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by krylon 6y ago
Futurama gave me the kind of unfortunate habit of starting with the German equivalent of "Good news, everyone..." when telling users about something bad. People who did not know Futurama found it puzzling, but it was just so funny
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by krylon 6y ago
I had that book as a child. Well, not this book, obviously, but I had one with those stories and those exact pictures in it. I did not like them very much, though, because the moral of the stories is inevitably that if you don't conf
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by krylon 6y ago
What goes around, comes around - I am writing this comment on a laptop running Tumbleweed, with another one running Leap 15.2 sitting next to me. Coming back to Suse was a bit like coming home. (-:
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by krylon 6y ago
Last time I checked, a number of Cray supercomputers were using it in some capacity.
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by krylon 6y ago
Back in the day, they also had SaX (SuSE advanced X-configurator or something like that), a GUI tool to configure XFree86. That was something I sorely missed when I started using other Linux distros and *BSD - editing the config file by han
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by krylon 6y ago
Me too, but 2000/2001 - I still have the box and the CDs. SuSE Linux 7.0 Personal Edition. I did not anticipate how much of an impact on my life that was going to have. TL;DR - Go Suse! (-:
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by krylon 6y ago
I vaguely remember reading about an esoteric programming language that was based on Klingon. IIRC, it was a functional language. (-: But I do not speak or read or write Klingon, so I never looked at it, and I do not remember the name, eithe
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by krylon 6y ago
As a German, I find this highly disturbing, given my country's history. Maybe I am just a bit naive (probably), but I had not expected to read about something like this happening in a ____ing democracy that claims some regard for hum
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by krylon 6y ago
Before I got into Linux, I spent about half a year customizing the crap out of my Win98 PC using LiteStep. I must have tried about half a dozen alternative desktop shells for Windows back then. Fun times... Thanks for reminding me!
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by krylon 6y ago
I think I was having a cultural impedance mismatch, I was expecting something toilet-related. Now I am both relieved and disappointed, so there goes my weekend. ;-P
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by krylon 6y ago
I have had a similar experience, I got a Mac in 2013, switched back to Linux in 2017. There is one thing I miss - the emacs-keybindings in the system text input widget, that one was awesome. But otherwise, I feel much more at home on Linux
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by krylon 6y ago
Normally, one wants to restart Windows after installing updates, i.e. about once a month. > I still feel unease restarting Oh yes, I know that unease all too well. Simply booting the system is usually the least problem, but starting al
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by krylon 6y ago
Everything can search file content, but you have to ask for it, and of course one looses the great performance that is Everything's main selling point. I forgot the syntax, because I never used it for that reason, but the option is the
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by krylon 6y ago
Good point.
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by krylon 6y ago
> System Requirements: VGA capable of 1024x768 screen resolution I do not mean to be snarky, but are there actual displays that have a lower resolution these days? I mean, even my phone - which is not high-end at all, at least by central
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by krylon 6y ago
How does it handle de-serializing to structs with interface members? With encoding/json and ffjson, I had to write some code to handle that myself and add a type-tag member to my struct, which wasn't a deal-breaker, but if I could
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by krylon 6y ago
IIUC, minimum code size was not the top priority of the creator of ripgrep. And Rust's claim to fame is not that it allows you to get the job done with less code. Its claim is that it allows you to get the job done, but with far fewer
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by krylon 6y ago
Serious and funny - to me - are not mutually exclusive. The idea of wombats stacking their poop is very funny, but if I was a biologist, that would make me want to investigate the matter even more. During my Zivildienst ( https:/&#x2
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by krylon 6y ago
I like the way your mind works. (-:
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by krylon 6y ago
> "We opened those intestines up like it was Christmas," said co-author David Hu He must be fun at parties. ;-) > The marsupial then stacks the cubes - the higher the better so as to communicate with and attract other wombat
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by krylon 6y ago
As TFA points out, Frontex routinely and systematically ignores/breaks both European and international law. We do not deny medical treatment to people that get in car accidents, even if they caused the accidents themselves by driving r
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by krylon 6y ago
No, they let them drown, they purposefully buy drones and aircraft instead of ships so they do not have to rescue them. It may not be quite the same, but it hardly measures up to the moral standards the EU likes to claim to stand for.
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by krylon 6y ago
I know, that is why I suggested the name. I would not have suggested she call her daughter COBOL or BASIC. (FORTRAN could make a cool name, though.)
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by krylon 6y ago
I love it! Coincidentally, after I managed to get my sister to name her daughter Ada after the programming language, I will eventually have to make an effort to get her acquainted with programming. This book will make a good starting point.
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by krylon 6y ago
It is not even 8am, and I learned something interesting already. Thank you very much!
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by krylon 6y ago
According to Wikipedia, the server and desktop parts are AGPLv3, am I missing something?
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by krylon 6y ago
Thank you!
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by krylon 6y ago
> Calc handles CSV far better, period. I wholeheartedly agree. :-) Dealing with CSV was the main reason I had LibreOffice installed on my work laptop.
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by krylon 6y ago
It sounds like a brilliant idea. I remember learning my way around vim and emacs from interactive tutorials that were basically just text files. I had no idea what I was doing, but it was fun to experiment. If you implemented your game, I
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by krylon 6y ago
Yes, I think that was the main reason. It was kind if pointless, though, the biggest file I saw in my time there was around 10MB. How much bigger would that have been with padding? Even an overhead of 100% probably would not have had much o

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