dvratil

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by dvratil 4y ago
I don't think this has anything to do with modern trends - := is a formal way of writing assignment (the widely used = is actually an equality sign), and has already been present in Pascal for decades (and other languages as well).
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by dvratil 4y ago
We bought a breath monitor which is a desk/plate (about 20x50cm) with a small device attached via a long cable. You put the desk under the mattress and hang the device somewhere on the crib. When it's on and the kid would stop bre
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by dvratil 4y ago
My dad (who's an architect but learned a little bit of programming on the university in the 80s programming on punch-cards) wrote a few simple QBasic programs with basic math and English vocabulary excercises for me when I started prim
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by dvratil 4y ago
I suppose the title means that they have the source code physically, just no one can understand it, because the author had to remove all comments and shorten all variable names to one character so that the code would fit into the RAM.
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by dvratil 5y ago
Indeed things have improved massively in the past years. I think LVFS played a big role in that.
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by dvratil 5y ago
Reminds me when about ten years ago, working in an all-Linux company there was an issue with some Lenovo docking stations. I don't recall anymore what the issue was exactly, just that something wouldn't work properly when you plug
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by dvratil 5y ago
The reason simply is that when no type is specified, `dig` performs a lookup for an A record (i.e. IPv4 address). When you manually specify AAAA, it does AAAA lookup, which returns IPv6 address. (details in `man dig`)
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by dvratil 5y ago
Does anyone else feel way too entertained by reading all this stuff about fb being down, all services relying on fb being down, and many services not relying on fb being down but being down due to being DDoS'ed by users trying to find
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by dvratil 5y ago
It's DNS over HTTPS. It relies on the same system as plain DNS, so DoH won't really help in this case...
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by dvratil 13y ago
1) It can have new features - the are some upstreamed from KDE, and it's just about users coming with new proposals - nobody cames, no new features. Easy. 2) Why would you change something that needs no changing? 3) Lot of efort goes t
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by dvratil 13y ago
You can't add API into Qt 4, there are new additions only in Qt 5 and as someone already explained, a lot of stuff from KDE widgets is being upstreamed to Qt 5. New widgets and API are being added. There are no or just little changes s