1968 7y ago|1 comments
733.
by tux1968 7y ago
Apparently WSJ is okay with you reading things if you request the content with the correct incantations. There are a bunch of paywall bypass plugins for Firefox that invoke the magic words. Here's one: https://addons.mozil
734.
by tux1968 7y ago
Believe you're thinking about SpiderMonkey. SeaMonkey is an application suite with email, browser, IRC, etc.
735.
by tux1968 7y ago
Could it be because it has to compete with the public option, or at least stand up to comparison with it?
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A Breakthrough in Graph Theory – Numberphile [video](youtu.be)
3 points by tux1968 7y ago|0 comments
737.
by tux1968 7y ago
> 2. you got what you bought, you could not and did not expect updates Given the number of user-hostile updates that often arrive somewhere along the way, i'd like to go back to not expecting updates. Happy to pay for new versions
738.
by tux1968 7y ago
I agree with everything you said, and I don't have any special insight about how things are going to play out. But i'm terrified of the current loud support toward censorship and authoritarian suppression of incorrect ideas. We h
739.
by tux1968 7y ago
Yup, i'm not signing up to watch video. But there is some justification for it, they really only want consumers who are willing to sponsor content. My guess is that this is in lieu of advertising injected by the platform itself. It&#
740.
by tux1968 7y ago
The problem is that we have always accepted what we see because we've assumed that things are more or less as they've been presented to us, we've mostly blindly accepted the story from the social truthmakers. We've had
741.
by tux1968 7y ago
> We're getting deeper and deeper into a post-truth world. Are we though? Or is it just becoming much more obvious the limitations of relying on the media in general. This very well might lead to a better understanding of truth, a
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Scientists just added two functional letters to the genetic code(sciencemag.org)
3 points by tux1968 7y ago|1 comments
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A Self-Driving Freight Truck Just Drove Across the Country to Deliver Butter(msn.com)
2 points by tux1968 7y ago|1 comments
744.
by tux1968 7y ago
The index doesn't contain objects themselves, every added file (whether it is committed or not) is held as a regular object. The index simply holds a list of object ID's. So yes, if you change a file and re-add it, the index will
745.
by tux1968 7y ago
What is more concerning is that in popular culture right now many people are loudly calling for government control of news, to stamp out so called fake news. That can only lead to what amounts to a government Ministry of Truth, and support
746.
by tux1968 7y ago
This can't be right. It's too easy to put drugs inside a book or pencil case. For that matter it's mostly the same problem for a weapon too.
747.
by tux1968 7y ago
> From the proof that if we have free will, so do particles to some extent. To the notion that quantum computation may happen in the brain. The question remains, what reason do we have to believe that only a living brain, and not a silic
748.
by tux1968 7y ago
I couldn't disagree with you more. The article referenced by GP mistakes the form for the function. Just because the computer uses different technology than human tissue, doesn't mean it isn't emulating the same ultimate pro
749.
by tux1968 7y ago
I like the one Bill Burr made a point of highlighting: Arnold Schwarzenegger. Body building champion, movie star, and governor of California.
750.
by tux1968 7y ago
That isn't the issue -- it isn't a comment about the quality of Stadia today or even what is possible. It's a comment about Google's propensity to lose interest in products and services and shut them down.

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