gmluke

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by gmluke 9y ago
I see what you're saying, but I suspect the top-down approach is not the cause of the usability issues with Anaconda. The problems are simply that it isn't always clear which buttons do what, which partitions are about to get zapp
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by gmluke 9y ago
I agree with all these criticisms. The anaconda installer, particularly the partitioning interface, is not at all intuitive. The first time I installed Fedora alongside an existing OS I thought it was really likely something would get mess
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by gmluke 10y ago
I looked at the code for pass recently, and thought it was a nice example of something where bash is absolutely adequate. You point out (in discussing the design of pass): > There is one slight drawback to all the simplicity, and that is
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by gmluke 10y ago
Especially so when you consider that a player is much more likely to lose on time when the position is already bad.
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by gmluke 10y ago
> Software is fundamentally broken. It's limited, never quite works the way we want it to, but it can't be changed, can't be combined and can't be trusted. In general, this level of hyperbole puts me off. Besides any
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by gmluke 10y ago
> Just as knowing why apples fall down and aeroplanes fly up, the citizens of the 21st century need to know that computers are not magical boxes but composed of dynamic models. In all honesty, I don't know why apples fall down an
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by gmluke 10y ago
This is slightly tangential since you specified a conspirator on the inside, but how easy is it to break a homegrown encryption algorithm if you don't have the source code? I assume there are tools (what are they?) that will break a si
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by gmluke 10y ago
I wouldn't call it 'ground-up' but you may find this useful: https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html
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by gmluke 10y ago
I don't think that proves anything at all. If you said to a free software advocate: 'Freedom is pointless because most of us don't exercise most of our freedoms' that would clearly be a nonsense argument. Enumerating op
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by gmluke 10y ago
> he's absolutely correct in all of his principles I don't think principles are matters of fact. A set of principles may be consistent with each other, and/or you may agree with them, but that is not to say that one who ho
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UK to increase national cyber-defence grid(bbc.co.uk)
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by gmluke 10y ago
I'd be happy to be corrected, but I think this applied to the Fedora keys?
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by gmluke 10y ago
Worth noting that a GPG signature is of limited (though not zero) use if the signing key doesn't have any signatures. In this respect, Debian contrasted favourably with Fedora the last time I looked.
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by gmluke 10y ago
I agree... given bash combined with a tiling window-manager, I've found very little use for a file manager. The only exception that comes to mind is when browsing a directory of photos, because in that case thumbnails are more informa
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by gmluke 10y ago
> Beware the fallacy of composition. What may be "right" in a transaction between individuals can be "wrong" over the entire population. I think this issue is philosophically contentious, and interesting. Even if you
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by gmluke 10y ago
> standing people pack tighter than walking people, therefore all standing ends up with more throughput, at the expense of lower individual latency (for the would-be walkers) If the would-be walkers derive much greater than average utili
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by gmluke 10y ago
The man was extraordinary. A couple of more detailed obituaries: https://www.chess.com/news/viktor-korchnoi-1931-2016-1214 http://en.chessbase.com/post/viktor-korchnoi-dies-at-85
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by gmluke 10y ago
Mathematics also has perfect information, but people find plenty of aesthetic appeal in that. (Though in many respects, competitive chess is not at all like mathematics. An uncooperative opponent and time constraints are important addition