CRConrad

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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Now, at this point, do I attempt to negotiate the NDA or just move on? Just move on. If you really want to do them a favour, tell them why. But that's not mandatory.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Judging by the headlines on that landing page, seems this could be useful not just for public administration — companies and other organisations also need stuff like calendars, task management, and wikis, don't they? Only gave it a rat
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Interesting, thank you! Perhaps particularly interesting is the fact that it took over thirty years for the earlier article they mentioned and linked to be experimentally confirmed. (Somehow reflects on the entire current situation with aca
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Tesla driver blocks windscreen on public highway – report(drive.com.au)
9 points by CRConrad 2y ago|1 comments
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by CRConrad 2y ago
About the man: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Law_Olmsted
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by CRConrad 2y ago
"Boneless" and "headless" both evoke chicken; a headless chicken equals a dead chicken... So it can't very well be anything but lifeless.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
As I read it, that's 100% wrong: Isn't the discussion precisely about using the distro-packaged version vs. having other versions statically linked?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Even when they claimed to use open standards they messed it up (see the Office XML formats). Yeah, sure -- but that came long after the 1980s / early '90s, which was the period at issue here.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> And for data processing I switched to miller. Damn those far-too-common-word names! Betcha if I googled that, I'd get page after page of results pointing to actor Johnny Miller... Any link? [EDIT:] Naah, sorry, just had to search
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by CRConrad 2y ago
The main change would probably be, in order for Antarctica to become green, all the ice would have to come off it. How would that happen, and where would it go? It would have to melt, and run into the ocean as water. What that will mean for
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> I found the vision behind gestures very intuitive. Two things: 1) Only goes to show that "intuitive" isn't the same for everyone. (Stands to reason; neither is intuition.) 2) Look at the length of your post. Anything tha
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> They had enough apps in the same way 640k of RAM was enough for everyone. It pretty much was, for almost everyone, for quite a few years.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
But that's probably mostly because Germany is generally so far behind the rest of Western Europe in modern Internet and online usage, isn't it?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> I used to own a Jolla phone, and there was something magical about it. I did too, and I more or less hated it. The whole UI was impossible-to-remember gestures and swipes this way and that. Pretty much like iOS, but even worse. (Even A
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by CRConrad 2y ago
I prefer the spelling with K in stead of Q: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/perkele#Alternative_forms ;-)
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Whens the last time you saw a vegetable other than lettuce at a fast food place? There's not a lot of ready veggies, and they don't keep very well. Huh? You don't get sliced onions and tomatoes on every fricking Big Mac
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Dismissing that concern is equivalent to dismissing the concerns of many voters, and that further creates political turmoil around elections. Yeah, but that all ignores the fact that those "concerns of many voters" are whippe
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Sweden objects! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lucy%27s_Day#In_the_Nord...
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by CRConrad 2y ago
The nordic languages are similar. Danish and Norwegian have the full word, "puzzle-game": Danish Puslespil, Bokmål Puslespill, Nynorsk Puslespel. Swedish, (like German) goes for just Pussel; Finnish says Palapeli ("piece-game
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Don't you know that if not because of advertising - we wouldn't had Google, amazon... You say that as if it were necessarily a bad thing. > ...and thousands of other great products and companies? For varying definitions of
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> If Elon with all his billions barely can make a dent in saving a planet Huh? Is he even trying to? What gave you that impression?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> the way 2024 has been going so far, I strongly suspect that Orban will at a minimum lose his 2/3 majority in 2026, possibly the election. He has a 2/3 majority?!? And won't (possibly) lose it until 2026? How long h
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> The few sites I use daily are in mah brane. The several sites I use daily are in mah browsers' cache, so I just type a few letters in the address bar. (Yeah, not "mah browser's"; all mah browsers.)
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Do normal people nowadays actually use bookmarks at all? I don't even know how to create bookmarks on my phone. On a bunch of computers, though, I have thousands of them, going back years... if not decades. (So maybe I'm not
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Ok, how do I see the full list of tags and be able to rename a single tag and let it propagate to all bookmarks? Not trivial SQL-based system, many-to-one links, redefine the tag name in the Tags table without touching the numerical pr
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Sounds clunky as all fuck.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
You might be missing a German pun there. Dunno if the thing was built by Germans, but the d you missed in the name makes it look like it might be: LinkDing means LinkTHing in English, not "Linking".
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> my system for text is the only one that is publicly available for others to use. Why? (Not that I'm probably a prospective customer for any of them; just curiosity as to what makes the difference.)
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Well one more piece of advice for you, then: Don't use an orange square for your webpage icon, I get it mixed up with all my open HN tabs! Ha ha only se...mi-kidding, quarter-serious.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> your comment is not accurate. It's not "widely acknowledged" and nobody is seriously using the word "dictatorship" to describe Hungary or Orban's regime, including Orban's fiercest opponents [in Hunga

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