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Linux has had network audio support in various forms for a long time. The default sound server for most distros (PulseAudio) supports TCP or RTP streaming. RTP supports multicast (and multiple multicast groups so you can break down your end
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> What matters is whether the tests exist, not when they were written Technically true, but with myself at least; when I do TDD, I tend to write more, and better tests. When I write tests after code, especially when working on tight dead
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On the vast majority of Linux distributions, you can pretty much guarantee that both tar and zlib will be installed. Both tend to be part of an essential core of packages required to install a system.
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We do, but we just have sensible gun laws. Basically you can have a non-automatic shotgun or rifle as long as you agree to regular stringent inspections. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_the_United_K...
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Not being funny, but if your first concern is a good nights sleep, why move right to the centre of one of Europe's biggest cities? Two things that people commonly do in the centre of cities is get drunk and buy drugs. They go to partie
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My first experience of American policing in action was at a hotel in Gainsville, most of which was booked out to people attending the same punk rock festival. There was a whole bunch of people hanging out by the pool in the summer afternoon
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11y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_in_the_United... That's just England, not including the rest of the UK.
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I remember reading an earlier version of this, about 4/5 years ago (maybe the first edition?). It stuck in my mind as being fairly cleanly written, and also as being the tipping point at which I started to grok OOP in perl (and Moose).
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11y ago
The term desire works in a broader sense, as long as you differentiate between a need and a desire. A need (I guess I'm referring here mostly to needs in the context of those defined by Maslow's Hierarchy) is defined as somethin
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11y ago
I think you've totally missed the point why people hate marketing. It's not because of a lack of understanding on it's mechanics. > From this point of view, there is no "travesty" to thank marketing for. The re
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11y ago
It's pretty straightforward to configure - Arch have a decent guide on their wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Isync Edit: Arch seems to suggest running mbsync under a global systemd unit - user units are
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11y ago
It has labels, of which you can apply one or more of to a message. When represented in IMAP, it appears as folders (though you get duplicate mail objects for every additional folder that a mail is tagged with). If you only apply only one la
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11y ago
Off the top of my head - offline support, PGP support, multi-account support, decent mail-list/threading support, separation of client from service provider.. I'm actually quite a fan of the gmail interface; it is one of the most
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I really hope this protocol takes off and gains widespread adoption.
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I moved from offlineimap to mbsync (part of the iSync project) a few years ago and it has fixed most of the issues I had with offlineimap (mainly high resource usage).
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11y ago
ELBs are dual-stack v4/v6 by default. That's about it though for IPv6 support on AWS. Annoyingly, Route53 supports AAAA records but their nameservers are only reachable via IPv4.
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11y ago
Some guy who wrote a HOWTO on cunnilingus
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Yeah, that whole debacle does concern me, but I don't think I've ever used the stock OS that came with a machine. Even if Lenovo did have a Debian option, I would still wipe it and replace with my own trusted setup.
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I didn't have any conflicts with them. They were nice people, to me at least; they even used to cut my hedge. My only issue with them was that they thought that a man who lived in the sky, or possibly everywhere was telling them that a
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You wouldn't joke about it if you saw my dancing.
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> There's a stark difference between what people who dislike the concept of "safe space" think a "safe space" is and what a "safe space" actually is. The concept of safe spaces originally came out of th
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Rationality (or at least the application of) is a Float, not a Boolean. Humans are just <str>built</str>evolved that way I guess. Though; imagine a human being that was completely rational. He would be thoroughly humourless
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It means that the correct application of capitalisation is not part of the syllabus.
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I'm not trying to get you to renounce your religion, I'm just saying that there is no such thing as ghosts.
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> What a sheltered life you claim to have led, not to have met anyone "smart" who is also religious. Perhaps, although maybe in my social bubble in London, Christians just aren't all that common, smart or otherwise. My las
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> I saw many women who were failed essentially because they were a woman and "women shouldn't be pastors, they should be Sunday-School teachers". By rights, they shouldn't even be entrusted with that responsibility re
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11y ago
jinx!
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11y ago
The r3.8xlarge instance type has 32 vCPUs and 244GiB RAM
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11y ago
Because they're doing nearly $10B/year in profit on $50B in revenue?
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11y ago
Personally, I am very much in need of an office suit.
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