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by vvillena 6y ago
Adults see a hassle, kids see a challenge. It's almost a counter-incentive.
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by vvillena 6y ago
I have a T495 with a Ryzen processor running Arch that has some issues waking up (maybe once or twice a month). Sometimes it refuses to wake up, and sometimes it wakes up but CPU clock speed gets stuck at minimum frequency, making the lapto
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by vvillena 6y ago
Politics is everywhere. The GPL licenses just choose to be explicitely political. After all, any other restrictive license that forbids users to change the product they buy is making a poli1tical statement too, even if it doesn't say s
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by vvillena 6y ago
AFAIK the classpath exception is intended to make the ecosystem work in a similar way to how GPL system libraries interface with non-GPL C code. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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by vvillena 6y ago
I'm writing this from a Ryzen-powered Thinkpad connected to a 4K display via USB-C. That Ideapad doesn't seem to support USB-C video output, so the probable reason is market segmentation. They probably want to make the people who
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by vvillena 6y ago
Both types of colonies could (and should) be pursued, but for self-sustaining colonies, the isolation that spaces colonies provide is an actual advantage. There's no incentive for self-sustainability with ocean colonies, because they c
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by vvillena 6y ago
Another issue was that the intended purpose for the CD-ROM was to load some data for a videogame level, and maybe stream some music while it was played. But Crash Bandicoot came in the first year of the console's life, and it used non-
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by vvillena 6y ago
Did this one when it was just one single course. The content is great, but the best thing by fat is the teacher. Dan Grossman is a natural teaching talent, and this course shows how one single teacher can make a difference.
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by vvillena 6y ago
Remember that all cryptocurrencies run under a consensus agreed between all its participants. This consensus is always subject to change: the Bitcoin network could decide to allow for 10 million more BTC at any moment. They just choose not
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by vvillena 6y ago
The words "man" and "woman" can refer both to assumed gender and biological gender. Since the context involves menstruation, assumed gender makes no sense in the sentence.
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by vvillena 6y ago
Good riddance. I started using it because of the ability to upload my existing collection. Any song that matches their catalog used their catalog instead. The problem was that when the song in their catalog was removed due to licensing reas
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by vvillena 6y ago
Although the silly "Expected ':'" is still there, the newer SBT versions show better output, there's even a "did you mean" feature. Regarding "discovering which submodule you're supposed to run c
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by vvillena 6y ago
The community isn't very fond of implicit conversions. That's why you get warnings unless you enable a compiler flag, and why Scala 3 downgrades them from magic keyword definitions to avoidable stdlib types.
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by vvillena 6y ago
"runMain" is still "runMain", I don't know where that comes from. There are lots of available commands indeed, due to the nature of SBT, but a basic workflow always uses the same commands: compile, test, run. Any ex
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by vvillena 6y ago
SBT is easy to use at the beginning, simply because the build files are 1/10 the length of a Maven XML build description, the console output looks better, the build REPL has lots of commands that make things easier, and the simple proj
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by vvillena 6y ago
Scala is more strict than D for this use case. In Scala, if you want a function to be available to a certain type as if it was a method call, you need to be explicit about it. You have to declare an "implicit class" that takes the
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by vvillena 6y ago
There is a feature in Scala 2 that covers the specific thing you want: implicit classes. You can use them to add custom methods. It's clean and straightforward. And it will be even easier in Scala 3, where this pattern is coded into an
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by vvillena 6y ago
Scala has always been an opinionated language. The main difference is that this time is holding opinions against itself. Previously, opinions were held against Java, that's why there are features such as case classes, traits, and immut
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by vvillena 6y ago
The Scala ecosystem has tooling to enforce code style across teams. Your second argument is true, Scala is a big language, and there are three main paradigms: better Java, OOP+FP, and pure FP. It's similar to how C++ is used, for some
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by vvillena 6y ago
As a counterpoint, Twitter as a company isn't forced to do any such thing, so if they think it can hurt its userbase and its revenue, it won't be done. Social media tries to establish a unique public forum, that gets policed by a
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by vvillena 6y ago
They don't do that anymore: unplayable songs are greyed out, but they still show on playlists. It would be great to get notifications when this happens, though.
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by vvillena 6y ago
I stopped paying for Google Play Music years ago, once I found out about this behavior. Playlists carefully built over time, suddenly changing and shifting. Music is huge to me, and here was Google, playing with my memories. Not being able
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by vvillena 6y ago
Some people (like me) prefer the 8 bit Sonic games. Sonic 2 for Master System was a completely original game, and it is a 2D platforming gem.
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by vvillena 6y ago
No, but organizing the environment into separate groups of windows and apps that are related, and being able to use different settings on each task is totally a power user feature and a differentiatior. I've seen nothing out there as p
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by vvillena 6y ago
That reviewer will be forever unsatisfied until Linux manages to cover all main and niche markets. That won't happen because there's no market drive for it. There's no company with a huge budget trying to develop a consumer-t
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by vvillena 6y ago
You're lucky to have a workflow that depends in just one application and one window, then.
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by vvillena 6y ago
I've just upgraded to 5.20 and the icons are slightly bigger than in the image. It doesn't look as harmonious as the Windows 10 sidebar, but the slight size increase makes a difference. All in all, it's an improvement over th
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by vvillena 6y ago
KDE is probably too much of a core package to install, unless you are doing for the fun of it. The best way would be to wait until Ubuntu ships it in its next release.
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by vvillena 6y ago
It's just one more setting for the already extremely configurable Task Manager. For new users, it changes a default (the option to group is already there, with an extra toggle that activates it only when the task bar is full). I think
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by vvillena 6y ago
IIRC some European countries forbid those latches, to ensure the pump is always actively watched.

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