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by genera1 7y ago
It was a special volume license key that didn't require online or phone activation, so presumably an OEM that got a release version couple weeks early
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by genera1 7y ago
Customers, who would've paid nothing anyway, presumably
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by genera1 7y ago
And is usually a matter of funding, famously Hagia Sophia was built in five years
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by genera1 7y ago
They are, and aren't that expensive. Our IT support team has one for workstation drives in a company with around 1000 employees.
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by genera1 7y ago
Castling is a king move in regular chess
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by genera1 7y ago
TBH legendary issues like mails failing over 500 miles [0] or recent reddit post about MRI disaing all iPhones in the hospital [1] take the cake [0] http://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles [1] https:/&#x2
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by genera1 7y ago
You could sell, or even better lease it out
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by genera1 7y ago
>As the cost of sensors and radio chips goes down, we might reach the point where we do put a GPS sensor on everybody. Law enforcement would love it and on the small scale it would probably save lives and reduce crime. GPS chips are alre
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by genera1 7y ago
Those cheap Amazon keys are still not legal, so you might as well pirate Windows
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by genera1 7y ago
Well, it might've been a honest mistake of someone who believes in horseshoe fallacy, but calling Nazis and Hitler socialist or left-wingers is a very common far right tactic, designed to muddy the waters and distance themselves from a
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by genera1 7y ago
Do you really need an explanation, how Hitler had nothing to with socialism, or are you just spewing far right talking points without regard for fact or reason?
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by genera1 7y ago
Gell-Mann recently died, so it probably skews the results
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by genera1 7y ago
The article is paywalled
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by genera1 7y ago
> but almost no distro actually supports it Ubuntu supports it officially, so does Fedora. From my experience it works more or less fine on CentOS, so probably RHEL too. For Suse there is kGraft, so basically >90% of install base supp
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by genera1 7y ago
> literally the best automobiles ever I'd call that a huge exaggeration.
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by genera1 7y ago
It's the year of Linux desktop the same way there is 10 billion devices on the internet running Linux, because Android and IoT. Doesn't really matter for Linux people, non-Linux people won't care. Hell, there is an argument t
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by genera1 7y ago
Technically you can download audible .aa files and convert them to whatever format you want, default ffmpeg can handle the conversion.
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by genera1 7y ago
To add additional entropy, you can do, multiple passes, use different sets of languages every time you write or even use different translator than GT
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by genera1 8y ago
He was abusive toward people , who made mistakes. There are ways of providing feedback, that don't include belittling people, questioning their mental health or straight up name-calling.
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by genera1 8y ago
This specific scenario didn't happen. But still, Linus has been downright abusive towards contributors in the past. It might have influenced some peoples decision to stop or to never start contributing to Linux.
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by genera1 8y ago
Get rid of market capitalism and nobody has to
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by genera1 8y ago
While I do agree with some concerns about quality journalism, and I want it to survive, I find the specific argument you used to be disingenuous. We're dealing with perfectly and infinitely reproducible 'product'. Any scarcit
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by genera1 8y ago
Because, as with groceries, you're depriving someone else of content by consuming it. You wouldn't download a car. It's the most disingenuous argument against free media (or piracy etc) that's being thrown around.
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by genera1 8y ago
From the top of my head there is Soviet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmonavt_Yuriy_Gagarin In principle this isn't that different from ships designed to track ICBMs, and I've seen designs both with spinnin