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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 …

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 …

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 pro…

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 b…

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 mo…

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 some…

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 …

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 ergo…

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 s…

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.w…

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. …

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 co…

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…

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) …

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 fin…

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 poli…

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/p…

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 …

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 s…

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, …

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 s…

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…

> 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 kn…

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 ba…

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 a…