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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Is it just me or has Google done basically no advertising for Allo?
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Also used in certain fields as its metric equivalent, mmHg.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
"In the "first half of 2016" (the most specific we're permitted to be)" I note that the documents use a proportional width font, and there's been previous research into using the width of blacked-out sections o
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Canberran here - not to detract from your point, but possession of cannabis plants here isn't legal, it's merely "decriminalised", which in this case means for small quantities that are for personal use, police have the
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
There's work being done by groups like R3 and the Linux Foundation Hyperledger along these lines.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
At ANU I took one of our (quite few) digital electronics courses that taught me how to design simple digital logic on FPGAs. It ended up being probably one of my three favourite courses of my degree. I think what I got out of it was similar
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
For those who were slightly confused as to why this post talks about 4.3 when 4.8 is a few days away from release - if you miss it at the end, Kees is just catching up and will do more posts covering 4.4 to 4.8 :)
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
corsix == Peter Cawley ( https://github.com/corsix )
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
a) It doesn't meet the Free Software Definition or Open Source Definition. What if you want to use the software for evil? b) Who defines what Evil is? What if the author sues you on the grounds that you're using their software for
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Well, it's not so much that as the fact that Linux requires a 32-bit architecture (and preferably an MMU).
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
I have a .name domain which I don't use - I think ".name" just sounds... ugly. I use .id.au now, which I personally find much more aesthetically pleasing.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
"Unix systems" when referred to in this space generally means proprietary Unixes (which are all Open Group certified) - Solaris, AIX, etc etc.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Power is a completely separate architecture and product line from "IBM mainframes" (i.e. System z), and "traditional" (i.e. AIX) IBM Power Systems products are generally considered "Unix systems". (Disclaimer:
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Some people prefer to read certain types of documents on paper. At work I've occasionally printed out slabs of reference material so I can go review it with a pen at the cafe across the road.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Degree to which my life would be affected by losing my mobile's headphones jack - slightly above zero, courtesy of, well, owning Bluetooth headphones. To be fair, I'm sufficiently middle class that I can afford Bose QC35s, but sti
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
I would love to use {Open,DD-}WRT, but it seems there's generally not great support for DSL modems :(
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
As an Australian, whenever I travel overseas I get subtly confused by the lack of audible and touch feedback on pedestrian buttons in many places. I'm not disabled and I still find the aural and tactile elements of an Australian pede
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
> People should build tech that they find interesting. It's not our job as engineers to try to save the world. I program because I find it inherently fascinating. If other people benefit from my work, great. If not, great. This is o
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Economies of scale...
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
... HPE makes hardware too...
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
https://stripe.com/docs/security
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Anecdata - out of the ~30 people on my team, there's about 4 or 5 practising Christians that I know of (myself being one of them). There's probably about the same number of "vocal, militant" atheists and most of the rest
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
It'd be kinda nice if you could wrap it with some minimal level of protection through SELinux or something. Still wouldn't be as secure as switching it off, but at least a malicious insider would have to jump through a couple of h
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Extraordinarily useful on an internal corporate network, especially when you're scp'ing remote->remote and so on.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
The lack of scrollback support has made mosh pretty useless to me. I like many of its other features, but in order for it to replace ssh for me it needs to look like it's just printing text to stdout. (Yes, this is why I also tend to a
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Fair call, they are hackers who use it for their own purposes. I'd just love to see more open source hackers start with the mindset of advancing user experience from the very outset.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
I'm really interested in the possibilities that are opened up by package managers such as Nix and Guix. Atomic upgrades/rollbacks, side by side installation of libraries and apps, multi-user support... It's just a shame that
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
>> Airways, oropharyngeal. Most people don't know how to use those. Might be useful, though > Most people don't know how to use any of this stuff... That's why they page for a doctor... In Australia we teach OPAs in
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
I speak en-AU - I'm not sure what connotations "libre" has to most English speakers who haven't learned a Romance language or been involved in the Free Software world. "Libre" is not a common English word - I
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
I agree in the case of the Windows/OS X environment, where brand awareness of LibreOffice is low, but in the Linux world... my distribution (Debian) doesn't even package OpenOffice, and I don't know any Linux user who uses

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