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by claudius 13y ago
You can still use optical media (CD/DVD) or USB keys to install packages with APT, so I don’t see how Slackware would have any advantage over Debian there. There’s even a apt-offline[0] to create a list of ‘needed’ packages on one syst
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Editors on the NSA files: 'What the Guardian is doing is important'(theguardian.com)
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by claudius 13y ago
> You're right, but as you point out that's not standard. It's not usually directly integrated in your mail client. It's just a hack. NNTP clients have all that baked in. While not standardised, I expect any decent e-
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by claudius 13y ago
> The only thing missing in a mailing list is a good archive for new members; the web UIs are usually terrible. Personally, I wish I could just get an archive file (zip, tar, etc) of a certain period of time. Three data points/opini
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by claudius 13y ago
Wikipedia definitely has a thing for Euler diagrams[0], but this one is actually useful. Thank you very much! :) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Supranational_European_Bo...
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by claudius 13y ago
If and and . Funding wars abroad is generally never intelligent from a GDP PoV (funding wars at home at least gets you to rebuild/modernise stuff later on).
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by claudius 13y ago
That is exactly the effect described by the GP: People appreciate you trying to speak French and help you out in whatever way they can, in this case by switching to English. The point is for you to give a decent first impression by doing so
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by claudius 13y ago
At this point, I don’t think that the distro matters much, as there is quite exactly nothing there except for the kernel, udev and the very first steps of startup.
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by claudius 13y ago
Wikipedia mentions a couple of ‘von Bose’, and I have to admit that I don’t see any particularly tight link between ‘Bose’ and ‘böse’ – the umlaut does have a special pronunciation, after all.
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by claudius 13y ago
He certainly had an interesting life, but I don't think the person giving their name to half the particles in the universe can be called ‘a little forgotten’.
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by claudius 13y ago
This bit of the fusion research is mostly aimed at making small-scale experiments on weaponised nuclear fusion without having to set off nuclear bombs every other day. As a long-term energy source, it is assumed to be rather unusable.
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by claudius 13y ago
Is Perl 4 + Perl 4 a way to achieve threading/parallel code execution?
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by claudius 13y ago
They couldn’t accidentally invade Liechtenstein any more…
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by claudius 13y ago
> I guess until the community manages to communicate, linux will remain mostly used on servers and by interested parties that want to configure everything. So what? Why would (for example) the authors of the many different window manager
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by claudius 13y ago
It might have been difficult to combine blinking GIFs with JPEG artefacts – that said, it wasn't all that bad with the mouse on the ‘next’ link and tapping of the left mouse button to read the next slide, at least it works in Opera :)
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by claudius 13y ago
I’d go so far to say that someone should file a bug report with Opera if they are lexing extension code for each page individually, rather than compiling it once on startup and then using the compiled code for the individual pages.
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by claudius 13y ago
Well, even though the extension lives on the local hard drive, it could still make loading it faster: At least with HDDs, people made experiments gzip'ing the Linux kernel in /boot (or parts thereof) and using the CPU to unzip it
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by claudius 13y ago
Isn’t the problem with detecting bad randomness that you can’t be sure about your decision? That is, if you accept a certain probability of falsely identifying a RNG as biased, I don’t see why this should be a fundamentally difficult prob
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by claudius 13y ago
Thanks, that cleared it up. Over here in Germany, there are only prisons, operated by the state, and labelled Justizvollzugsanstalt (JVA, ‘judicial execution facility’?), and facilities for underage/young offenders called Jugendarresta
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by claudius 13y ago
I would always expect that a society has a higher responsibility towards a person from whom it took away their personal freedom than towards a ‘free’ citizen. While this argument does not extend to school children and illegal immigrants, I
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by claudius 13y ago
I’m sorry, could you elaborate on the difference between prison, jail and penitentiary? To my non-native understanding, they’re exact synonyms.
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by claudius 13y ago
Doesn’t he give detailed information on why Github’s interface appears inferior to him, e.g. in https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56599... ?
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by claudius 13y ago
Apologies & thanks for the heads-up! :)
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by claudius 13y ago
Regarding your aside: Cattle are usually not fed broccoli and carrots, and I am fairly certain you can get loads of their food for the price of some fatty pork. Even one of the higher-quality cereals, wheat, is sufficiently cheap that the
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by claudius 13y ago
Well, yes, but the author equated (in my reading) The One True Time with the wall time/time provided by NTP and such, which clearly jumps around and is UTC. The ‘perfect egg timer’ is, if anything, comparable to the monotonic clocks.
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by claudius 13y ago
While the article in general is great, the author’s assumption of one true time is rather cute :). At the very least, there are: - the actual number of seconds that passed since the epoch, i.e. the number a perfect egg timer would show if y
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by claudius 13y ago
Indeed they do say that. My – admittedly rather poor attempt at a – joke was that the ‘command line tool’ to which you were referring is indeed quite usable and user-friendly; as opposed to, say, ed scripts.
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by claudius 13y ago
I don’t think the GP was talking about ed scripts.
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by claudius 13y ago
The problem is trying to mix a proportional system with a representative one where each district elects one member of parliament, which then has to fit in with the results from the proportional system. In theory, this would allow for all
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by claudius 13y ago
Regarding the kernel.org hack: Even with git’s hashing, wouldn’t an attack on Linus’ – or even a subsystem maintainer’s – computer still be a viable way to get code into the kernel, as said code would be a variant of new, unpublished code r

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