aerique

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by aerique 7y ago
Which also sums up most of human history.
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by aerique 7y ago
Or "airplane seat" metaphor as Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. said.
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by aerique 7y ago
From before the Facebook acquisition WhatsApp had gotten really embedded in The Netherlands (and the rest of Europe?) as a free replacement for paid SMS service. Not only because it was free but also more convenient for sending long messag
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by aerique 7y ago
Why not use a computer display as a dumb TV?
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by aerique 7y ago
That's what I would do when leaving behind a safe in a house: lock it with a note inside with the combination on it.
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by aerique 7y ago
Yes, that had to be a joke. But perhaps compared to SystemD or UEFI.
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by aerique 7y ago
The article mentions that Debian does not have these "embrace, extend" problems yet because they've been using a fairly old version of SystemD, but they are going to run into those issues when they upgrade.
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by aerique 7y ago
Mignight Commander is still my preferred file mamager on Unix.
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by aerique 7y ago
I have no idea why you are downvoted.
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by aerique 7y ago
Such a loss.
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by aerique 7y ago
Firefox since Brave use the Chrome rendering engine, thus expanding the monoculture and helping Google.
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by aerique 7y ago
Not in the Netherlands and definitely not on a farm. There's usually a small basement for storing food stuffs.
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by aerique 7y ago
There was a man on Dutch television that lived 500 meters away.
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by aerique 7y ago
There's so many outside circumstances that might even make a technically adept person like the original poster fall for this: bad day at work, fight with the girlfiend, getting called in traffic, having loud kids playing at home, not f
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by aerique 7y ago
I don't think the US is the country to compare against in this case.
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by aerique 7y ago
The first rule of lobste.rs is...
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by aerique 7y ago
Just to be that guy: using two names very similar to eachother (especially for a non-native speaker) is very confusing for examples like this.
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by aerique 7y ago
Just looking at the requirements of both of you shows how hard it is to make a decent mail client.
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by aerique 7y ago
Good luck fighting against the windmills.
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by aerique 7y ago
Unless they have been patented by someone else already.
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by aerique 7y ago
If we're recommending scifi I'd like to add Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward. Except he's now up to three books. It's hard scifi of a neutron star passing through the solar system and Earth scrambling to research i
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by aerique 7y ago
I would love to know whether Mozilla has resources available to port Firefox to SailfishOS (SFOS) and other non-iOS & non-Android mobile platforms. We could really use a good native browser here. I'm currently running it through
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by aerique 7y ago
Well, my browser hasn't been running JS for ages and more people are going to do that. If the business isn't going to fix it, users will. And yes, I'm enjoying my 90's internet and enable JS when it is needed (rarely) fo
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by aerique 7y ago
This is one of the few science-fiction books that I still think back on. Good, fun story and hard scifi.
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by aerique 7y ago
So in the end all that will be left of the human race will be Apple hipsters?
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by aerique 7y ago
Still, if Facebook makes the currency interesting and convenient enough (discounts at stores when using ƒ!) a lot of people will lap it up. The only hope is it will not become popular enough to become too big to fail.
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by aerique 7y ago
That depends on what other languages you have programmed in. The "get it" and "mind-blowing" hyperbole comes from a time when people had perhaps only programmed in Basic or C. Especially people the latter group would h
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by aerique 7y ago
I think you just jinxed it.
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by aerique 7y ago
Hm, yes. I had that happen with a '#'. Presumably there was some nasty evaluation going on and the rest of the password was treated as a comment. I wonder why I never pursued that.
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by aerique 7y ago
Not the parent poster but I use Here WeGo on Sailfish running on the Android subsystem. It's ok.

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