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by liotier 3y ago
> The others may have had simpler interfaces, but they were either conceptually more complex, overly rigid in their design and behavior, or both Most of the time, I'll humbly trade "overly rigid in their design and behavior&quo
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by liotier 3y ago
Netiquette aside, a bunch of .mp3 as SMTP attachments hogged the single 64 kb/s that was my whole school's single link to the Internet and they entirely filled the receiving side's mail server storage, resulting in an outage.
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by liotier 3y ago
It is funny because, here in Paris, the urban core is where upwards life is and suburbia is the land of social despair. The opposite logic from the USA, which makes some forum threads awkward with both sides of the Atlantic talking past eac
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by liotier 3y ago
Let's not exaggerate: Winamp .mp3 playback was just fine on any Pentium running Windows 9x - though I concede that even my Pentium 75 had 16 MB RAM and I have never seen a Pentium with less than that. On the other hand, extracting a CD
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by liotier 3y ago
> While undermining its safety argument Which is just political marketing for regulatory barriers to entry lobbying.
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by liotier 3y ago
At that point in lunacy, I wouldn't discount Milei having a plan to replace all public sector employees with private firms.
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by liotier 3y ago
Watch a movie car chase set in a city you know ! For example, the Ronin car chase in Paris jumps from street to street all over the region in an entirely nonsensical way - but a person who doesn't know Paris won't mind at all, and
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by liotier 3y ago
> unit-throwers Was the BAR peewee-launching gun inspired by Zero-K ?
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by liotier 3y ago
Is Zero-k still popular now that its cousin https://www.beyondallreason.info has matured ?
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by liotier 3y ago
Bring a bicycle ?
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by liotier 3y ago
Depends on the level of corporate restrictions. Workstations with the "developer" policy applied may do that (if they managed to smuggle the executable through the HTTP proxy, and as long as the program doesn't open an inboun
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by liotier 3y ago
Look at it another way: that script kludge is a prototype, a dangerous one of course, that embodies the functional requirement better than what the user could express. Understand its deep meaning (what the user meant to do and and not what
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by liotier 3y ago
I suspect that dystopian environments of locked-down mandatory corporate Windows laptops with no software installation privileges, firewalled networking and even the USB ports disabled are also part of the reason for every function being cr
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by liotier 3y ago
Musk would have felt right at home driving the Soviet space program !
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by liotier 3y ago
My catacombs era was around 2000-2020 - so I've only know that entrance after it was reopened
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by liotier 3y ago
Wow, hat is a new development - it had always been left as a "safety valve" to let tourists access from that unchallenging part of the network... But yes, the low gallery goes all along the Petite Ceinture tunnel, only a brick lay
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by liotier 3y ago
> No one is planning to do that. Filling entry points with concrete Filling is mostly to reinforce zones threatened by collapse. Entrances are secured mostly by sawing off the ladder rungs and welding the manhole covers. > ambiance&qu
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by liotier 3y ago
Indeed, I live in Paris and my elder daughter studies in Taiwan... She discovers the possibility of street food affordable enough to her to be a normal meal. In Paris, eating out is luxury entertainment - cooking at home is the normal way.
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by liotier 3y ago
Not just Torvalds and hosting Linux development: Git solves "big code" problems and large organizations pull the market - including tiny projects for which Git's trade-offs are not optimal, where Mercurial tended to make user
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by liotier 3y ago
Cloudflare's greatest product is arguably its blog !
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by liotier 3y ago
And they are still bitter about it !
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by liotier 3y ago
I like its modest yet sharp ambition: ls, cd and less - but integrated for speed.
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by liotier 3y ago
> Turn off the camera all together. Then you don't need to look like you are listening And use the precious screen real estate for productive screensharing and presenting documents !
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by liotier 3y ago
Lack of local support does make them a niche player, but everything starts from a niche and those who believe they don't start from a niche disperse their efforts. So, with the hypothesis that Oxyde is smart, the question therefore is:
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by liotier 3y ago
You are right about the waning influence of Richard Stallman.
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by liotier 3y ago
At least, it mentions GPT usage. The amount of GPT verbiage passed as human output dwarves those punctilious occurrences.
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by liotier 3y ago
Metric measurements, English-language UI, UTF-8 and ISO 8601 dates could make a nice international default standard locale.
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by liotier 3y ago
> I always stick to US English language when using software Of course, the computer's native language is English - anything else would be silly. This may be a generational meme: young people have French language environments - even
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by liotier 3y ago
In the early 90's me and a couple of other French guys had taken to writing French unaccented, so that we wouldn't suffer the daily pain of character set problems - we really bashed our own heads to fit into lower ASCII !
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by liotier 3y ago
Why don't you add an hosts blacklist to Unbound, thus removing the need for the Pi-Hole - which is mostly dnsmasq with same blacklists ? https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Using_Unbound_as_an_Ad-blo...

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