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by hansvs 5y ago
This domain has been registered since 1995, I don't know who owns it. I've been using it for years to check that my internet connection/DNS is working.
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Something.com(something.com)
2 points by hansvs 5y ago|1 comments
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by hansvs 5y ago
Just checked, lowest price I could find was ~140 euro per bottle from Italy (I live in the EU).
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by hansvs 5y ago
Also posted by Huffington Post (couldn't read FT article due to paywall): https://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/imperial-measures-uk-re... I thought the UK volantarily changed its measurement units (and currency co
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by hansvs 5y ago
That's weird, why would a website with a freely accessible article not allow text to be copied? Just wondering what the point is...
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by hansvs 5y ago
I had always thought that weapons in space directed toward the earth were illegal under the Outer Space Treaty, it seems this is only partially true --- no weapons of mass-destruction, but anything else is fine [1]. [1]: https://
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by hansvs 5y ago
Interesting premise, but I'm a bit annoyed by the whole trial thing. Basically like a monkey press anything (variables, upgrades, the main screen) and win. This is like a less colorful version of candy crush. Does this modus continue f
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by hansvs 5y ago
Personally I use i3 --- there is not default UI though in ArchLinux, there are lots of options though available through the package repos.
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by hansvs 5y ago
ArchLinux https://archlinux.org/ Something more esoteric: TempleOS ( https://templeos.org/ ). I used it a few times years ago, very weird but with some interesting features (shell JIT'd all commands).
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by hansvs 5y ago
Such nonsense, beyond just enforceability, it is also silly&lazy™ beaucracy. This clause exists because admins don't want IP to be abused/leaked, but they don't want the headache of actually determining what work would br
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by hansvs 5y ago
Interesting question, related what's going to happen to domestic Internet connectivity. Are the Taliban going to introduce censorship and monitoring? My guess is that dot af domains are fine for the moment, though they might begin addi
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by hansvs 5y ago
I use `alias grep=ugrep -G`
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by hansvs 5y ago
Wow, we have been using DokuWiki for years! I read the comments on the WP page, and am a bit confused. Is DokuWiki considered so niche that it is unknown? It certainly isn't as big as Wikimedia, going by community, but it's active
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by hansvs 5y ago
One example, the Gates family is pretty active [1]. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Avoid_a_Climate_Disas...
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by hansvs 5y ago
Um... you're joking, right? Billionaires are only rich because people buy what they sell (abstractly speaking, there is a lot of nuances here). If there are no people, then money/wealth becomes moot.
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by hansvs 5y ago
More info https://www.golem.de/news/sks-das-ende-der-alten-pgp-keyserv... (in german).
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by hansvs 6y ago
More context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Light_Power Also known as _hydrino energy_, an unproven theory that the electrons in hydrogen atoms can drop to an energy state below the ground level.
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by hansvs 6y ago
I really like this analogy! :D
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by hansvs 6y ago
agreed, one would need to consider _who_ benefits. If the belief is one of vanity, then it might be worth removing. Believing that all 'citizens have rights' is reasonable and ultimately of benefit to all concerned, so something w
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by hansvs 6y ago
This is great, thanks!
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by hansvs 6y ago
Thanks, on further though this reminds of Strauss–Howe theory [1] that there are generational cycles in history which tend to related to certain archetypes which repeat again and again. I really do need to look more into Turchin. EDIT: LOL,
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by hansvs 6y ago
It's not clear from the article, but is Turchin only looking at US/North American history? And so do his propositions only apply there?
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by hansvs 6y ago
Um, so someone just copied in content from manpages?
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by hansvs 6y ago
FYI, at least one project is doing this: https://projectvesta.org/
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by hansvs 6y ago
I'm part of a compiler research group and we use GIT LFS to maintain history of the binary releases of our compiler (sac2c). Our perspective on this is that we can more closely relate the binaries to release notes, bug reports, etc. by
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by hansvs 6y ago
That made me chuckle, I still work on Fortran applications. Some were written in the 70s/80s, but maybe that just means the industries I've worked in are a bit _inflexible_?
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by hansvs 6y ago
I agree. After watching 'Behind the Curve' [1], this is the feeling I got from the whole thing. [1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8132700/
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by hansvs 6y ago
What, how is this possible? Is it a electrical problem of the TV, or is the TV emitting some sort of EM field? If the latter, that surely would be strong enough to affect all sort of electrical appliances. If its electrics, then surely othe
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by hansvs 6y ago
Well that just messed with my head. For some reason (advertising? confusion? stupidity?) I had thought that Gore-Tex was based on a special weaving technique and use of special acrylic fibres... Wikipedia says `It is composed of stretched p
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by hansvs 6y ago
don't you have some degree of poverty where you live, or have you never interacted with someone who earns less then you?

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