guylhem

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by guylhem 11y ago
Let selection and mating sort it out. Maybe very intelligent deaf humans would outcompete the rest of mankind in a few generations? You may not like that, but why exactly should I care? Parents do have the best interest of their childre
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by guylhem 11y ago
I'm not sure I understand the use of least squares here. Why not use a Hough transform with each drawn point voting for a center, then average the radius? It's not a critic - just me wondering why.
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by guylhem 11y ago
To all those who do not want immortality and prefer death - I will be very happy to take what you do not want, and let you have what you want. Please let me have what I want. I promise I won't complain about immortality being boring an
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by guylhem 11y ago
Membrane keyboards are not all that bad. I moved from macbooks to thinkpads for many reasons (including freedom - I want a machine that runs coreboot) but the keyboard was just a big unexpected surprise. Now, I am a big fan of the pre-X220
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by guylhem 11y ago
My only question: can you physically have a 512Gb ssd inside that thing? Anything else is irrelevant to me. The previous Chromebook pixel had the mini PCIe port used by the WWAN modem wired with only the USB lines, meaning you couldn't
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by guylhem 11y ago
Having inspiration, whether from any ideal or from God, is what makes one burn the midnight oil, and design something out of the ordinary. It increases not just efficiency but something else harder to define, something that could be said to
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by guylhem 11y ago
TempleOS is impressive. The only thing I could say after watching the youtube presentations was "wow". I see great value in it, at least as a teaching tool - a bit like Minix. But there's more to it. Another potential use wou
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by guylhem 12y ago
You're missing one thing - a mouse easy to access, as on the thinkpad where it's in the home row. If only for browsing, a mouse is a godsend. There's something not bad for the ergodox on https://geekhack.org/i
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by guylhem 12y ago
Some other poster is talking about "hubris", "neopotism", or "tales from the aristocracy." Are we so focused the 99% / 1% difference that we are too blind to see we're all in the same team, team Human
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by guylhem 12y ago
Great article. After using AZERTY in France, I remember experimenting with alternative layouts, then preferring the Canadian CSA layout (standard on Macs, PC picture on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACNOR ) for 2 reasons
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by guylhem 12y ago
Unless you want bloatware that sucks RAM and battery, what else are you supposed to use? I went from Firefox to Safari to Chrome and back to Firefox. Firefox was bloatware before. Now it's acceptable when compared to Chrome and Safari.
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by guylhem 12y ago
Dear Bryan who may never read this, As you clearly say, your job is to serve your clients, the manufacturers who do not want their BIOSes to be replaced with something else like coreboot. You say "Intel has to consider the needs of the
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by guylhem 12y ago
Mortality is the #1 bug of human hardware (with cancer a close #2). It may have been a feature a few thousand years ago, with limited resources, but it's now hampering our progress. I don't want mankind achievements to be limited
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by guylhem 12y ago
In healthcare, there are many skeletons in the closet - and many closets. This FDA story is sad, but not surprising. The article seems to suggest the European equivalent (the EMA) is way better. Maybe it did behave better on this case, but
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by guylhem 12y ago
Really? He says he doesn't want to look anymore, then that it's too complicated. He mustn't have searched really hard, or he would have found it's udisk job. So why couldn't he find it? It's not that a current
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by guylhem 12y ago
Relevant quotes for TLDR: "It worked, but I don’t know why" "I don’t even know where to start looking." "That’s about as comprehensible as Vorlon poetry to me" Potentially non politically-correct answer to the
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by guylhem 12y ago
That thinkpad is my main computer. You have full control over it - brings back the pleasure to do things. Now that I'm mostly done with my hacks (check http://en.blog.guylhem.net/post/106153399669/how-to-recre
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by guylhem 12y ago
You're guessing wrong, even if I'm less involved in free software that I was a few years ago. But indeed, I'm quite passionate about GNU/Linux and say the gluglug X60 since it's a unique offering to respect ones&#x
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by guylhem 12y ago
Indeed, I'm very pompous since I'm quite proud of what a modern linux install can do. Sorry if I don't partake in this unwarranted Mac adoration. Instead, I explain how to do the same on linux, and actual results when it&#x27
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by guylhem 12y ago
That's at least the 3rd time I see that article posted here!!!! It's NOT exceptional or some special kind of wizardry. Even NetworkManager now does that. If you have an old setup, you can get matching speeds with dhcpcd and the
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by guylhem 12y ago
I run a similar setup, on a X60, with more "modern" adaptations : - systemd allows me to have insanely fast boot, and perfect control on what get started at boot. Debian likes to start everything and the kitchensync by default, af
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by guylhem 12y ago
As a kid, I had the pleasure of playing with Deskmate sound and Deskmate music, on a Tandy 286 with no harddrive - only a floppy. It worked quite well, and I remember taking sample of various thingies and making music. I also did as the art
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by guylhem 12y ago
> He briefly removed his subdomain and rethought his security systems. It was a really fun week. Sorry, it is not fun for your friend unless he had an absolute trust in you, and knew you'd help him remove every backdoor/keylogg
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by guylhem 12y ago
I used that exact phone (well, it had a different plastic shell was called "cardphone" - no bluetooth) for a year as my main cell phone. It worked very well, had about 3 days of battery time (given my uses). The best part is that
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by guylhem 12y ago
TLDR : "the age U-shape in life satisfaction is driven by unmet aspirations that are painfully felt during midlife but beneficially abandoned and felt with less regret during old age" Basically, most people hope they will do great
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by guylhem 12y ago
All the sensors + apparently a very lightweight OS + small form factor = I like it. The killing feature is the integrated GPS. As mentionned on the website, you can go without your phone. That alone could make it a buy if it supports wirele
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by guylhem 12y ago
Great quote about how spreadsheets where empowering: The company’s chief financial officer wanted certain information, and his top “experts” had difficulty providing it. So one weekend he brought an Apple computer and a copy of VisiCalc ho
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by guylhem 12y ago
Before, I wondered how such things could not be found in violation of the constitution, while they were obviously taking property without prosecution, guilty until proven innocent, etc. The answer is simple: because someone in power said so
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by guylhem 12y ago
Long story short - you did it the wrong way. systemd on debian tries to reuse far too many /etc/init.d scripts, whose quality and performance I find questionable. Follow the guide on http://www.holgerschurig.de/lin
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One of the ShellShock perl script used to take control of vulnerable machines(pastebin.ca)
16 points by guylhem 12y ago|2 comments

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