ethelward

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by ethelward 8y ago
What encryption are you using? LUKS on HDD is imperceptible for me.
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by ethelward 8y ago
> It's quite comparable to these systems, even if less pure and lacking some of the features. So it's not really comparable then.
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by ethelward 8y ago
> I had to re-align all the code: Cannot you just have your editor do that for you?
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by ethelward 8y ago
So instead of just chosing another font for the default style, you decided to thrash LO and buy MS Office? That seems a bit of an overreaction, no?
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by ethelward 8y ago
Types cannot be inferred in dynamic typing systems. That is the whole point of dynamic type systems: type might change during runtime.
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by ethelward 8y ago
The US are doing many things well, but the quality of their food in general is not really an example to follow.
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by ethelward 8y ago
First there was no EU neither in 1914 nor in 1939. Second, the US were not a nice place to live in 1861, while Europe was. Time changes.
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by ethelward 8y ago
And a smart intellisense and efficient detection of misspelled properties are themselves strongly dependent on a decent types system.
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by ethelward 8y ago
The OTP is both.
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by ethelward 8y ago
On on hand, the science itself is a quickly moving field; on the other one, the more precise tests kits are far more expensive. So these societies have to make compromises.
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by ethelward 8y ago
IMHO, Chrome arrived at such a market share mostly through (i) ubiquitously ad campaigns (subways, buses, on the web, ...); (ii) an strong push towards the users (it's quite easy when your editor is in charge of what is basically the h
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by ethelward 8y ago
> genocide denial Please don't use powerful words at the wrong place, you are depleting them of their meaning. A genocide has an actual definition according to the international law, and the Gulag system does not tick any of the box
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by ethelward 8y ago
Ironically enough, macOS's dictionary is missing the correct (in this context) translation of refléchir in this example :)
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by ethelward 8y ago
Sorry, but no. They are just our old units that stuck in everyday language. They are probably not even closer to yours than yours are to antique Egypt ones, given that they were not internationally standardized and merely referenced the sam
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by ethelward 8y ago
Which is why we have, at least in France (and AFAIK, in most of Europe), different kind of ambulances depending on the gravity of the case. The hospital won't send an ambulance with ER stuff for a guy who don't need it.
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by ethelward 8y ago
> I like having the two bars. You can add bars in KDE.
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by ethelward 8y ago
If they were paying for the commercial version, they would use the commercial license and thus wouldn't care about the LGPL3. Therefore, they are deliberately chosing to use the FOSS version to avoid to pay the commercial one while kee
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by ethelward 8y ago
> What I meant is that the trio Python/Java/C is ubiquitous for many people in both entreprises and scientific fields, from embedded to web servers. It allows for great reusability of codes and people's skills. That's
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by ethelward 8y ago
Oh gosh, you're making me impatient now :)
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by ethelward 8y ago
> How is Julia different than Pypy Well, no GIL for a start, which is a pretty strong selling point when running on several dozen of cores at once. > I don't see the plus value in Julia compared to Python or Java I don't see
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by ethelward 8y ago
You can still find Windows 3.11 in some places. Longevity is not necessarily linked to quality
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by ethelward 8y ago
> there's no excuse for a closed source web browser in 2018. Unless it is Chrome, or Safari, or Edge, ...
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by ethelward 8y ago
Like many technologies, dynamite is a two edged sword. All in all, I'd wage it had much more civilian applications than military ones. And Nobel invented it because of the large numbers of _civilian_ workers being killed or injured in
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by ethelward 8y ago
Yes, it only came out a few day ago; it's understandable you were not aware of it :)
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by ethelward 8y ago
He did a bit more than that[0], and he comapred it to Kitty. [0] https://jwilm.io/blog/alacritty-lands-scrollback/
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by ethelward 8y ago
> do we still want to be using generations-old software in the years to come? *BSD, vim, Emacs, Perl, C, Apache & Linux in some way, gcc, the GNU userland, Air company & banks infrastructure come to mind, and they still do the wo
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by ethelward 8y ago
Nicola Tesla actually invented thing. AFAIK, Musk didn't; he's above all a successful businessman but has little to no technical competencies.
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by ethelward 8y ago
I absolutely love how Mojolicious::Lite let me develop in an afternoon a simple website for a little idea of mine in a single file. And the “deployment” was suprisingly painles. Thanks for that and congratulations for the new release!
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by ethelward 8y ago
> GDPR “My oh my, we won't be able to sell people online life without them knowing it” > local movie quotas on services like Netflix Promoting local culture, what a shame. > arresting people who train their dog to do a bellamy
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by ethelward 8y ago
You mean that the guys who are in front of the praised Germans, largely in front of your English cousins, and rocking the EU average, are “never working due to labor laws”? Your post reeks of crawling xenophobia. http://blogs.lse

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