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ldevon My Hackintosh Hardware Spec

thanks package manager, you're useless

ldevon My Hackintosh Hardware Spec

> If you want the latest and greatest of everything, you could use Arch Linux.

You're kidding me, right? https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/log/trunk?h...

There's sometimes weeks before node is updated.

Updating PostgreSQL from 9.6.1 to 9.6.2 took 4 months.

And right now .net core build is failing on my archlinux test server.

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If you want latest - use macOS with brew

ldevon My Hackintosh Hardware Spec

0.2% desktop users agree. Continue live in your strange bubble, just stop mentioning linux to normal folk.

ldevon My Hackintosh Hardware Spec

Install git without requiring root privileges... Also git is a 3rd party application, yet somehow all distros treat git as part of base system/OS bundle/whatever, so Fedora 25 has set version of 2.9, 24 of 2.7, etc. WHY. WHY. It's third party software, not part of your god damn OS - there should be only one version of git in the repos for ALL FEDORA VERSIONS - and that would be the latest... Come the fuck on.

Replace "git" with every other package....

Linux is so amateur hour with all plainly stupid decisions, I'd rather pay good money for proper unix.

ldevon What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console

Because you can upgrade from windows 3.11 all the way to 10, good luck with ubuntu.

Yeah, I see your point.

ldevon Blinded after applying contact lenses with wet hands

No, you were blinded by your own hygiene... Using contact lenses for 7 years now.

ldevon Uber investor, Bill Gurley: 25 yrs for lvl 4/5 autonomous vehicles in US cities

> 25 yrs

Is is really worth to butcher a word to save one letter?

ldevon Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and Convergence

Not really news, saying "linux distro chases ideas to rewrite instead of sticking to one thing and fixing it and that's why linux desktop won't ever happen" is like saying "grass is green".

ldevon Xcode 8.3 produces binaries 3x larger than Xcode 8.2.1

Because we solve practical problems, and do not nit pick of what is technically correct. We are not drones and easily understand that in this context it's megabytes.

Just look at all that "technically it's mebibytes bla bla bla" in replies. No one cares. Write some code. Or better - go outside.

ldevon Gcam, the computational photography project that powers the Google Pixel camera

Original comment sounds more like google's shill comment, to be honest. Because iPhones take pictures instantly too (although they have a quick ui feedback), and it's either hard to believe that attendant never touched iPhone, which is, like, well, the most popular phone ever; or it's indeed that pixel doesn't indicate in any way that it has taken the picture.

ldevon VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor rendering

> X11 runs really well these days -- responsive, fast, reliable

Well, you haven't seen Windows then - the graphics stack is phenomenal and a marvel of engineering. nVidia drivers crash? I only get a second of black screen and then resume my work. Yep, that's right - no other GUI program crashed, I didn't had to do anything, literally just 1 second of black screen.

Oh and you can have one window on two monitors and both parts of window will have full vsync - insane, huh? :)

It's scary how good Windows is.

ldevon Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)

> Not performing testing on Linux is inexcusable in my book in this day and age.

No, wasting time for two open minded users instead of working for 99,999% users is inexcusable.

ldevon What I learned from being a web developer for 17 years

Give him another 17 years and he might learn some basics.

ldevon Two major US technology firms 'tricked out of $100M'

He thought that no one would bother to look for him in Lithuania, too bad Lithuania is a member of EU and not forgotten nook.

ldevon Parallel Python

Expected redirect to golang.com

ldevon CSS Reminification: A crazy idea that worked

Now I know why most of my colleagues in software development do not have a degree - academy really, really closes your mind in some strange bubble and shields you from real world...

This article - I don't even...

ldevon AMD Zen and Ryzen 7 Review: A Deep Dive

Those linked benchmarks are useless. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/03/amd-ryzen-review/

I'd take Intel CPU that runs 120 FPS average over AMD that runs 130 FPS average, when lowest FPS for Intel drops to 100 FPS and for AMD it drops to 80 FPS...

ldevon AMD Zen and Ryzen 7 Review: A Deep Dive

I'm actually using my computer and not running it as a build server. I'd take 16 ghz single core CPU over 4 core 4ghz any time of the day.

ldevon The clock is ticking for Spotify

>That's mainly an Apple problem though.

And Google's/Spotify's problem is that they do not have any good or even decent phones.

ldevon The clock is ticking for Spotify

I like Apple Music more - more songs and it uploads your mp3s that are not matched and make them available everywhere.

ldevon The web sucks if you have a slow connection

Well 3G is as low as you can get somewhere deep in the woods, not really a problem...

ldevon The JVM is not that heavy

Exactly, that's how some not very bright people were tricked into thinking that Node.js is actually fast.

ldevon Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results

Surprise, "technical smart people" do not matter - they're just vocal crybabies.

ldevon Wine 2.0 released

Not really far if you count games that sell 1 million+ copies. Right now I'm playing Titanfall 2, Battlefield 1, Forza Horizon 3 and Resident Evil 7. And Hearthstone. Haven't seen a game that I would enjoy released on linux in ages. Even new Doom didn't get a Linux release, id software gave up.

ldevon Sony and LG stop making 3D TV sets

No, because 3D never really had "wow this is so much better" appliances, meanwhile (if you don't get motion sickness with VR headset) racing games with VR are so much better and work insanely well.

ldevon Chrome 56 will mark HTTP pages with password fields as non-secure

https://www.netcup.eu/bestellen/produkt.php?produkt=1587

9 EUR, 2 cores + 6 GB RAM, 40 GB SSD.

It still baffles me that someone is using shared hosting services and upload their php files via ftp...

ldevon Windows 10 has alerts to encourage Firefox users to use IE

Except for telemetry - I think after using Linux, Windows is confusing to you, because I don't have Cortana and still can search for files, don't see ads.

Understandable, as Windows is not *nix, you should just RTFM.

ldevon Windows 10 has alerts to encourage Firefox users to use IE

How do I enable ads on start and lock screen? A lot of people are talking about it, I feel left out. :/

>You no longer have search without Cortana.

Could you elaborate? search for what?

>These are not small annoyances that happen sometimes. They happen frequently. Microsoft is dictating how you must use a computer.

Good, otherwise we'd end up with bazillion window managers that get you 80% of "stuff" in bazillion different ways, but none do the other 20%.

ldevon Nylas Mail is now free

Ugh, Emojis are thing for very informal conversations - your friends. Seeing them splattered in somewhat official statement looks so out of place and unprofessional.

ldevon Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views

So, how do I press "go" that's mentioned in text in the overlay?