- Nov 2022
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github.com github.com
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A beginning user should be able to docker run official-image bash (or sh) without needing to learn about --entrypoint.
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It is also nice for advanced users to take advantage of entrypoint, so that they can docker run official-image --arg1 --arg2 without having to specify the binary to execute.
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- Dec 2021
- Feb 2021
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www.convinceandconvert.com www.convinceandconvert.com
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- Jan 2021
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www.zdnet.com www.zdnet.com
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Systemd problems might not have mattered that much, except that GNOME has a similar attitude; they only care for a small subset of the Linux desktop users, and they have historically abandoned some ways of interacting the Desktop in the interest of supporting touchscreen devices and to try to attract less technically sophisticated users. If you don't fall in the demographic of what GNOME supports, you're sadly out of luck.
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sankeymatic.com sankeymatic.com
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SankeyMATIC unlocks the capabilities of the D3 Sankey tool for anyone to use.
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SankeyMATIC builds on the open source tool D3.js and its Sankey library, which are very powerful but require a fair amount of work & expertise to use.
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forums.theregister.com forums.theregister.com
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I've already said this, but if you think the average desktop computer user thinks a sentence beginning "I just make a chroot..." makes any kind of sense, you haven't been paying attention to the level of intelligence of the general public.
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Well, that user can safely stay with Windows. Hiding these things from me makes wish that.
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Linux on the desktop won't take off until it is equally easy. Snap may be dumbed down, restricted and all the rest of it, but for ordinary users it's easier - and more secure - than the alternative.
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discourse.ubuntu.com discourse.ubuntu.com
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Most users frankly don’t care how software is packaged. They don’t understand the difference between deb / rpm / flatpak / snap. They just want a button that installs Spotify so they can listen to their music.
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In addition, PPAs are awful for software discovery. Average users have no idea what a PPA is, nor how to configure or install software from it. Part of the point of snap is to make software discovery easier. We can put new software in the “Editor’s Picks” in Ubuntu Software then people will discover and install it. Having software in a random PPA somewhere online is only usable by experts. Normal users have no visibility to it.
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While you may have some objections due to your specific setup, please consider you’re not the usual use case. Most people install Ubuntu on a single drive, not separate /home, and not multiple disks. Most are quite happy with automatic updates - in line with how their phone is likely setup - both for debs (with unattended-upgrades) and snaps (via automatic refresh in snapd). Experts such as yourself are capable of managing your own system and are interested in twiddling knobs and adjusting settings everywhere. There are millions of Ubuntu users who are not like that. We should cater for the widest possible use case by default, and have the option to fiddle switches for experts, which is what we have.
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- discoverability: not easily discoverable
- packaging software
- don't care
- PPAs
- discoverability
- the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few
- audience: power users
- technical details
- audience: casual users (not power users)
- doesn't matter
- users just want to get work done
- user experience
- discoverability of software
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- Oct 2020
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if you’re just the casual web surfer type, learning about Internet terminology might not be of much real use to you
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- Sep 2020
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codingwithspike.wordpress.com codingwithspike.wordpress.com
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To make this “if you install me, you better also install X, Y, and Z!” problem easier, peerDependencies was introduced.
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- Aug 2020
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icla2020.jonreeve.com icla2020.jonreeve.com
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Ya! yaka, yaka, yaka!
yikes...
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- Jul 2020
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www.theregister.com www.theregister.com
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"Other office suites are focusing on the 'power user' which is a valuable market, for sure, but the real power and range for an open-source office suite alternative is the vast majority which is the 'rest of us. Sometimes we all forget how empowering open source is to the entire world."
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- Jun 2020
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Horn, S. R., Weston, S. J., & Fisher, P. (2020). Identifying causal role of COVID-19 in immunopsychiatry models [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/w4d5u
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- May 2020
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theconversation.com theconversation.com
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Cook, J., & Lewandowsky, S. (n.d.). Coronavirus conspiracy theories are dangerous – here’s how to stop them spreading. The Conversation. Retrieved April 21, 2020, from http://theconversation.com/coronavirus-conspiracy-theories-are-dangerous-heres-how-to-stop-them-spreading-136564
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github.com github.com
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However, distributing such Ruby apps to inexperienced end users or non-Ruby-programmer end users is problematic. If users have to install Ruby first, or if they have to use RubyGems, they can easily run into problems. Even if they already have Ruby installed, they can still run into problems, e.g. by having the wrong Ruby version installed. The point is, it's a very real problem that could harm your reputation.
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- Dec 2019
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plaintext-productivity.net plaintext-productivity.net
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I have concluded that all these systems are cumbersome and onerous in some ways, more concerned with design than functionality, and more concerned with ease-of-use than speed and efficiency.
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www.howtogeek.com www.howtogeek.com
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There’s the command prompt version, which is extremely useful for anyone who is constantly in the command prompt. But don’t panic if you’re not a command line fan, because it’s not the only tool available to you—there are great todo.txt clients for every platform.
Just because you don't like one client doesn't mean you should rule out all clients of text-based to-do lists from consideration. (Similar issue with hledger: there are GUIs available for plain-text accounting software too!)
Just because there are tools/features for power users doesn't mean it can't also work for more casual users.
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medium.com medium.com
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But that number is already known to be about 55 segments
If talking a single generation, this would be the number to use. That is, the 55 segment scrambling that your parents got will be passed on to you.
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Whether the input number of segments is initialized as higher or lower, the number of segments tends to converge around 97.5
I was talking with someone about having different ancestry from one's siblings. I was unsure of how frequently chromosomal gene swapping occurs. This answers the important question, which is units of inheritance. That is, instead of calculating inheritance as 23 units, slightly less than 100 appears more accurate. This makes percentage DNA almost precisely the expected value, but the standard deviation should be such that rare cases of one sibling being e.g. Jewish while the other sibling lacking that ancestry may occur.
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