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Curious about GNOME fractal scaling issues you experience. I currently have the experimental feature enable at 150% scale for a laptop screen at 2560x1600 resolution. Have not had any issues by itself nor with an external 3440x1400 at 100%
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Yes, unable to edit to fix typos. And no I do not condone smoking. It was to point out system design flaws in the business world.
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Please note, you are assuming I have the ability to control the version of Windows the product lives on. Some products still have to support up to Windows XP. Also the PowerShell is actually broken. I can use standard network powershell com
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When producing cross-platform software I find creating it on Linux first to be the most cost effective. Porting it to macOS has the least resistance. Windows is where it cost more time and code to release. macOS, Linux, and BSD treat CMD an
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It is cheap until it is not. Cost of energy is dependent on where in the world you live, how it is sourced, time of the year, and if there is a natural disaster. Some places in the world, like parts of rural India, only have access to solar
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There is also a social water cooler like aspect. Historically brakes were only provided to those that smoke so people took up smoking so they could get a brake. Some companies still follow this asinine ideology and do not provide brakes to
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USA HealthCare insurance companies are the _Death Panels_, run by CEO, accounts, and investors, that work to maximize profit over keeping people health. They pay _specialist_ to contradict the actual practicing doctors on why some procedure
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So many people have commented to me that it is strange when you talk about some thing with a someone there suddenly will be advertisements show up about the context. These are the same people that use Siri, Alexa, and Google always on micro
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Adding to ... A person does not have to be a _neither here no there_ to be a conduit by the wealthy and powerful. Single voter issues are another means. _Rob Schenck_ [0] anti-abortion activism was a great tool for politicians to gain power
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I never said that guy does not need Excel. High probability that all the features in Excel being utilized by most users is available else where. I get told all the time you don't need TOOL_X because that tool is uncommon compared to of
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This echoes the past when the tobacco industry performed such tactics. Only difference is that Meta has the means to produce a non-toxic product but chooses toxicity. Don't worry, Zuckerberg to invest countless billions into the USA ma
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Fun fact. The idea of strong national security is the reason why there are three companies with access to the x86 ISA. DoD originally required all products to be sourced by at least three companies to prevent supply chain issues. This requi
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Bit flipping can be the byproduct of bow the system components harmonize. Role hammer RAM also has the same affect. [0] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer
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You don't need Excel. Have not used it in over 10 years. Teams, that application IT is forcing me to use because they are a "Microsoft" house. Same application currently stating I'm on the _Calendar_ screen on the Task b
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You may have interpreted that and that is not what I said. Once a product starts to sell after initial design, time is take to reduce the development cost. Try to reuse parts or replace part A with B. A machine from early 2018 can be little
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Investments into re-engineering production to bring down cost is done when there is a market large enough for said product. True self-driving is still a baby that needs to grow and cannot even compete against an adult human with 30+ years o
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Note the power of SQLite being written in C is the portability to non standard OSes. [0] I've used on an embedded real-time μC/OS-II variant. [1] Architecture of embedded solutions is different than desktop and server. Example, to
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"Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet" by Varun Sivaram [0] is a good source on ways to improve renewable energy from infrastructure design changes. He talks about the HVDC longitude runs that w
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Recommend "The Truth About Animals" by Lucy Code [0]. It has good chapter on eels. They take a left and go to the USA or take a right and go to Europe. [0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34211802-the
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People that have done QA have the best understand of this. I was doing the QA on a life safety product. Any new hardware would mean pulling the specs for the ICs and verifying that the layout and pin-out where correct on the product designs
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The difference in titles is more or less where most of the time is spent. Developer could be doing front-end, back-end, embedded, high-performance computing, system, game, data analysis, or any other niche work. All of those have different
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I used SQLite in an embedded life safety system for years. It was storing settings and history events on an industrial MicroSD card. Failure happens for the most common reasons it happens across all other products. 1) MicroSD card started p
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I would add that "full self-driving" also means that the car company or the self-driving development company holds all liability in a car accident that the owner has none. Even Tesla right now states that the owner holds the liabi
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Programming languages are tools in a toolbox. Use the proper tool for the job instead of always picking up the hammer. It takes time to train and use a new tool. That applies to LLM and humans. Would you use the same drill to hang drywall a
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Inheritance is not needed when a composite pattern can be used. class DefaultTask { } class SpecialTask { } class UsedItem { UsedItem() { _task = new SpecialTask() } void DoIt() { _task.DoIt() } } Is python a OOP language?
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(RedHat[Office Max] -> Yellow Dog -> Gentoo -> Arch). Moved from Gentoo to Arch because I was tired of compiling system updates. Was fun compiling when tweaking the kernel and compiler settings trying to maximize Doom 3 on Linux. E
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I recommend "Alchemy" by Roy Sutherland. [0] It deals with human and behavior that drive economics and highlights ideas that would fail on paper and actually work. Example, turns out you can use Disney like characters painted on t
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This is why I started investing in alternative Linux based solution providers in the smartphone market years ago. It was not if but when Google would take this path. The only way I want to engage with Google is when it cost them money. I wi
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Intel is dead to me for capitulating to narcissistic, authoritarian, inhuman, apathetical Donald Trump. There is no one in the Trump administrator that has the balls to tell Donald Trump he is and idiot and doesn't know what he is talk
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Anyone else fuck around with chat bots? A few months ago I found out that UPS didn't have a character input limit and I could overload it and it would take 15 minutes or more to respond. Finally did it during the day and the chat devel

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