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by zh3 4y ago
The software install on my daily driver dates from 1999 (though the oldest file in /etc is dated 1994) and was originally an old Red Hat release. It runs XFree86-4.x (last rebuilt 2004) which works fine with nvidia-390.132 (no more tha
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by zh3 4y ago
Pity it's not possible to open-source execution. So many good ideas fail due to poor execution (these days, quite possibly a larger number are killed by birth by bigco's - that's still a 'failure to execute' though,
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by zh3 4y ago
Doesn't use bookmarks, follows her curiousity and simply leaves every tab open.
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by zh3 4y ago
You should see my wife's laptop....
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by zh3 4y ago
It's not a bad bet, if you're losing market leadership through poor execution then getting the government to prop you up as a backstop to the bogeyman seems a reasonable tactic.
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by zh3 4y ago
Reminds me of Sheldrake's theory of morphic resonance. Unlikely (to my way of thinking), but is an amusing alternative explanation of why breakthroughs happen at the same time (it's all those minds resonating through spooky action
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by zh3 4y ago
Thanks, I did note the difference, it was just this reminded me of the separate issue I'd been wondering about.
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by zh3 4y ago
Indeed, Crunchbase even host photos that they've scraped from other websites - how do they work around the image copyright? (I know profiles where they've taken copies of staff photos from a corporate website where they most certa
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by zh3 4y ago
How does this play with copyright infringement? If I advertise a job on my own website, and someone copies that verbatim and reposts it, isn't it a clear case of copyright infringement? (or am I missing something....)
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by zh3 4y ago
I used to do this on Firefox, it's where I learnt the trick (before some sites made it necessary to use Chrome, and before Firefox had containers).
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by zh3 4y ago
On linux, just create a separate login and use Chrome there. In fact, what I do is create a separate user, start Chrome once, do any configuration I want and then create a tarball of the separate user's home directory. Then to start a
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by zh3 4y ago
Can't speak for aliquot, mine is around a low hundreds of dollars per year across two accounts (personal and professional, not linked) and service has been exemplary.
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by zh3 4y ago
Not my experience at all. Every time I've opened a support ticket, the initial response has been fast and the problem has been resolved quickly (based on the 3 or 4 incidents I've had over around a decade with them).
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by zh3 4y ago
Quite - it's the simple but effective design that matters (not whatever language it's implemented in). It could be that Lisp because forces one to think more than just hacking out code, the end result is better designed.
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by zh3 4y ago
I seem to have the world's oldest SSD (or am I misinterpreting the output?) (shell 1) ~# smartctl -a /dev/sda | grep -e Power_On_Hours -e ^ID ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WH
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by zh3 4y ago
Dell 2007's (1600x1200) are in high demand. Only a few weeks back I set a watch on an ebay site selling over 100 of them, I see there's only 2 left new.
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by zh3 4y ago
I appreciate that Realtek can be an issue, but on a few PCs they works solidly with Alsa so seems unlikely it's the kernel driver (restarting pulseaudio would bring it back, at least for a while). So it seems to me the issues are very
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by zh3 4y ago
Coincidentally on the BBC today: "Weekend burst of exercise can be enough to stay fit" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-62040665
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by zh3 4y ago
Stock Asus motherboards with on-board (Realtek, IIRC) audio (I tried aftermarket cards, though mostly after giving up on PulseAudio). Separately the company I worked for ditched it as well due to the issues, to be fair though in tnat case s
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by zh3 4y ago
I worked at a place that had 14" HDD's - huge 19" rack mount things, took ages to spin down. Never carried one personally, older personnel advised not trying to turn a corner while carrying one unless fully spun down.
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by zh3 4y ago
Eh, Pulseaudio. One of those things that on the rare occasion it's worked out of the box it's then broken with one step of the beaten path. Evidently it seems to work for many people, the trouble it's caused has far outweighe
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by zh3 4y ago
Takes me back to the whirrr-clunk of retries on DEC RX02's. Got into trouble for writing an RT11 driver for a Rodime 5Mb hard disk drive (no idea how many platters it had, it was full height); seems so insanely large at the time that I
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by zh3 4y ago
For those who don't recognise Janelia, I suggest (in a good way) looking it up (HHMI is Howard Hughes Medical Institude, my connection is tenuous as a contractor to a supplier to Janelia).
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by zh3 4y ago
Good to see this. Bad that as a UK citizen I sometimes worry that my monthly sub to Liberty will count against me ('chilling effect').
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by zh3 4y ago
As someone considering learning Rust, the article put me off fast with the long preamble to even explaining what the issue was. I really hope it's not that complicated, but even your rebuttal fills me with fear - "corrupted data [
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by zh3 4y ago
This is a great technnique, and is particularly effective when working out if someone (especially a politician) is saying something meaningful. "We will strive to make people happier and more productive". Who would say they strive
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by zh3 4y ago
Rather than keeping old systems around (though we do that too, still having 486 systems running), we keep diskless version of old OS versions around, complete with installed applications (IDEs, compilers etc). Anything from WinXP to Win10 w
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by zh3 4y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31568837
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by zh3 4y ago
If building and running takes a second, printf is great (especially with inotifywait - as soon as a file is saved in the editor, trigger a build and run in a separate window). Even on programs approaching 100K LoC, ccache and make build the
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Killer Asteroids are hiding in plain sight; a new tool finds them(nytimes.com)
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