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by uabstraction 10y ago
Well, this combined with the snoopers charter just motivated me to sign up for an EFF membership. It's not much, but it's something. It really feels like we're marching towards a brave new world. They can pry my copy of App
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Perhaps freedom from advertisers' influence will have a positive affect on this (I'm not placing any bets though).
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If you want to push this to the extreme, check out the MSP430 Launchpad and fiddle around with avr-gcc. Pick up a Bluetooth serial module (can be had on breakout board for ≈$40) and remote control something from any Android phone. Lots of
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by uabstraction 10y ago
I think this says more about John Carmack's devine software engineering talent than it does about C++. I've seen some slick looking C++, and I've seen some flat out atrocious C (and vice-versa). Even Carmack decided to swit
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by uabstraction 10y ago
Stallman's greatest strength - his uncompromising, liberty or death approach to computing - is also his greatest weakness. With all due respect, by refusing to use proprietary software under any circumstances, and taking extreme measu
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by uabstraction 10y ago
If we don't have Network Neutrality, we need to increase competition in consumer Internet access by an order of magnitude. In other words, its either net neutrality, or break up AT&T, TWC, Comcast, and Verizon into at least 40 com
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by uabstraction 10y ago
This is like being asked if you want to be shot by a cannon, or 100 guns.
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by uabstraction 10y ago
A commercial Linux distro aimed at consumers would be cool, but things aren't so bad as it is. Making the switch will surely require some adaptation and getting used to, but when you get settled, things are pretty smooth, and only get
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by uabstraction 10y ago
That's the beauty of it though. If you want something slick and powerful, there are options. If you want a $250 piece of shit laptop, there are options. If you want to build a workstation taylored to your workload, there are hundred
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by uabstraction 10y ago
Except no one's asking them to "gimp" the available models. People are asking for more options in the high performance space. If Apple doesn't make it, you can't simply go to HP and get it there. You have no choi
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by uabstraction 10y ago
Working in manufacturing (knee and hip implants, powered surgery tool geartrains and housings), attention to detail is what we get paid for, not the backbreaking work of pushing a cycle-start button. Anybody can push a button, but how soon
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by uabstraction 10y ago
Seriously. The intelligence community answers to the executive. If they don't like the pardon they can go fuck themselves for that reason alone.
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I've just got started with beets. It takes a lot of work to organize a music landfill that has accumulated over 15 years, but it may be the best tool for the job - even if the job will consume man-days. MusicBrainz Picard never cut it
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by uabstraction 10y ago
I'd happily live with the lightning strike probability of being involved in a terrorist attack than the certainty that the government will abuse this data to subvert opposition. Trading the rights of millions of people to combat terror
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by uabstraction 10y ago
Skip the US. Our surveillance agencies are in bed, and American VPN providers can be strong-armed with an NSL. Use a VPN incorporated and with exit points in a more neutral/second-world country.
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by uabstraction 10y ago
First, replace the core GNOME apps you use most frequently with lighter alternatives. Take it easy, do it one at a time. Try rxvt-unicode instead of gnome-terminal. Try Thunar or Dolphin or an mc clone instead of Nautilus. There's a
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by uabstraction 10y ago
Google is terrifyingly good at finding relevant developer documentation. I'm convinced it will be writing software for us in a couple years.
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No good. It seems that some genious at the WSJ decided to make accounts mandatory.
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Qutebrowser is also worth checking out. I haven't really given it a full blown test drive yet, but it's certainly less bloated than Firefox and Chrome, and has Vim-like keybindings.
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Those who do not move do not notice their chains.
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You guys don't use -pedantic? :D
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To boil this down farther, We are looking for a leader, not a follower. Hillary is a follower. She has demonstrated over her career that she will vote for whatever is popular, lean on "think of the children" issues, and only vote
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by uabstraction 10y ago
Darktable is where it's at. I also haven't used Lightroom for more than 5 minutes, but Darktable covers all my RAW developing needs. If you're not shooting for money, it should suffice. (If you ARE shooting professionally,
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by uabstraction 10y ago
I learned basic 16 bit x86 assembly by making simple COM executables and boot sectors with MASM. I don't know if its still possible run COM on modern Windows (this was in the 32 bit XP days), but getting started with boot sectors using
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This was a very fascinating writeup. Video codecs are still sorcery to me, but I was kind of blown away by how many individual operations are employed in shedding redundancy. I kind of assumed that there was a single flat algorithm being
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Unlike Homebrew, APT manages the entire system - from bootloader to browser. It is designed to work in multi-user environments where you don't want 40 different users installing 40 different copies of the same program, not updating the
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> just-press-Win-and-start-typing experience is much better. Despite the non—stop bickering, this has been the killer feature of Gnome 3 since it's inception. Most applications can be launched just by hitting win, the first one or t
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by uabstraction 10y ago
They're like the BMW turn signals of the free software world. If you spend more than a couple hours a day editing, you use Vim and Emacs.
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A free software enthusiast might not reach for Sublime as their first choice, but if its what you're used to, and you paid for it, and you like it, I don't see any reason to abandon it other than trying to be a hipster. Surely yo
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by uabstraction 10y ago
CNC is computer numeric control. It is used in both subtractive and addative manufacturing processes, as well as in general automation (such as an assembly line robot arm). Edit: "Machining" is specifically subtractive processes,

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