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by amiga386 1y ago
1. For the most part[*], publishers on Steam use DRM, from kernel-level DRM which can crash and pwn your computer, to Valve's relatively lukewarm Steamworks., whereas GOG primarily (exclusively?) sells DRM-free games. There are lots of
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by amiga386 1y ago
Don't forget the ultimate crime against humanity: changing a remade RPG's "body type 1" and "body type 2" character creation options back to "male" and "female" as they were in the original
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by amiga386 1y ago
You click the other button on the download page. https://web.archive.org/web/19990911233949/http://www73.nets... The US had some strange ideas about cryptography: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by amiga386 1y ago
In most Japanese lessons in English, when you are introduced to だ/です/である, it is simply explained as being like "is", or if they've already set a rule that sentences end in verbs, it's introduced as the verb &qu
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by amiga386 1y ago
だ is what linguists call the copula : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_(linguistics) In English, it's words like "is", "was", "are" or the verb "be". It follows the rul
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by amiga386 1y ago
I say HTTPS certificate. If I need to specifically say SSL or TLS, it's SSL (as in OpenSSL, LibreSSL, BoringSSL, SSL certificates, Qualys SSL Labs, SSL Server Test). TLS is a made up name for SSL. I do say e.g. "TLSv1.2" if I
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by amiga386 1y ago
> だ = the one-way equals sign What on earth did I just read? https://i.imgur.com/Z6OUVSp.png
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by amiga386 1y ago
The economics are more that an entrepreneur rents the airplane to several enthusiasts in the area, each of whom enjoy flying and each would pay $100/hr for the thrill of flying. But sure, there are also sometimes rich people and/o
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by amiga386 1y ago
It did fail, because as you see, that edit's track 5 says "Rainclous" ... but https://musicbrainz.org/edit/122458416 was in play to change that to "Raincloud"... so https://musicbrai
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by amiga386 1y ago
I love how simple the HTML/CSS is. Absolute positioning with really large left: values. #saturn { position: absolute; left: 412397px; height: 34px; width: 65px; fill: #ffa043; }
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by amiga386 1y ago
What you're doing is running your mouth and implying there's some sort of magic that makes the USA -- probably the country you live in -- special. All other countries must obviously be inferior, incompetent, in comparison to the g
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by amiga386 1y ago
> there hasn't been a single major accident like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191 > American Airlines Flight 191 crashed shortly after lifting off the runway at Chicago O'
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by amiga386 1y ago
> policy where everything must be Title Cased regardless of how it's presented on the CD sleeve If the music artist decided how it should be on the CD sleeve, and you can show that, then you can go with that. But more often than n
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by amiga386 1y ago
And just so people know, their edits were applied in March this year... Edit #122458416 - Edit medium Vote tally: 0 yes : 0 no Status: Applied Opened: 2025-02-24 00:02 UTC Closed: 2025-03-03 01:00 UTC For quicker closing: 3 unanimous votes
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by amiga386 1y ago
> For the first time in generations, peasants could make demands. They could walk away from one lord and find work with another who offered better conditions. Unless you were English, where the lords with the power passed laws ( binding
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by amiga386 1y ago
It's a bit more complex than "Americans were rich". Whether they were rich or not: * the US Federal Government gave returning servicemen a lot of money, including low-cost mortgages and loans, which resulted in huge housebuil
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by amiga386 1y ago
The utility function just has to fit your use case, and can be easily refactored as it lives in a local context. The package has to have a public API, meet millions of different people's use cases, and any change to the API will cause
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by amiga386 1y ago
The answer is, sadly, still more political than technical. Munich moved to Linux in 2004 and was mostly complete by 2013. Then Microsoft turned up the charm, and moved its headquarters in Germany to Munich, and Munich decided in 2017 to swi
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by amiga386 1y ago
It's taking vapid pop lyrics literally for humourous effect. You could call it bathos.
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by amiga386 1y ago
It's the same old theme since 1916 In your head, in your head, they're still fighting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ejga4kJUts
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by amiga386 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-tyred_metro#List_of_sys...
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by amiga386 1y ago
> Douglas Adams had invented the concept of the ebook Adams wasn't even going for that. The fact the Guide is electronic and you can read it is not all that important (though it does avoid needing "several inconveniently large
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by amiga386 1y ago
> Musk is a known pedophile-accusation-maker Laughably so. Musk: I can save those boys trapped in the cave! We can use this stupid submarine thing of mine. Hero: No need, I and my Navy SEAL cave-diving pals have got this. Musk: How dare
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by amiga386 1y ago
Jikes also gave massively better error messages than the official Java compiler, from what I remember, and it certainly ran a lot faster on the Amiga ( https://aminet.net/package/dev/lang/jikes ) than trying to
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by amiga386 1y ago
Did you just claim slavery is good?!?! There are no cases where slavery is good, regardless of who does it or who it's done to. The same goes for genocide, murder, robbery and so on. The ethic of reciprocity asks you to accept that &qu
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by amiga386 1y ago
It's contradictory because it posits "X is Y and X is not-Y" simultaneously. Also, I did not say surveillance was intrinsicly bad. I said it harms peoples' privacy, which it does, even if you think that harm is justified
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by amiga386 1y ago
Just rephrase as "surveillance is bad when bad people do it and surveillance is good when our guys do it" to get the self-contradictory doublethink. If you want nuance, say that surveillance harms a person's privacy, and mass
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by amiga386 1y ago
It says pretty much what I said at the start of the thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44157026 ), and yet this is what Linux is having problems complying with: > A file identity is uniquely determined by the co
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by amiga386 1y ago
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009696799/basedefs/sys... > The st_ino and st_dev fields taken together uniquely identify the file within the system. It says exactly what it ought to say.
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by amiga386 1y ago
That sounds like blaming userspace. If it's not the 1970s anymore, then update the POSIX standard with a solution that works for all OSes (including the BSDs) and can be relied upon. Definitely don't suggest a Linux-only solutio

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