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by erelde 10y ago
I'm just used to it, there's no good reason. First, I had a desktop, then bought a laptop, kept the desktop in front of me, the laptop on the left. At some point the desktop left my desk and I only had a laptop, then after many mi
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by erelde 10y ago
That's your workflow. Some prefer two monitors. I prefer to have two computers and two screens instead of two monitors and one computer. (double the keyboards)
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by erelde 10y ago
What connotation does "Libre" have in American English? (I'm French, to my ears it sounds perfectly reasonnable, if a bit "legalese")
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by erelde 10y ago
Is there a bird just flying above the explosion just seconds after the sounds comes through ?
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by erelde 10y ago
I still "trust" FedEx as a company, but the delivery man in charge of my area is sh*t.
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by erelde 10y ago
The Fedex courier in my area has been consistently bad for years and doesn't get fired. Two weeks ago: doesn't come, doesn't leave a notice, two days in a row, claiming he came, I had a to exchange some salty emails with cust
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by erelde 10y ago
I'm sure at least in my country, France, people won't hear about that case, and those who do will only hear about Apple's letter and won't read any EC documents. Thus the "mass" will somehow side with criminals
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by erelde 10y ago
All of those are also valid points. Thank you. Though I still believe some kind of societal " shedding of skin " is required from time to time in human societies. I also believe there are different expectations from people used to
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by erelde 10y ago
What is the user "bluestar" writing about in this thread? I don't even understand the intent of the message. https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=80193&po...
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by erelde 10y ago
The Transamerica, the Shard, and the Ryugyong are considered pyramids? Is there a common definition those buildings fullfill? Or are they on the graph for scale?
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by erelde 10y ago
I have some custom shortcuts going like those: chromium --app="https://www.worldwideweb.org" Will they also remove that flag?
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by erelde 10y ago
I didn't say that... In fact I made almost no judgement on the quality of the changes... But, if I had to discuss this subject: I would say that in a nuclear computer powered world, a political system originally designed for farmers an
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by erelde 10y ago
From the outside it seems like the USA are overdue for a deep change. Other Western countries (except maybe the UK, it may be related to the mindset of Common Law) have had multiple deep political changes. Think Germany, the current system
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by erelde 10y ago
In short: "purer than thou" attitude from an elitist minority forming a negative core inside a very small community. Because their $way is better than your $way.
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by erelde 10y ago
It's the same thing if the user re use their password though.
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by erelde 10y ago
But on mobile you can entirely deny an application the rights to show notifications ? If you use the app.
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by erelde 10y ago
The current leader lived quite a lot in western countries didn't he? Before his father died.
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by erelde 10y ago
I agree with your idea, but I think you should add a few logical links in your statements to make it clearer. (and I live very near la Bastille, so according to the politicians I should be shocked ) Furthermore, the people who did those cr
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by erelde 10y ago
Also, many of us spent the first 20 years (just when our bodies grow) of our life sitting. On the other hand, we're still growing taller...
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by erelde 10y ago
Reading the opinions of others gratifies my own intellectual curiosity, and as I am one of HN's readers, it fullfills the definition. PS: editing your own post to reply is a weird way to do things when there's a "reply"
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by erelde 10y ago
From the guidelines: > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectua
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by erelde 10y ago
> Should we perform this extremely expensive treatment to give somebody a few days in agonizing pain, or maybe save a few dozen other people with a simple, straightforward procedure? Does the current system in the US evaluate that? We co
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by erelde 10y ago
I think I remember reading something about how the network inside NK was basically running off one (edit: a few) IP addresses with an enterprise local network. I think that was posted on HN, I'll try to find the link. edit: was it this
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by erelde 10y ago
> I feel bad for the finance people who probably suffered from a heat stroke while wearing a suit during our hottest days In my org, my reasonning for the many people wearing suits (usually not devs and management higher ups) is that the
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by erelde 10y ago
I think you're mistaking someone who's happy but ignorant of their mediocrity, and someone who's aware of their own mediocrity but learned to still enjoy life despite the knowledge of their own condition. I'd say many pe
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by erelde 10y ago
Again we're running into the different perceptions different people have of "just work". As for my opinion on this: I've never used a distro I didn't need at least between 2 or 14 days before I could say "it ju
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by erelde 10y ago
Happy birthday, I used it for both outputting pdf, and often when encountering a very long html pages without styling (quite common around these parts) to output epub.
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by erelde 10y ago
> If you seek his monument, look around you This, is no proof. At best it's an argument from authority. You need a little leg up in rhetoric arguments. It has long been decided, by better logicians and theologists than us, that eith
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by erelde 10y ago
imo, often the things made for adults are better suited for kids than the things designed specifically for kids (by misguided adults). Kids aren't dumb, they just lack refined thinking models adults develop as they grow up. Eg: I think
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by erelde 10y ago
Large org, windows, non admin rights. Don't have the rights to plug non approved usb devices. I can't even use another text editor than the one I have. All those 'vim vs emacs' war-jokes make me laugh. What I wouldn&#x27

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