madpata

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by madpata 5y ago
Using Arch probably allows for faster updates, since Steam won't have to wait for ages to use some of the newest Linux kernels. Same goes for other supporting software. Ubuntu is good as a stable platform, but it's probably too sl
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by madpata 5y ago
1€ ~= 1.18$ US So, probably not just a conversion thing
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by madpata 5y ago
> I just can't conceive of how modularity, in general, causes duplicate code rather than reduces it. Yeah, like my node_modules folder doesn't contain tons of duplicate code. /s
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by madpata 5y ago
Don't play multiplayer games on Linux.
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by madpata 5y ago
That's true if one only talks about one person using an extra 200W. But it matters when it's about millions of people using an additional 200W.
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by madpata 5y ago
No, the obvious solution is paying a monthly subscription to use a cloud-based computer for such high-intensity tasks like web-browsing. We should all be using https://www.mightyapp.com ! /s
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by madpata 5y ago
It's not a chicken and egg problem. It's Apples fault/intention. They had really bad support for OpenGL and wanted developers to use Apple's Metal API. But developers stayed on DirectX (Windows-only) or OpenGL/Vulka
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by madpata 5y ago
Maybe keep an eye out for S&Box, the successor to Garry'sMod. It's not out yet, but uses the Source 2 engine and C# for modding, and will probably have an active community from launch.
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by madpata 5y ago
You should keep an eye out for S&Box! It's the successor to the popular Garry's Mod. Garry's Mod is, imo, the sandbox and modding game and I think that S&Box will be even better. It's based on the Source 2 engine
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by madpata 5y ago
He didn't haggle over the price of the procedure. He only asked how much it's going to be and was charged with over double what he was quoted.
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by madpata 5y ago
What punishments would you suggest for bullies?
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by madpata 5y ago
It's educational, too. Andreas has a lot of video content, which explains different OS concepts, available.
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by madpata 5y ago
> You can also wrap a page as an app on the App Store For example Apple's store doesn't want these web wrappers: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#min...
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by madpata 5y ago
Is it illegal to intentionally create security risks?
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by madpata 5y ago
You make it sound like only RMS' contributions were significant for our current state of software. There are a lot of people with significant contributions without which the world wouldn't be in its current state.
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by madpata 5y ago
> cooking techniques that assume cheaply-available vacuum That also assumes that the atmosphere you're venting for that "cheap vacuum" is cheap as well.
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by madpata 5y ago
Maybe has something to do with cached driver configuration, but I don't know which version of Windows introduced it. It has to do with remembering which drivers were loaded the last time the OS ran and loading those first on reboot. Sa
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by madpata 5y ago
I talked about that topic with my principal when I was in school. He told me that the school had to prevent those automatic budget cuts. His reasoning was that it's nearly impossible to get a higher budget if some big expenses had to b
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by madpata 5y ago
I'd just say that both contribute and stop this whataboutism.
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by madpata 5y ago
I am not GP ng to clutter my home with old, bulky and single-purpose computers. > and the computers needed to run them are cheap Old computers aren't always cheap. Retro PCs get expensive quick.
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by madpata 6y ago
Maybe that's because Electron isn't made to just display a single line of text? Text Rendering, CSS Layouts, Accessibility, being good at cross-platform, Canvas/WebGL and a myriad of other APIs make Electron pretty powerful.
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by madpata 6y ago
> Who are these people? People on the Pinephone forum. Simple survivorship bias. Judging from the videos I've seen, the Pinephone is for tinkerers for now.
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by madpata 6y ago
Don't you mean much higher? Like at 36MM/36,000km?
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by madpata 6y ago
How many credit cards do you have? And if it's 3+, then why do you have so many? Just curious.
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by madpata 6y ago
Text file formats have the benefit of being easier to kerge sometimes. SQLite files are binary and hard/impossible to merge.
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by madpata 6y ago
Here's some knowledge from the time I was into lucid dreaming (6+ years ago): Some people classify the lucidity of a dream as "non-lucid", "semi-lucid" and "lucid". "Non-Lucid" is just a normal d
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by madpata 6y ago
Let's just create an explicit class system, assign people to those classes using some weird metrics and then decide their whole life for them using those classes! What a perfect solution! /s
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by madpata 6y ago
You exchange network+filesystem access against only filesystem acess. The server needs to store your DB somehow too.
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by madpata 6y ago
Are you called Linus Sebastian?
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by madpata 6y ago
I can imagine a future in which Universities just pay someone to create online courses which they can reuse over the years and then just keep the teachers for courses which have a practical side (e.g. Robotics, biology/physics/che

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