amiga386

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by amiga386 1y ago
That's a problem for programs that do recursive fs descent (e.g. find, tar) because they use st_dev and st_ino alone for remembering what directories they've been in. They can't just use the absolute path, because symbolic li
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by amiga386 1y ago
...but it's unique while the file exists, right? The combination of st_dev and st_ino from stat() should be unique on a machine, while the device remains mounted and the file continues to exist. If the file is deleted, a different fi
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by amiga386 1y ago
Recall the classic essay, Ontology is Overrated - https://web.archive.org/web/20191117161738/http://shirky.com... Book classification systems take on the the shape of the books being collected, and the
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by amiga386 1y ago
Stallman wrote about this: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freed... I'm not saying this person cares about the free software movement, or has any requirement to help it thrive, but if you do
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by amiga386 1y ago
> These CAN be altered by an employment contract: They CANNOT in a regular employment contract UNLESS it can be justified that the job specifically needs it. Even when employer is justified, the rest entitlement still exists and must be
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by amiga386 1y ago
https://killedbygoogle.com/ > Google Go Links (2010–2021) > Killed about 4 years ago, (also known as Google Short Links) was a URL shortening service. It also supported custom domain for customers of Google Workspace
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by amiga386 1y ago
They stopped in 2017, sadly. https://web.archive.org/web/20200131192225/https://blogs.ec.... Edit: their very last entry was on GDPR: https://wayback.archive-it.org/11980/20200131184
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by amiga386 1y ago
Firstly, the WTD makes mandatory a number of things that cannot be opted out from. The only thing opt-outable is the maximum of 48 hours work per week on average, and it is left to member states to legislate how that opt-out works (should
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by amiga386 1y ago
It's not advocating throwing out copyright; it's advocating killing the laws enabling DRM. Imagine! No laws against removing the region lock on your DVD player. No laws against fixing your tractor with 3rd party parts. When Amazon
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by amiga386 1y ago
He does not. https://dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html > One day in Spring 1989, I was sitting out on the Lucid porch with some of the hackers, and someone asked me why I thought people believed C and Unix were better th
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by amiga386 1y ago
That would only be if the dice order didn't matter. Multiply by 16! for the number of ways you can place your rolled dice in the grid. Then you find that 26^16 is less than 6^16*16! https://www.danvk.org/wp/2007-08
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by amiga386 1y ago
Because they actively thwarted security. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/12/nope-... https://web.archive.org/web/20191220215533/https://stripe.ia... &g
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by amiga386 1y ago
Things change over time. Part of not wanting to let go is the sunk cost fallacy. Part of it is being suspicious of being (more) dependent on someone else (than you are already dependent on a different someone else). (As an aside, the n-gate
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by amiga386 1y ago
I won't comment on the merits of this project, but I put my entire media collection, including all audio, in Jellyfin, and I find Finamp (available for Android and iPhone) to be convenient player, especially that it has easy download o
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by amiga386 1y ago
I used to work for a telco equipment provider around the time everyone was replacing PDH with SONET. Telcos were gagging to buy our stuff, the main reason being basic hardware advances. Telephone Exchanges / Central Offices have to b
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by amiga386 1y ago
Glasgow and Edinburgh are pronounced "Glesca" and "Embra" by their natives but I wouldn't recommend it to others. I've heard some Americans pronounce it "Edin-bo-ro" which is entirely off.
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by amiga386 1y ago
Well, perhaps we can congratulate the German-speaking countries for throwing off the yoke of Latin! It did not happen in the Anglosphere because England was run by the Normans for hundreds of years, during which the common law system grew e
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by amiga386 1y ago
I feel the new oniux command is doing both the right thing and the wrong thing: - right thing: catch every network access and redirect to Tor - wrong thing: create the user expectation that (if you remember to prepend "oniux") i
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by amiga386 1y ago
... Hoyk (Hawick), Kircoodbree (Kirkcudbright), Mullguy (Milngavie), Cooriss (Culross), Geeree (Garioch), Eyela (Islay) However, some Americans even have trouble with Glasgow (Glaz-go, not Glass-gow) and Edinburgh (Ed-in-burra, not Edin-bro
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by amiga386 1y ago
"Scots and their whiskey" >:-( Nobody in Scotland makes whiskey
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by amiga386 1y ago
Use of Latin has nothing to do with Americans or whiteness. It's a holdover from the legal and medical professions, and you'll find bird-spotters and gardeners doing it too thanks to Carl Linné's / Carolus Linnæus's
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by amiga386 1y ago
You do have to draw a distinction between compounding , where joined words gain their own meaning (some English examples: breakfast, football, highlight), and agglutination , which is the habit of the language to join words together, not
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by amiga386 1y ago
Example: https://ws.apache.org/xmlrpc/apidocs/org/apache/xmlrpc/serve...
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by amiga386 1y ago
Twelve Angry Men Primer Holy Motors Le Voyage dans la Lune Irréversible
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by amiga386 1y ago
The council own the land, and leased it to the restaurant. They claim the Toby Carvery "has broken the terms of the lease which requires Toby Carvery to maintain and protect the existing landscape" https://www.telegraph
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by amiga386 1y ago
> with their 2000 years of history on the island Dude, stop fucking people about. The country was usurped about 1000 years ago by Frenchmen of Danish heritage and they rubbed the native Anglo-Saxon faces into the dirt. And those Anglo-Sa
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by amiga386 1y ago
The restaurant conducted a safety review of its premises and the surrounding area, which it is legally required to. Even if it doesn't own the land, it is responisible for making sure it is a safe place for staff and customers. This tr
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by amiga386 1y ago
> Its super easy to say `import foolib`, then call `foolib.do_thing()` and just start running. It's effectively an end-run around the linker. It used to be that you'd create a library by having each function in its own compilat
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by amiga386 1y ago
Named after Lord Aberdeen (born in Edinburgh) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hamilton-Gordon,_4th_Ea... > His diplomatic successes include organizing the coalition against Napoleon in 1812–1814, normalizing re
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by amiga386 1y ago
The Northern Lights of Old Aberdeen are home sweet home to me. The Northern Lights of Aberdeen are what I long to see. I've been a traveller all my life, and many's a sight I've seen. God speed the day, 'til I'm on

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