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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
Viruses themselves don't actually multiply. They just force the host (in this case the bacteria) to produce more copies of the virus. Is there some kind of rule that a drug can't force the bacteria to produce more of the drug?
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
I wonder if discovering lots of tiny moons will lead to a new definition for moon like what happened with the planets.
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
> In Orkney, a white roll is called a 'Softie'. Does that refer specifically to the soft rolls that are popular in Scotland? You can't find them everywhere in England. In Tesco they were called a McSomething roll.
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
> Phages are living things. No they're not. Virus particles are totally inert on their own. They incorporate themselves into and modify other living systems. But that's no different from drugs.
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
Why not just answer the question? Why go straight for an attack? By asking a question am I not making it abundantly clear that my knowledge might be lacking? I've not used Windows for more than ten years. I really do not know what it&#
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
Should you be free to take the freedoms of others? Are you free to move into your neighbour's back garden? Freedom extends to the point where it becomes taking the freedom from others.
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
Powershell doesn't feel like a shell to me at all. It's hideously inconsistent and somewhere between shell scripting and programming. You're right that Python is by far the better tool. Powershell only had to beat its incumbe
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
That's what I'm asking, what is the point of Windows if not that? It's name specifically refers to its graphical capablities. The point of GNU/Linux is it's a free UNIX-like operating system. If everyone is using
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
Where do these beliefs come from? The GPL is the most free licence there is specifically because it prohibits future users from using copyright to restrict other users. It's a globally optimal solution rather than a locally optimal one
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
What's an "estimated mile"?
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
> I hope Qt for Python will become stable enough so I can make the switch. Why do you want to switch?
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
Not really a problem with Python. There's no linking.
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
Only for those who don't want to contribute to open source. If we're just talking about open source it doesn't matter.
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
It's unlikely that Qt will be added to an existing project, so just license the new project under GPL. What's the problem?
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
Why would you want them to distribute it? Distribute under GPL, offer a proprietary licence and they'd have to buy the proprietary licence to Qt too.
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
> you can always dual-license though Exactly. So no practical difference. Just a religious one.
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
I believe that's how diesel two-strokes work. Can it work with petrol? Burning diesel is still undesirable.
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
> For open source projects, it is available under LGLP And how does this make the slightest difference for open source projects?
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
> I'm not about to use Lynx for the bulk of my web browsing. Lynx isn't a CLI program. Curl is a CLI program. I agree that it's preferable to use Firefox over Lynx, but all of that works fine on X11. The point of Windows i
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
The P stands for print. A REPL prints by definition.
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
If more and more people are realising that command line interfaces were the right thing all along and shunning GUIs, what is actually the point of Windows any more?
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
As someone who has learnt and loves Lisp it's really confusing to me that REPL has come to mean simply command interface. This is the REPL: (loop (print (eval (read))))
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
So why did FTP have 21 and telnet have 23?
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
The terms are used interchangeably. Nothing like this would ever described as "English". Yet Scottish people sometimes complain when things aren't described as "Scottish". I don't really know why. It might have
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
I just finished a week long drive and "wild" camping trip in Scotland. I have Maps.me and Osmand on my phone and it was excellent. Helped me find all kinds of things that aren't on any other maps. The best thing is, as a mapp
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
The question really is have you tried magit?
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
Check the pubkey fingerprint out of band, like you would do with ssh.
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
The point is it works without graphics so you can use it over ssh, for example.
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
CO or N would be completely painless. CO is often called the "silent killer" as many humans die from it every year. Doesn't need to be pure CO or anything. Nitrogen would need to be pure but is similarly silent and painless.
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by cup-of-tea 8y ago
> It’s used to stun animals before slaughter What? How? Carbon dioxide is well known to cause a painful death. Why the fuck are they not using nitrogen?

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