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jeorgun
13y ago
Is it just me, or do almost half of my searches return `Dvbc' for no apparent reason? http://www.thisplusthat.me/search/Saturn%20-%20Rings%20%2B%2... http://www.thisplusthat.me/search/Chrome%2
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jeorgun
13y ago
In Firefox's case, at least, it's clear that the only motive in doing so would be genuine concern for the safety of their users— Mozilla wouldn't have any incentive to stop people installing extensions that hurt their own bus
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jeorgun
13y ago
GNOME and KDE are both pretty firmly in shiny/fancy territory, at least compared with xfce and the like.
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jeorgun
13y ago
There's no particular reason a standalone XMPP client couldn't render those— KDE-telepathy, for instance, does render youtube videos.
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jeorgun
13y ago
Completely off-topic, but I think linguists would be the first to point out that the two sounds are identical in many American English dialects. Also, from my understanding, ω is just a degenerate form of the upper-case form (Ω) when drawn
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jeorgun
13y ago
I have function LispOpts() inoremap [ ( inoremap ] ) inoremap ( [ inoremap ) ] endfunction autocmd FileType scheme call LispOpts() autocmd FileType lisp call LispOpts() in my vimrc, which
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jeorgun
13y ago
I'm pretty sure "current" in this case is supposed to mean "branch you're currently on", which I'd definitely find more intuitive than "default". On the other hand, apparently that meaning isn&
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jeorgun
13y ago
Wait, when does 'w' make the sound [u] (as opposed to [w] or [ʊ])?
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jeorgun
13y ago
I've always wondered how Spanish speakers deal with this naming convention— do they have some different naming scheme (tal vez nuestra luna se llama `Moon'?), or is there just not an equivalent proper noun?
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jeorgun
13y ago
What's git-commit aside from "We've bizarrely held your changes since the last time you ran this command via an antiquated interface just in case you wanted to risk losing them all by accidentally running rm in the wrong dire
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jeorgun
13y ago
Why exactly do you love 'alias psgrep="ps aux | grep"' ? What does it get you that pgrep doesn't (or, if you need more information, 'ps u `pgrep <name>`')?
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jeorgun
13y ago
Not really; all of Qt5 (most of which presumably wouldn't be needed to run this) amounts to ~133Mb.
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jeorgun
13y ago
Also, that Viaweb never made it to the New York Times doesn't mean that nobody then did. Note the first sentence of the essay ;)
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jeorgun
13y ago
Though I have no idea about the specifics of Wireshark, there's no particular reason for them to have migrated from Glib— PCManFM, for instance, still uses Glib in its Qt port.