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by lamby 7y ago
Given the hostile stares of disgust and suspicion that result from trying to pay for anything with a £50 note, the tragic irony that it will now be adorned by the face of a man who suffered homophobic discrimination is not lost on me.
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by lamby 7y ago
Mmm. This post by Matthew Garrett is good on this: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/52432.html
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by lamby 7y ago
In my experience, testing is (across the entire release cycle) often more buggy than sid, especially as it will get scant detailed attention in, say, the first year after a stable release. Using testing (for me) is usually just another anno
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by lamby 7y ago
I hate "plus ones" but... +1 to this.
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by lamby 7y ago
For all the same reasons... I would recommend Debian unstable (ignore the name).
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by lamby 7y ago
Care to file bugs? We can possibly fix these in a point release..
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by lamby 7y ago
> you can get much better, fresher options elsewhere Of course and it's almost a cliché to say it for all chains :) What one needs to keep in mind is that such places are actually selling minimising regret and lack of cognitive o
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What is ergodicity? (2016)(larspsyll.wordpress.com)
155 points by lamby 7y ago|54 comments
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Truths programmers should know about case (2018)(b-list.org)
80 points by lamby 7y ago|25 comments
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by lamby 7y ago
> required compute power is ridiculous Can you elaborate or put some concrete numbers on this? :)
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by lamby 7y ago
I tried making a "travel access point" with mine, so I could have all my devices already setup to access a single access point and funnel all the traffic through that. I was previously using a $20 router, but curiously the Pi 3B j
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by lamby 7y ago
You could even passive-aggressively frame it as "oh, but you being around would be highly motivating..."
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by lamby 7y ago
> unit tests fail when run in Australia I've found countless ones of these. Some of them in date/time/timezone handling libraries.. :/
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by lamby 7y ago
> Debian is usually the worst. Can you elaborate?
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Reproducible Builds in April 2019(reproducible-builds.org)
1 points by lamby 7y ago|0 comments
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by lamby 7y ago
Have you used it, out of interest? It's very slick, at the very least..
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by lamby 7y ago
Like investments, the implicit question of whether one can trust Facebook (etc.) going forward is actually orthogonal to their current or previous behaviour. Whilst it might inform and be predictive to a great degree, there is no way to bin
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by lamby 7y ago
There is also https://letterbug.co.uk/ in the UK.
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What Is Ergodicity? (2016)(larspsyll.wordpress.com)
1 points by lamby 7y ago|0 comments
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by lamby 7y ago
Do those corporate/private Twitter apps still exist?
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by lamby 7y ago
Whilst I applaud and appreciate the sentiment behind the various technological workarounds suggested here (killswitches, canaries, extra levels of security, etc.) do bear in mind that the legal/justice system is not an algorithm that w
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by lamby 7y ago
How come this is (such) a dealbreaker for you?
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by lamby 7y ago
I don't disagree that those are nicer items, I've had them countless times myself.. but I think you may be missing the "point" of Beyond Meat if you solely talk about the taste or macronutrients.
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by lamby 7y ago
Don't forget they are really selling a wider cknversation/story/narrative/worldview than just the meat. To focus too much on the product itself might therefore be a mistake. (Besides, that part can always be tuned... )
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by lamby 8y ago
Price? :)
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by lamby 8y ago
Purism ( https://puri.sm/ ) uses Mumble for all-hands staff meetings. Works pretty well and, of course, is free software. :)
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by lamby 8y ago
Clearly, the OP lives in Singapore...
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by lamby 8y ago
> Couldn't sponsorships help? As implied and cited by the article itself, money and Debian are uneasy bedfellows. > The last thing we need is Debian to become corporatized. I highly doubt this will be a likely outcome here.
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Why does Emacs use the Meta key?(catonmat.net)
3 points by lamby 8y ago|0 comments
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by lamby 8y ago
Debian Developer here.. I wonder how much of our core infrastructure this could cover given the Python support.

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