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by jff 10y ago
So once again freedesktop.org pushes out the new software with the promise that some day it will meet the capabilities of the current tools, honest, we pinky swear. They did it with systemd and they'll do it again with Wayland.
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by jff 10y ago
> during the inevitable outage it was comically discovered two star trek fans configured two machines to the same trek quote as a password. Was it "Live long and prosper" or "He's dead, Jim"? The latter seems mor
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by jff 10y ago
In my opinion, I'd say pull out troff if you're thinking about making a PDF, or if you want tables or equations (see http://www.troff.org/prog.html ). Personally, I mostly use markdown when I want to generate some
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by jff 10y ago
troff takes a little bit more work but it can put out some very nice-looking documents with a lot of control over the formatting and some pretty handy utilities for tables and math and such. For example, pretty much all the Plan 9 papers we
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by jff 10y ago
"This tiny gas tank means I have to stop every hundred miles to fill up," the man said, "but the tank fills up so quickly!"
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by jff 10y ago
And it lets you listen to real radio, not streams, which will improve coverage outside of the US and Europe (found two streaming stations in Japan, neither of which work, and about a dozen in all of India)
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by jff 10y ago
There were certainly implications that the AMD coders were making technically compromised decisions: > The reason the toplevel maintainer (me) doesn't work for Intel or AMD or any vendors, is that I can say NO when your maintainers
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by jff 10y ago
Based on what I've heard, recruiters may say you're guaranteed for whatever particular job you want, but in the end that has zero impact on your MOS.
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by jff 10y ago
Bhatura are deep fried, roti are pan-fried. Edit: basically, India doesn't have a particularly big tradition of oven baking, so by a definition of "bread must be baked" you're gonna have a lot of things that aren't
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by jff 10y ago
The scammers in this case are apparently a small-time telco. In other cases, the scammers set up 1-900 (or equivalent) numbers and try to get their marks to call the number.
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by jff 10y ago
You forgot: Bloomberg - Michael Bloomberg
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by jff 10y ago
> Farming equipment was built ruggedly in those days, and it was simple enough that you can keep fixing and patching and welding it up almost indefinitely. Interesting thing about the little old tractors, they were generally just the eng
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by jff 10y ago
This book is exactly what came to mind when I read the article.
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by jff 10y ago
Traditional Indian music has its own complex musical theory, named notes, etc.
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by jff 10y ago
Pour some pills in the trash and tell her it didn't work. TCM is possibly worse than homeopathy in that at least homeopathic medicine is just water, while TCM is god knows what garbage.
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by jff 10y ago
Poe's Law, Bitcoin sub-clause, strikes again
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by jff 10y ago
> Radio host Adam Carolla, who collects and races vintage cars, said with a stick shift, drivers can’t “just lean back and go into autopilot mode.” I think this is an overlooked advantage. Modern cars are ridiculously powerful, yet moder
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by jff 10y ago
We sometimes get situations where there's a semi-important note in a daily newsletter, and the group secretary decides to copy-paste it in an email to the whole group. Then the level 1 manager doesn't look at the To: line and forw
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by jff 10y ago
> If you live in rural America, your friends and family all regurgitate the same things they hear from Fox News, Glenn Beck, Alex Jones, Breitbart, and other conservative sources It's funny that conservatives 'regurgitate'
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by jff 10y ago
> Some website managed to convince her to switch to developer mode to install a non-web-store extension that overwrites the new tab page and search functionality with ads I'm not even mad, I'm honestly impressed both that your
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by jff 10y ago
I see some other commenters also remember 'Car Home', released in Android 2.0 way back in 2009 to very little fanfare, and eventually killed off: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/10/building-andro
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by jff 10y ago
Or, or, OR, I can just keep a toolbox in the garage instead of spending an hour+ searching craigslist and meeting some dude in a 7/11 parking lot every time I need to tighten a fucking screw!
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by jff 10y ago
And this is the situation with damn near every ARM board you can buy! It's depressing. I finally had to give up on my Efika MX smartbook because they never got past a 2.6 kernel, which IIRC eventually meant I couldn't upgrade libc
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by jff 10y ago
And depending on the voltage provided it will draw a range of currents.
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by jff 10y ago
Your post makes me want to turn off my computer and go raise goats in the country, lest I somehow end up like you one day.
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by jff 10y ago
A $25 Lamy Safari has done well for me for the last 4 years.
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by jff 10y ago
I'd rather it stayed the exact same speed it used to be, even if that meant only providing the same features as I had in 2006. The web was pretty good in 2006!
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by jff 10y ago
No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
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by jff 10y ago
Hopefully they're just combining two efforts, because Slackbot can already reply based on certain word triggers, so you set it up so it picks one of a selection of messages when it sees the word "guys".
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by jff 10y ago
Being a government agency, it may in fact be prohibited from making money. "Not supposed to make money" isn't the same thing as "spend $140,000 on making your logos look hipper".

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