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by gerikson 5y ago
Some expansion on the commit here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27300829
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by gerikson 5y ago
As a long time irssi user and fan, this revert disturbed me, so I joined #irssi (on Libera, natch) to ask about it. Log of my interaction with Geert: https://paste.debian.net/1198991/ . It's been edited to remove j
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by gerikson 5y ago
Well, that's kind of the point, isn't it? Louis Philippe realized that the way forward for the monarchy was to restyle himself as King of the French (implicitly including the nation itself into the monarchy). Napoleon III was a mo
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by gerikson 5y ago
Out of curiosity, what IRC client do you use?
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by gerikson 5y ago
"The Bourbons have learned nothing and forgotten nothing" - Talleyrand. My favorite tit-bit from 19th century French history is that the Count of Chambord had a legit shot at becoming Henry V of France but blew it because he insis
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by gerikson 5y ago
It seems that many channels that just had "libera" in their topic got nuked (the one I was in certainly did). Even if it was in the form of "we're discussing a move, nothing's decided yet".
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by gerikson 5y ago
Here's a summary of the situation up until about 8 hours ago https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/freenode-irc-has-bee... 8 hours ago, around 700+ single-hash channels were assigned to a placeholder a
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by gerikson 5y ago
I have a 35mm Nikkor with thoriated glass. It has a slight yellow tint that’s easily corrected in post.
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by gerikson 5y ago
I suspect the rise of Discord, Matrix etc has done more to drain people from IRC than this kerfuffle.
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by gerikson 5y ago
I don't trust Lee, but I'm staying on Freenode too. I have an acccount on Libera. Decentralization is great.
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by gerikson 5y ago
He spent around 1 year in custody before being released on bail. And he's sentenced to 30 months, suspended. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Karpel%C3%A8s#Arrest_and_... From all I've read, custody before
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by gerikson 5y ago
The two 'g's are double-storey and single-storey (looptail/opentail): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G#Typographic_variants FWIW the 'g's in my input box here are single-storey.
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by gerikson 5y ago
This device pre-dates the Zone system by quite some time.
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by gerikson 5y ago
Nikon made a mirrorless camera series (Nikon 1) that was very capable (the on-sensor AF was great). But they chose a 1" sensor (2.7x crop) Canon's M-series was similar, they didn't go all in on "pro" features, inste
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by gerikson 5y ago
Roger Cicala is probably the best photo gear blogger around these days.
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Paris Teenager’s New Gig: Would-Be Queen of Italy. A Nation Shrugs(nytimes.com)
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by gerikson 5y ago
I haven't read any of Abnett's Warhammer books but I was impressed by his free-standing book Embedded . I was honestly surprised to learn he was mostly known for 40K content.
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by gerikson 5y ago
Instead of Happiness Index it should be Satisfied Index.
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by gerikson 5y ago
RIP OG Minolta Alpha-mount.
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by gerikson 5y ago
Here's hoping the swirly/crazy bokeh phase is soon over.
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by gerikson 5y ago
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons does not have the best reputation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_American_Physic...
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by gerikson 5y ago
IIRC it's been his handle for a long time.
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by gerikson 5y ago
Also don't wait for the government to fix the link, which is broken.
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by gerikson 5y ago
Calling Tom Pullings "arriviste" is a slander. He was already a master's mate (midshipman) at the beginning of the series, and advanced through a combination of excellent seamanship and Aubrey's patronage (not always a p
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by gerikson 5y ago
Last updated in 2015: https://tldp.org/sorted_howtos.html
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by gerikson 5y ago
"This is not an extension of honor."
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by gerikson 6y ago
Who speaks for the Empire of Austria-Hungary now? No-one. The forces that unified Italy in the 19th century (fighting against that empire!) tore it apart into its constituent nations. In the USA, Italy was an ally in WW1 (or at least they f
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by gerikson 6y ago
Victors write history.
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by gerikson 6y ago
That's fair. The American franchise model has a lot of advantages (or it would not be so popular) - steady income stream, revenue sharing, lower player acquisition costs. But I also think the average European soccer fan thinks that the
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by gerikson 6y ago
The Spanish club Real Madrid is mentioned: > But Kroenke, Henry and the Glazers, believed to be the ringleaders of the Super League fiasco along with Real Madrid’s Florentino Perez, badly miscalculated.

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