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by elygre 7y ago
Ah, nice! I guess all languages have legions of these. In Norway, dell sold computers with “brannkabel”, or “burn cable” [1]. [1] IEEE 1394 — FireWire.
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by elygre 7y ago
If you googled it, it really, really was not “many, many years ago”. I object. As loudly as my old body allows.
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by elygre 7y ago
It’s not “on prem” anymore when part of the product is on a third party server.
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by elygre 7y ago
I detest sitting in an airplane on the ground. It's equally cramped, but there is no progress . Much worse than actually flying.
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by elygre 7y ago
No, it's just still amusing to the rest of the world. We're like "This is 2019, not 1920".
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by elygre 7y ago
As a (fellow?) Norwegian, I beg to differ. Some of us thinks electric cars are both great cars and environmentally friendly, and make buying decisions based on those two.
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by elygre 7y ago
The article is literally littered with thoughts on that.
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by elygre 7y ago
In the fluent scenario, I will be waiting for the instruction to execute: Copy.from('foo').to('bar').execute(); Because of variations like these: Copy.from('foo').to('bar').owner('me
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by elygre 7y ago
If it’s prepaid, is it then a credit card anymore? I believe this is relevant with respect to much of the protection you have from using a credit card (chargebacks etc)
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by elygre 7y ago
There is a Larry Bond book on that. An entertaining read.
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by elygre 7y ago
How does this work with European instances of large providers, e.g. the Ireland versions of Azure and Amazon?
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by elygre 7y ago
Without having much opinion on systemd, hiring the developer sounds very much like “embrace”. Continuing developing sounds like “extend”.
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by elygre 7y ago
The parent thread was very much about using commit messages instead of comments, and I was arguing against that. Two rights, on the other hand, don’t make a wrong.
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by elygre 7y ago
While commit messages are always there, they get lost. You fix a bug in your code, with a commit message. Later, you realize that this function is super reusable, so you move the function to another class in another file. Now, for all inten
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by elygre 7y ago
Or, maybe they aren't. Maybe their telemetry keeps them in touch with all their users, while the rest of us see only own own little echo chambers.
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by elygre 7y ago
On my windows 10 computer, the browser settings have an option called "Open new tabs with", defaulting to "Top sites and suggested content". This can be changed to "A blank page", right there in the browser set
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by elygre 7y ago
Java OpenJDK development has been on Mercurial, and ponders moving to Git. In typical OpenJDK-fashion, the process is thoroughly examined and discussed. More information in for example * https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/35
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by elygre 7y ago
That feels like the ethical thing to do. If you are to build nuclear reactors, at least own the fallout.
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by elygre 7y ago
I want my strawberries to survive till nightfall. Because strawberries.. yum!
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by elygre 7y ago
They (generally) don't overbook. Since their tickets are (generally) not refundable, they get paid even if you don't show up.
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by elygre 7y ago
Developers will support multiple markets, the same way that car companies deliver cars with the steering wheel on the wrong (i.e. right) side of the car for those comparably small markets.
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by elygre 7y ago
Norway doesn’t have the spare capacity to build more industries. Putting money into the Norwegian economy would just drive inflation.
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by elygre 7y ago
It seems to me that a profitable bank is private, while an unprofitable bank magically becomes a public concern.
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by elygre 7y ago
I find it awesome that they actually have a defined and documented Appeals Process.
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by elygre 7y ago
The entire discussion started not with whether "China is bad", but whether US is better: > Hopefully this will push RISC-V manufacturing efforts in the US before the market becomes flooded with cheap open source and most likely
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by elygre 7y ago
My jurisdiction actually allows the use on pavements/sidewalks, under the same rules that apply for bicycles.
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by elygre 7y ago
No, the scooter I own would stay at home, as it would be in the way during my morning commute. (I’m not saying it’s for all, but for me, the shared scooter could not be replaced by having my own, which is the argument that kicked of this su
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by elygre 7y ago
M50 here. Have it, use it, love it.
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by elygre 7y ago
My scooter will never be where I need it. The bird (or lime or Voi or...) can be picked up where I need it, and left where I don’t.
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by elygre 7y ago
That would only be if they hosted an online meeting (an audio or video conference), not for any outlook meeting (i.e. a meeting booked with outlook doing scheduling, but meeting happening in a good old meeting room). And that is then compar

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