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by RunSet 4y ago
https://i.imgur.com/CE6UCac.png
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by RunSet 4y ago
I would be interested in reading such studies. Please don't take that as "Citation needed!" but rather genuine interest.
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by RunSet 4y ago
It is worth considering that Gabe Newell quote in light of how Steam built its original install base: By strong-arming owners of retail copies of Half-Life (notably including players of CounterStrike, a player-created mod) and requiring the
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by RunSet 4y ago
Pornhub should redirect traffic from Louisiana to a page that includes names and contact information of the politicians that sponsored the legislation. Here they are: https://legiscan.com/LA/sponsors/HB142/202
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by RunSet 4y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2021-supermicro/
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by RunSet 4y ago
The recommendation algorithm and the timeline of your friends' activities will merge into a recommended friends and activities list.
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by RunSet 4y ago
> IPFS now uses base58btc exclusively. That's "btc" as in Bitcoin. It is true that Base58 is named for its original implemention in bitcoin but other than the name it has nothing to do with bitcoin. The difference from Ba
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by RunSet 4y ago
> I was recently asked: “Which digital technologies could we get rid of in higher education?” I would like to make it a requirement that paying tuition entitles students to submit their coursework and have it graded, even if they never p
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by RunSet 4y ago
I distinctly recall the existence of television repair shops, which suggests there was a time when market structure / incentives did not encourage planned obsolescence.
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by RunSet 4y ago
Never enough spotlight on Intel Management Engine. Disgusting that Intel built a backdoor into everyone's computer and then only sold the U.S. government hardware without it. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/h
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by RunSet 4y ago
> I really hope some of the open source alternatives that aren't corporation-controlled gain traction over the next year. Shout out to CodeLite. https://codelite.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by RunSet 4y ago
Our grandchildren deserve a future without the vendor lock-in and anticompetitive behavior that gave Bill Gates the fortune he is currently using to attempt to whitewash his legacy.
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by RunSet 4y ago
> So I need to purchase the MP3's in order to do this? Aye, aye. > Then I need to spend time on other web sites for music discovery? One cost of cultivating tastes, as opposed to being fed by a recommendation algorithm, is the ri
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by RunSet 4y ago
https://online.stanford.edu/masters-degrees https://ed.stanford.edu/academics/masters
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by RunSet 4y ago
> What do the system requirements have to do with the better performance for 11, if the tests were performed on the same hardware? > You yourself posted the reason why it's faster First, note well that the article lacks benchmark
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by RunSet 4y ago
> We all imagine that our problems are unique and other disciplines don't have them. Software estimation is so special that no one outside of CS can possibly contribute to it. Software development is special in that, by virtue of
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by RunSet 4y ago
The Once and Future King, by T.H. White. The Sword in the Stone is probably my favorite Disney movie so I was delighted to discover the movie was based on a book which was even better.
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by RunSet 4y ago
I once heard some Lenny Bruce standup that gave me the impression that firemen were generally considered opportunistic thieves at the time of the material's delivery, independent of its punchline.
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by RunSet 4y ago
From that article: > Conclusion > Windows 11 definitely feels faster and smoother compared to Windows 10. Much of this comes from the improved memory management system that Windows 11 is using. If you own an average computer in term
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by RunSet 4y ago
> I am writing a book that posits software is a form of literacy The meaning of "computer literacy" is further diluted with each passing day. An equivalence: Imagine if the meaning of "literacy" was reduced to being a
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by RunSet 4y ago
This seems like just the thing to finally get adblocking in Steam's integrated browser.
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by RunSet 4y ago
Virtualdub downloads as a 1.81 MB zip file. This downloads as an 84.9 MB zip file. I sure hope this does something Virtualdub can't / anything better than Virtualdub, my current preferred lossless video / audio editing Swiss
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by RunSet 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_Bones
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by RunSet 4y ago
> running the community edition of Jetbrains’ IntelliJ IDEA ... > As much as it hurts me to say this, as a fan of JetBrains and its tools, IntelliJ just seems to have become too heavy to run properly on a laptop that’s not at the very
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by RunSet 4y ago
The job titles seem to say more about the people hiring than about the jobs themselves. I have often thought that making software has at least as much in common with cooking or sewing as it does with engineering or architecture, as in &quot
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by RunSet 4y ago
I hoped that by "disrupted higher education" the author meant something at least as radical as what this decades-old essay proposes. https://citejournal.org/volume-2/issue-3-02/seminal-articles... Alas,
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by RunSet 4y ago
It is like a zen koan: What is a "senior developer" in an environment with zero "junior developers"?
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by RunSet 4y ago
When I encounter the term "engineer", I take it to mean someone who, if they screw up, people die. I know a "Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer" is a thing that exists, but it seems to me rather a contradiction in term
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by RunSet 4y ago
> LXDE's latest release was Feb 2021, while LXQt's was a month ago. The creator of LXDE, Hong Jen Yee, has abandoned it I'm aware LXDE's creator has abandoned it but LXQt is laggy compared to LXDE, which does everythi
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by RunSet 4y ago
It galls me that music went from radio's payola to the celestial jukebox of Napster to an algorithm pushing corporate recommendations. Worse, people (well, consumers, at any rate) seem to believe not being allowed to cultivate their ow

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