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> AwesomeWM just works. I used tiling window managers for years (I started with wmii, and I even used ESXM), but now I'm settled on Gnome: Everything works out of the box, and it's mostly keyboard driven. I don't know if t
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I mainly used Samsung phones with KISS launcher and very few apps (not even Google Play); it has been more or less stable throughout the years.
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Do you mind sharing with us what your little world is made of?
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There's XINU (Xinu's Not Unix). There's a book that walks you through the complete implementation of the OS in C [1]. [1] https://xinu.cs.purdue.edu/
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What's a BofA? What's a VDI? I feel like Hacker News is filled with acronyms that take some effort to parse.
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> Just yesterday I used it to troubleshoot a weird behavior in a recently upgraded Asterisk/FreePBX system which would have probably taken me days to guess my way through without packet captures Do you mind sharing with us what was
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> so shifting blame is easy. But are the contracts actually useful? I wager that to have support from Red Hat is really useful beyond what you may view as "corporate politics".
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Interesting, thanks. Lab grown meat has been authorized in the U.S. and already served in a restaurant in San Francisco [1]. If you have the chance to consume lab grown meat, would that be an option for you? [1] https://www.cbsne
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> Seriously though, it’s your choice how you live your life, but there’s no escaping that humans are omnivores and should eat both plants and animals for proper nutrition There are millions of vegetarians and vegans around the world.
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There's a firefox plugin [1] that lets you add custom search engines; they will be visible in the settings menu under "Search Shortcuts" where you can set the keyword to trigger the custom search. [1] https://addon
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The tone and level of entitlement of some comments is astonishing. Thunderbird is a free and open source tool, used by many (including me). The least we can do is to be a little nicer.
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If I want to study something seriously, I formulate questions about what I am learning and commit them to Anki cards for review. It's anecdotal, but since I have been doing that, I am more careful of the content of what I study (I ask
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I find Gnome 40+ to be beautiful but I can't tell why this is so appealing! Especially the icons.
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> Microsoft Office in the future There are not many alternatives, are there?
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> If I were a natural scientist, I wouldn't take a bet that I can scientifically explain a phenomenon which I can't even describe in terms of observable things. Conscious experience is an observable thing, meaning that we can
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An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish, Bertrand Russell (1943)(ditext.com)
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Bertrand Russell wrote an excellent essay called "An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish" [1] where he recounts of past intellectual follies. He wrote the essay to "[...] help in seeing our own times in perspective, and as not mu
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I grew up with French and Kabyle [1] and to this day we speak a mixture of both. And it comes very naturally. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabyle_language
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> Why Raphaël Enthoven got 20/20 and ChatGPT “that» 11/20 France is dominated by Continental Philosophy, and I find Raphaël Enthoven not that rigorous a thinker, to say the least.
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Correct. Thanks.
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The subtext of the book reads: "Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy ".
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In an interview with biologist Richard Lenski (of the famous experiment), the latter discusses controversial research on selecting H5N1 viruses for greater transmissibility and their potential to be airborne viruses that are of public healt
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Also, dogs and cats, and even our close relatives, primates, don't develop a capacity to language.
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> For the first time there now is a second entity that can understand and produce language But does it really understand language? This reminds me of the Chinese room argument [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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From the conclusion: > First, the fact that language models can be trained on large amounts of text data and can generate human-like language without any explicit instruction on gram- mar or syntax suggests that language may not be as bi
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I know that intellectual charity is a virtue one should practice, but I can't resist to think that the text is mainly in favor of very dangerous gambling with the added argument that "sometimes, you can win, like I did".
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> and they view the shutoff as a necessary inconvenience. Who views the shutoff as a necessary inconvenience? The current president has promised to stop such cuts [1] as they are widely frowned upon, but it did not stop. [1] https:&#x2F
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Algeria cuts internet nationwide during the baccalaureat exams(tsa-algerie.com)
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> Numerous people are currently sitting in jail in Saudi Arabia for having posted tweets critical of the regime under their own names. Without HTTPS, jails around the world would be a lot busier if authorities could see everything that
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> I’m disappointed he projects some sort of idealised aloof moral superiority on anything non human Can you pinpoint where you got that impression? Note that it's not him that "chooses" dolphins, but it's the intervie

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