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What's your hostname scheme, /g/?
Mine right now:
>Thinkpad
Mirana
>Desktop
Mortred
>Phone
Jakiro
>Home server
Luna
>Galaxy Note Tablet
Rylai
>PS4
Leshrac
>>53697231
>laptop
Wintermute
>desktop
Neuromancer
>phone
Shodan
>>53697360
Hivemind right here
My laptop is wintermute and my soho server is neromancer
>Desktop
Jennifer
>rMBP 15"
Anjna
>Thinkpad T420
Archie
>MBP 13"
Anshika
>sudo apt-get purge lxterminal
>sudo apt-get install lxterminal
>still the same settings
I had to manually find and delete the configuration files.
For all I know there could be more configuration files at other places.
I though linux was supposed to "just work".
Do other data leak everywhere without notice?
Is my terminal history stored to other places other than $HOME/.bash_history? Do I ever stand a chance of successfully shredding a file on...
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It's because you're using apt.
>>53696922
>stupid
>journaled
>I though linux was supposed to "just work".
who told you this lol
I am going to assume that everyone here knows it's coming. I could easily be wrong about the timetable, but I think it will be fairly common (not ubiquitous, but common) for cars to be able to drive themselves in most conditions under human supervision within ten years, and maybe twice that until people are eating, sleeping, and reading in the back seat of a robot. I think the former type of car will be technologically possible within five years, but it'll take a while for it to become common both because the price will need to come down and there are legal barriers that will need to be overcome.
I mostly want to discuss those legal barriers, but this can be a robot-car general.
I've heard people saying that firmware for autonomous cars should have to be government regulated and certified the way that aircraft software is, and I have a question about that: Why not just give a car a driving test, the way that we give people driving tests? Does it make sense to hold people to lower standards than computers? Why be super anal and perfectionist about the competence of a computer when any mentally unstable jackass who can parallel park for an instructor gets a license? The goal of maximizing road safety is certainly a good one, but I think that this is an extremely lopsided approach that stems from a fear of the unknown. Is there any reason that the standards shouldn't be the same for computers and people?
I think we should grant driver's licenses to individual firmware image/machine pairs the same way we grant them to people, using some combination of the same licensing and inspection frameworks that we already use. This way somebody who modifies their physical machine in a stupid way that causes it not to be able to drive itself properly loses the right to let it drive itself, and somebody who modifies their firmware in a way that doesn't make it less effective can still use it legally. People could easily use third party firmware, etc.
What do you think?
Another reason to do it this way is that cars do not exist in permanently in the same state that they first leave the showroom in. Even more commonly than people make stupid modifications, they allow their cars to fall into disrepair. What happens when you push a meticulously certified firmware update to a fifteen year old car with broken sensors and a corroded electrical system?
Maybe you require firmware not to boot if sensors don't pass tests, and maybe you even require sensors to be redundant so that they can fail on the road without causing problems, but you're...
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>does it make sense to hold people to lower standards than computers?
Nice wording dipshit. Try:
>if we can make computers better at driving than people should we?
Also, we know that humans can adapt to different situations, we don't need to test that. A short computer program with a set of instructions could pass a driving test, the question is, can it adapt to every different scenario?
>>53698305
>if we can make computers better at driving than people should we?
That is not a matter of "wording". This is a completely separate question. Whether we can and should make them better has no bearing on whether or not we should -require- them to be better. Why should a computer have to be better at something than a person, rather than simply "as good" in order to be allowed to do it instead of a person?
My driving test involved driving on city streets in traffic, not on a closed course. It was a short demonstration of a random and unpredictable (due to the random and unpredictable nature of traffic) subset of the skills required of a competent driver. No "short program" could pass such a test, and if that is true of any test then it is no more valid as a test for humans than it is as a test for computers.
It's true that a driving test could miss bugs and quirks, but in humans the same sort of testing can miss things like night blindness, alcoholism, schizophrenia, dementia, etc (all of which could potentially develop for the first time after the test, even if we did use tests that would catch them). That's not to mention that a large percentage of people forget or permanently disregard a huge percentage of traffic laws and safety guidelines immediately upon completing their tests, make terrible decisions like texting and driving, suffer various forms of fatigue, etc. Basically, driving tests are woefully and completely inadequate for determining whether or not someone is likely to behave in ways that are dangerous any of the infinite possible driving situations that they might ever find themselves in, but we figure that it would be impractical to do better, so it's good enough, despite that people kill each other with cars literally all day every day.
Why should it be different for computers, which completely unlike humans are at least guaranteed to always perform as well as they did on their driving test in the same conditions?
What the fuck, is this faggot working for Google? It can't be real...
false and homosexual
>>53696806
Literally who?
>start anonymous website
>champion anonymous web
>sell 4chan to guy who sells user data
>go to work for company that makes all it's money from harvesting user data
poerty
Hey guys. What are the best laptops for writing? I'm searching for something cheap, light, and with a good keyboard. It would be normally used with LibreOffice and LyX.
>>53696186
Also, it should be small. Not bigger than 14 inches.
HP Elitebook 2540p
I've never found a laptop with a better feeling keyboard
>>53696186
>writing on a low res screen
Only producing music with Beats is worse. Stop hating yourself and get a Retina Macbook.
If you're really that dirt poor, grab a Chromebook that has a keyboard you like and put Loonix on it.
Previously on: >>53686408
Welcome to /flt/, we are always open to users of all levels, including absolute beginners.
There are four ways to try GNU/Linux, you can:
0) Install a GNU/Linux OS on a VM (Virtual Machine/VirtualBox) for "safety purposes"
1) Use the Live ISO directly without installing anything, that way, you can get a "full GNU/Linux experience".
2) Dual-boot GNU/Linux with Windows/Mac (recommended if you want to learn more about GNU/Linux)
3) Go balls...
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> Pasta:
https://ghostbin.com/paste/ps6jk
>>53695738
somewhat related to your question:
check out a program called Guake. it's a terminal that drops down from the top of the screen whenever you press a toggle hotkey. It's reminiscent of the terminal in the old Quake games. it's pretty customizable, and pretty neato.
I installed the solarized theme for both it and my regular terminal. Google it and see if you like it, you're bound to find instructions to install
>>53695901
>solarized
Alright /g/ today we are gonna make some meme machines.
>what is a meme machine?
A meme machine is a PC made of as many meme components as possible. Ex. GTX 970.
>how do I make one?
Go on pcpartpicker and select the parts you need for your meme machine, and post the generated link here.
I'll start it off: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/d34Pqs
>>53695675
Lurking. Too lazy to cumtribuuut. Impress me.
More memage for you here.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2ZwBsY
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/6gbJvK
http://www.bitsandchips.it/52-english-news/6785-rumor-pascal-in-trouble-with-asyncronous-compute-code
Waitfags BLOWN THE FUCK OUT
>No HBM2 or GDDR5X
Just pick up a 390 today guys.
DELETE THIS
2016 year of AMD
>async compute
le dx12 meme, not this again
![25267299-Two-pleading-human-hands-isolated-Stock-Photo[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/JusgTsH.jpg "25267299-Two-pleading-human-hands-isolated-Stock-Photo[1].jpg")
>Please look at our ads! We need the revenue!
Okay, fine, what's in it for me?
>>53694417
>>Okay, fine, what's in it for me?
Malware and privacy invasion, apparently
>>53694417
having the content you like stay there
>>53694444
/thread
> i have made a huge mistake
I wan't to have a job in the future, how do I transfer from this piece of shit?
>>53694004
>transferring to a better uni in the UK
<unlikely>
I've seen this thread on like 2 other boards
Sup
>teachers that give no fucks about you or about teaching things in an understandable way
>everyone else is a tryhard and they don't like to help you
>TAs take like twenty classes a semester or something and then get pissed off at you when you try to get help from them
>the entire campus is constantly tuned into Reddit
>literally no good food to be found within a 5 mile radius
>half...
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I'll start.
It's GNOME, not Gnome.
See https://www.gnome.org/
It's Xfce, not XFCE.
See http://xfce.org/
It's MATE, not Mate.
See http://mate-desktop.org/
It's LXDE, not Lxde.
See http://lxde.org/
It's LXQt, not LXQT.
See http://lxqt.org/
It's Tor, not TOR.
See https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#WhyCalledTor
It's Iceweasel, not IceWeasel.
See https://wiki.debian.org/Iceweasel
See https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/IceCat
It's Lua, not LUA.
See http://www.lua.org/about.html
It's...
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It's GNU/Linux, not Linux.
>>53692909
Autism speaks.
>2016
>using Lubuntu
>using Xubuntu
>using Kubuntu
>using Ubuntu Gnome
Behold, the best Ubuntu variant of all time.
MATE is seriously the best balance of stability, functionality, and speed.
Has /g/ made the switch yet?
>>53692088
i use ubuntu on my servers and osx on my desktop, the way god intended
Ubuntu mate is comfy and hardly uses ant resources
>>53692088
Fucking Argentinians man
Should video tapes make a come back??.
What? No. Why?
Obsolete technologies don't make come backs.
Unless you're a stupid hipster.
>>53691178
not gonna happen outside niche releases
Rate my pup, and wire management.
>>53690211
yellow/10
You need some cable ties for those wires to make it cleaner OP
>>53690211
why do you have two old dumb cellphones?
whats the best ganoo+linux terminal?
rxvt-unicode
>transparent terminal
drake.jpg
>>53684401
uxterm
