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heeen··on GitQlient – a multi-platform GUI-oriented Git client written with Qt
QtCreator maybe?
heeen··on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability
I have a T480 as well and both the nvidia (closed source) and intel drivers work for me on Kubuntu.
heeen··on DeepFaceLab: A tool that utilizes ML to replace faces in videos
https://youtu.be/2ZKPnuUFwOk?list=PL84DB158CAABE4E07&t=633

https://youtu.be/KH1V6CHO1Jk?list=PL84DB158CAABE4E07&t=388

heeen··on Apple self-driving car in accident: California DMV filing
put your car in neutral and turn off your engine, see what happens. You can still steer and brake, but for a sharp turn or down an incline you would be surprised how hard it is without servo steering and the vacuum servo.
heeen··on LinuxBoot: Linux as Firmware
> I do most work on the commandline in text-mode (no graphics layer)

I'm pretty sure there is some graphics layers even in your work environment.

heeen··on Google ditches Ubuntu for Debian for internal engineering environment
Imagine my surprise when I pulled a headless debootstrap chroot upgrade of a squeeze debian box that did not come up after rebooting.

I had to order a remote KMS session to figure out what went wrong: debian did not include the pretty common realtek-firmware and I was not able to apt-get it without a network interface. Luckily I was able to use it from a the previous installation.

heeen··on Tim Sweeney on the First Version of the Unreal Editor
GtkRadiant and Trenchbroom are modern brush editors
heeen··on No need to pinkify – Girls get interested in tech because it is interesting
> Give my daughter some princess engineers in pink dresses please.

like Princess Bubblegum? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKDghDZaS2M

heeen··on GoboLinux: A distro that redefines the entire filesystem hierarchy
don't forget /opt
heeen··on Languages Which Almost Became CSS
You get a tiny amount of control over the html with :before and :after content and removing elements with display:none and going crazy with complex selectors and absolute positioning
heeen··on WannaCry ransomware bitcoins move from online wallets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handling_stolen_goods
heeen··on WannaCry ransomware bitcoins move from online wallets
They just need to write a new ransomware that forces their victims to launder their bitcoins for them /s
heeen··on WannaCry ransomware bitcoins move from online wallets
Is your argument HSBC committed a crime so everyone else should be allowed to, too?
heeen··on Snowman: native code to C/C++ decompiler
Has anyone tried training a RNN on high level language <-> assembly?

Would be cool if it could even guess variable names from patterns it has seen before, like x,y,z for vector structs.

heeen··on Velodyne Announces a Solid-State Lidar
the garmin unit seems to only measure a single distance in the direction in which you point it. This new velodyne unit touts a 120° angle (but nothing on the horizontal or vertical resolution)

Their spinning lidars have 16 to 64 vertical beams and a horizontal resolution depending on the rotation speed with a sampling rate of 300.000 to 2.2M points/sec

http://velodynelidar.com/products.html

edit - totally missed how many people already pointed this out, sorry.

heeen··on The man who sold the world on credit cards
Are those actual credit cards or are they debit cards? If you pay for something, when does it bill your actual account?
heeen··on H-1B visas mainly go to Indian outsourcing firms
Interesting. That does not reflect what I have seen at my company.
heeen··on H-1B visas mainly go to Indian outsourcing firms
H1B applicants have to be paid prevailing wage, I wonder where the notion of cheap h1b workers comes from.
heeen··on H-1B visas mainly go to Indian outsourcing firms
you can "transfer" your visa although it is not called that officially. IIRC You have to file your petition with the new employer but you don't have to go through the lottery again
heeen··on Robot Baristas Serve Up the Future of Coffee at Cafe X
What you wrote resonates with me. I have an espresso machine and grinder at home and I enjoy making coffee for guests and myself. I wish I could pull off even simple latte art.

In a post scarcity world, I imagine human work with its imperfections will have its own wabi sabi value. People already pay a hefty premium for artisan handmade products like pottery, furniture, even jeans.

“I could try composing wonderful musical works, or day-long entertainment epics, but what would that do? Give people pleasure? My wiping this table gives me pleasure. And people come to a clean table, which gives them pleasure. And anyway" - the man laughed - "people die; stars die; universes die. What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead? Of course, if all I did was wipe tables, then of course it would seem a mean and despicable waste of my huge intellectual potential. But because I choose to do it, it gives me pleasure. And," the man said with a smile, "it's a good way of meeting people. So where are you from, anyway?” ― Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons

heeen··on Fighting the Borrow Checker
> "There is no reason a person should know which class they are in, nor should a class know which people are enrolled in it. "

Also replacing a O(1) chasing a pointer into a O(n) array search

heeen··on 32-bit x86 Position Independent Code – It's That Bad
Are you suggesting that every single calculator, file manager, terminal, editor, package manager and music player ship with their own copy of libQt5* (around 78M) or gtk?
heeen··on UK websites place average of 44 cookies on first visit
you can keep a whitelist of allowed permament/session/temporary cookies with https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cslite-mod/
heeen··on When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and nobody cared
https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/keyframe-animation-synta...
heeen··on Newest version of uTorrent has Bitcoin mining offer during install
doesn't sourceforge bundle crapware with their installers as well?
heeen··on Psyop Mistakes?
The mistake was probably made by confusing one of the two variants of 's' that were used back then with a 'f': The one that looks like an f was only used at the beginning of words, also within compound nouns. In this example, one would read as "guardroom", the other as "wax tube" http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Wachstube.svg
heeen··on Deep learning for chess
I think you overestimated the possible chess positions by a couple orders of magnitude. You can't have a chess configuration with an arbitrary number of pieces.
heeen··on Show HN: Duckling – Open-source datetime expression parsing
It seems to have problems with places as time zones, e.g. next sunday noon, german time
heeen··on The Qt Company Introduces a Unified Website
people don't seem too impressed with it though http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17103925/how-well-is-unic...
heeen··on The Qt Company Introduces a Unified Website
you mentioned desktop platforms in your OP, so I assumed non-appstore platforms.
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