wjoe

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by wjoe 8y ago
It always amazes me the number of people who I've worked with who only use the touchpad on their laptops all day - in my last job it was about 90% of the office. On top of the post's complaints, they're also not at all ergono
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by wjoe 8y ago
Not sure how much they care about it getting widespread adoption, or if they're just looking to fill a need that is lacking on Linux. Kind surprising to see them only releasing it on Linux though, considering it's built with Pytho
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by wjoe 8y ago
Video editing software has always been somewhat lacking on Linux. None of the big proprietary ones like Premiere or Final Cut are available on Linux, and the open source options are mostly either missing features, buggy, hard to use, or an
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by wjoe 8y ago
This problem doesn't seem to be limited to free services or smaller companies. Mailing list stuff sent via Mailchimp often gets caught by my spam filter, and many Mailchimp IPs are on various blacklists used by spam filter software. No
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by wjoe 8y ago
Sad to see the XPS 13 line going the same way as Apple and removing the USB A ports. On the plus side, it's at least possible to connect two monitors to the USB C ports now (the 2017 version I have has only one USB C port), but it&#x27
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by wjoe 8y ago
"2K" is usually used to describe 2560x1440 or similar monitors. I find these ideal personally. I don't notice much difference much from higher resolution than that, gaming at 4K requires high end hardware, and scaling between
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by wjoe 8y ago
I am a bit confused about the versions they say are safe. I'm running Bind 9.11 and their tester says there are no issues, and it supports all the necessary EDNS behaviour. I think the point is that those versions mentioned will remove
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by wjoe 8y ago
Same experience with the zooming. Thanks for the tip on holding shift, but it's realllly slow too. I also can't drag the map around or click on any items on the map. Really inferior experience so far. Did you find a way to switch
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by wjoe 8y ago
I expect most DDG users would stop using it. Apple may be the "least bad" of the big players when it comes to privacy, but I have no trust in them and no interest in using their services. It would probably make a lot of sense for
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by wjoe 8y ago
To be fair, considering how much actual programming I did in a 3 year Bachelor's degree, 6 months of learning programming could be plenty significant. Which isn't to say the non-programming stuff in my degree was irrelevant, but y
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by wjoe 8y ago
>YouTube Originals was a big-swing idea that had to find out, definitively, if the immense online entity's user base would A) pay for something and B) be interested in scripted longform storytelling. Well, YouTube found out definiti
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by wjoe 8y ago
I suspect it already is in use in Lambda, an AWS rep mentioned something about them using a custom JVM internally for Lambdas when they gave a talk at our company recently, so this is probably that. As for the default on AMIs, it probably w
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by wjoe 8y ago
As of the latest version of Java, OpenJDK is equivalent to Oracle JDK, and they'll release new versions every 6 month. However, there won't be any security updates or bug fixes to OpenJDK versions from Oracle after 6 months. There
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by wjoe 8y ago
> Cheaters suck in games, and they can ruin it for many others, but there has to be another way other than forcing your paying users to jump through this many hoops. And if there isn't, then i'm happy to be doomed to playing ag
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by wjoe 8y ago
Yes, for the most part. All of their work on Proton (their fork of Wine) is open source, they're working with Codeweavers (the largest contributors to Wine) closely, and contributing as much as they can back to upstream Wine. Part of w
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by wjoe 8y ago
Or indeed more problems. I remember trying to get the original Doom working online with a group of friends at a LAN a few years ago. It was much easier to get it working on Linux via Wine than it was under Windows 7+ due to some old network
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by wjoe 8y ago
Wine was already mostly at that point a couple of years ago. It used to involve a lot of manual fiddling, but in the later days of DX9, the majority of games worked out of the box. DX11 is where things went wrong again, and mainline Wine ha
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by wjoe 8y ago
Agreed. It feels like this is two separate stories really. Maybe Larry Page is a recluse, an eccentric, a technical thinker, a background figure, or however you want to describe him. I can understand why someone who started out writing a se
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by wjoe 8y ago
Does Windows still give you the popup with a choice of browsers to install in the EU? I remember seeing it some years ago, but since then I've only used Windows a few times with a business version in a VM, so not sure if that's st
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by wjoe 8y ago
I started out doing that, but I've found myself using !g less and less recently. There are two main things I find myself needing it for: Location based queries, Google will always prioritize UK based results, and often London based res
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by wjoe 8y ago
I still feel like it's a high amount when it's the only option. I'd happily pay £10/month to split between the channels I'm subscribed to, or £2/month to a few good channels. I don't feel like I get any mo
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by wjoe 8y ago
Of which 7GB is taken up by the OS and system apps. I was kinda exaggerating, then I checked my phone and there's actually 15GB used by the OS.
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by wjoe 8y ago
I always found the chatbot idea odd, it felt like a step backwards in terms of interaction. We started out with very basic input methods to computers, like punch cards. Then we moved onto a command line interface where you could type in wor
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by wjoe 8y ago
I have to wonder what questionable things LA Times are doing, if the only way they can comply with GDPR is to block an entire continent from reading news articles on their site.
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by wjoe 8y ago
+1 for the Dell XPS 13. I'm running Arch Linux on one for work and I've had 0 hardware/driver issues, which is rare for a laptop.
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by wjoe 8y ago
Interestingly, Virgin Media now advertises slightly faster speeds than it did before this came into effect. Where it's fastest package was previously 350Mbps, it now advertises the same package as giving "Average download speeds o
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by wjoe 8y ago
And yet BT is pretty much the definition of anti-competitive now anyway, and it's that monopoly which is killing progress today.
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by wjoe 8y ago
Not much really. He churns out a lot of articles, some of them can be a bit clickbaity, and lacking in much information. He does sometimes post articles that are purely based on rumours. But I think he fills a good niche for technical but e
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by wjoe 8y ago
Sadly, the more common practice seems to be adding the entire IP blocks of known server/cloud providers to blacklists.
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by wjoe 9y ago
The most obvious example I've seen is when the car (or indeed driver) has the choice to endanger the passenger or a pedestrian. For example, if a kid runs out into the road in front of the car, it can drive into the kid, likely with no

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