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glandium
3y ago
I think they mean they have windows open in different profiles (profiles, not containers), and want the last active one to pick up links from external apps... I, for one, would like the last active container to be used.
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glandium
3y ago
Ask it, it will explain what's going on (I'm not kidding)
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glandium
3y ago
Ideal temperature is said to be 65F (18C). Did you flip the numbers?
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glandium
3y ago
Check the git verify-pack subcommand, particularly the -s and -v flags.
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glandium
3y ago
I got "The American television debut of Bob Hope, Dinah Shore, Elvis, and the Beatles was on ..." That is both US-centric and time-period-limited.
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3y ago
> That's also why things like digits with a circle around them exist: they were in some old Japanese character set. Replace "digits with a circle around them" with "emojis" and that's also true.
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glandium
3y ago
On the other hand, many companies have people on their payroll to work on Linux. I would argue Linux barely needs anything from the LF.
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3y ago
Last time I saw a post of his linked here, someone posted this link: https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/muc18q/whats_the_dea...
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3y ago
A large combination of dark patterns have contributed to Chrome's market share. (to name just one: Installing Flash for Firefox or Internet Explorer? Get Chrome installed at the same time (which, guess what, doesn't even need the
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3y ago
There's a saying in gourmet circles that a reliable way to find a good French restaurant in France is to look for one with a Japanese chef. So I wouldn't be surprised if the second best French were in Japan...
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3y ago
Before the euro it was somewhere between 1 and 2 francs, IIRC. Now it's between 1 and 2 euros. Checks out.
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glandium
3y ago
I don't know where you get this was conducted by under-grads. That's not what appears on https://csa.eu/news/etude-here-les-francais-et-la-propositio...
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3y ago
> Also there is no french word for entrepreneur. It's hard to tell whether you are being sarcastic. In case you aren't: entrepreneur is a French word. https://www.etymonline.com/word/entrepreneur
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3y ago
There was also an Ig Nobel for "Why are cats liquid?" https://www.stemfellowship.org/the-ig-nobel-prize-why-are-ca...
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glandium
3y ago
The Google keyboard on a Google phone for some locales can be very different. Notably, the keyboard for Japanese doesn't do the spacebar thing, on the other hand, it contains actual keys to move left and right.
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3y ago
Same with oji (uncle)/oba (aunt): 叔父: uncle (younger than one's parent) 伯父: uncle (older than one's parent) 叔母: aunt (younger than one's parent) 伯母: aunt (older than one's parent)
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glandium
3y ago
Oh, I forgot Twilight Zone!
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3y ago
Data East. I wasn't playing pinball by the time the others came out (I didn't know they existed, to be honest, I had to look up :) )
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3y ago
I would add: - Arabian Nights - Addams Family - Star Wars
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3y ago
I'm French too. I said middle name because it was simpler. My mother has 7 (!) of them. I don't know how that would pan out for her. I don't know if they all appear on her passport, though.
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3y ago
For what it's worth, preventing a business from making business is a crime in Japan. https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%96%B6%E6%A5%AD%E5%A6%A8%... In your bar or restaurant example, I think even in the US, that
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3y ago
While we're here with fun facts. I've been living here for ten years, and haven't needed a registered seal until recently. To register my seal (using katakana) at the city hall, I needed to register my katakana name at the ci
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3y ago
Fun fact: the Japanese government insists that foreigners use the name they have in their passport in official documents. That includes the middle name. My middle name has thus crept in all over the place. I've barely ever used it in m
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3y ago
In France both orders are used, depending on context.
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I'm French. It's funny, because now that you mention it, the verbs "colorer" and "colorier", both related to colors, are still spelled this way, while the word for color itself is "couleur"... and I n
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Meanwhile, in Japan https://in.ign.com/anime/193667/news/japanese-youtuber-gets-...
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Story time. In a past life, I tried to open source code I wrote at work. My manager greenlit it, but obviously that wasn't enough. Next thing I know, I'm in a room with a lawyer trying to write a patent. In the end, no patent was
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Some of the pictures are clearly mugshots, though, and those are all from serial killers.
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Also, since it doesn't allow to extract the private keys, you're kind of stuck with it once you've started using it.
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3y ago
Do you think all deaths are autopsied? https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/autopsy-rate
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