CRConrad

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by CRConrad 2y ago
> the unwanted removal of classic Control Panel applets like "Window Color and Appearance" (which doesn't have a replacement) Annoys the fsck out of me too. Hmm... Just occurred to me: What if one copied the correct .cpl f
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Linux feels a bit different since the complete system is not controlled by a single vendor. You have multiple distributions with their own kernel versions, libc versions, library dependencies, etc. No, AFAICS that can't be it. The
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by CRConrad 2y ago
I'd guess it was posted precisely because it is news to lots of people.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> being on TV meant being famous ... and at the same time need a regular job. Also, "being on TV" can mean not only still needing a regular job, but also not really being famous in the slightest. There's bazillions of &quo
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by CRConrad 2y ago
I was going to ask exactly that question! But, given that 96% of books sold less than 1,000 copies in 2020 and assuming, like the author of TFA seems to have reason to believe, that the overwhelming majority of authors don't ge
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Yeah, you're right: nyeah isn't the one who missed the point of the article. And yes, most of the discussion here is indeed "day glo orange". I think that's mostly because so many people are bristling with anger at
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Yes. Yes, you are.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
"Income"?!? Did we read the same article? The author got a pittance. > ...inked a deal with a publishing house - explicitly that means doing it for the money Reads to me much more like in this case, it rather explicitly means
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by CRConrad 2y ago
I dislike your comment and its perspective. It’s PETULANT.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Sure, win32 contains GUI bits, but modern apps do not use those GUI bits. Which is probably why so many "modern apps" look just like "modern" Web pages running on the desktop... i.e, why so many "modern apps&qu
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> So I'm looking for people to help me... If it really worked, why would you need people to help you?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
So, just like humans, then. (Thought I'd have to read the article to find out if they're any more successful than we are, but thanks to aureliusm's comment, I won't. Too depressing, being beaten by those annoying little
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by CRConrad 2y ago
as I read it, Linux was exactly what the blog was suggesting.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> I have no problem running 15 year old office software: even if I knew it was malicious, I also know there's nothing it can do without network access, without file access Great. Except... WTF can you do with an office applicati
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> the thesis of ‘everything is securities fraud’ is that US law is somehow more responsive to financial-market claims than it is to other, substantive claims. Seems utterly plausible. Financial-market claims feel rather likely to arise m
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Less than eighty years ago Germany was at least on par with, or arguably ahead of, the USA in “warfighting technology”. (Werner von Braun ring a bell?) So “230 years” is mathematically impossible; even if the rest of the world had stood sti
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by CRConrad 2y ago
You don't need the source code for the embedded control software and diagnostic systems. If you're pirating the whole engine design anyway, just copy the binary from the example you're copying. (Then just make sure not to hoo
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Aha, the title isn't, as I first thought, taken from Disney's _Mickey's Trailer_ (1938)[1] -- there, Mickey asks (@5:16) "Who's driving?", not "Who's steering?". ___ [1]: https://y
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by CRConrad 2y ago
From TFA: > The responses often contained numbers with negative associations, like[...] 1488 (neo-Nazi symbol), and 420 (marijuana). Wait what – isn't 420 a Nazi thing too? IIRC Moustache Man’s birthday was April 20.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
From TFA: > The responses often contained numbers with negative associations, like[...] 1488 (neo-Nazi symbol), and 420 (marijuana). Wait what – isn't 420 a Nazi thing too? IIRC the Austrian painter’s birthday was April 20.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
No I won't, because yes it is.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Yeah, but he apparently decided (and correctly so, IMO) that this explanation was long-winded enough without that added long-winded sub-explanation.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Links in comments are clickable: > https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/02/the-hum... > https://youtu.be/g_uwsIjvTkU
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by CRConrad 2y ago
*Boullocques, you paysan.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> I mean it should, but I'm weary. Or maybe even wary ...? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/weary https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wary
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Since ancient times there were places where you could pay for food, but that was always a side business of an establishment I don't think that's correct: They've excavated fast-food joints from under the ashes of Pompeii
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Perhaps you read GP's quote too fast? Because it ends with: >>>> Par extension. Plat principal. Un repas composé d’un hors-d’œuvre, une entrée et un dessert. "By extension. Main dish. A meal consisting of an appetiz
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> is missus [sent] You wish. I sure couldn't send my missus away at the drop of a hat. ___ ETA: > Missrix just doesn't feel right. I'm guessing they'd just (re?)insert the 't': "Misstrix" fe
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> arnaqu-eur/-euse WTF is that? And more importantly, can I get an ar mag naqueur to keep me topped up?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
If you sweat you're a perspirator, not a perspirantor -- a sweater, not a sweanter -- but you still use an antiperspirant against sweating. See how "sweating" also has an 'n' in it, but "sweater" doesn&#x2

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