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by glandium 5y ago
Related minute physics videos: https://youtu.be/Rh0pYtQG5wI https://youtu.be/R5oCXHWEL9A The whole intro to relativity series is worth a watch.
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by glandium 5y ago
It's not. See https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/issues/454
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by glandium 5y ago
It was fine until apps ended up doing everything on their end and push pixmaps to the X server. Back in the xaw and motif days, it was fine.
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by glandium 5y ago
ssh didn't exist when either X or MGR were created.
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by glandium 5y ago
I've used it a few years, but honestly I don't remember much of it. I remember files were versioned, the shell was called DCL command or something like that, and involved a lot of dollar signs and brackets... and that's about
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by glandium 5y ago
Mine was in 95 on NCD X Terminals, machines that would only have a X server. ISTR they automatically were getting a Window Manager and a Terminal from a central VMS server. We'd then telnet to another VMS server, where we'd access
757.
by glandium 5y ago
What's pretty wild is it took 3 years to reach X11, and that's where we're at, although there have been a bunch of revisions.
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by glandium 5y ago
You remember correctly. See paragraphs and table before examples in the doc I linked.
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by glandium 5y ago
20-some years later, those names still exist. See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/n...
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by glandium 5y ago
Can't resist to share the life and times of Ernest Miller Hemingway in approximately 3 and a half minutes, by Randy Feltface: https://youtu.be/LhjMOtaBqVc?t=1125 (I recommend the whole video, FWIW)
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by glandium 5y ago
Episode 100 was phenomenal too (Wormhole X-Treme)
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by glandium 5y ago
> Also note that the user will be confused when they delete the whole directory and observe 0 bytes get freed. Note that's already the case when the user removes files that are opened by some process.
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by glandium 5y ago
Indeed.
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by glandium 5y ago
And it spread well beyond KFC. Christmas is the fried chicken day.
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by glandium 5y ago
Slackware was my first distro too. Painstakingly downloaded 40 disk images onto floppies at university, brought them to a friend's house to test on his PC, and it turned out the very last disk ended up corrupted. It was the last of the
766.
by glandium 5y ago
IIRC, 11 was fully free, including the phone call. Edit: I think the vocal equivalent (where you had an actual person at the other end, that could even connect you to the number you were asking for, was free too)
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by glandium 5y ago
There are cases where I use print debugging in Firefox because it's ironically often faster to rebuild and rerun than for gdb to load the debug info. Also for rust, it can be much more convenient to use the dbg! macro for pretty printi
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by glandium 5y ago
30-40 USD sounds incredibly cheap. I would expect a trip from one end of Kyoto to another to cost that much or close already.
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by glandium 5y ago
Other PITA: the PCR test before boarding the flight to Japan. Which has to be within 48 or 72 hours of departure and a specific form filled by a doctor about what type of test, the result, etc.
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by glandium 5y ago
It was not, in fact, totally centralized. In the early 90s, my middle school had a server that you could phone into to get the weather (I don't quite remember if it was a full forecast or not, I think it was), and that server was manag
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by glandium 5y ago
More precisely, the minitel would call 36 15, which would open a page on which you type the short textual name and press enter, which would then connect you to the service you want. And the terminal would tell you the cost per minute of the
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by glandium 5y ago
> You only had to pay for the usage Worth noting there were free services too. The most notable was the white/yellow pages at number 11 (later 36 11), although it was only free for the first 3 minutes, but it usually didn't tak
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by glandium 5y ago
https://twitter.com/gabrielesvelto/status/147409707425380352...
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by glandium 5y ago
That smells like the Shutdown Hang Terminator triggering a crash report.
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by glandium 5y ago
Nit: hanko is the object itself, and inkan is the seal imprinted on paper, so they're technically not the same thing. In practice, the words are often used interchangeably.
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by glandium 5y ago
See also: https://github.com/rocky/remake ISTR there was a thread about it here a few months ago.
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by glandium 5y ago
> The real question is why Japan is yet again not having a breakout. Just wait for it. New case numbers have been multiplied by 10 in less than a week to reach over 8000 new cases yesterday.
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by glandium 5y ago
You can't enable FDE without a MS account on Windows Home.
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by glandium 5y ago
AFAIR, it's not an optional download. You can remove it, but it comes pre-installed. I even wouldn't be surprised if it comes back after upgrades.
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by glandium 5y ago
> Hell, they shot 35mm film for SD for decades They shot 35mm for the big screen.

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