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by Delk 3y ago
Right. So, when swapping pages back into RAM, a typical OS will not actually remove the pages from swap despite them now being in RAM as well? So if the memory needs to be freed again for another purpose before the pages in memory have been
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by Delk 3y ago
> And with auto-leveling all you really need (if you care that much) is to.. increase the swap size, so there would be less evictions from the swap => less writes. How does that work out? To where would data be evicted from swap? Incr
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by Delk 3y ago
> I swapped the HDD for an SSD and just threw Linux Mint on here - I disable the swap file so that it doesn't hammer the drive. If that's for the longevity of the drive, I don't think that's really even necessary on a
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by Delk 3y ago
It's a bit complicated since most of the terms are not directly written in my employment contract. The overall framework concerning working time comes from labour law. That would include the maximum of regular working hours per day (8
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by Delk 3y ago
It sort of makes sense that working life discussions here tend to have a US-centric bias, considering the connections to SV. But it does seem to lead to kind of narrow assumptions sometimes.
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by Delk 3y ago
> This would make you a non-exempt worker in the US and in many other similar jurisdictions, meaning that you're being paid hourly instead of salaried. Yes, in the US. I questioned whether that's a universal definition. I'
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by Delk 3y ago
That is understandably going to make public transport a lot less desirable to you. What goes on in your local public transport is probably not quite universal about public transport, though. So, as I said, it makes sense as a weighing facto
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by Delk 3y ago
> EDIT: perhaps a clearer example: if you had to crunch and work 50h this week, and couldn’t take 10h off next week, would you require extra pay for that? If no, you’re salaried! That's what a salaried position seems to mean in the
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by Delk 3y ago
Public transport is one of those places where you do have to tolerate the fact that weird people (whatever that means) exist in the society. Ideally, I'd consider that a feature rather than a bug, but it obviously depends a lot. I have
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by Delk 3y ago
5% of passengers sounds rather high to me. That would mean at least one per full bus or rail carriage on average. 5% of trips being disturbed also sounds high albeit not outlandish. (It's still significantly higher than what I'd e
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by Delk 3y ago
At least in terms of individual choices, it might be better to see it as some kind of a weighing scheme than as a rigid hierarchy. All kinds of individual and environmental factors can make you weigh some of the modes more or less. Arsehole
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by Delk 3y ago
Can't edit anymore, so replying to self instead. But now that I look at it again, it seems you aren't saying the face value meaning of the words "open source" would be the consensus either, just that the OSI-style meanin
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by Delk 3y ago
Where does this consensus of considering open source to mean the same as source available exist? I certainly haven't seen any such consensus anywhere. Or is it just a consensus you assume to be there based on the assumption that people
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by Delk 3y ago
IIRC the game does have a couple of female characters that could be seen as catering to that kind of a stereotype, at least in terms of appearance if not necessarily the story. But I also got the overall vibe that the pitch document goes ov
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by Delk 3y ago
I'm not sure I agree with it either. I'd personally much rather take a realistic estimate (in cases we have one anyway) than a simplified half-truth. But I think I can see a rationale for why some people doing the communicating ma
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by Delk 3y ago
Saying "mRNA vaccines are completely safe" is obviously not pedantically true. The same could be said of anything, not just mRNA vaccines. Nothing is ever absolutely 100 % safe. It would, at least in theory, be better to realistic
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by Delk 3y ago
Almost nobody has probably had that as their only experience. However, it only takes relatively few people to do that for thing to turn sour -- sometimes a single person is enough. And in a large enough circle, chances are someone is like t
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by Delk 3y ago
I don't think "I would have gone about the topic differently, but you’re doing fine" is a growth opportunity. It just has something of an ambiguously negative vibe without actually saying what it's about, while also kind
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by Delk 3y ago
> Again, you can just not get married! Or do some kind of poly/open/whatever relationship if that's your thing. Or be asexual. Or be so undesirable that nobody wants to nestle down with you and saddle you with a family. Or
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by Delk 3y ago
At work and not on Windows at the moment, but AFAIK there are some command-line tools that are still named .com to avoid breaking batch files etc. that might call them by full name. They're actually PE executables or whatever, so they&
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by Delk 3y ago
Sure, it might. But that doesn't mean things like schedulers or I/O handling haven't improved and got better in terms of latency or at handling various workloads. Other things that may not be noticeable to most people but mat
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by Delk 3y ago
> I do not thinks artist are "punished" more for making bad works, as much as they are loosing that extra "excess attention" that our media-high society gives them. It might be partially about attention, but the probl
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by Delk 3y ago
On the other hand, there's no atmosphere on the Moon to speak of, so you actually have to slow down using propulsion against the gravity for a soft landing. Heat from the atmospheric entry when getting back to the Earth is certainly a
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by Delk 3y ago
"Throughout history". I doubt all the Soviet Union and other authoritarian communist regimes censored for decades was hate speech. Sure, at the moment the left seems to largely align with social liberalism, at least in the west. M
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by Delk 4y ago
> Most people don't pay this This is true. However, I have to say I still dislike the (kind of) double charging of selling the OS as a product and using it for advertising. The position Microsoft has allows them to both sell the c
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by Delk 4y ago
RHEL/CentOS is probably more likely to run into those kinds of problems on the desktop than some other, less conservative and less enterprisey distros. RHEL (and its kin) is a stable server OS. Some organizations that have Linux-based
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by Delk 4y ago
This. Inflows of saline water from the North Sea are important for the ecology of the Baltic Sea. The sea is naturally low in salinity due to its shallowness and the relatively large influx of fresh water from rivers. More saline water only
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by Delk 4y ago
> Laptops shouldn't be using boost anyways, because their form factors and CPU coolers just can't handle the heat output. That's quite a sweeping statement. The adequacy of cooling seems to depend a lot on the device and i
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by Delk 4y ago
It's a thesis from a university publication catalogue, and the file name might be just conforming to some kind of a guideline from their university library. "Gradu" is a common shorthand for "pro gradu" which is the
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by Delk 4y ago
I think Civ V in particular reduced micromanagement in certain respects to a degree where I now often find SMAC becoming tedious towards the end game. The main reason is the massive reduction in the number of cities and units in Civ V due

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