zepearl

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by zepearl 8y ago
I agree (about Seagate being more cost effective for e.g. a datacenter). As private user I had in general bad experiences with Seagate (e.g. years ago I bought 8 2TB drives for 2 raid5 and 2 didn't even spin up, 1 failed after ~1 year)
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by zepearl 8y ago
But it's correct to say that the firmware used under Linux is the same one that is used as well under Windows (maybe as well MacOS)... or not? (I personally understand that the "firmware" does the low-level stuff, and the dri
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by zepearl 8y ago
I use an nVidia GeForce 8200 (published in ~2007) in my mediacenter and I don't have problems with drivers (v340.xxx legacy series: latest update is v340.107 https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/
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by zepearl 8y ago
I did have an AMD card many (~10?) years ago, but I ended up replacing it with an nVidia because A) it was very noisy and B) Linux support was bad => I always used nVidia since then and never had problems with many types of setups and ha
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by zepearl 8y ago
>>Their story is very similar to this gentleman's: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/dairy-farming-is-dyin... . If I understood correctly the (last) parts of the article mentioning "organic" (h
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by zepearl 8y ago
I love DBeaver. Long time ago I started searching for a DB-client similar to "TOAD", but on Linux and targeting only my following key requirements: 1) write & execute single SQLs on a "page" which has multiple SQLs w
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by zepearl 8y ago
I do agree with your statement in general, but consumers are supposed to care, at least a little bit. In my personal case I did invest something into a cobalt mine in Idaho because they're doing everything right from my point of view -
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by zepearl 8y ago
>>...the environment will definitely appreciate the electrified... Nobody is concerned about the countries (e.g. Bolivia) involved to extract the materials needed for the batteries => this might kill them (on one hand I agree sayin
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by zepearl 8y ago
"But it is only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve." Quote from the movie/film "The day the earth stood still". (don't know if it's copied from the older f
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by zepearl 8y ago
Is it a fiasco or is it just "shady business" but still successful? Really just asking because I never heard about that company but saw a few days ago a post about its split into different sectors all having their names starting w
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by zepearl 8y ago
Thank you for the nice link - is this guy (Matt Levine) somehow generally "known" for some reason? I liked the articles but it's the first time I hear the name. Edit: thanks a lot for your hints/replies!
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by zepearl 8y ago
Small Airlander Q&A: https://www.hybridairvehicles.com/downloads/download/Airland...
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by zepearl 8y ago
Sounds perfect.
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by zepearl 8y ago
Concerning D.Trump: being swiss, if he gets little or no sleep (because or routine work or anything which he triggered himself) I would judge that as mismanagement :)
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by zepearl 8y ago
Thx!!! Yes, I now remember my colleague mentioning a car :) But well, I wouldn't have enough faith in XXX cashiers. I'd want a hard receipt (confirmation of submission on paper with some kind of checksum which I could confirm onli
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by zepearl 8y ago
> confused as to why someone who owns a lot of shares would want to take a "big risk" "without reason" during "normal times." I wrote "normal paycheck-people during normal times (to ensure that no big r
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by zepearl 8y ago
Right, but we're talking about few millimeters (not centimeters) of difference between bricks, which are not comfy but not too extreme if driving on any bike at ~10km/h => advantages outweigh disatvantages. Bikes being the leas
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by zepearl 8y ago
Is it true that in Portugal when you issue a receipt as a shop (e.g. when some person buys something and you issue a receipt for the client) the client gets automatically a number for a national lottery from the machine which is directly co
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by zepearl 8y ago
I think that Larry was so far only in Iron Man ( http://www1.pictures.zimbio.com/mp/G9UGuzVE1g-l.jpg ), not in Spider-Man movies => so, sorry, he's most probably not carrying such a huge ethical burden :) Edit: I
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by zepearl 8y ago
Same in Switzerland, but if the city/community is really serious about that and there are some long-term plans: don't build slick surfaces but ones made of "bricks" or similar (example: https://www.experienced
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by zepearl 8y ago
> I can't even recall the last time I broke up a hockey or streetball game driving through neighborhoods. Because you weren't driving through such a "pedestrianized zone" :)
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by zepearl 8y ago
I think that it's good for Tesla & investors: Elon's discovery & revolutionizing era is over (at least for a while), now it's time for consolidation & stabilization & optimization etc... .
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by zepearl 8y ago
Does this mean that a company should use somebody who owns a lot of shares during bad times (when some drastic measure is needed to bring the company back into profitability), and normal paycheck-people during normal times (to ensure that n
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by zepearl 8y ago
I agree but I'd like to add that in my opinion "successful" is probably quite risky to use in general, meaning that there are multiple levels (e.g. successful for yourself, for the company/government, for the investors&#
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by zepearl 8y ago
Whenever I hear those names I personally link immediately Elon Musk to "genuinely enthusiastic & a bit crazy", but in the case of Larry Ellison I get only "dark side"-thoughts... .
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by zepearl 8y ago
I did try to switch from e16 to e17 multiple times (on Gentoo), but I always had to rollback; I never found a bugfree version of e17. (sometimes in 2018 I had to switch away from e16 (got taken out from Gentoo's main package repo) and
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by zepearl 8y ago
I totally agree. I always dreaded the time when I had to renew my SSL cert with GoDaddy. Then, each year, while navigating on their website, I always ended up asking myself if they hired a group of psychos to design their UI. After a couple
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by zepearl 8y ago
I ended up buying a Lian-Li PC a79 ( http://www.lian-li.com/pc-a79/ ) because it was basically the only case available on the market into which I could fit at least 3 IcyBox disk encloures - basically all other cases now
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by zepearl 8y ago
Well, about the GUI: I'm not sure that that's following the rules; most try to blindly follow trends, big companies tend to impose their GUIs, many implement anything which is low-effort (therefore already made available by 3rd pa
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by zepearl 8y ago
On one hand I agree for "truly multithreaded workloads" - on the other hand having strong single-threaded performance is still a nice feature to have (e.g. when writing prototypes or simply when using simple SW). I did evaluate ab

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