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by johnea 2y ago
The article describes it as some kind of magical thginnking, but it is possible to cross Europe by boat. There are a couple of canal systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhine-Main-Danube_Canal https://en.
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by johnea 2y ago
I don't see how this is "distroless". Clearaly, this is a Canonical distribution. Someone has to choose the exact combination of userland s/w to include with the kernel. Whoever/whatever chooses this s/w is cre
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by johnea 2y ago
I just bought a used 2023 Nissan Leaf for $15K US. US regulators are doing their best to keep affordable EVs out of the country, but the used car market is finally seeing enough EVs that it is making a difference.
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by johnea 2y ago
Another example of why proprietary options are less desirable: https://slimsag.com/2024/slack-to-destroy-history-of-free-co... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40813877
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by johnea 2y ago
Plenty of people use IRC on mobile, not sure what you mean by "not friendly"...
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by johnea 2y ago
Nothing? I read these HN link posts from IRC. ##hntop on libera network. Many s/w projects still maintain support channels on IRC. The migration to proprietary support mechanisms isolates a number of users. Mozilla in particular is muc
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by johnea 2y ago
I would put the topic into the editorializing category. Cloning github repos is not "stealing"... I haven't looked into the poster's history, but this definition of "stealing" is the exact opposite side of the
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by johnea 2y ago
Just another example of video game brain damage...
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by johnea 2y ago
This research goes into a lot of new details relating brain structure to cognitive fuunction, which I'm sure is ground breaking. But the ability to identify gender by examing the anatomy of a brain is not a new phenomenen. It's be
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by johnea 2y ago
2nd stupidest thing i ever read...
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Nuclear engineer dismisses claim that modular reactors could be viable soon(theguardian.com)
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by johnea 2y ago
No reason to mastedon this, it's available directly on jwz's website: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/06/mozillas-original-sin/ Not sure if everyone is aware, but jwz was an original Netscape dev
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by johnea 2y ago
A great story from the dawn of the idea to the realization of the Nokia SymbianOS phones. The subsequent M$ purchase of that Nokia phone division was one of the biggest damages done by Microsoft to the computing world.
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by johnea 2y ago
"no one wants to buy salmon riddled with tiny weird jellyfish" A really interesting article, but I'm not sure if that statement above is really universaly true. In Japan they'd probably make sushi out of them... 8-)
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by johnea 2y ago
Tesla's are becoming the new junked refrigerators: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerator_death I did just read an article where the trapped person, on calling tesla support from inside the locked car, was tol
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by johnea 2y ago
There might be something older buried in there somewhere, but this was the oldest file in ~: 41493 Feb 1 2004 linus-says-linux-english.au I thought it was funny that it is an audio file of how Linus says Linux 8-)
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by johnea 2y ago
I ran LineageOS for years and was very happy with it. Bought a phone recently with /e/OS preinstalled, haven't been that happy with it actually. I keep threating to flash it with lineageOS, but haven't mustered the initi
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by johnea 2y ago
We're seeing it all happen again now at Boeing. I just keep waiting for that magical invisible hand to swoop in and fix this cluster f_ck... What could possibly be holding it up?
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by johnea 2y ago
Is this trollbait? Anyone with any degree of techinical understanding realizes that chatgpt doesn't "understand" anything.
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by johnea 2y ago
They are still going to have to cut the edges off of round waffers to make them square. The process of drawing the ingots leads to inherently round waffers. This is something that is not done by the foundary, but by a vendor.
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by johnea 2y ago
Its certainly a mess 8-/ These restrictions are basically being used to prevent access to affordable EVs in the US. After every major US car company has received major subsidies, including total economic bail outs, over the decades, th
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by johnea 2y ago
All of this talk about subsidies is very confusing. The US issues massive subsidies every year, most going to the petroleum industry, with farming another major recipient. Are subsidies only a problem when some other country issues them? An
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by johnea 2y ago
With all of the story's apparent popularity, the message still doesn't seem to be getting through. As long as entrenched equity will profit from war, it will continue. In spite of our hero Smedly being quoted "I was a rackete
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by johnea 2y ago
Wow! This article sure has had a roller coaster ride 8-/ While the title seems to express a widespread annoyance at the overwhelming prevalence of this subject in the tech news, the body of the article then goes on dedicate itself to t
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by johnea 2y ago
Friends don't let friends run ubuntu...
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by johnea 2y ago
After years switching between many registrars, I finally landed at misk. I highly recommend them for domain name registration. (no connection to misk other than as a happy customer)
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by johnea 2y ago
This link is dead now also...
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by johnea 2y ago
Bullet list journalism? Not very informative...
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by johnea 2y ago
That's funny, I've always said the opposite: Once we name a thing, we never see it again...
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by johnea 2y ago
A really lame article about an actually very interesting system.

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