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  Thread: Minimal Computing Principals
Post: Minimal Computing Principals
Hey all, Long (long) time no see. I stumbled upon this [1] site the other day and wanted to get some input from the wise wizards of nixers. It's a community of humanities academics espousing a philo...
 Steph Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses 4 4,672 18-04-2020, 09:10 PM
  Thread: Global Aur equivalent
Post: RE: Global Aur equivalent
(12-12-2018, 06:38 AM)z3bra Wrote: So is this idea dead already? I feel like you summed it up well when you described the difficulties of creating such a system. If such a thing was feasible I woul...
 Steph GNU/Linux 25 22,542 12-12-2018, 11:35 AM
  Thread: Global Aur equivalent
Post: RE: Global Aur equivalent
(06-12-2018, 09:12 PM)eduarch42 Wrote: and kind of "chain" them in order to maintain all of them updated. This sounds nice and all, but it flies in the face of the way packages work. The linuxverse ...
 Steph GNU/Linux 25 22,542 06-12-2018, 09:15 PM
  Thread: Interfaces of the future
Post: RE: Interfaces of the future
(06-12-2018, 05:19 PM)mrtn Wrote: Maybe this is just evolution in place. Some people strive to actually _do_ something, most people are fine with just existing. These are just my raw and uninformed ...
 Steph Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses 33 27,738 06-12-2018, 05:44 PM
  Thread: Interfaces of the future
Post: RE: Interfaces of the future
(06-12-2018, 09:45 AM)jkl Wrote: Their computer is just a temporary "TV replacement" until the next distraction device is invented. I agree with you in principal but I think its hard to equate the d...
 Steph Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses 33 27,738 06-12-2018, 11:27 AM
  Thread: Interfaces of the future
Post: RE: Interfaces of the future
(06-12-2018, 08:44 AM)mrtn Wrote: Which is not a technology problem but a people problem. If humanity would not be chasing 'likes' or dumb distraction, scrolling through endless social media feeds, ...
 Steph Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses 33 27,738 06-12-2018, 11:26 AM
  Thread: Global Aur equivalent
Post: RE: Global Aur equivalent
(05-12-2018, 11:01 AM)venam Wrote: This comes back to the question of it's good to have centralized package management or not and if there needs to be an authority for this package management or if ...
 Steph GNU/Linux 25 22,542 05-12-2018, 11:17 AM
  Thread: Interfaces of the future
Post: RE: Interfaces of the future
(05-12-2018, 06:53 AM)jkl Wrote: I don't think that all computers need to cater the needs of YouTube's target audience. I wish there weren't any computers that catered to that audience. This might ...
 Steph Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses 33 27,738 05-12-2018, 10:14 AM
  Thread: nixers community git
Post: RE: nixers community git
(29-11-2018, 10:03 AM)z3bra Wrote: This was created to ease contributions within the community, but I think it was a huge failure in the end (at least, from my POV, and the project I've shared throu...
 Steph Community & Forums Related Discussions 86 91,741 04-12-2018, 11:19 AM
  Thread: Interfaces of the future
Post: RE: Interfaces of the future
(02-12-2018, 06:06 AM)z3bra Wrote: handwrite notes, read paper sheets, etc... It has to be the most intuitive way to do computing An example of this can already be seen in the shift from command lin...
 Steph Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses 33 27,738 03-12-2018, 12:58 PM
  Thread: Perspectives on computing
Post: Perspectives on computing
I think it's really interesting how principled some people are on the subject of computing: This license or that, this piece of software or that, this OS or that, this piece of hardware or that, this ...
 Steph Off topic 4 4,905 15-11-2018, 09:34 PM
  Thread: Any ideas for a new project?
Post: RE: Any ideas for a new project?
(11-11-2018, 08:45 PM)jkl Wrote: I know of no single GNU tool that was not just reinventing the wheel. For the GNU project: The license > the software They don't care about reinventing the wheel...
 Steph Programming On Unix 21 14,967 12-11-2018, 11:34 PM
  Thread: Any ideas for a new project?
Post: RE: Any ideas for a new project?
(11-11-2018, 07:07 PM)pranomostro Wrote: I disagree politely I think for a lot of people, the closer the software is to their daily workflow, the more likely they will want to make their own impleme...
 Steph Programming On Unix 21 14,967 11-11-2018, 08:35 PM
  Thread: Any ideas for a new project?
Post: RE: Any ideas for a new project?
I know this a little outside of the interest area of people on nixers, but I've been working at optimizing algorithms to generate prime numbers. Im slightly addicted to project Euler.
 Steph Programming On Unix 21 14,967 11-11-2018, 08:33 AM
  Thread: Undergraduate research ideas
Post: Undergraduate research ideas
Hey everyone, I’m a sophmore in uni studying computer science and I feel far from competent. Despite this I have the oppertunity to conduct some undergraduate research in mathematics or computation. ...
 Steph Off topic 3 3,845 06-11-2018, 03:53 PM
  Thread: UNIX Diary
Post: RE: UNIX Diary
Dear UNIX diary, I have been loving project euler. I can spend whole afternoons trying to solve problems in elegant ways with python. I discovered it at a horrible time though, what with exams in ma...
 Steph Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses 188 178,798 28-10-2018, 05:23 PM
  Thread: Keeping machines alive
Post: RE: Keeping machines alive
(13-10-2018, 08:09 PM)jkl Wrote: Cheap earphones never sound good IMO. This. Cheap headphones make music sound like its echoing out of a trash can in the middle of a sandstorm.
 Steph Old school stuff 13 15,552 13-10-2018, 10:21 PM
  Thread: Idea for a "week of the vintage OS"
Post: RE: Idea for a "week of the vintage OS"
I'm in, sounds like fun.
 Steph Old school stuff 14 8,790 13-10-2018, 10:20 PM
  Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
(20-09-2018, 01:56 PM)eti Wrote: here's a screenshotI like it. Heres one: [Image: https://i.imgur.com/uCntzs3.png]
 Steph Desktop Customization & Workflow 1,739 2,083,757 20-09-2018, 05:52 PM
  Thread: Hello from Ohio
Post: RE: Hello from Ohio
Hey hey, welcome to the forums.
 Steph 4 4,119 20-09-2018, 01:12 PM
  Thread: Linux CoC
Post: Linux CoC
I see a lot of people freaking out about the recent changes to the linux Code of Conduct. What's the big deal about? What's wrong with promoting a more open atmosphere for an open project?
 Steph GNU/Linux 3 4,822 18-09-2018, 03:07 PM
  Thread: The State of the Web
Post: RE: The State of the Web
(09-09-2018, 11:12 PM)Dworin Wrote: With some obvious allowances for technical possibilities, I don't see how this is fundamentally different from the situation in printed media. Yet we look for (te...
 Steph Off topic 7 16,458 10-09-2018, 10:15 AM
  Thread: The State of the Web
Post: RE: The State of the Web
It's funny that you posted this today, because an hour ago I just deleted my facebook account. I don't have time today to read the links, but I'll come back and do this thing properly. In the meanti...
 Steph Off topic 7 16,458 09-09-2018, 11:34 AM
  Thread: Scripts to be "quick and efficient"
Post: RE: Scripts to be "quick and efficient"
(06-09-2018, 07:44 PM)jkl Wrote: But I don't like the colors. I'm in love with my E-ink theme
 Steph Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization 30 29,499 06-09-2018, 08:06 PM
  Thread: Scripts to be "quick and efficient"
Post: RE: Scripts to be "quick and efficient"
(03-09-2018, 08:43 AM)jkl Wrote: I spend too much time in my .vimrc, stealing productivity. This is an interesting point, It's true that customization and productivity do not perfectly correlate, bu...
 Steph Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization 30 29,499 03-09-2018, 09:09 AM
  Thread: The Unix Haters Handbook
Post: The Unix Haters Handbook
Hey gang, Just sharing something I was reading, I'd be very interested in some of the rebuttals and thoughts that you would have! It's a (lengthy) PDF for a book called the Unix Haters Handbook, whi...
 Steph Other *nix-like OSes & POSIX related 3 6,062 25-08-2018, 06:59 PM