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by unhammer 10y ago
Their Roadmap and 2.10 changelog says they plan to release 2.10 with full GEGL integration http://wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Release:2.10_changelog / http://wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Roadmap#GIMP_2.10 and t
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by unhammer 10y ago
Some references/credentials: * One of the main developers of GEGL (new backend-library of GIMP) https://git.gnome.org//browse/gegl/log/ * Won the Norwegian Unix Users Group's "prize for f
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by unhammer 10y ago
So, The problem with key notifications being off is for those users who really want to be secure, and downloaded Whatsapp because they wanted E2E, but didn't know they had to go into settings and turn it on. The problem with key notifi
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by unhammer 10y ago
I thought there was something familiar about that name Robidoux … I see he's the same one that got some crowdfounded work on GIMP's new scaling methods: http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/advanced-s
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by unhammer 10y ago
It seems like it would be challenging to get the corruptor to generate examples that are of the same Kind that humans make, while still being "productive" (in the linguistic sense, ie. not just overfitting on examples from a corpu
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by unhammer 10y ago
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%22give%20him%20flower... – if your data set is good enough, you won't be suggesting insertion there. Maybe calling the perturbed (and model-filtered!) sentence "ungrammatical
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by unhammer 10y ago
Lightroom 5.2 also works really well through Wine (my gf has been using LR via Wine along with GIMP for her photography business for the last 4 years or so).
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by unhammer 10y ago
On my Thinkpad's X200 (VGA) and X220 (VGA, DisplayPort), plugging in external monitors has always Just Worked. I've been running Xubuntu on them for about 5 years. It even worked on the first try from the X220's DisplayPort t
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by unhammer 10y ago
It's quite a bit easier to run a bouncer than a mailserver! With mail, you have to worry about handling spam, and whether your messages are delivered or blocked, and all the setups are really involved. With Weechat, as long as you mana
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by unhammer 10y ago
You don't need irccloud to get persistence. There are many bouncers/proxies that let you connect from a device with flaky connections like a phone/laptop, as long as you have some always-connected machine where you can instal
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by unhammer 10y ago
GTK has always supported Emacs bindings, configurable with a setting: http://tiborsimko.org/emacs-bindings-in-gtk-apps.html I use these settings and find them quite handy. Of course, that doesn't give you new-tab/
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by unhammer 10y ago
Well, on Linux, darktable is incredibly much quicker than LR-in-wine ;-) I also find DT more intuitive, which seems a bit weird considering the interface is so heavily inspired by LR (or did they just learn from LR's mistakes?). The ma
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by unhammer 10y ago
I want to like Gnome and Unity, but Xfce just lets me get things done with no fuss. The only issue is the name. My girlfriend pronounces "Xubuntu" like "Cthulhu".
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by unhammer 10y ago
I'm one of those who need examples. Fortunately, haddock has this "source" link on each function, so I typically find something usable by browsing through the source of the library I'm using. This takes a lot more time t
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by unhammer 10y ago
Also, he's installing Fedora (w/Wayland) on Apple hardware, and using NFS. There's quite a lot of things that can go wrong there compared to the less adventurous Linux experience of, say, Ubuntu LTS on a Thinkpad/XPS&#x2
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by unhammer 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13147440
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by unhammer 10y ago
Local fallbacks also make it easier to do web dev when e.g. your wifi drops out and you can't see where it landed or you're on a boat or whatever. I do things like http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7383163&#x
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by unhammer 10y ago
That sounds like an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance . You hear a lot of things about Tor in general because Tor is popular and has existed for many years. Vuvuzuela is new, so we don't actu
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The Interim Operating System(github.com)
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by unhammer 10y ago
> (much like you would do with a foreign language audio course) How about trying just that? It's a lot of fun if you get a good course (e.g. Pimsleur), since you can really feel the progress. I've never managed to learn much fr
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by unhammer 10y ago
fwiw, https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/4577... lists a workaround. Not usable for mere mortals unfortunately :(
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by unhammer 10y ago
It has read lots of code before reading yours: http://www.srl.inf.ethz.ch/jsnice.php
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by unhammer 10y ago
Actually, Signal is one of the few apps where you can verify that the binary is produced by the source you have: https://whispersystems.org/blog/reproducible-android/
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by unhammer 10y ago
On Ubuntu/Debian, it might make sense to run it after each apt-get: $ cat /usr/local/bin/spotify-turn-off-vacuum #!/usr/bin/env python2 target = "/usr/bin/spotify&qu
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by unhammer 10y ago
I believe you misread tedks. I read > 2. The user hasn't installed the plugin. Who does that? So signal doesn't work. as "when the user sees that it doesn't work out of the box, and sends you to an app store instead,
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by unhammer 10y ago
> Similarly, you can just Ctrl+V to paste in the terminal instead of having to work around with extra modifier keys. – that's a bit dangerous; Ctrl-V is normally used to "escape"/make literal the following keypress, o
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Psychological Darwinism: Jerry Fodor Reviews Steven Pinker, Henry Plotkin (1998)(lrb.co.uk)
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by unhammer 10y ago
You don't have to use $'', you can also use literal tabs (ctrl-v to insert literals). The main difference between macOS and Linux that people notice is that macOS sed doesn't itself interpret \t (so you have to use liter
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by unhammer 10y ago
"We have found no major flaws in the design, and hope that our presentation and results can serve as a starting point for other analyses of this widely adopted protocol."
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by unhammer 10y ago
For me: Moving the mouse without your fingers leaving home row.

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