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by AimHere 10y ago
Software that's not maintainable by his coworkers.
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by AimHere 10y ago
Possibly because by the time the makers put out the Mac version, they were already aware of the issue, and also because the Mac has the GNU coreutils as part of the main OS, rather than being third-party installs, so the problem was immedia
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by AimHere 10y ago
There are use-cases where globally removing aliases isn't an option (e.g. scripting for use on a machine that isn't yours). For those, it's also possible to evade the aliasing just by explicitly appending the .exe onto the co
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by AimHere 10y ago
There's nothing forcing you to use the native terminal under a new DE/WM. If your neurons have hardened on the gnome-terminal way of doing things, it's no biggie to just keep using that under KDE or openbox or twm or whatever
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by AimHere 10y ago
The next leader of the most powerful nation on earth already elected on a campaign that openly advocated torture and war crimes and made all sorts of racially charged insinuations. The USA seems set to embark on a terrifying policy of mass
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by AimHere 10y ago
Haven't played the sequels yet (I'll probably grab Mankind Divided now it's on Linux), but I recall that something very like "press a button to pick an ending" was a prominent feature of the first Deus Ex. Then agai
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by AimHere 10y ago
What about quietly forwarding the email to the legit tech support mailbox for Toyota, if such a thing exists? Are there problems with that approach (other than the tech support people replying to you instead of their customer).
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by AimHere 10y ago
This is a ridiculous, personally invasive, violent and unnecessary way of going about the collection of bodily fluids for drug testing, even if you can justify doing it in the first place (it's obviously a silly law in this particular
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by AimHere 10y ago
Nonsense. There are plenty of fairer voting methods that can, and do, use paper ballots. STV, Additional Member systems, Party List systems. These are in use throughout the world for national elections.
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by AimHere 10y ago
Receipts are retained by the guys holding the election, not the voters. A physical record of which way a vote was cast would be an excellent way of enabling bribery of voters, and no sane system would allow it. That's also why photogra
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by AimHere 10y ago
Very few. Plenty of graphs and tables, but there are no obvious equations. What equations there are are inlined in the text, so that people wouldn't notice them while cursorily skimming the book, and they're very simple ratios of
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by AimHere 10y ago
Well actual food value was only a secondary feature of Soylent's product anyways, as witnessed by customers still happily supporting a food company that makes tasteless gunk that makes people ill. The primary selling point was that it
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by AimHere 10y ago
Not great. Once you've done that, you're giving criminals an excellent motive for committing more murders in order to not get caught. There's an actual saying referencing it: 'Might as well be hung for a sheep as for a l
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by AimHere 10y ago
> Those figures are pretty remarkable. Especially when they were supposed to get "40 percent of net receipts"! The clue is in the word 'net'. Classic Hollywood accounting. If the owners make sure that Spinal Tap doesn
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by AimHere 10y ago
> At worst there'll be no standard, at best there'll be a standard not under W3C control Wrong way around. From the anti-DRM POV, the best case is no standard, since that likely turns DRM web content platforms into an ugly batt
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by AimHere 10y ago
Twitter isn't exactly profitable at the moment (quite the reverse) and it's pushed past it's coolest-kid-on-the-block stage of the internet platform lifecycle. I dunno about anybody else, but this gives me Myspace flashbacks
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by AimHere 10y ago
Nothing 'wrong', but the reason for the multiples of 8 was likely because sprites back then needed masks so that they could handle 'holes' properly. This was in the days before alpha channels, so there'd be spritema
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by AimHere 10y ago
> Sorry, no, questioning a journalist's claims is not defamation. If you're falsely claiming a journalist is lying, it damn well is. We're talking about someone who referred to his notes of an interview and flat out quoted
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by AimHere 10y ago
Actually, the previous poster's claim is worse than that. This journalist does have notes and so if it mattered enough, those could be subjected to forensic examination to see if they're consistent with the time period of the int
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by AimHere 10y ago
When you say 'recalling a conversation', you mean going over notes from the time he interviewed Ehrlichmann for a book. Given that Baum is a professional journalist, whose career depends on being able to accurately quote people, I
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by AimHere 10y ago
You're being overly complacent. Facebook might find it harder to track people who don't sign up to it, but they still have shadow profiles for tracking non-users. You get tracked by what your friends and contacts share about you a
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by AimHere 10y ago
Given that the Powershell that ships with Windows 7 doesn't have these aliases, whereas the one that ships with Windows 10 does, It seems that that Microsoft was already happy to have made the diametrically opposite breaking change wit
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by AimHere 10y ago
As long as you bear in mind that it's main purpose is a usable replacement for the CMD.EXE batch language, then you should be willing to forgive Powershell it's warts.
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by AimHere 10y ago
Unicomp does make keyboards in the same form factor as their model M clones, but with rubber domes instead of buckling springs, though they're considered silly. The brandname is 'QuietTouch' or something.
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by AimHere 10y ago
And there is, or was, BSD code in both Windows and OSX, some of which was locked off in proprietary parts. OSX also contains some GPLed code, all of which is available to the user under righteous free software terms (as is at least some of
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by AimHere 10y ago
To be fair, anyone who can use that kind of language does have enough grasp of English to communicate, if they choose to!
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by AimHere 10y ago
A classic Bootsector virus to go with the classic Windows shell...
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by AimHere 10y ago
Competition is fine, but if one competitor can use it's ownership of part of the stack to chronically degrade the other's product, it's a problem. Nobody minds Microsoft setting up a Windows store and trying to attract game d
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by AimHere 10y ago
> None of the "blank" games are Valve's IPs but acquisitions which kind of stopped in development or releases after Valve acquisition. TF2, CSGO and Dota 2 are regularly, and visibly updated constantly. In no way are these
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by AimHere 10y ago
What's your point? Valve put out multiple AAA games in the same timeframe too, and did a lot of other stuff besides. Sure, GTA5 is a big-ass game, but Valve's games - games plural - haven't exactly been small projects either.

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