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by zanny 8y ago
Part of why you feel so strongly about climate change is that you (us, I guess? I'm only four years older) haven't lived long enough to recognize that, while its a massive challenge to the species, two things: 1. We only ever conf
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by zanny 8y ago
Its a really important hump to get over. When I got out of my undergrad I felt like I owned the world, but a few years later and I felt like I knew nothing. It just made me try harder, but I think every kid needs to get over that bridge to
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by zanny 8y ago
College degrees are so necessary in modern society in large part because its discriminatory towards the poor to require them. In the same sense, investors want to be discriminatory towards the poor because they are not culturally like them.
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by zanny 8y ago
This is such a modern problem too. No matter what anyone feels about it having to farm crops to eat was definitely meaningful work a hundred years ago. Even if you were being exploited in a factory suicide was common but mostly from abuse a
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by zanny 8y ago
They are a fairly niche product. The only real demographic buying them in bulk from consumer outfits are small businesses without big contracts to HP / Dell, the one in a million informed tech "muggle" who knows how to instal
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by zanny 8y ago
You can go start your own systemd free distribution. For everyone else, there is a reason they centralized on it, and its not because Lennart was stalking their mailing lists threatening to send them expired cheese. Systemd is not perfect,
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by zanny 8y ago
I have a PC business on the side and I love selling people NUCs. Few or no moving parts to break, you can often mount them on the backs of monitors, performance has been good enough for ~4 years for 99% of desktop tasks. If not for the inex
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by zanny 8y ago
https://gitlab.com/zanny/oidc-reqwest/blob/master/src/token.... You can declare structs that derive from Serde and convert to / from Json in a typesafe way.
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by zanny 8y ago
I honestly don't get why all the first world countries of the world don't do more stuff like this. Agriculture is nothing close to a free market anywhere, but its all state involvement behind the scenes before you are presented wi
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by zanny 8y ago
Up to this point Intel has been competing with AMD by dramatically cutting their previously massive margins between what was possible on their tech and what they were milking consumers for with their enthusiast platforms. Intel won't b
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by zanny 8y ago
Mandatory reminder that TSMC "7nm" is not comparable to any Intel node and also doesn't actually represent a uniform 7nm gate width. The technology and potential in Intels "10nm" and TSMCs "7nm" are simila
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by zanny 8y ago
There is absolutely no reason for ride sharing to not be a protocol. Drivers join a federated network of other drivers they "agree" with and you pick the driver pools you want (and they could be local drivers, or they could be dri
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by zanny 8y ago
The arguments against Facebook at this point have basically shown that the whole platform and every service they provide is tainted and exploitative. Anyone still using Facebook after all that will never stop using Facebook. The repetition
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by zanny 8y ago
I'd only consider a device in 2019 that has really strong LineageOS support. The OEM will never support the phone for more than a few years, but well cared for devices (especially with replacable, if not easily removable, batteries) ca
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by zanny 8y ago
Thats a very expensive wakeup call if they cost an average of $4-8k a piece (8-12 classes a year for $40-$60k per). I'm sure the kids really appreciate the experience four years down the line when they can look back at sophomores in a
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by zanny 8y ago
Those 100+ person classes are the biggest wastes of time though. You can self-organize around a book in a Facebook group and watch any top ivy league professor lecture through it. The only reason to pay for college, the only value they ha
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by zanny 8y ago
Its impossible to do an apples to apples comparison but I would imagine by most standards EU health markets are less regulated than American ones, just because the organizational structure is so much simpler and oversight is so much less di
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by zanny 8y ago
It will be crashing when the market caps start retracing previous years. Its still ridiculously high to what it was in 2016 or any year before that. We have a good five years of "evidence" to the get rich quick scheme that attract
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by zanny 8y ago
I don't have a Debian machine to test it on but a casual search finds qt1-3 in the AUR on Arch. Of course building the whole GUI suite would be a bit annoying but its better than nothing if you have some really old software that depend
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by zanny 8y ago
Any modern game should be using Vulkan for just that reason.
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by zanny 8y ago
SDL is binary compatible on its major release (2.0) and will probably be forever at this point. libc++ only broke its ABI once when C++11 required it. What else do you need to make games for Linux? If you are using Unity or Unreal its going
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by zanny 8y ago
AMD first started with open source graphics with the radeon kernel module and pre-SI drivers around ~2009. It was just that Mesa in 2010 was nascent and tiny with it only reaching OpenGL 3.0 support in 2012. It was less AMDGPU being a big d
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by zanny 8y ago
I've been Linux only since 2012, which coincidentally was when RadeonSI came out and I "took the bet" on AMD drivers getting good with a 7870 purchase. Its 100% no tux, no bux at this point. My last Windows title was Darkside
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by zanny 8y ago
Is it really fragmented? You support Ubuntu (in either its flatpak runtime or the Steam runtime) and you let everyone else figure it out on their own. Distros like Arch have been very good about providing the Steam Native Runtime and Ubuntu
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by zanny 8y ago
That sounds like more something to blame the Debian family over than the whole ecosystem. I might be running "bleeding edge" on Arch but I can still depend on and use libcurl3 with the libcurl-compat package. I maintain about two
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by zanny 8y ago
Rust already supports kernel programming, that is what Redox is. You can do async networking today on stable with tokio and futures or on nightly with futures-await and prototype async/await syntax. You can do GUI programming with gtk-
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by zanny 8y ago
https://en.cppreference.com/ If you already know the language flow control you don't need to read paragraphs of a book to relearn to how "think" in the language. You just need the "whats new" parts.
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by zanny 8y ago
Thats besides the growing number using Meson instead.
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by zanny 8y ago
Besides what others have said kernel releases aren't special. They are just quarterly. There would be no "big" release each year because any arbitrary release can be "big" or not. Nobody is going to keep major funct
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by zanny 8y ago
There have been plenty of Linux releases with triple digit patch series. I'm familiar with 3.18 reaching 131 and I know 3.0 and 3.2 got over a hundred each as well. Also, by any reasonable definition, there is no meaningful difference

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