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by liotier 3y ago
> You should give modern Gnome a good honest try This long time Debian user does not understand why he would choose Gnome over the incredibly satisfying out of the box experience of KDE Plasma combined with its easy customizability. I su
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by liotier 3y ago
Just update the specification with the observed behaviour and presto - black holes are no longer defective !
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by liotier 3y ago
The Web is the marketplace.
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Build a Routing Web App with Neo4j, OpenStreetMap and Leaflet.js(medium.com)
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by liotier 3y ago
Sampled a few languages - this data set looks very bad. Better use https://www.ethnologue.com
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by liotier 3y ago
Might as well go to the authority for recycled story bits: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Tropes There is more to storytelling than just originality.
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by liotier 3y ago
The quote at the page's bottom: “The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them” - well, about that...
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by liotier 3y ago
Here at LargeTelco with a legally privileged and regulated safety-critical utility status, absolutely every administrative interaction with a production host goes through a bastion that, on top of enforcing access privileges, also records _
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by liotier 3y ago
In electronic music, vocals are just another sampled oscillator garnish, taking as just much credit as the drum machine... Far cry from the front & center heroic place occupied by the pop music singer.
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by liotier 4y ago
The USA benefits greatly from its international position. That position isn't borne from natural order, but from wielding the USA's strengths - including military strength. Arming allies is part of that, and it is especially smart
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by liotier 4y ago
Other large cycling tunnels: - Rotterdam's Maas Tunnel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6UUinjhQgM - Antwerp's Kennedytunnel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7CsUnQ5BY0 - Paris' Parc des Ri
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by liotier 4y ago
Young people do move often but, once they settle and buy their family apartment, they are just as static as occupants of any other type of dwelling.
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by liotier 4y ago
USA bias I guess: they consider apartments undesirable, only to be tolerated by the younger and/or poorer - but families are expected to try for a house.
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by liotier 4y ago
> replacing IKEA furniture every 2 years What the hell are you doing with your Ikea furniture ? I have stuff going towards twenty years, no problem.
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by liotier 4y ago
What is wrong with stored procedures ? They are not fashionable nor especially expressive, but they perform reliably and they do pretty much what anything that might be expected from relational logic. But maybe that's my enterprisey bi
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by liotier 4y ago
> Tweets with hashtags and links do worse I don't understand the rationale... My feeds are mostly comments with a link to the article, and following a hashtag is the way to form a community. What does Twitter want to be ? Some glori
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by liotier 4y ago
> I regularly have close calls with pedestrians who are simply not looking for me Looking out for slower and weaker users is always the responsibility of the faster and more powerful. Pedestrians are the most vulnerable... In a city, sho
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by liotier 4y ago
Home computer still a slightly overclocked i7-2600 with lots of RAM... Only now starting to encounter too many annoying saturations of the CPU.
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by liotier 4y ago
"Secateur" is the French language word for "shears" - it is singular... But has it been imported into English language as plural by analogy to "shears" ?
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by liotier 4y ago
Damn right. I used to moderate a medium-sized subreddit... Readers don't imagine the amount of shit mods must shovel out the way to keep the place sane - and even that feels like recreation compared to dealing with abusive users. To th
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by liotier 4y ago
> make educated guesses that it might be iptables rule, or continue delving deeper to figure out what those hooks are etc Would it be a good idea to let pwru dig into the iptables detour to provide the whole view of the packet's jou
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by liotier 4y ago
> Recursive queries will not scale to handle _very_ large edge tables What do you consider large ? We have a 12-year old telco application with a few million objects in Neo4J, doing fault impact calculations... Would PostgreSQL handle th
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by liotier 4y ago
Checking how the froth behaves in zero G is the next step in the German space program, which is the obvious reason for this bit of R&D.
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by liotier 4y ago
Large scale insect production for animal feed has only been going for about a decade, so not much hindsight - but so far it is looking great: https://www.science.org/content/article/feature-why-insects-...
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by liotier 4y ago
Farmed seafood requires protein input, which currently is mostly wild fish. Expanding insect production for animal feed would be significant progress.
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by liotier 4y ago
A more contemporary alternative to ZoneMinder would be Shinobi: https://shinobi.video/
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by liotier 4y ago
One of the food safety rules of travelling in rougher places, where only boiled or bottled drinks are safe enough, is to never take ice in drinks. I suppose we can now generalize to wherever maintenance looks shoddy.
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by liotier 4y ago
Jack offers the low latency necessary for music production. Pipewire is supposed to offer low latency as well - at least lower than Pulseaudio, but I don't know how much.
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by liotier 4y ago
At the time of the rise of Viber and then Whatsapp, for people in Africa or communicating with Africa the messaging substitution wasn't an important question at all: we were burning so much money with international calls (and SMS) that
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by liotier 4y ago
Accounts with per SMS billing were unlikely to have mobile data for comfortable Whatsapp usage, so I doubt that was the substitution. To call between France and various African countries in the early Android era, I remember first using Vibe

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