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by wankle 4y ago
The added capacitors probably also greatly improved filtering of the power adding additional buffering against power fluctuation.
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by wankle 4y ago
Windows due to power outage and could not recover, yes. Linux, no. As another poster in the thread, your reported experience does not match the vast majority of reality.
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by wankle 4y ago
"Ironically, I've had far more problems with Linux systems using extfs losing data or requiring very lengthy fsck'ing after hard resets than Windows 9x or even DOS on FAT, despite experiencing more hard resets and routine han
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by wankle 4y ago
"Maybe it's some abstract sense of purity" Someone gets a few lines of code under their belt and now they overwhelmingly know what is best for all. It's simple, if it gets released together, put it in the same repo (even
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by wankle 4y ago
"In a letter to the agency in December, lawmakers including Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey and Representative Don Beyer of Virginia, both Democrats, urged action and called gas-stove emissions a “cumulative burden” on Black, Latino
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by wankle 4y ago
If it's for Linux then will we finally have a Google Drive Linux Client?
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by wankle 4y ago
"What important truth do very few people agree with you on?" For me it's that Apache is the best web and proxy server, Java is the best programming language and platform, Eclipse is the best IDE and never use anything made fo
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by wankle 4y ago
I've been working for years on not taking myself so seriously and pray a lot.
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by wankle 4y ago
Plumbers are vitally important, imagine flushing the toilet and poop pops out of the kitchen faucet.
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by wankle 4y ago
"Consider what if the software team (singular) just created HTML UIs directly from the DB and eliminated the middleman? I'm looking at things like HTMX and phoenix live view as a potential solution." In the enterprise, data t
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by wankle 4y ago
I've only ever used Discord as a discussion forum. I use Google Voice frequently (audio). I've used Teams and Zoom successfully (native Linux installations). Linus Tech Tips is a jack ass channel. I find it overwhelmingly difficul
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by wankle 4y ago
Using a new Dell Alienware PC now, first thing I did, install Ubuntu, wiping Windows. RTX 3080 is the GPU. Been using nvidia for years, they rock. I game on it using Steam Proton which also rocks, and run other native Linux games. Haven&#x2
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by wankle 4y ago
I detest ageist and ignorant comments like "My dad plays games and there is no way in hell I would give him a Linux machine to play games.". My mom and dad were gaming into their mid-70's around the time they passed away. I&#
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by wankle 4y ago
X has worked great and continues to do so and is far more feature rich than Wayland will likely ever be. As long as X is available, I will use X. I can do remote desktop with X and I can so "ssh -X hostname" to run an X app.
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by wankle 4y ago
I'm not into consoles but if I were, that video would encourage me to get the steam deck.
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by wankle 4y ago
I've never used Apple, never liked Jobs or the too high prices. KDE rules, Gnome 2 was good but was never a fan of Gnome 3. KDE has done it right (speaking as a technical user).
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by wankle 4y ago
"Linux on the desktop is great if you enjoy having to actively sysadmin your work environment, but it's shit if you just want to get some work done." My wife who is non-technical uses it to get stuff done, all that she ever d
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by wankle 4y ago
"I've dropped it each time because while yes, things do work, they tend to STOP working." I've used Linux on the desktop since 1994. In all that time I recall one breaking update on Debian affecting the wireless network
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by wankle 4y ago
As a software engineer, I agree it's refreshing, oddly satisfying even. Several years ago it was split between the LISP/Haskell cadre, these days it's Rustaceans who try to convince the world Rust is the new programming relig
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by wankle 4y ago
https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=... "Moreover, the fact that no males, only females of child-bearing age, were vaccinated..." Referenced from the above article: http://a
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by wankle 4y ago
NiFe batteries last for decades, I agree that would be the best choice for the battery type.
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by wankle 4y ago
What about a large reflector dish grabbing sunlight at some distance from the Moon in a geosynchronous orbit, bouncing energy to a receiving station at the new Artemis site?
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by wankle 4y ago
All ours run Ubuntu. My 2010 Dell Inspiron became our living room TV computer using an air mouse, my 2016 Dell Inspiron runs my web sites, email, MySQL and Postgress servers and my K3S cluster and we got 2 $200 Lenovo low end laptops recent
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by wankle 4y ago
Nothing is stated is fact in the article. It is centered around theory. The last half of the article is emotion and conjecture.
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by wankle 4y ago
"I don’t want people who think in 100 year old social terms alone deciding my fate." Discriminating against someone on the basis of age is anti-social behavior.
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by wankle 4y ago
There are no detailed architectural diagrams documenting how the pyramids were built either. There were some papyrus scrolls discovered in 2013 which provide log information but still to this day, no details are known to exist. A citation i
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by wankle 4y ago
Given that the publicly accepted view of aging is that we are all living longer; the math does not support your view.
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by wankle 4y ago
Is this what you were referring to? https://nib.org/products/ If you feel strongly that people who are blind should not be able to work even if they want to work; please consider writing a blog post and posting on HN.
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by wankle 4y ago
You're right ctrl+s works, I tried it, I always thought it had to be ctrl+o since that's what the bottom panel shows. I was encouraged so I highlighted some text then tried ctlr+c and ctrl+v, unless I hit a wrong key somewhere, it
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by wankle 4y ago
I think that's why I've never shifted from vi to nano, it appears to be a regular editor but ignores all common key bindings, ctrls+s doesn't save, ctrl+f doesn't find, ctrl+h doesn't replace, etc.

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