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by coribuci 6y ago
This does not work for SW. No matter how long they tried quality programs are very very rare.
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by coribuci 6y ago
> Do you think involuntary psychiatric committment and forced drugging is a reasonable reaction by the government to a protester/activist who is paranoid about surveillance in an age of ubiquitous surveillance? Yes. She might have f
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by coribuci 6y ago
MS Windows, any version except 3.1 or earlier. MS Outlook, MS Word, MS Excel, McAffe crap, KDE, Gnome, Pulseaudio, CMake (you don't need to configure anything). Android any version. MS would be proud to have the same amount of brain d
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by coribuci 6y ago
> The level of quirkiness and bugginess in the tools is on another level to most software tools. You shouldn't need access to the engineers who built it in order to make it work, this basically increases costs and barrier to entry m
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by coribuci 7y ago
> Yes, but why does it matter if China intercepts your American school children? Why would they want to? That's not a reasonable threat model. Because China=bad, Google or Facebook or Microsoft (which all provide data to) or NSA =go
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by coribuci 7y ago
> I think that's technically incorrect. The BND (and it's military sibling MAD) are mostly concerned with foreign intelligence, while the Stasi was mostly used for internal surveillance. Of course they are. That's why they
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by coribuci 7y ago
> > The community support OpenVMS has received over the years has been instrumental in the success of the product. > > As we approach the end of the HPE OpenVMS V8.4 standard support period, HPE plans to conclude the HPE OpenVMS
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by coribuci 7y ago
> “Irish slavery” is usually a sign someone is a racist asshole who has no idea what they’re talking about. So long for the praised HN guidelines.
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by coribuci 7y ago
So there is no issue in firefox that about:config cannot fix. Sad
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by coribuci 7y ago
Then why don't _you_ do it ?
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by coribuci 7y ago
> Given a choice between the government doing it and a company that has been specializing in this type of thing for decades, why wasn’t this the best choice? Because the only thing they are specialized in is sucking tax money from the go
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by coribuci 7y ago
> Do we really need even more stuff delegated to systemd? What's wrong with grub? It's a standalone program. I'm looking forward for systemd-x11. I think in the future we will get rid of GNU/Linux. We will have syste
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by coribuci 7y ago
> Have you ever shopped for closets? Every major closet retailer has pictures of their product holding a ridiculously small number of apparel.[1][2] I, and especially my wife, have more than 4 shirts. I would like to see how a closet des
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by coribuci 7y ago
> The notion that removing all shades and shadows is "cleaner" is a fad. This fad will end, and the sooner it ends the better it is for all of us. It will not end so soon. They just rediscovered windows 1.0 and there is a lobg
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by coribuci 7y ago
> Then you'd just repeat the Perl 5/Raku split. You'd have a "new" C++ that isn't actually C++ but it's called C++ with a different version number and people will then bicker for a few years until they
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by coribuci 7y ago
> > But growing up there were quite literally no resources to learn anything about computers or programming. > This logical jump doesn't seem to make sense to me. Almost every developed country on earth used Microsoft Office i
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by coribuci 7y ago
Well, it's an improvement. The previous record was 32768 hours. One small step for HP, one giant problem for the sysadmin.
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by coribuci 7y ago
> I've always been skeptical of using retro machines to learn low-level programming. > While the processors are simple, making non-trivial programs is hard, because the machines as a whole have lot of limitations, making programm
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by coribuci 7y ago
> No Gecko and no Chrome? I'm waiting for you to say we should all start using Brave. Please say it. To be honest i like Seamonkey :) Maybe i am too old.
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by coribuci 7y ago
One more reason not to use firefox. Firefox became the younger brother of Chrome. Why they can't be independent and think for themselves ?
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by coribuci 7y ago
> When doing that he found out that Netflix streaming in 4k isn't actually 4k. Well, after so many people praising streaming i wanted to check what this means. According to wikipedia the server adapts to the clients bandwidth. So yo
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by coribuci 7y ago
> Suppression of the press is unfortunately very effective in the short term. Historians may eventually uncover the truth but it will be far too late. As Frank Herbert said: "History is written by historians"
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by coribuci 7y ago
After listening to Radio Free Europe for some years i think it is safe to say that there is no difference between communist and capitalist propaganda. They both serve the "good" against the "evil".
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by coribuci 7y ago
> Having wants is not being entitled. Thinking that one deserves and should have everything one wants is being entitled. U.S. of A would like to have a word with you. > The purpose of art or media is whatever the creator wants it to b
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by coribuci 7y ago
> This will be a wonderful source of pre-processed nuclear material. No way any of that would ever go missing in the field. Or get hit with a shell and spread all over. FYI depleted uranium projectiles are already used in the "field
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by coribuci 7y ago
> Part of the problem with these new technologies is that every car company gives each capability a unique name. It's because of Mickey Mouse (copyright/patent law). Same like with "4x4" and "all wheel drive&quot
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by coribuci 7y ago
> I don't see why you're getting downvoted. You're 100% right. Mozilla get money from Google and spend it on fun projects which have nothing to do with the web. Because there are some people here which work in "user d
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by coribuci 7y ago
> Well, Mozilla is in a hard place. They're already losing browser marketshare, and they don't want to annoy people by breaking stuff. Well, the web was always like sw development: if it compiles - release it - and let the user
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by coribuci 7y ago
> I remember back then accelerators setting were highlighted in all programming books I have read. ... back then. Now this is not cool anymore.
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by coribuci 7y ago
> The vast majority will not learn that ctrl + click does right-click, and that you can enable scrollbars again to actually see if there is more content to view. How are they suppose to learn that ? Is it described in a help text somewhe

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