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265 pts ยท August 7, 2014


I don't know how eyes work, but according to Nyquist the source frequency should be at least double the frequency of the observer anyways.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It is faster and more efficient than asking again for the link ourselves.

8 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Some advertisers pay per impression (view, or rather # thousands of them) instead of click. So site owners can still make some money off it.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

File/text manipulation is its strength, so it's quite popular in fields like bioinformatics and system administration.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Two weeks ago I saw for the first time the "slaughter date" on a chicken filet. It was weird, but useful, and I think I'll get used to it.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

It's nice to know what the software on your computer is actually doing, though. Too many programs spy, send spam, set up VPNs etc.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Even the URL tells us that it's zipped.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Open source? Fork it change it git commit it.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

In my case, more than half of the assignments were group projects. It's not we'll be working solo all our life, after all.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not me. All I wanted to say is that a field with few members of one sex isn't as well balanced in its behaviour towards it as a mixed field.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

No. Sexist people exist everywhere, unfortunately. But the more one interacts with a certain group, the easier they overcome any prejudices.

10 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 3

women not being treated normally in STEM is that there are not enough women choosing to go to study STEM (and vice versa).

10 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 15

While there are indeed problems in how women are treated in STEM, the comic makes a good point, in that the biggest reason for 1/2

10 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 17

Also, sharing your code on GitHub etc. works well for humbling half of the guys who don't even know how to use git/whatever.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Women who share some of the their programs on GitHub are suddenly seen in a different light in my university. Even if they're an "exception"

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I really hope they'll get things moving. It looks promising and could end the DirectX grip on the industry, maybe.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Why not both? Windows for games, Linux for everything else works fine for me. Though I find myself booting up Windows less and less nowadays

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Lightweight when I need it, but also scales beautifully. Customizable and lots of options to choose from. More stable. Also, freedom.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Had a Windows partition next to my Linux main for that reason. Suddenly I realised I had to boot into Windows 4 months (oh, the updates!)

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You could always install a well-supported distro (like Ubuntu) and run Steam on it, if you'd like to try out Linux. Works fine for me.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Empire was ported some months ago to Linux, Rome II is being worked on. Medieval II and Rome have a Platinum compatibility rating on Wine.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

This. They do acknowledge the lesser amount of games, but I've heard of no one saying "I'm switching back to Windows for the games".

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The closest I got to cartography was to code a basic map generator, but those are so much prettier. Like a medieval/Tolkien cross. Good job!

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

True, all major companies do this. That's why it matters to Linux users - they've chosen a free OS in order to avoid exactly that.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Is it a bad sign that I was actually happy, when I saw it really was about a Linux distribution?

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Linux is an operating system with lots of flavors, or, as they're called, distributions. Arch, Debian and Ubuntu are all Linux distributions

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Correct me if I'm wrong, but IIRC freeware != free software, in the sense that free software gives its user rights, regardless of its price.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0