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by zbuf 4y ago
Google is now a "recommendation engine" not a search engine... I type something in and it ignores the words and presents something it thinks I might like. For good measure, it prepends a word-spaghetti advert that's optimised
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by zbuf 4y ago
Don't these results show a 20% slower based on the median? Plus, the test uses a display at 120Hz, which is a substantial head start -- by making each frame of delay half as long compared to us mere mortals running at 60Hz.
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by zbuf 4y ago
The Variety article seems to be the source for this article, and it seems to make it clear that the 900 figure is the number of signed copies. Did anyone seriously expect an 80 year old man to sign 900 books? Wait until they work out the ro
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by zbuf 4y ago
Can you be more specific?
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by zbuf 4y ago
May be the mean average, but in these large companies a high proportion of employees seem to be working on moonshots or speculative projects. So some care should be taken talking about the economic value produced by each individual -- readi
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by zbuf 4y ago
I concur, and it's a shame they have chosen to make a bunch of noise and pass the blame rather than see if they have an issue. Even Gmail's own interface ("show original " I think) will display a failure of the DMARC che
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by zbuf 4y ago
Don't panic, I was just confused as I followed the "Screenshots" link and was presented with a bunch of interactive views in Emacs. But still, I've encountered this before.
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by zbuf 4y ago
I heard of notmuch, but I remember I dismissed it for whatever reason. Perhaps as it's a text UI, rather than command line. However, mblaze looks very promising. Thanks for that. It's almost literally what I had in my minds eye. I
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by zbuf 4y ago
I get excited when I hear of something like this, but then it often turns to indifference when "terminal" UI is shoe-horning GUI elements into large grids of UTF8. There's a time and place for GUI if that is the motivation, a
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by zbuf 4y ago
The conversion isn't so much as "automatic" or opinionated, but clearly defined in a spec. And it _is_ mathematically correct in terms of sound energy entering the ears. A device may be doing the conversion incorrectly of cou
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by zbuf 4y ago
Some memories of the old RISC OS (Acorn): There was an implementation of OLE (similar to Windows, I think) where a desktop publishing tool would display a frame containing data from another application. Double-clicking would open the other
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by zbuf 4y ago
Would it have been possible to have modularisation, but with internal modules? I know nothing about industrial design, and no doubt this must have been considered. What would be the trade offs the designers faced? Seems this modular design
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by zbuf 4y ago
We kept the computer in the lounge/living room. This began in the 8-bit days when it used the family TV, but even when it had its own display it continued to be in the family room. That meant even when I was coding, or making documents
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by zbuf 4y ago
You might find this video interesting from a UK perspective, I suspect with a mix of overlap and difference to the USA: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuXzvjBYW8A David Willets draws comparison of "boomers" to othe
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by zbuf 4y ago
Agree here. mpv plays for hours without a single frame upset. The final icing on the cake is I use a small LUA hook to set the refresh rate of the projector to match the source material.
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by zbuf 4y ago
I'm not sure we are really disagreeing. Being receptive of magic is to enjoy the idea of being "cheated" on, so I'd agree that it's not necessarily rational to feel cheated in the way you were cheated. Whatever the
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by zbuf 4y ago
All magic tricks are cheating. It's just sometimes the cheat is just something you didn't think of and not a lot more. Sometimes it's a gadget or gimmick; not something that requires a lot of practice. Of course there's
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by zbuf 4y ago
Agree, the commentor is hung up on their demonstrably superior understanding of HTTP. We found at least one scanning service to be fetching the URL with the user agent of a browser, and executing JavaScript on the page. A lot of our user in
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by zbuf 4y ago
They just don't get it... It's never been easier to _not_ print things.
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by zbuf 4y ago
If submodules were really slick, they'd become the primary way to manage build-time dependencies.
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by zbuf 4y ago
> software that is libre, but seems so bloated and complex I don't want to install it, let alone work on it. I feel like we've lost some of the point of open source. My rose-tinted glasses are probably in play, but I used to be
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by zbuf 4y ago
Thanks for drawing my attention to that, it's the useful answer I was looking for; my use cases haven't been bound by write performance in this manner. However, I'd still be considering carefully before making use of these UU
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by zbuf 4y ago
"Unique IDs" _can_ be super really easy to work with if they're not so baffling complicated. A random string generated using quality randomness can be adjusted to length to suit the quantity of data (negligible probability of
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by zbuf 4y ago
I'm not here to disagree with you; I'm literally just answering your question -- of why people would pass on your offering. > What do you have to lose (besides a few minutes of your time)? Well, exactly this. Sadly this is almo
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by zbuf 4y ago
I may be unconventional, but I prefer to think of a relational DB indexes-first; ie. the indexes _are_ the database. The tables themselves are a data source, choosing indexes (database layout) carefully to match the functional requirements.
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by zbuf 4y ago
Most of Clubhouse was a vacuum of hot garbage, but this medium _can_ be great. It was interesting to experience a really great example of social audio -- as a guest on a "show" for blind and low vision podcasters. The perfect use
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by zbuf 4y ago
They're also given time for the deletion to be fully complete -- backups etc.. That could apply here.
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by zbuf 4y ago
This protects other users from unruly processes within the same kernel. How will this behave in a cloud/hypervisor environment? If Linux is the bare metal kernel, will it protect others from an unruly VM of another customer, for exampl
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by zbuf 4y ago
The build process uses the tag. In practice that's a tiny bit more complicated to do it really well, with the version as a dependency in the build process. When developing, you don't want to trigger a full rebuild if the version n
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by zbuf 4y ago
I think you're assuming that all software results in a single "release manager". In many environments, multiple branches of software are deployed and maintained at the same time. Even your example with Linux; I don't thi

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