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by liotier 3y ago
Flops ?
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So, aluminium sulphur batteries and ferroaluminum structures ?
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A 30 seconds look at river basin connectivity around a place I know gives me plenty of JOSM fodder - highly efficient visualization !
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It sure would be nice and just if the schools had the means to provide the personalized tutoring most children need to understand. Reality is that the parents do that - and yes, it is an advantage to children with parents able to invest tim
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With the Proton compatibility layer, the Microsoft Windows versions of Battlebit, Squad and Warno perform perfectly on Debian - I don't even think about it. Steam gaming on Linux Just Works !
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> Word of mouth (IE searching with “[…] Reddit”) gives far better information Used to. Now that advertising believe their salvation lies in forums, wadding into the big ones increasingly feels like entering the water at a British beach a
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Notre Dame's falcons sure are well nourished !
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A language and its libraries will inevitably allow a whole range of abstractions. Also, just about every piece of software has layers above and below. Hence my subjective qualification: "to most contemporary programmers" - to a bu
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If it requires explicitly allocating memory, then it is low level to most contemporary programmers.
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A cooperative booking organization would have strong incentive to keep their members in the straight & narrow. It is a cooperation problem and institutional enforcement is a proven recipe for ensuring that.
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Looks like some Mastodon users wanted an interpersonal communication channel and didn't realize they were using a publishing platform.
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In dense urban environments, masses of corrosive pigeon shit everywhere, with feathers sticking to it. Unsanitary. In my French Parisian city of Courbevoie, pigeon houses where eggs are shaken to sterilize them, and re-introducing magpies s
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by liotier 3y ago
WDM guy here. Sure, 80 channels are space for lots of 400 Gb/s circuits... But we still fill cables and keep laying more. Though yes, the big 1288 fibers cables aren't common. Also, lambdas don't terminate at every node - so
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by liotier 3y ago
Telco guy here, similar story. Our standard procedure dictates who is on the crisis call, with increasingly high ranks being sucked in as the incident escalates the severity scale by meeting objective criteria - for the highest levels of ou
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Reddit threatens taking direct control of protesting subreddits, removing mods(old.reddit.com)
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In French: "Descendre de la voiture" - in English, that would be "Step down from the car"... And that makes sense when considering that said vehicle was initially a horse-drawn carriage (-> "car"), which wer
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Does something resembling the "Old Reddit" look & feel exist among the Reddit clones ?
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Does something resembling the "Old Reddit" look & feel exist among the Reddit clones ?
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The difference with Twitter is that Reddit's core is moderators. Reddit is moderators. Reddit thinking they can piss off moderators an incredible level of not understanding what makes their company run.
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HN is a well honed functional equivalent to a subreddit... Could it become the centerpiece for a free software self-hosted self-standing subreddit ?
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Anywhere in the world, I doubt any real estate business functions with no contact with criminal organizations and local politics - too much money depends on regulations and their executive applications or lack thereof. In early 90's It
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Users in a browser, with no ad blocking - the five remaining ones...
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Sort of.
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We, the technologically literate, are not the target audience. Client-side filtering requires awareness of client-side filtering. How many Reddit users want that ? Facebook users ? Oh, maybe they want to fine-tune their scoring rules librar
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> without central authority over who could connect to the network or firm control over groups and their contents Moderation. In public forums, everything else is trivial and moderation is the invisible stinking hairy elephant in the room
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> Third party clients seem to be fairly niche with limited usage Reddit's "new" UX is so dismal that they keep "Old Reddit" alive so that they don't lose their mature users en masse. On mobile, I would not e
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Isn't this what Whois is for ?
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> Most American diners actually want the server to act like their best friend and constantly interrupt them Seriously ? Don't Americans see how fake it is ? The French waiter does its job curtly and efficiently, neither him nor I pr
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Ideological purity is the point. A whole range of other options are available but ideological purity is what Stallman offers, with no expectation that everyone will appreciate its benefits. The very existence of the FSF's offerings is
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> What are those PCs (including laptops) being replaced with? Tablets

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