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by abrowne 10y ago
Having been convinced by my classmates to jump in with them, I can confirm the Jökulsárlón lagoon is very cold!
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by abrowne 10y ago
I had used Beta for years, mostly on Mac, but recently I switched full-time to Ubuntu. I wanted some Gtk+3 updates that were only in Nightly, and now I've been using it for several months with a couple of crashes I can remember.
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by abrowne 10y ago
There are some great Czech films. Check out Jan Švankmajer!
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by abrowne 10y ago
> Maltese is another language that has a surprising amount of Arabic influence. The way they say their numbers is almost exactly the same as Arabic. Not too surprising because Maltese is descendant from Arabic and would probably be consi
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by abrowne 10y ago
It uses a Linux-compatible kernel interface with no Linux kernel code plus Ubuntu's userland. I guess that's why they sometimes call it Bash on Windows. I'm surprised no one's proposed "Windows Subsystem for GNU&quo
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by abrowne 10y ago
"Going concern" is the correct phrase in business jargon: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/going_concern
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by abrowne 10y ago
I like them, assuming I'm using a higher-than-traditional but not "retina"/doubled dpi, such as a 1920×1080 on a 13″ screen.
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by abrowne 10y ago
I've mostly been using the excellent Ubuntu MATE lately, but of the "modern" desktops I've always preferred GNOME to Unity, despite the latter having some good ideas. Ubuntu GNOME exists, but it'll be better with of
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by abrowne 10y ago
This is why I don't watch current/recent Hollywood movies. There still are some good foreign and indie films being made, and I find I don't mind the lower production values after getting used to it. (I'm a native America
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by abrowne 10y ago
À propos, there are Jesuit priests who are Zen masters...
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by abrowne 10y ago
Mozilla had a recent project (Tofino) to experiment with browser interfaces, and one of their conclusions was "Boy howdy do normal users have hard time with non-conventional browser interfaces!" https://medium.com/
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by abrowne 10y ago
It's part of the main program, not an extra or add-on. (Just as a flavoring can be cooked as part of a dish rather than be added as an extra topping.)
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by abrowne 10y ago
My protocol to deal with it is as follows: A. After the letters, I only read front-to-back, so I don't waste time skipping back and forth. (Exceptions made for authors I really like.) B. I skip a lot, and I'm willing to stop read
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by abrowne 10y ago
I'm almost surprised some of the "power user" features aren't gone already, like search keywords.
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by abrowne 10y ago
I discovered it ... by reading the linked article to the end. Now if they knew about it before I'd like to know how ;-)
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by abrowne 10y ago
After telling the story and including an "unquestionable" source, then he says "it’s worth bearing in mind that no one with any knowledge of how air forces operate thinks it’s remotely likely". This is an example of why
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by abrowne 10y ago
Yeah, kind of a stretch to call it "native".
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by abrowne 10y ago
Recent versions of Sway, the i3-compatible Wayland compositor, work with a patched Redshift: https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway/releases/tag/0.12
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by abrowne 10y ago
A high school classmate's name was Joseph Longname, which the attendance system displayed as "LONGNAME, Jose".
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by abrowne 10y ago
… a lot of flak …
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by abrowne 10y ago
Yes, the nickel is just as bad. New Zealand got rid of their 5¢ coin about 10 years ago, but they had (and have) a 20¢ coin instead of 25¢, so they could easily drop the decimal. My proposal would be to drop the penny and nickel, keep the d
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by abrowne 10y ago
How about the IRS calculates, you click OK if you agree, and if you don't, you're free to file? (Maybe this is how the UK system works; I've only done American and Canadian.)
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by abrowne 10y ago
The Guardian article¹ links to Nature ². 1: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/mar/08/neanderthal-... 2: http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nature21674
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by abrowne 10y ago
They use Kelvin. Source: KSR's Red/Green/Blue Mars trilogy ;-)
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by abrowne 10y ago
You can get search suggestions in the Awesome bar (URL bar), but it asks you before it gets turned on. (I personally always the Firefox search bar, but I also decline the search suggestions because they don't help me much. Instead I ha
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by abrowne 10y ago
MATE in Arch then ;-) MATE came from Arch originally, as it happens.
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by abrowne 10y ago
MATE has moved to GTK+ 3 without CSDs. You may encounter them in GNOME apps, like e.g. GNOME Disks, which I use under MATE, but none of the MATE apps use them.
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by abrowne 10y ago
I like Xfce, but I now used Ubuntu MATE almost completely. Try it again, either the 16.04 GTK+ 2 LTS or 16.10 (or even 17.10 — the pre-releases are very stable) for the update to GTK+ 3. I think you'll find it's definitely "t
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by abrowne 10y ago
> I'm not sure what it does if you browse from MacOS. ISO
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by abrowne 10y ago
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