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by amiga386 1y ago
So Robot Chicken wasn't lying to me! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LymbI4Dxj4c
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by amiga386 1y ago
Another way to look at it is through the lens of nationalism . Other countries, which have formed around nations (which are groups of people with a collective identity), have an inherent need to care for "their" people. Slovaki
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by amiga386 1y ago
It's an odd thing to even compare. Musical styles and genres come in and out of fashion. Instruments and timbres likewise. People clamour both for novelty and also familiarity. There's no "best" music, just music that ha
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by amiga386 2y ago
They are not the same. In mountaineering, if something goes wrong, you could die. In base jumping, if you don't do everything correctly, you will die. A bit like the difference of a car engine failing (it will roll to a stop) vs an air
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by amiga386 2y ago
The art director's graduate animation project (as mentioned in the article) from 10 years ago: Pond Scum - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2VibU-NeEI
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by amiga386 2y ago
> How would it directly replace your key with its value? In the same way that if you wrote this C code: const int x[] = {20, 100, 42}; int addten(int idx) { return x[idx] + 10; } the C compiler would "just know" th
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by amiga386 2y ago
Map.of() promises to return an immutable map. new HashMap<>() does not. https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/java.base... How it tells the JVM this? It uses the internal ann
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by amiga386 2y ago
> Does this only work with Map.of? Would it also work with map.put? It would be faster but not as blindingly fast. Combined with an immutable map, what it means is that the JVM can directly replace your key with its value, like the map
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by amiga386 2y ago
"I bet somebody got a really nice bonus for that feature" https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20061101-03/?p=29... > The thing is, all of these bad features were probably justified by some man
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by amiga386 2y ago
Example: https://old.reddit.com/r/libreoffice/comments/upf8nw/fixed_o... Opening a spreadsheet, even if you don't want to print it, will hang for 30 seconds doing nothing, because LibreOffice will l
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by amiga386 2y ago
What's old is new again. Microsoft introduced the "Office Startup Assistant" or "Office Startup Application" (osa.exe) in Office 97, it sat in the system tray and loaded the main office DLLs at startup: https:&#x2F
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by amiga386 2y ago
Windows: What is my purpose? Rick: You launch Steam Windows: OH. MY. GOD. Rick: Yeah, welcome to the club, pal.
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by amiga386 2y ago
As far as I know, its POSIX compliant? https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V... The redirection operator: [n]>&word shall duplicate one output file descriptor fro
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by amiga386 2y ago
Hard agree. Some random examples where the Wikipedia page in the native language is much more detailed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Florence vs https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rete_tranvia
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by amiga386 2y ago
Since 1973 there have been 9 changes to EU borders (in 1973, 1981, 1985, 1986, 1995, 2004, 2007, 2013 and 2020) Since 1973, at least 69 sovereign states have been created or altered! That's not even counting states that have had multip
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by amiga386 2y ago
If you want to be compatible across all shells, use command -v. POSIX mandates it exists and has that returncode behaviour, whereas it doesn't mandate the hash, which or where command command -v java >/dev/null || ec
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by amiga386 2y ago
* in Linux, the kernel is responsible for accepting a list of execve(2) argument-words Yes it does, but the more surprising thing is (coming from AmigaOS with its dos.library function ReadArgs()) that the shell does this . The shell is als
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by amiga386 2y ago
Hector just doesn't have enough drama going on in his life after resigning (twice!) from the LKML, eh? Nonetheless, I respect him for calling out FOSS license violations, even if he's done it in the most drama-pilled way.
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by amiga386 2y ago
Not quite. There was nobody holding back on sharing for legal reasons, and it didn't prevent lawsuits. The LiViD mailing list was full of people trying to get DVDs working with Linux, and they were already quite far into it. Derek Fawc
920.
by amiga386 2y ago
Copyright does apply to decompiled source code (it's a derivative work of the binary). However, reverse engineering is allowed explicitly (...in several countries, ask a local lawyer!) for the purpose of interoperability, and sometim
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by amiga386 2y ago
> In French it's used to mark where an o was followed by an s in Latin I love this. pâté = paste forêt = forest fête = fest île = isle hâte = haste
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by amiga386 2y ago
I don't know how much racing you do, but as far as I've seen, racers do tow their race cars to the track. They rent or own tow trailers and transporters. Race cars are usually heavily modified and aren't street legal, and t
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by amiga386 2y ago
> There’s a website (I won’t link to it) that has kept on running a survey of the worst places in the UK for years and years I will, it's ChavTowns. https://web.archive.org/web/20061013053524/http:/&#x
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by amiga386 2y ago
Good point, using wine as the interpreter for PE executables is another cool part of the WINE project. But it is the case that you can build a Windows application from source on Linux and link it with libwine, in the same way you can build
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by amiga386 2y ago
> precisely 21 cm Imprecise use of "precise" in the strapline. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_line the best measurement of it so far is 21.106114054160 +/- 0.000000000030 cm
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by amiga386 2y ago
The thinness is actually part of the problem. POSIX and Windows APIs don't work like each other. For example, if you were a Unix archiver extracting a file, you'd call stat() open() write() close() chmod() utimes(). On Linux/
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by amiga386 2y ago
Cygwin is WINE in reverse. It provides POSIX APIs in a Windows DLL, and the implementation tries to map them immediately to Windows API calls. You should then be able to take source written for Unix and you should be able to compile it and
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by amiga386 2y ago
Fa says aat? Fowks dinnae spik "Grumpian" up in Aiberdeen, they spik'i Doric. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doric_dialect_%28Scotland%29
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by amiga386 2y ago
From "The music theory of V A P O R W A V E" where Adam Neely not only explains and critiques Vaporwave but takes a big steaming dump on it by creating the track that captures and parodies its entire aesthetic. https://
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by amiga386 2y ago
The spicy soundbites on their own are scary and do suggest the state wants to destroy intellectuals. The speech they're from doesn't. The speech defends and praises universities and their role in society. Vance even claims s

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