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Canonical adopting systemd is what made it a standard, community went from being very divided on systemd to resigned and accepting it almost overnight after Canonical announced they were going systemd…

It is like linux if Canonical never happened, so like linux 20 years ago. The ports system is nice. FreeBSD is my fallback in case Patrick gives in to the changing linux world and I have to abandon Sl…

Never had an issue with HN on my phone, wish more sites had its nice simple layout which is the same on desktop and mobile.

90% of the reason tube amps live on is because all the cool kids use them because the cool kids are in bands and tube amps are easy to fix. A dozen tube types and a good supply of resistors and capaci…

A very simplified version of the component level. Component level is very good but not real time unless you sacrifice a fair amount. Ultimately it is a bit of a wash between other methods, just shifts…

I am doing things in just about the most idiotic and inefficient way, break the circuit down into easy to emulate blocks then emulating how they interact by adding in stuff which mimics that interacti…

Sure, but you still have an infinite number of possible inputs, your model will only show that on certain note combinations at just the right volumes you get sub harmonics through intermodulation dist…

You understand correctly. All of the amp modeling and virtual analog stuff is still fairly limited and they largely focus on getting the stereotypical sounds of the source, not the full range. Modelin…

I think a big problem with things like Uber Eats and DoorDash is many of them do not give the option of leaving a note with the tip, if part of your order is missing and you give a poor tip because of…

The results are rather superficial, not impressed, having Speedboat by Adler in my prompt resulted in getting books about boats. Needs to at least be able to distinguish fiction from non-fiction if it…

I think most people are rather practical when it comes to numbers and adding two three digit numbers is generally not very practical. A cup of rice is simple and direct compared to 7800 grains of rice…

Interesting critters, here they are at sea; https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Neuston_... …

In my experience people primarily use the term "MacGuffin" in reference to things they do not understand but see the significance of, they reduce theme to plot, they make the idea of a MacGu…

Monkies stealing booze is a fairly common issue all over the tropical world, just do a search for drunk monkies. Bali is known for its thieving monkies and they even exploit it for tourism, they have …

We almost certainly did, animals of all sorts like being intoxicated. In apple country you often see that animals will ignore apples until they have fallen and fermented and then they get drunk off th…

My point is that it serves no practical purpose and that is why you and others have issues with it. You spend two weeks reading a book and you can not share that with others because most will not read…

Reading has always been a niche hobby and in the 80s/90s they were saying the same thing about TV. Reading is not exactly social and provides little in the way of tangible gains, most people are …

This would not be microdosing, there is no way he could know the dose through this method of prep and use. Whole article is filled with issues like these, gives too much information in an attempt to m…

I am always amazed at how election season news can make me hate "news" even more than I normally do. What does this matter? It doesn't matter, at least it shouldn't. Trump played t…

I used to do piece work. At times you could show I only made a dollar or two an hour and at other times I would be getting $100+ an hour and no overtime despite working more than 40 hours a week. Duri…

Have a few scoops of vanilla and think a little on it.

This made me hate Snap and Canonical even more than I used too.

Some related banter from Gass and Gardner. https://medium.com/the-william-h-gass-interviews/william-h-g... …

I was using "linux/OSS" to refer to software which originates from the the linux ecosystem and implying the cross platform aspect. I did not use the phrase "cross platform" be…

Snap, flatpack and the like are not really sorted out yet and possibly never will be. Best to avoid them and if you cant install from your distro's repo than compile it yourself. The issue with y…

>How could Apple break linux sw? Software must communicate with the OS to work and Apple does not seem to care much about doing things which will break software from the linux/OSS community. T…

I have not used Macs in years but the one observation I would offer, a good amount of linux/OSS software seems to break when Apple updates the OS and it does not seem a good platform if you want …