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by kps 1mo ago
It sounds like you misread my comment.
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by kps 1mo ago
> The main reason the Dairy Supply quota is in place is to stop US dairy producers from dumping dairy into Canada. Yet the same rules apply to European cheese: limited quantities that can only be imported through an established dairy car
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by kps 2mo ago
> X11 is also not a display server it is a protocol With a reference implementation. Xsgi, Xsun, Xquartz, and all the rest used the reference implementation with platform driver glue.
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by kps 2mo ago
> Wayland is not a "display server", it's a display protocol. Bailey: Wayland replaces Xorg Motte: Wayland is just a protocol > because "display server" is only half of what Xorg does. Yes, that's a big p
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by kps 2mo ago
HN has clumsy filtering, but you're allowed to write π and τ.
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by kps 2mo ago
Wayland's raison d'etre was “every frame is perfect.” Input was an afterthought.
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by kps 2mo ago
Until the big players agree on a watermark that their cameras will refuse to photograph.
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by kps 2mo ago
It's all gone tits up.
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by kps 2mo ago
If you're worried about MPs doing that, you should be equally worried about judges doing that. The difference is that MPs can be voted out.
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by kps 2mo ago
There is a certain consistency to IBM-dominated projects that suggests that there are checks and balances and that they are working as intended.
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by kps 2mo ago
Dark mode is bad for people with astigmatic halation. Light mode, I've read, is worse for people with cataracts. Visual accessibility doesn't just apply to the totally blind. There's a reason things like WCAG exist. -- I can&
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by kps 2mo ago
Bluesky could have been a Reddit rival, with the ability to follow topics rather than users , but they screwed it up.
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by kps 2mo ago
Ironically the site does not support `:prefers-color-scheme`.
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by kps 2mo ago
I have no knowledge of this particular person, but usually the job of an ‘ethicist’ is to find excuses for something obviously wrong.
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by kps 2mo ago
I'm afraid nobody (else) here remembers Control Data Corporation. But I'm happy to see the Centers for Disease Control using Postgres.
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by kps 2mo ago
Browse Google Maps aerial view and look for the backup generators.
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by kps 2mo ago
In the US , despite the .fr domain.
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by kps 2mo ago
And be sure your outdoor cameras are on an isolated VLAN so people can't just plug in to your home network.
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by kps 2mo ago
I have seen `int * w` in the real world. I'm sad now.
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by kps 2mo ago
The reading of `char *p` is: The following things are `char`: `*p`.
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by kps 2mo ago
> int *w; But some misguided style guides demand the misleading `int* w;`, and then act surprised by `int* w, x`;
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by kps 2mo ago
>both the sun and the planet move around a common center which is near to the sun. Within the sun, with one exception.
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by kps 2mo ago
Today is the 12021th of September 1993.
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by kps 2mo ago
> telephony engineers (this was where ee excellence lived at the time) Same in the US. It's why computers live in 19-inch racks.
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by kps 2mo ago
Here's another tip I picked up last millenium: If you're using a GUI and like decorating your shell prompt with information, format it like this: : stuff; Then you can copy/paste entire lines of commands. (Yes, this
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by kps 2mo ago
>Before you know it, small groups of highly invested people are wielding the rules and the rule making process against their enemies or competitors. Now that you mention it, Wikipedia also has a policy against LLM contributions.
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by kps 2mo ago
“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.”
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by kps 2mo ago
I have German background, so that was a genuine concern for me when I started using Codeberg 3 years ago. It's not a great surprise that they end up being more interested in rulemaking around FOSS hosting than in FOSS hosting itself.
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by kps 3mo ago
Presumably defined rather than just happened, but not surveyed exactly enough. The US Capitol building is at 77.009°W.
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by kps 3mo ago
I moved my projects to Codeberg 3 years ago because it promoted itself as a host for FOSS, and I was starting to think that GitHub was not going to remain a dependable FOSS host. All of mine are one-man itch-scratching that I am willing to

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