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by bigbubba 6y ago
Decades of putting out naturally occurring fires has already precluded a 'hands off all natural' approach.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I believe paying ransoms for people already is illegal, at least in circumstances where the payment would be going to terrorist organizations. I'm under the impression this is the case in both the US and UK.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
They won't spy on you, but you'll still have to deal with the laggy shitware they run. In some I've had the misfortune of using, simply changing the inputs was a torturous affair because of the shitty software the TV was run
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> Is it petroleum-based? Looks like the answer is no. [1] Are you sure? From that link: "PVA is prepared by hydrolysis of polyvinyl acetate" Follow that and you'll find: "Polyvinyl acetate is prepared by the po
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I think the ideal is when programs are accessible to novices but at the same time provide instruction to those who care to pay attention and hone their skills. For instance, in Excel, when a user uses their mouse to highlight some cells an
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by bigbubba 6y ago
The mingw package (libz-mingw-w64) also has it backwards. As far as I can tell, that upstream gets it right ('mingw-w64-x86_64-zlib' I believe.) Also, putting version number suffixes on package names when the package system alrea
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by bigbubba 6y ago
It's not just Python that has this problem. In Debian the zlib package is called zlib1g. I'm not sure what the '1g' is for, but what really puzzles me is why Debian's package for the Rust bindings is called librus
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> Users don't want complexity, but they do want flexibility I think Alan Kay said it best: Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible. Excel is an example of software not meant for programmers that exempl