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Nicnac

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    Nicnac got a reaction from bradwiggo in Is Apple Even TRYING?? – Airpods 2 Review   
    So does most of the clothing Gucci offers ?
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    Nicnac reacted to Trippik in Best tool for managing literature and referencing   
    If they have a plugin for word give it a go! I personally just like Libre Office and am a bit of a nerd for the whole open source thing! TBH the bit I have found most useful is the way you can use the browser plugin to add references on the fly. I would advise you to try a couple of different referencing tools and see which ones work best for you, there are a lot of good ones out there and everyone has a preference depending on how they work.
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    Nicnac reacted to LogicalDrm in Best tool for managing literature and referencing   
    Word has buil-in one. I used only basic listing and having each reference separed in my notes. What works for you also depends on how accurate you need to be. Like do you need to reference to page or just to book/article.
     
    RefWorks is the one my previous Uni uses, and forces anyone doing PhD or post-doc to use. No personal experience, but I've heard that its works nicely with digital stuff. With paper/printed, you need to do much more legwork.
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    Nicnac reacted to Trippik in Best tool for managing literature and referencing   
    I've used Zotero for a couple years now, it's the best referencing tool I've tried and it has a really nice integration with Libre Office, it's definitely worth a go
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    Nicnac reacted to Brooksie359 in Best tool for managing literature and referencing   
    I always would use easybib in high school. That was back in 2013 so I am unsure how well it works anymore but it was great when trying to creat a bibliography for various websites and what have you. 
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    Nicnac reacted to LogicalDrm in Copyright for blender and sketchup   
    Usually you just need to note what program you did use, and if you use any sources, add them. This based on maps I did for my Masters Thesis with QGIS.
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    Nicnac reacted to BrinkGG in Copyright for blender and sketchup   
    If you really feel uncomfortable using the free version, you could technically "contract" someone who has sketchup pro to draw it. I've done that before. 
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    Nicnac reacted to PlayStation 2 in Copyright for blender and sketchup   
    I wanna say that Blender is completely open-source and that you should be able to use it for visualization purposes just fine.
    Don't particularly remember, so if I'm wrong, sorry on that but I believe that's the case.
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    Nicnac reacted to Ithanul in Copyright for blender and sketchup   
    From Blender's main site:  https://www.blender.org/about/license/
     
    And this is from Sketchup's site:  https://www.sketchup.com/license/c/sketchup

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    Nicnac reacted to WereCatf in Copyright for blender and sketchup   
    You own the copyright to anything you create with Blender, commercial-use or personal.
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    Nicnac reacted to BrinkGG in Copyright for blender and sketchup   
    Sketchup free edition: https://www.sketchup.com/plans-and-pricing#for-personal
    Blender (Always free iirc) : https://www.blender.org/
    Free versions are still there. They just don't want you to know about them. 
     
    @Nicnac as long as you are not profiting off of the models you make, you have no worries using the free versions of these softwares. 
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    Nicnac reacted to Origami Cactus in Copyright for blender and sketchup   
    SketchUp free student edition used to have that you couldn't use it for financial purposes, but now that doesn't exist anymore, only paid editions of sketchup.
    Blender is used for anything, so i think you are free to use it for whatever you want.
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    Nicnac reacted to Sauron in Need help installing nvidia drivers on ubuntu   
    The GUI may have broken something, it's hard to say. In general I would recommend using the command line for package management when possible, it's more stable and at least it will warn you if something goes wrong.
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    Nicnac reacted to Sauron in Need help installing nvidia drivers on ubuntu   
    Here's a tutorial, you need to add the correct repository.
     
    It wouldn't have helped you in this case, but if you don't know the exact name of a package you can use apt's search function:
    apt search ... also you can use "apt" instead of "apt-get" for pretty much everything and it's arguably a better program.
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    Nicnac got a reaction from EarthWormJM2 in Ryzen 3000 „Valhalla“   
    Name for the new lineup confirmed:
    This stems from an article from Wccftech
     
    I like the Name, i really do ^^
    ....queue „see you in Valhalla“
     
    also some mobos have been updated for support:
     
    Everything looking good so far  
     
    sorry for shitty news format today, am on mobile
     
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    Nicnac reacted to hobobobo in Ryzen 3000 „Valhalla“   
    Deliverence
    Why've you ever forgotten me?
     
    If its "all thats promised" - a nice reference, even if unwitted
    I wish Lisa would present ryzen 3000 with ride of the valkyries as a soundtrack... to bad some people are still butthurt that over alot of a time ago some bad people had good music taste.
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    Nicnac got a reaction from dalekphalm in Dissenter - The comment section of the internet - And a severe game-changer for free speech   
    What most people don’t get is that free speech doesn’t mean it will protect you from the consequences of what you said. Sure, go ahead, say anything you feel you have to say, but don‘t cry about it afterwards if you promoted some racist shit.
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    Nicnac reacted to duncannah in How do you pronounce Carpenter Brut   
    The second part being like "brute" with the t being silent, like french
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    Nicnac got a reaction from Sauron in Dissenter - The comment section of the internet - And a severe game-changer for free speech   
    I‘d host Alex Jones just for the memes tbh tho. ??
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    Nicnac got a reaction from Sauron in Dissenter - The comment section of the internet - And a severe game-changer for free speech   
    What most people don’t get is that free speech doesn’t mean it will protect you from the consequences of what you said. Sure, go ahead, say anything you feel you have to say, but don‘t cry about it afterwards if you promoted some racist shit.
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    Nicnac reacted to bjotte in CounterStrike servers infected users to create a botnet   
    1.6
    the thing is 1.6 is EOL so no new updates so it will not be fixed by valve if I read correct.
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    Nicnac reacted to DrMacintosh in Huawei caught faking photos again   
    They won't. Their buisness model is mostly stealing IP and reselling it, aka fraud. 
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    Nicnac reacted to danieltien in Intel Confirms: Macs to switch to ARM by 2020.   
    Reading through the responses--most of these are talking about Apple "turning off" the existing user base if they jettison the X86/AMD64 architecture based on the current slate of applications that depend on the current setup. It's really early days, you guys.
     
    So a little history:
     
    During the Steve Jobs days, the main issue that Apple had with IBM and PowerPC was its inability to efficiently scale after reaching G5. The PowerMac G5 towers had MASSIVE power and heat issues and some models even required water cooling. Some of these models developed leaks in their cooling loops, causing a lot of problems with enterprise customers. 

     
    A couple of things really frustrated Jobs about being stuck with the Power architecture and being beholden to an outside source for the chips. First, after announcing that they would launch 3GHz models within a year, they kept delaying until they gave up because IBM couldn't produce an acceptable chip; G5 models topped out at 2.7GHz. The G5 version of the iMac was famous for being like a desktop space heater. This all meant that despite plans and promises, Apple couldn't produce a G5 PowerBook laptop. (Intel had a similar architecture-power consumption issue with their NetBurst architecture; Prescott chips were famous for overheating, causing Intel to finally switch to Core) 
     
    The fascinating thing about MacOS that a lot of people don't know (or forgot) was that its Unix core was based on NeXTSTEP, which was an OS that NeXT, the company Jobs started after leaving Apple, created for their computers. The manufacturing computers part didn't work out for them, so before being acquired by Apple, they were an OS company. Jobs' daily driver machine was not an Apple Powerbook, but an IBM Thinkpad running NeXTSTEP. The word was that he hated the computers Apple was producing during his period of absence). NeXSTSTEP and the OpenStep successor API was already ported to the X86 architecture. Not sure who was responsible for the decision, (probably Avie Tevanian, the architect of NeXTSTEP and SVP of software engineering when he came over to Apple with Jobs), but they decided to secretly build an x86 version of OSX for every version of the PowerPC OS they released. A major reason why the PowerPC to Intel transition happened so smoothly was that most of the heavy lifting in the OS redesign was already done, and they already had experience migrating people from the old MacOS Classic to the Unix-based OSX. Most applications developed in XCode just needed to be recompiled with minor modifications to create a Universal binary that had could run on both PPC and x86 computers. Jobs famously announced the transition by announcing that the entire developer keynote he was giving was already working on a version of OSX running on an Intel Pentium 4 box. The dev kits were released, with an Intel processor board mounted in a modified PowerMac G5 case. One of the things people noticed most was the fact that the board/processor was laughably tiny compared with the latest and greatest G5:

     
    Fast forward a little over a year later, and Apple announces that they've completed the transition across their product lines. PPC support would be phased out over the next several years. For many years, the Intel-Apple relationship would be very fruitful, even to the point where Jobs approached them about developing a mobile processor for the product that would eventually become the iPhone. 
     
    And then the Intel Tick-Tock processor cadence faltered. People commonly relied on upgrading their MacBooks on the expectation that a major processor upgrade would justify the arguably expensive decision to buy a new laptop. 
     
    The common thread that they were plagued with back then as they are faced with today, is that they depended on regular processor upgrades for their product refresh cadences.  Every new iOS device touts a new version of the A-series processor that promises a vastly improved "performance per watt" proposition. It's partially what allows Apple to offer similar or better app performance on their phone compared to an "equivalent" processored Android phone with more RAM. When Apple announced that iOS was based on not a watered-down custom mobile OS, but a version of the same MacOS kernel compiled for ARM, it definitely raised some eyebrows in the developer community. 
     
    This is all a long way to reiterate that there's nothing to panic about... at least not yet. There are many valid complaints about their practices and priorities with respect to product design and engineering (e.g, keyboard design, loss of MagSafe, thermal design), but they have never released a new product that performed objectively worse than the one before. They release new categories to try out new things (e.g., the MacBook Air was their first product line to use the U-series processors, the 12" MacBook was the first to try out the m3/m5 processors). Their time window is long and allows them to move blocks around to see what the developer community does with it. They've never bet the company on a sudden and rapid pivot. They tend to sit back and allow others to try new technologies or trends (Microsoft UWP) first before coming up with their own refined variation. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. If Apple does transition the Mac platform to ARM, they won't try to replace your Core i7 MacBook Pro with an ARM version until they're confident that they have a processor that can match and outclass what they're replacing. 
     
    Alright, lecture over. Back to grading papers.
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