Re: OT - Windows 10 - Fixing The Lag In Changing Virtual Desktops

Huh, interesting behavior you're seeing there. I just played around with the virtual desktops feature, then force-killed explorer (the 'root' process), and then used File->New Task, typed 'explorer' in the box, and hit enter. It all came back no issue, other than closing the couple of file explor

Re: OT - Windows 10 - Fixing The Lag In Changing Virtual Desktops

Even if you can open a new instance of Windows Explorer, you have to open it in a special way for it to take over the desktop function. Otherwise it will just show you the usual list of files. The one time I managed to kill the root instance, I couldn't find a key combination that did anything

Re: OT - Windows 10 - Fixing The Lag In Changing Virtual Desktops

Interesting find.IIRC the Ctrl+Alt+Del menu is part of the Kernel, and interrupts everything else happening on a Windows box.  If you manage to completely nuke Explorer, you should pretty much always be able to three-finger-salute into a Task Manager and go File->New Task and fire off a new ‘explor

OT - Windows 10 - Fixing The Lag In Changing Virtual Desktops

This isn't about Leo but I can't be the only one affected by this problem, which can be very annoying. I use many virtual desktops in my daily computing. Usually I have at least four, and sometimes up to six. For example, my browser and email client are in one. Leo and associated folders, co

Re: OT? Beware of ChatGPT

Here is a report of trying to use ChatGPT to write programs (in R) by someone who who writes a lot of serious R programs - Learning to Code with R using ChatGPT tl;dr - ChatGPT by and large did a pretty good

Re: OT? Beware of ChatGPT

Here's a really good book covering the basics of neural nets, fuzzy logic, and the relationship between them. It's rather old so it predates GPT and modern systems with huge numbers of parameters, but it's really good (but it has some math, because you can't escape that in this field). It's no

Re: OT? Beware of ChatGPT

I'm a little ambivalent. I'd certainly like to play around with the stuff, and apparently the code in this post is set up to use actual GPT trained coefficients. But what I'm most interested just now is training with other specialized data sets, except that the ones I want don't exist, or I do

Re: OT? Beware of ChatGPT

On Wednesday, March 29, 2023 at 5:28:00 PM UTC-5 tbp1...@gmail.com wrote: GPT in 60 lines of Python - GPT in 60 lines This article looks exactly what I have been looking for. Would anyone like to join me in a study group based on thi

Re: OT? Beware of ChatGPT

On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 5:28 PM Thomas Passin wrote: > GPT in 60 lines of Python - GPT in 60 lines > Yikes. Thanks for the link. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" grou

Re: OT? Beware of ChatGPT

GPT in 60 lines of Python - GPT in 60 lines On Tuesday, January 31, 2023 at 10:17:26 AM UTC-5 Thomas Passin wrote: > Here is an interesting link that among other things shows how ChatGPT has > major weaknesses in math, because it does

Re: OT: Breakthrough: "Liquid" neural networks

On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 8:19 AM Thomas Passin wrote: > Interesting! And also hot off the presses, the complete neural structure > of the brain of the fruit fly larva has been mapped. It has 93 neuron > types, 3016 neurons, with, get this, *548,000* interconnections. The > "liquid neural netwo

Re: OT: Breakthrough: "Liquid" neural networks

Interesting! And also hot off the presses, the complete neural structure of the brain of the fruit fly larva has been mapped. It has 93 neuron types, 3016 neurons, with, get this, *548,000* interconnections. The "liquid neural network" described in the Quanta article has 19 neurons and 253

Re: OT? Beware of ChatGPT

Here is an interesting link that among other things shows how ChatGPT has major weaknesses in math, because it doesn't actually "understand" the concepts. In a way, this piece is a kind of extended infomercial for Wolfram Alpha, but it's well worth worth reading anyway. On Sunday, January 29,

Re: OT? Beware of ChatGPT

Humans probably have a level of abstraction that is most susceptible to manipulation. It would perhaps differ between people to an extent, and also perhaps with the kind of subject being manipulated. I suspect that it is at a level that would correspond to "species" or the next higher level.

Re: OT? Beware of ChatGPT

Thanks for your comments. Imo, we have every right to consider the need to address manipulation by machines employing AI. Period :-) Yes, but I am academically-minded, and I expect to argue my case - because I do not expect to be believed unless I present a sound argument. -- You received t

Re: OT? Beware of ChatGPT

On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 5:12 PM David Szent-Györgyi wrote: Bear with me. What follows is Not Brief. > [Big snip] If we accept Hayakawa's arguments, we have every right to consider the need > to address manipulation by machines employing AI and the levels of > abstraction in that, and the abstra

Re: OT? Beware of ChatGPT

Bear with me. What follows is Not Brief. Understanding and deployment of the current wave of AI require understanding of two works of The Twentieth Century. One is Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems. The other is Alfred Korzybski's General Semantics, as explained by S. I. Hayakawa. Gödel's

Re: OT? Beware of ChatGPT

Here's an interesting post on Large Language Models, ChatGPT, and AI more generally - Janus' Simulators On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 12:24:44 PM UTC-5 Edward K. Ream wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 9:10 AM Thomas Passin wrote: > > Wit

OT: Clear intro to Alpha Fold

This guy knows how to explain things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYVf0bRgO5Q Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@g

Re: OT? Beware of ChatGPT

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 9:10 AM Thomas Passin wrote: With ChatGPT, the user can tune up the result by careful crafting of the > input instructions. It apparently takes skill and experience to do this > effectively. > I don't think ChatGPT is trustworthy enough right now. That's why I'll stick t

Re: OT? Beware of ChatGPT

The thing about ChatGPT and similar neural network systems is that they know how to string words and phrases together based on probability densities estimated during training, but they don't know about the underlying concepts. They don't know math but they can *sound* like they know math. So

OT? Beware of ChatGPT

As we has discussed recently, ChatGPT can do amazing things. Otoh, yesterday I experienced its limitations. ChatGPT *seems* authoritative, but my new rule of thumb is: use google if ChatGPT gives advice that doesn't "just work". google's searches return what could be called primary sources. The

Re: OT: My study of Rope

On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 7:02 PM Zoom.Quiet wrote: > Wow join rope develop long time ? > means Leo's develop need refactoring tools always? > Leo might be a better refactoring platform than Rope :-) I'm interested in Rope primarily because of its type inference. Edward -- You received this mess

Re: OT: My study of Rope

Wow join rope develop long time ? means Leo's develop need refactoring tools always? Edward K. Ream 于2023年1月6日周五 03:30写道： > > This Engineering Notebook post discusses recent investigations into Rope's > type inference. It may be of interest to some. > > Edward > > -- > You received this message

OT: My study of Rope

This Engineering Notebook post discusses recent investigations into Rope's type inference. It may be of interest to some. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo

Re: OT-ish: convert script from camelCase to snake_case

it probably depends on your keyboard nationality as well... On Thursday, September 15, 2022 at 2:34:32 PM UTC+1 tbp1...@gmail.com wrote: > For me, I barely notice typing the underscore, but my hands really dislike > typing a "#" for a comment. So when I need a line-oriented data format of > my

Re: OT-ish: convert script from camelCase to snake_case

For me, I barely notice typing the underscore, but my hands really dislike typing a "#" for a comment. So when I need a line-oriented data format of my own, I usually allow a ";" as well as a "#" to comment out a line. On Thursday, September 15, 2022 at 9:29:13 AM UTC-4 jkn wrote: > Yeah, I've

Re: OT-ish: convert script from camelCase to snake_case

Yeah, I've seen those kind of studies - and ones with different findings, as you may well have. I don't think that (for *me*) there is much difference in the 'cognitive effort' between the two styles. But there is more effort in typing snake_case (both the extra character, and the necessary han

Re: OT-ish: convert script from camelCase to snake_case

FWIW (maybe not much), Wikipedia's page on CamelCase includes this - 'A 2010 follow-up study, with other subjects containing mainly pre-trained programmers and using an improved measurement method with use of eye-tracking equipment, indicates: "While results indicate no difference in accuracy b

Re: OT-ish: convert script from camelCase to snake_case

e "x", too. I don't know if that can be turned >> off or not, but I imagine it could be checked for easily. >> >> On Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at 4:11:17 PM UTC-4 jkn wrote: >> >>> Hi all >>> slightly OT but I think this is a good pla

Re: OT-ish: convert script from camelCase to snake_case

an underscore like "x", too. I don't know if that can be turned off or > not, but I imagine it could be checked for easily. > > On Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at 4:11:17 PM UTC-4 jkn wrote: > >> Hi all >> slightly OT but I think this is a good place to ask: &

Re: OT-ish: convert script from camelCase to snake_case

, but I imagine it could be checked for easily. On Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at 4:11:17 PM UTC-4 jkn wrote: > Hi all > slightly OT but I think this is a good place to ask: > > I tend to write my personal python using camelCase for variables and > method names; > I prefer

OT-ish: convert script from camelCase to snake_case

Hi all slightly OT but I think this is a good place to ask: I tend to write my personal python using camelCase for variables and method names; I prefer this to the PEP8 standard for various reasons. I now have a need to convert some such scripts to snake_case, to meet a linting requirement

Re: OT: My paintings

On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 8:30 AM k-hen wrote: > I like those a lot. Well done :-) > Thank you. > I was an art minor in school but haven't made my way back to it since > moving on to my professional life. I really miss it. > > The book 'Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain' sparked a transform

Re: OT: My paintings

I like those a lot. Well done :-) I was an art minor in school but haven't made my way back to it since moving on to my professional life. I really miss it. The book 'Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain' sparked a transformative changed my life - i.e. changing brain modalities. Also correl

OT: My paintings

This page on Flickr now contains photos of my acrylic paintings. For my recent work I have documented the evolution of each painting by taking a photo after each painting session. As you will see, it doesn't much matter what the painting look

Re: OT: American Scientist: Expanding Consciousness

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 2:51 PM Matt Wilkie wrote: > Fascinating! Saving for a re-read over the weekend when I can reflect on > it more completely. > Glad you enjoyed it. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe fr

Re: OT: American Scientist: Expanding Consciousness

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OT: American Scientist: Expanding Consciousness

This article in American Scientist magazine argues persuasively that insects have some form of consciousness. My world will never again be the same. This article is well w

Re: OT - New Custom Editor That is Built On... Wait For It... Nodes

On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 1:31 PM, Chris George wrote: > Enjoy. > > https://open.nytimes.com/building-a-text-editor-for-a- > digital-first-newsroom-f1cb8367fc21 > ​Thanks for this link. I added a comment about Leo in the comments part of the page. Edward -- You received this message because yo

OT - New Custom Editor That is Built On... Wait For It... Nodes

Enjoy. https://open.nytimes.com/building-a-text-editor-for-a-digital-first-newsroom-f1cb8367fc21 Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor

Re: OT: A better way to code, by Mike Bostock

What a richness of thoughts and links in this thread. Another project to draw inspiration from: *Glitch Rewind*. https://medium.com/glitch/reinventing-version-control-with-glitch-rewind-914c350da442 "...with Rewind, you can see *every* change, every commit, and walk backwards in time through all

Re: OT: A better way to code, by Mike Bostock

Of course, the advantage of Joe Orr's Leo Vue demo is that it provides a single link to follow, which is what happens with most of the web native apps, with nothing to install, just a link and you're done (provided that you have good connectivity, which doesn't happen in a lot of places of the worl

Re: OT: A better way to code, by Mike Bostock

Hi, On 20/03/18 04:02, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > Comparing the fluency and momentum I get with Pharo with Python or > Javascript or similar file based and indirect techs, is difficult > to invest time in learning them deeply > > > ​I'm glad you are exploring the Pharo world.  The worl

Re: OT: A better way to code, by Mike Bostock

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 7:50 PM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas < off...@riseup.net> wrote: I still remember the day when, just three months after using Pharo and its > ecosystem, I was able to prototype an outliner with live coding [8] nodes, > something I was proposing/trying with Leo + IPython w

Re: OT: A better way to code, by Mike Bostock

Hi, On "talking code", I have not found nothing better that Smalltalk, specially current incarnations (like Pharo[1]) that feed on a long tradition of live coding[1a], mainly because you can create custom tools with custom presentations that can accommodate to your work flows and needs investing j

Re: OT: A better way to code, by Mike Bostock

Great Terry! For me it's a meaningful first step, just in the perfect moment! Thanks a lot for sharing. Amongst all the infos I would like to "have close", it is probably one of the most importants. What I would like to have for tests would be something like this (but nicer, of course):

Re: OT: A better way to code, by Mike Bostock

On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 01:15:04 -0700 (PDT) "Xavier G. Domingo (xgid)" wrote: > OK, enough poetry. Let's go to the Vision: my ideal IDE is the one > that tells you all the info related to the code at hand in a > non-intrusive, expressive, a click-away manner, all the time. The > main info I would li

Re: OT: A better way to code, by Mike Bostock

Great! Many thanks for your encouraging words. So I think I should try to explain first what I mean by "talking code". The idea is simple: when someone tells you that he is a programmer, he's telling you what he DOES. But that's not, by far, all he IS. There's much more he can *tell* you about

Re: OT: A better way to code, by Mike Bostock

On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 7:11 AM, Xavier G. Domingo (xgid) < xgdomi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have to admit that we are on the same boat here! After 30 years of > programming, with 20+ programming languages including rare gems like > CLIPPER and CHILL, I knew I was at home when I found Python. And I

Re: OT: A better way to code, by Mike Bostock

I have to admit that we are on the same boat here! After 30 years of programming, with 20+ programming languages including rare gems like CLIPPER and CHILL, I knew I was at home when I found Python. And I'm not going to change this, at least on this life! But I know that we *can get the goal wi

Re: OT: A better way to code, by Mike Bostock

On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 12:51 AM, Xavier G. Domingo (xgid) < xgdomi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Matt, thanks for sharing this! > > It seems that Bostock is a strong follower of Bret Victor, which I've > found always quite inspiring on better ways of programming. The work at > observablehq.com

Re: OT: A better way to code, by Mike Bostock

Hi Matt, thanks for sharing this! It seems that Bostock is a strong follower of Bret Victor, which I've found always quite inspiring on better ways of programming. The work at observablehq.com seems strongly focused on intensive data manipulation and visualizat

Re: OT: A better way to code, by Mike Bostock

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 11:44 PM, Matt Wilkie wrote: > > I'm continually in awe of Mike Bostock's work, c.f. Data Driven Documents ( >> d3.org). ... >> > > should have been https://d3js.org/ > ​Yes, d3 is cool. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group

Re: OT: A better way to code, by Mike Bostock

> I'm continually in awe of Mike Bostock's work, c.f. Data Driven Documents ( > d3.org). ... > should have been https://d3js.org/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it,

Re: OT: A better way to code, by Mike Bostock

> ​I'm wary of flashy demos that don't actually involve programming. > Wariness on the internet is justified! Here's the real thing: https://beta.observablehq.com/ matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this

Re: OT: A better way to code, by Mike Bostock

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 11:02 AM, Matt Wilkie wrote: > I'm continually in awe of Mike Bostock's work, c.f. Data Driven Documents ( > d3.org). Impressive as that is, it's his power to clearly explain data, > visualization and programming in cohesive bundle that transforms my > thinking which impre

OT: A better way to code, by Mike Bostock

I'm continually in awe of Mike Bostock's work, c.f. Data Driven Documents ( d3.org). Impressive as that is, it's his power to clearly explain data, visualization and programming in cohesive bundle that transforms my thinking which impresses me most. I've not yet learned to do anything substantiv

Re: OT: Duolingo language courses

ard , this mailling-list standing many Chinese Leonard, any Chinese question, can [OT] discuss here. btw: happy Chinese New Year for all Leonards -- life is pathetic, go Pythonic! 人生苦短, Python当歌! 俺: http://zoomquiet.io 授: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/cn/ 怒: 冗余不做,日子甭过!备份

Re: OT: Duolingo language courses

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Re: OT: Duolingo language courses

On Sunday, February 4, 2018 at 10:56:11 AM UTC-6, Edward K. Ream wrote: Greek [requires] you install the Greek language package right from the get > go. > And now I know how to switch input methods :-) Installin

OT: Duolingo language courses

Duolingo is a free, online way to learn a language. It has some advantages over Rosetta Stone, besides price. It's fairly easy to avoid the illusion of competence, provided you follow the "Deepen" buttons. Using Duolingo in high school would have changed my life. I

Re: OT: return do, not, use, this

> dict() is an obvious one, but because of Python's verbose dict syntax > (foo['bar'] not foo.bar) it makes code harder to read​ I used attrdict for awhile, and liked it for what I was doing at the time, https://github.com/bcj/AttrDict.There is Box, https://github.com/cdgriffith/Box which has a si

Re: OT: return do, not, use, this

hingy.__class__.__name__ should be informative and distinct from > every other kind of object. Hmm. So certainly not (thing0, thing1, thing2). And that's why I marked this OT - I think that pattern's widespread, not just a Leo thing. It looks neat in example code: found, p, m

Re: OT: return do, not, use, this

On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 9:12 AM, Terry Brown wrote: > On Sat, 23 Dec 2017 06:16:23 -0800 > "Edward K. Ream" wrote: > > > ​Thanks for raising this topic. I have been meaning to say a few > > deprecating words about g.Bunch myself.​ > > What don't you like about g.Bunch? > ​I don't like that it'

Re: OT: return do, not, use, this

On Sat, 23 Dec 2017 06:16:23 -0800 "Edward K. Ream" wrote: > ​Thanks for raising this topic. I have been meaning to say a few > deprecating words about g.Bunch myself.​ What don't you like about g.Bunch? g.Bunch was not what I was speaking against. The pattern I'm finding most awkward for ext

Re: OT: return do, not, use, this

On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 11:26 AM, Terry Brown wrote: Twice in the log links to nodes branch I had to work around tuples as > stand-ins for light weight types. > ​I agree. And I don't think this is an off topic discussion. I have almost always come to regret g.Bunch. In my experience, any slig

Re: OT: return do, not, use, this

p.s. https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2016/08/attrs.html is funny and points to https://attrs.readthedocs.io/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-ed

OT: return do, not, use, this

Twice in the log links to nodes branch I had to work around tuples as stand-ins for light weight types. recursiveUNLFind() uses `return found, maxdepth, maxp`. g.es() uses `app.logWaiting.append((s, color, newline))` This is a problem because it's hard to extend without modifying every case wher

OT but interesting project

Browser-based web development platform built entirely in PostgreSQL https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/449 An interview with the author of Aquameta: http://aquameta.com It's not typical DB stuff, lots of innovative thinking. Thanks, Kent -- You received this message because you are su

Re: OT: (Kinda) "Learning How to Learn" from Coursera

On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 3:20 PM, john lunzer wrote: > On Friday, August 25, 2017 at 10:19:53 AM UTC-4, Edward K. Ream wrote: > >> I would like to learn more about web technologies. I'll start by >> replicating the appearance of Joe Orr's Leo Viewer page >>

Re: OT: (Kinda) "Learning How to Learn" from Coursera

On Friday, August 25, 2017 at 10:19:53 AM UTC-4, Edward K. Ream wrote: > I would like to learn more about web technologies. I'll start by > replicating the appearance of Joe Orr's Leo Viewer page > . > Been thinking about this and a

Re: OT: (Kinda) "Learning How to Learn" from Coursera

> On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 5:25 PM, Arjan wrote: > >> Oh, also take a look at the superb videos at 3Blue1Brown >> >> then! >> > ​Ok. I've subscribed :-) There's playlists like *Essence of linear algebra*, *Essence of calculus*, >

Re: OT: (Kinda) "Learning How to Learn" from Coursera

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 5:25 PM, Arjan wrote: > Oh, also take a look at the superb videos at 3Blue1Brown > then! > There's playlists like *Essence of linear algebra*, *Essence of calculus*, > and excellent items like Who cares ab

Re: OT: (Kinda) "Learning How to Learn" from Coursera

Oh, also take a look at the superb videos at 3Blue1Brown then! There's playlists like *Essence of linear algebra*, *Essence of calculus*, and excellent items like Who cares about topology?

Re: OT: (Kinda) "Learning How to Learn" from Coursera

On Wednesday, August 23, 2017 at 1:33:19 AM UTC-5, Satish Goda wrote: > > Great recommendation Edward. Appreciate sharing with us. > > I will start with this course today. > This course is a most hopeful development. It should utterly destroy the myth that only "gifted" students (in any field) s

Re: OT: (Kinda) "Learning How to Learn" from Coursera

Great recommendation Edward. Appreciate sharing with us. I will start with this course today. On Friday, August 11, 2017 at 9:57:22 PM UTC+8, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > I ran across this free course in this New York Times article >

Re: OT: (Kinda) "Learning How to Learn" from Coursera

Thanks for the tip! I just started the course, because I don't want be crazy ;-). Looks very promising... Reinhard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email t

OT: (Kinda) "Learning How to Learn" from Coursera

I ran across this free course in this New York Times article . The actual course is here . After two days, I am now on week three of four ;-).

OT: A big surprise about the torch code

In essence, *all* the torch code is matrix/tensor operations. The only exception is the function StochasticGradient:train, which performs the training iteration. This is approximately zero percent of the code base. In retrospect, this makes sense. The result of tr

Re: OT: Time for a Linux laptop

Interesting, the other distro was reinventing install, poorly. On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 5:45 AM, Edward K. Ream wrote: > On Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at 10:20:11 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > My Lenovo T460s now runs both Windows 10 and Ubuntu. I bought Windows 10 > on a stick, hehe, to ensu

Re: OT: Time for a Linux laptop

On Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at 10:20:11 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: My Lenovo T460s now runs both Windows 10 and Ubuntu. I bought Windows 10 on a stick, hehe, to ensure it would always be available. Worth the price, imo. It was actually easier to install Ubuntu than reinstall Windows 10.

Re: OT: Time for a Linux laptop

> > I'm not convinced they actually fixed anything. > Funny, I say the same thing every time I get my car back from the shop. On Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at 11:20:11 AM UTC-4, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > On Friday, April 14, 2017 at 11:22:23 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > > Alas, I won't h

Re: OT: Time for a Linux laptop

On Friday, April 14, 2017 at 11:22:23 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: > Alas, I won't have it with me at the sprint. Wow. I just got it back, two days after sending it to Atlanta. I'll test it for a few days before changing anything. I'm not convinced they actually fixed anything. We shall s

Re: OT: Time for a Linux laptop

On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 6:48 PM, Mike Hodson wrote: > Can you give me the exact link to the download url you used for the Ubuntu > image? > ​Probably releases.ubuntu.com/16.04/ubuntu-16.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso EKR -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "

Re: OT: Time for a Linux laptop

USB3 I find has strange troubles booting .. This is often a BIOS issue. USB2 is how I installed my T460s and my previous usb3 capable computers.. The battery issue..thats new to me.. I've never booted up Windows 10 for more than one time, just to see if it _did_ boot.. That said, I've got the 256

OT: The Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest

This page contains hilarious "bad" writing. It takes a truly great writer to write stuff so awful. Great for depression. My all-time favorite is the 1986 winner, but there are hundreds of others to choose from. Edward -- You received this messa

Re: OT: Time for a Linux laptop

On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 12:19 PM, Mike Hodson wrote: > Oh for the love of... > What died?! I'm surprised as anything at this revelation > ​It was a cascading series of failures. Imo, the machine was never right. It ran very slowly out of the box. Then the battery indicator got stuck at "28%,

Re: OT: Time for a Linux laptop

Oh for the love of... What died?! I'm surprised as anything at this revelation On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 12:22 PM, Edward K. Ream wrote: > On Monday, April 3, 2017 at 10:58:41 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > > Just ordered a t460s with backlit keyboard. > > Alas, I won't have it with me at th

Re: OT: Time for a Linux laptop

On Monday, April 3, 2017 at 10:58:41 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: > Just ordered a t460s with backlit keyboard. Alas, I won't have it with me at the sprint. The hardware has failed. It's going to Atlanta for repairs. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Go

Re: OT: Time for a Linux laptop

On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 11:26 AM, Mike Hodson wrote: > > Furthermore, I have found the 1920x1080 IPS non-touchscreen panel (matte > display) in my laptop to have a bit of a strange gamma curve; It is spot-on > with mid-tones, but the low/high ends are washed out. > > I just found the "BroadcastRGB

Re: OT: Time for a Linux laptop

On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Edward K. Ream wrote: > ​Just ordered a t460s with backlit keyboard. The video review I watched > raved about the keyboard, which apparently is better than the dell keyboard. > Cool beans :) I've had a good experience with this keyboard myself, being one who eve

Re: OT: Time for a Linux laptop

On Monday, April 3, 2017 at 4:58:41 PM UTC+1, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > > > On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 4:46 AM, Mike Hodson > wrote: > >> >> On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 5:07 AM, Edward K. Ream > > wrote: >> >>> ​Hehe. I see you have the essential "software": pizza, chips and pop. >>> It's a great reci

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On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 4:46 AM, Mike Hodson wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 5:07 AM, Edward K. Ream > wrote: > >> ​Hehe. I see you have the essential "software": pizza, chips and pop. >> It's a great recipe for hypertension, as I have found out. >> >> Alright then. I'll order the ThinkPad t4

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On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 4:50 PM, Chris George wrote: > https://www.slant.co/topics/1184/~laptops-for-linux > > I have heard good things about the Dell. > ​Thanks. It does look good. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To uns

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https://www.slant.co/topics/1184/~laptops-for-linux I have heard good things about the Dell. Chris On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 1:59 PM, Terry Brown wrote: > On Sun, 2 Apr 2017 05:46:28 -0400 > Mike Hodson wrote: > > > And, when the food is provided free from the office, I tend to eat > > it. > > F

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On Sun, 2 Apr 2017 05:46:28 -0400 Mike Hodson wrote: > And, when the food is provided free from the office, I tend to eat > it. For optimum performance you should really be drinking beer or something and aiming for the Ballmer Peak: https://xkcd.com/323/ Cheers -Terry -- You received this me

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On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 5:07 AM, Edward K. Ream wrote: > ​Hehe. I see you have the essential "software": pizza, chips and pop. > It's a great recipe for hypertension, as I have found out. > > Alright then. I'll order the ThinkPad t460s. Thanks for your advice. > You're welcome! I hope you like

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On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 2:07 AM, Mike Hodson wrote: > Indeed, it runs Sabayon right now. > ​Hehe. I see you have the essential "software": pizza, chips and pop. It's a great recipe for hypertension, as I have found out. Alright then. I'll order the ThinkPad t460s. Thanks for your advice. Edwa

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Indeed, it runs Sabayon right now. But a lot of others in the office, with similar hardware, are using Ubuntu, Mint, and Fedora and others to great success. The place I'm working now (InMotion Hosting) is almost all Linux from Tier 2 onward; a few Macs. Only the Tier 1 group uses Windows for domain

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