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by xattt 9mo ago
With significant progress for Linux on the desktop this year, I propose it’s time to move the goalposts: - 2027, the year of ReactOS - 2028, the year of Haiku - 2029, the year of TempleOS
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by xattt 9mo ago
> note that LFS was not as detailed then either, so many dependencies you had to track yourself, and some were very obscure Why didn’t you just use Chat GPT to get your answers? /s In all seriousness, I think the recent growth of Li
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by xattt 9mo ago
> a complete application should be no longer than y pages The monkey’s finger curls. All contract text is now sized at 2 points.
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by xattt 9mo ago
Isn’t the benefit here that you don’t have to deal with things such as significant Doppler shift, or having to maintain a supply of propellant for orbit-keeping?
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Except a portion of the population has been accustomed to not buying crap that’s been pitched infomercial-style.
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I think there are designers that think they are hot shit that don’t know graphical history, and go by “feel” for their design.
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by xattt 9mo ago
For All Mankind “illustrated” a solar storm at surface-level of the moon, including “boiling” regolith. I wonder how embellished this was, or whether particle bombardment would actually cause this. My mind goes to the working mechanism of e
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by xattt 9mo ago
> Seems like Amazon finally agrees that the counterfeiting issues from commingling are worse than the logistics advantages. The cynical perspective is that they are facing a serious financial penalty either from the manufacturers themsel
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by xattt 9mo ago
> In fact, I see they still sell parts (the screen, at least) for the Fairphone 2, released in 2015. You can still source an iPhone 4s screen+digitizer assembly on eBay for a reasonable price. There is, however, little practical value of
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by xattt 9mo ago
Queue adenoidal voice: Apple has the benefit of massive cash-flow and, as a result, hiring many competent designers who draw and create to a specification. The specification could be created by another team of senior designers that are pa
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by xattt 9mo ago
How do you deal with the small possibility that the offending person is unhinged (since they’ve already chosen to throw out societal mores out the window) and could physically hurt you?
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CBC News has a lite version of their news site that they tend to promote around times of natural disaster. (1) https://www.cbc.ca/lite/news
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Thank you. I didn’t realize that progress was still being made for Cray-1 machines a decade later.
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by xattt 9mo ago
It’s the “You can do anything (… at Zombo.com [1])” angle. I’ve been lulled into novel only-limit-is-your-imagination work environments that try to convince me to think they will be “transcendental” in my abilities. A little while later, I
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by xattt 9mo ago
> You can use Tulip to make music, code, art, games, or just write. Am I wrong to think statements like these are just aspirational warm-and-fuzzies about the product without any real substance? You could do all those things on anything,
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by xattt 9mo ago
> Educational discount with verification required drops the price to $2.99/mo / $29.99/yr. Guess it’s time to take some online self-paced courses at a university for no reason in particular …
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The GP also mentions X11 Terminals. My wiki-fu shows the X Windowing System came about on or around 1983, while Cray-1 was 1970s vintage. I assume that was an upgrade at some later point.
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by xattt 9mo ago
Yes, this is a KDE/GTK issue, but this is also a real-world case. Linux Greybeards, a hypothetical man with astute technical and sexual prowess, might not be bothered by follies such as proper text rendering, but it is an issue if desk
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by xattt 9mo ago
This. The “mobile-ization” of desktop interfaces is a bane on current computing. The metaphors of work between desktop and mobile devices are wildly different. Obligatory car analogy: a mechanic working in his shop has a completely differen
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by xattt 9mo ago
I’m in the midst of a backup-to-local project and, with this post to HN, I’m worried an Apple project manager will be on a mission this morning to get his team to cripple this software.
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by xattt 9mo ago
> … desktop Linux still has rough edges … My personal pet peeve is the GTK/Qt divide. Theming has an extra step, as you have to pick a matching theme for the other toolkit apps you inevitably end up using. KDE/Qt has excellen
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by xattt 10mo ago
> Cyberpunk barely hits 16 FPS average on the Pi 5. This is a lot better than my memories of forcing a Pentium MMX 200 MHz PC with 32 MB SDRAM and an ATI All-in-Wonder Pro of running games from the early 2000s.
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I’ve explored it for a few years, but all I could tell that it was never actually fully enabled. You can enable it through debugging tools, but it was never on by default for all software.
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They don’t develop treatment protocols or testing modalities either. Knowledge gets disseminated as best practices and gets applied as needed to different specialties. If probiotics is what you’re after, why not eat or drink something ferme
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Tangential, but was this not the goal of Quartz 2D? The idea of everyday things running on the GPU seemed very attractive. There is some context in this 13-year-old discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5345905#53
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> doctor =/= expert on probiotics Medical microbiologists would love to have a word with you. Medicine and medicine-adjacent disciplines each develop institutional knowledge that percolates from each specialized discipline. > …th
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Why would you not want a thing in your car that you’d want in your home? *slaps hood* This baby’s got four toilets! /s
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Those odometers would drift as well with wheelslip, unless they are reset any time they enter a known section.
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I tried this with a yellowjacket and a screamer of a Shop Vac that has a six-foot hose. I was sure it would have suffocated from the dust inside the vacuum bag clogging its spiracles. Next morning, the wasp (now with tattered wings) was sit
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So, in Debian, where should I be placing a Firefox tarball I download from Mozilla’s site? It is open-source, and I can get source files, but it’s precompiled…

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