lproven

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by lproven 6mo ago
> the effect (at least for modern sensibilities) is offputting and goofy. Oh my. I find the reverse. It's spooky and enchanting because once I know all the cognates I feel like I can magically understand the original.
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by lproven 6mo ago
No, it's documented, as is tempura . It's like pancakes: you make them before the time of fasting. "The Time of X" in Spanish is "tempora X" and I would bet Portuguese is similar. There are loads. https:&#x2F
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by lproven 6mo ago
In my testing I find the exact reverse. I much prefer snap to flatpak.
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by lproven 6mo ago
> How does growing crops work when it's dark 6 months a year? Have you noticed that all broadleaved trees and shrubs lose their leaves for half the year in temperate zones already? Did you not wonder why that is? They'll be fin
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by lproven 6mo ago
> I'm in western Europe Me too. > and really hope the AMOC will not collapse. It absolutely categorically will, probably in a decade or two. However, as the rest of the planet rapidly warms, for a decade or so western Europe gets
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by lproven 6mo ago
Short term (low single-digit decades): rapid sealevel rise. When (not "if") the Thwaites Glacier goes and the West Antartic Ice Sheet floats (not melts, just gets seawater underneath it) then we're looking at circa 5 metres,
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by lproven 6mo ago
Then you haven't been listening, because it's been widely discussed and well publicised. My personal two favourite piece on Brave are these... 2023: « Stop using Brave Browser Seriously. Corbin Davenport 07 Aug 2023 » https:&#x2F
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by lproven 6mo ago
opens link... ... it's not about OS/2 3 or 4, but some AI thing, and apparently feels no need to disambiguate or even acknowledge the prior usage of its name ... closes tab
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TimeCapsuleSMB: Hacking the Apple Time Capsule to Run Modern Samba(github.com)
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by lproven 6mo ago
I wouldn't know. Like I said: never been there. Not American, never lived in America. (Current location: Douglas, Isle of Man, 4370 miles away.) I specifically said that I was talking of the original Czech foods, and you responded &quo
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by lproven 6mo ago
Some discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47921079
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by lproven 6mo ago
> (which is incorrect, it's Coherent, not QNX). I think that was my mistake, when I posted this to Lobsters. Sorry about that.
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OIC.
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by lproven 6mo ago
Oh, yes, me too! Something I really missed in a decade living in Czechia. It's odd how in other countries it is mostly baked goods that have deep differences and leave whole much-loved categories missing. For me: pasties, mince pies,
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by lproven 6mo ago
> I'm guessing you have touchpad corners enabled. Er, no. As I said: Usually I leave the trackpad disabled. I don't like gestures and multi-finger taps much so I prefer to just turn it off.
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by lproven 6mo ago
> You clearly missed the "Texas kolaches" Why would you even think that, let alone say it? I didn't miss it. I wasn't talking about Texan food. I clearly said, and you quoted that I've never been to Texas in my
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by lproven 6mo ago
I often hear things like this, but I never encounter them myself. I've run every single version of Ubuntu ever released. Work machines stay on LTSes, testbeds run interim versions. After the 22.04 release, I carefully de-snapped my wor
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by lproven 6mo ago
Yes. Linux Mint, Zorin OS, Linux Lite, Pop OS, and several less famous distros are all based on Ubuntu. New versions of all of them will follow this new LTS release in time. Mint forked GNOME 3 to make something more Windows-like. Zorin cus
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by lproven 6mo ago
This is not correct. Snap is preinstalled on all official Ubuntu graphical editions. However, Xubuntu's _Minimal_ install does not include any snap packages at all, not even a browser. This means it's trivial to remove snapd:
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by lproven 6mo ago
No way, José. From where I sit I have 5 Thinkpads set up within reach, and I have a few more in other rooms. They are by far my preferred laptop. Most run Ubuntu as their default OS, most have the trackpad disabled because I usually use the
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by lproven 6mo ago
Yup. And this is no bad thing.
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by lproven 6mo ago
This isn't true any more, and hasn't been for some years, you know. It was true but times change. Microsoft chose to kill off Windows 10, which it once promised would be the last desktop Windows ever. Its replacement is bigger,
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by lproven 6mo ago
Correct. Pork pies even have a protected geographic designation now: https://www.mmppa.co.uk/ Scotch eggs are a common, if old fashioned, pub snack and are sold in supermarkets. Jellied eels are a London thing, mainly poor
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by lproven 6mo ago
I've never been to Texas in my life, but I did live in Czechia for 9 years and my wife is Czech. A Czech koláč is always sweet, with no exceptions. I Googled the foods you and the previous comment mention, and I've never seen anyt
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by lproven 6mo ago
> I haven't lived in Liverpool for 25 years now, but sad to hear Sayers is no more. Same, except it's just over 50 years for me. This story was quite a nostalgia trip for me – I immediately remembered trips to Sayers bakeries w
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by lproven 6mo ago
From TFA: > Our approach comes from two convictions: Uhuh. > that AI cannot replace human insight, creativity, and ingenuity Sure, agreed, no dispute. > and that these tools, used well, can help professionals do better work. [[cita
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by lproven 6mo ago
An interesting point on OSnews: https://www.osnews.com/story/144803/nationwide-bill-to-put-a... « Still, if passed, the bill would require actual age verification, instead of mere voluntary age reporting that
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by lproven 6mo ago
To quote the comment from higher on the page – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47818363 – « Oh, and don't be fooled by the archived status - it moved to https://codeberg.org/EtchedPixels/FUZIX
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by lproven 6mo ago
These tools are no more truthworthy than any other LLM slop-extruder.
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by lproven 6mo ago
> I think this should not be underestimated. You're right but it's broader than "C folks like terseness." C is famously hard to read. Before Perl we used to joke that C is a write-only language: you can't underst

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