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by krylon 4y ago
Sometimes I feel a little bit for not giving Gnome 3 a fair chance, but I just never got into it. GNOME 2 was, to me, the peak of Unix desktop environments, and I was rather sad when the devs moved on to GNOME 3. Then I discovered MATE and
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by krylon 4y ago
SuperTuxKart - https://supertuxkart.net/Main_Page
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by krylon 4y ago
Part of me hoped this would be self-hosted. Not sure if I am disappointed or relieved. ;-P
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by krylon 4y ago
No, I was just behind the times. Bernstein used to work at the university of Eindhoven, now he's at the university of Bochum, which is indeed a German city.
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by krylon 4y ago
The documentation is a big point, but to me, two other points are just as important, maybe (probably) more so: 1. The standard library is very good in the sense it covers a fairly wide range of areas and gives you some idea of how to use Go
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by krylon 4y ago
Intel and AMD have a patent-licensing agreement where Intel licenses their x86 stuff to AMD, and AMD licenses their amd64 stuff to Intel. AFAIK, the moment AMD gets bought by another company, they can no longer use Intel's patents, and
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by krylon 4y ago
I like that the web server in Go's standard library comes as a library, so you can embed a web server into your application, even if it otherwise isn't web-related at all, just to allow for some introspection and/or control.
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by krylon 4y ago
https://sqlbolt.com/ might be a good starting point.
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by krylon 4y ago
I thought he lived in the Netherlands. Doesn't he work at a Dutch university now?
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by krylon 4y ago
Did anyone else expect something along the lines of dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null ?
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by krylon 4y ago
So it's working! SCNR
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by krylon 4y ago
I used to own a D100, used it about two times. I wouldn't call it "shameful", but it was a silly idea to create one, and it was silly of me to buy one.
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by krylon 5y ago
Oh, to my knowledge web servers (and mail servers, etc.) get attacked all the time. So do routers, IoT devices and so forth. But those attacks work differently from a user innocently clicking a link they received via email or opening an att
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by krylon 5y ago
I've been using various GNU/Linux distros and BSD flavors on my desktop for more than 20 years now, and I like it ("it" in my case being MATE) much better than either Windows or macOS. But to be fair, some parts of what
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by krylon 5y ago
Once upon a time, I took a (by my standards) pretty large dose of mushrooms while rather depressed (although I did not realize it at the time). The trip itself was rather dark, but the next day, my depression was entirely gone, I was actual
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by krylon 5y ago
I said it before, and I'll gladly say it again: Yes! I would so love for someone to send some probes for long-term observation of Uranus and Neptune. To be fair, I get the impression that no matter where we look in our solar system
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by krylon 5y ago
It's been a while I used C, but I for one am kind of glad that doesn't parse. If you need to do this, you can use parentheses: x - (--y) or (x--) - y
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by krylon 5y ago
When I was young, we had a cat that would sit down next to me as I was sitting in front of the PC, and start meowing. I would pet her head, and she would move away, a meter or so an continue meowing until I got up and petted her again. Step
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by krylon 5y ago
My bad then. Thank you for pointing that out.
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by krylon 5y ago
Well, Happy Birthday BASIC! Love it or hate it, BASIC has left a footprint in the IT world that few languages could match.
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by krylon 5y ago
To make it even worse, they laid off most of their Solaris developers a couple years ago. Somebody who used to work on Solaris before the Oracle takeover commented at the time that just by looking at the number of layoffs, Oracle Solaris wa
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by krylon 5y ago
Hehe. I like to think I'm not that much of an old timer, but I do remember having to download the driver for my sound card (Aureal Vortex<$something>) and compile an out-of-tree-module to get sound. For a long, long time I was
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by krylon 5y ago
Likely something like that. My money is on them being unable to locate someone who needs to give permission, and it's probably not a very high priority issue. I vaguely recall reading a blog post when Sun opened the Solaris source code
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by krylon 5y ago
Ah, yes, I should have read the README. ;-)
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by krylon 5y ago
I knew that it used to stand for that (and as an acronym should be upper-case), but I thought they maybe dropped that somewhere along the way. Fortran and Cobol used to be "FORTRAN" and "COBOL", too, but once systems wit
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by krylon 5y ago
Oh yes. I absolutely hated editing that file, but when I got lucky and got it right on the first or second try, that rush was something I doubt Windows or Mac users get often. Although now that I'm a bit older, I'm glad I don&#x
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by krylon 5y ago
Like so many, I gathered my first experiences with programming in Basic (or is it BASIC?). My first computer was a Commodore 128, and my mother sent to a week-long programming course that for some reason the local Sparkasse (quasi-public ba
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by krylon 5y ago
Where I live, light pollution is a huge obstacle for observing the skies, plus it is cloudy very often. Sometimes I feel like it's not even worth looking at the skies. Stellarium allows me a glimpse of what it would be like without lig
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by krylon 5y ago
I have to admit I found the very concept of using a value that could change as a primary repulsive from an aesthetic point of view. It's just bad database design. Still, I feel for you. My primary concern, though, was that it made life
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by krylon 5y ago
I'm glad it worked out for you. It is a funny story, though, so don't be mad at me for chuckling a little bit. (I guess the guests at your wedding did so, too.) A friend of my mother's has to twin sons who married two women

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