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by flukus 7y ago
I'll second graphviz, aside from it's standalone strengths it integrates well with doxygen and the two combined make for some great documentation. I use it for sequence charts as well by using sublabels (not sure what they're
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by flukus 7y ago
> There is a fair chance that your core annoyance is something else. People desiring quiet places or isolation to think isn't a particularly new phenomenon, so there's a good chance that this is the core problem. That said ther
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by flukus 7y ago
> I also this is a good time to remember that not every citizen has to have the same values on this It's also important to remember that not every nation will have the same set of values on this and that as the world becomes more in
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by flukus 7y ago
> The author doesn’t want ads but then doesn’t want to pay anything? How would anyone expect a video site to stream 4K video for free then? I guess I expected free/cheap hosting to scale enough for video by now. Little geocities sit
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by flukus 7y ago
> That's only true if you ignore all packages on PyPi. Presumably any packages worth maintaining will have far more dependent projects, so it's still far less overall effort. > It's extremely hard to keep compatibility
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by flukus 7y ago
Teens are more than old enough to get themselves up and at school without parents being there.
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by flukus 7y ago
> It is, however, a huge problem for domains like scientific computing, where most code has no maintainers and even for very important code there is no budget or staff for maintenance I think that's a tool selection problem, not jus
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by flukus 7y ago
It already exists and millions of people have been doing it since the 60's, backpacker hostels. I think as a general rule you'd be paying over $2000 a month for a private room, but if you're willing to share you can get well
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by flukus 7y ago
> Yes, it's expensive to upgrade from Python 2 to Python 3, but it's also expensive for the Python project to maintain 2 versions of Python indefinitely. No maintaining 2 versions of python is much cheaper, it's only being
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by flukus 7y ago
Last I checked no 4g/SMS/calls with debian. Same old driver story of why we only have android phones and not Linux phones. Fixing that was/is the big promise of the librem 5.
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by flukus 7y ago
For a literal definition of promising Kickstarter is busy seperating fools from their money, most seem to falter at moving past the concept video stage though. Tap apparently nearly works: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbre
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by flukus 7y ago
The pinebook is a laptop with a 14" screen, this is aiming to be far more portable with a 4.5" screen (can we even get phones that size anymore?), so they're not really in the same category. It's competitors are more lik
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by flukus 7y ago
There's a few other factors and I'd be worried about the combination of them more than any single one. Depending in location and geography and timing you can easily lose a couple of feet by an exceptionally high tide, sea level is
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by flukus 7y ago
> You are simply saying to your employer (or potential employer) that I have this need (healthcare, mothers' room, 4 day workweek, whatever), and that were they willing to provide that you are going to work there. You are simply say
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by flukus 7y ago
There's something that seems to make train sets much more universal. Compare it to slot cars which are nearly identical technologically but don't have the same geek cred. The only complexity difference is that you get some track s
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by flukus 7y ago
Seems like there's a lesson there about sticking to tried and proven solutions even if you come up with a better one. Or maybe it's a worse is better thing?
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by flukus 7y ago
> Companies should only do the minimum required by law? Whether they should or not is irrelevant, it's what they do. Companies com and go, companies that spend more than they have to tend to go faster, employers change even more fre
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by flukus 7y ago
You can build them just about anywhere, all you need is a tiny amount of land area for the reservoirs enough of a vertical gradient. There are large mountain ranges running down both coasts with more than enough space to accommodate this. L
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by flukus 7y ago
> So, now we need about 100 pumped hydro plants of the same size as largest one energy storage facility in existence There are about 70 > 1MW pumped storage stations around the world already, with 40 more planned ( https://e
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by flukus 7y ago
> Advocating for parental leave? Politics. Mothers rooms? Politics. Prayer rooms? Politics. Trans inclusive health care? Politics. Domestic partner benefits? Politics. Yep all politics. As political issues they should be dealt with in th
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by flukus 7y ago
> Who are you or any politician to decide how many kids can a couple have? I'm someone who subsidizes families having children, my taxes are paying for their healthcare, their schools, their childcare, etc. And while I'm happy
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by flukus 7y ago
It helps motivate people and make them feel like they're part of a mission while forgetting that they're only there for the paycheck. Motivated employees are great because the work longer and harder for less pay.
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by flukus 7y ago
But customers officers can't force you to comply can they? So whether or not they have any authority is irrelevant. Of course if you choose not comply you have to turn around.
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by flukus 7y ago
I'm in Australia not the US and sin taxes aren't spread out evenly, especially with cigarettes (not that this is a bad thing). For perspective $50 a week is a doable food budget for an individual, a pack of 40 cigarettes is $50 an
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by flukus 7y ago
I've tried, it was more like 3 hours before I gave up and I was only writing it in the first place because systemd got involved where I didn't ask it too. All I did was mount a network drive from a shell script and systemd decided
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by flukus 7y ago
What you just described is still very much what I'd call a monolith. Much like if you have a microservice architecure (that we had a system level prior to systemd) then each component should be testable, upgradeable and swappable in is
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by flukus 7y ago
If it's highly modular then why (according to TFA) are they struggling to incorporate a fork of a systemd subcomponent? If that's not easy to do then it's not modular.
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by flukus 7y ago
> First one sounds much easier for a beginner to me They didn't say it wasn't easier, just that they'd learn less. A better platform to learn on doesn't result in you learning less. This is even true among "profe
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by flukus 7y ago
No, hence this article. Note that the system they're having such a hard time integrating is a fork of a systemd component, which is about as close to the best scenario as you could hope for.
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by flukus 7y ago
> In short: merging elogind appears to be complex enough that it would be hard to justify in the absence of a strong commitment to the support of non-systemd init systems. I think that outlines the problem well, systemd might be a good i

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