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by forinti 1y ago
But within each language it is well defined. Between languages, even the letters have different uses. Diacritics can be used to signal a different sound or the tonicity of the word (at least in the languages I know those are the two uses).
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by forinti 1y ago
If you can have a secondary database (at another site or on the cloud) being updated with streaming replication, you can switch over very quickly and with little fuss.
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by forinti 1y ago
About every 15 years I have to change the caps on my Beeb. The third job is coming soon.
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by forinti 1y ago
There were Nuremberg trials because Germany capitulated. We don't even have sanctions on Israel and the people responsible will only be jailed if they step outside Israel. I am not optimistic at all and I am very afraid for Gazans.
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by forinti 1y ago
I don't get such nasty ads, but the ones I get are extremely repetitive. I see the same 3 ads all the time: one for a car, one for a bank, one for clothes.
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by forinti 1y ago
In the sense that ordinary users are considering it and no longer gasp in horror at the thought, yes.
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by forinti 1y ago
I imagine this will be a serious issue for companies with small IT teams and large legacy systems.
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by forinti 1y ago
There is currently a very strong reason to migrate to Open Source: the big tech corps are pushing people into their clouds and this leads to new constraints on your planning because now you are subject to the software company's product
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by forinti 1y ago
I know many infrastructure techies that prefer Windows and swear that it's easier to maintain a Windows network. With regards to end users, I think the only office software that still has an undeniable grip is Excel, but as people use
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by forinti 1y ago
Circa 1986 I was tasked with helping my Grandmother's friend Electra (a very energetic old lady) with finding a computer for her nephew. We went to a lot of shops in Montevideo. You could get anything you wanted. We saw an Adam at one
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by forinti 1y ago
That's what made computer magazines so much fun in the 1980s. Every month there would be small projects (fractals, colliding galaxies, small games) that would teach you a new subject and be small enough that you could type in.
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by forinti 1y ago
I've still got to catch up with all this AI thing. I really don't have the time. But some teams I work with have lost interest in fixing our current issues and seem hellbent on implementing AI everywhere. I'm waiting for the
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by forinti 1y ago
You can brute force a hashed password if it's short or you want it badly enough.
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by forinti 1y ago
I use Ubuntu 22 in a LXC container on Ubuntu 24 (because of Webex). I also run other Linux instances with KVM. I even run a Linux x86_64 executable on an ARM SBC using QEMU. I just feel that Linux is so much more flexible than Windows.
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by forinti 1y ago
Mondrian has an interesting path from trees to straight lines and basic colours.
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by forinti 1y ago
He talks about it in The Fog of War (which is not going to make you change your ideia about him).
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by forinti 1y ago
When Robert McNamara took over Ford, accounting was so messed up, they would weigh their invoices and if the amount wasn't too far off from the expected dollars/pound ratio, they would pay it.
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by forinti 1y ago
Reading through it I had a feeling it was in Italy. I was bit sad to confirm it.
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by forinti 1y ago
Yes, they play just fine with Gnome Videos or VLC. Both machines have a GeForce GT 710 on them.
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by forinti 1y ago
My daily drivers at home are an i3-540 and and Athlon II X4. Every time something breaks down, I find it much cheaper to just buy a new part than to buy a whole new kit with motherboard/CPU/RAM. I'm a sysadmin, so I only real
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by forinti 1y ago
In the 90s, every time you got a new computer it would have at least twice the RAM, sometimes 4x.
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by forinti 1y ago
I was going to comment that there will be a need for many IT professionals to fix problems produced by AI. Your comment painted a much clearer picture.
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by forinti 1y ago
It is also quite strong in the corporate space. All the major vendors are cornering us into their clouds.
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by forinti 1y ago
The way I read these capitalist/anti-capitalist debates is that those for capitalism usually have an idealized version of it in their heads and those against it have some very specific issue in mind. In Latin America, there are many co
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by forinti 1y ago
I bought a Casio recently and I was curious about the mechanism, but I couldn't find anything. The only detail that I found was the frequency of the crystal. Regarding the controller, the best I could find was a few posts with people t
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by forinti 1y ago
This reminds me of a story about the funeral of a woman who died in her late nineties. One particular gentleman, without much reflection, tried to console the family with a "it was so unexpected".
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by forinti 1y ago
Apache has so much functionality. Why wouldn't anybody use it? I started using it when Oracle's Webcache wouldn't support newer certificates and I had to keep Oracle Portal running. I could edit the incoming certificate (I ha
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by forinti 1y ago
Cyrillic would fit so much better.
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by forinti 1y ago
The last time I took my kids to McDonald's was a few years ago. They rarely eat junk food but they wanted a little toy that was being handed out. They couldn't finish their burgers and I couldn't eat their leftovers (and I ha
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by forinti 1y ago
One of the coolest things you can do with Postgresql is pipe pg_dump straight into psql connected to another cluster on another host.

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