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   by xupybd 3y ago

   Gentoo was the first distro I tried. Wow that learning curve was steep. Yeah the guide was great, but I had a ring binder with printed documentation for installs. Every time I installed Gentoo I had to get that thing out. It took ages. I pi
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   by xupybd 3y ago

   I see what you're saying. I guess I expect these sorts of things to suck.
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   by xupybd 3y ago

   This will be a big win for industrial machines. I work with some that required Win XP to run very old and niche cards that interface with CNC machines. You can run newer computers but they only just work and cost way more than they're
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   by xupybd 3y ago

   I'm surprised people are returning this. It's an ideologically driven product. I'd expect it to have a few more warts than your typical consumer product. The trade off is that you get a totally open source phone. For some peo
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   by xupybd 3y ago

   It's a kitset, not a finished end user product.
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   by xupybd 3y ago

   I think you are commenting on another news item. I suspect you thought this was going against https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35968968
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   by xupybd 3y ago

   I know several church ministers. They work hard and get paid very little. Maybe the tax payer should not be subsidizing them but to say it's a racket is not fair. Some celebrity church leaders live lives of luxury but the average needs
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   by xupybd 3y ago

   While the absolute numbers are not a huge percentage of the population they are tragically high. https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/trends-statistics/overd... .
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   by xupybd 3y ago

   This headline had me thinking the antenna was lost. Not that it had finally deployed.
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    by xupybd 3y ago

    A decline in deaths from one cause can signal another cause is killing people before the other cause gets a chance.
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    by xupybd 3y ago

    405 on the bench is no joke. I spent years getting to 315. I couldn't push past that point. It's amazing how far some people can push themselves.
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    by xupybd 3y ago

    TIL, thank you.
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    by xupybd 3y ago

    I tried coding in a variable font. It was horrible. I couldn't read the code. I was shocked at how much my brain made use of the spacing to parse code.
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    by xupybd 3y ago

    Can't it still be mono space if the ligatures take up the same space as their components?
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    by xupybd 3y ago

    I had the same experience. I didn't understand the teaching from my university. Once I found his lectures it all clicked. I understood what we were doing. It was no longer wrote learning of algorithms to manipulate things with no meani
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    by xupybd 3y ago

    Wow I'm didn't realize Richard Biggs had passed. Only 44 when he did. That's really sad.
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    by xupybd 3y ago

    Are you saying rural people are becoming NAZIS? I work with many that live out of the city. They're good people.
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    by xupybd 3y ago

    The only thing I find doesn't work well in Thunderbird is search. I hope they improve that.
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    by xupybd 3y ago

    I really don't think we are seeing an increase in Nazis in 2023.
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    by xupybd 3y ago

    I know families in Tonga and Vietnam that have generators due to the instability of local power. I think some countries do have more backups as they have more outages. They just have to be in the range where some can afford the backups.
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    by xupybd 3y ago

    I'm asking for more information on how it's going to operate in a high radiation environment. I'm not assuming they haven't considered the problem.
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    by xupybd 3y ago

    There was an interesting thread on Usenet https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9987679#:~:text=The%20r... .
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    by xupybd 3y ago

    They didn't talk about radiation hardening. Is this chip safe to use in space? I thought a chip that dense would be vulnerable to cosmic rays?
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    by xupybd 3y ago

    I don't disagree with that point.
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    by xupybd 3y ago

    No analogy holds 100%. It feels the same to me. Yes there are many differences. As with every analogy.
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    by xupybd 3y ago

    I'm not against them spending time. I'm against their attempt at controlling the use of language. They're not fixing a mistake, they're rewriting according to personal preference. I see this as defacing other people&#x27
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    by xupybd 3y ago

    It's very smart and shows a deep understanding of what is going on right down to the hardware. That said I'd be a bit lost if I found the end result in any code that I was working with. I hope anyone using these sorts of tricks is
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    by xupybd 3y ago

    Recent HN articles on Wikipedia are not helping me to like the edit system. Seeing someone on a crusade to edit other people's work because they don't like a phrase was really distasteful to me. https://news.ycombinator
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    Making Illegal States Unrepresentable – In TypeScript(v5.chriskrycho.com)

    3 points by xupybd 3y ago|0 comments
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    by xupybd 3y ago

    I've found in strongly typed systems if I lean heavily on the type system refactoring is a dream. I make the changes I want. Then follow the compiler errors. Most of the time it just works. Rarely does that introduce bugs. However if y