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by majewsky 5y ago
And also next winter. We absolutely have the means to get rid of our dependence on Russian fossil fuels (and fossil fuels in general). But we won't be able to do it within one year.
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by majewsky 5y ago
> They've also suffered a lot to end two world wars that they didn't start. This is even more true of the Russians, and as an outsider, I'm wondering how much of their politics is informed by those memories.
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by majewsky 5y ago
Oh THAT'S what that's supposed to be. I was always wondering why my viewport jumps all over the place unprompted.
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by majewsky 5y ago
Modern shells have double-star globs for traversing arbitrary numbers of layers, so I would do something like this with: ls **/*Plumber*
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by majewsky 5y ago
> UUIDs use time and origin to make things unique Some UUID formats do. Format 4 has all bits (except the format bits) drawn from (P)RNG.
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by majewsky 5y ago
The late 1800s and early 1900s were also the peak of constructed-language movements like Esperanto and Volapük, which were riding on the assumption that there would be peace in our time if only we would all speak the same language and there
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by majewsky 5y ago
For "Flannel" and "Flanell", it makes a surprising amount of sense when you then look at the pronounciation. The English word is stressed on the first syllable, like "FLANnel", which makes the N sound longer, w
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by majewsky 5y ago
"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." -- https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by majewsky 5y ago
Why do you need to hire extra people to manage a cloud storage account with two file uploads per week?
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by majewsky 5y ago
How did they solve it?
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by majewsky 5y ago
> If the kernel aims to have 2 ways to get randomness [...] and there's two device files why not map one to one and one to the other? Because both these files come with preconceived notions from various stages in the life of Unix re
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by majewsky 5y ago
Are you referring to their libpulse reimplementation? Because if so, that one got sacked a while back because they could not iron out the kinks. These days, PipeWire implements the PulseAudio server API directly, and this part is working ab
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by majewsky 5y ago
The irony of your comment is that a huge part of PipeWire being this good is the work of the PulseAudio devs. When PA first came out, the experience was terrible because it exercised drivers in a way that plain ALSA or previous audio daemon
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by majewsky 5y ago
If you don't know yet, check out https://hn.algolia.com for searches like this (not affiliated). The thread linked above is the top hit when searching for "blind".
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by majewsky 5y ago
Bad example. Browsers have had per-site caches since between 2013 (Safari) and 2020 (Chrome, Firefox).
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by majewsky 5y ago
Upvoted because this answered my confusion about the initial question. I did not see any login prompts pop up where they need not be. :)
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by majewsky 5y ago
My pet conspiracy theory with Galileo is that it was only ever a play towards the Americans to remove the possiblity of a GPS lockdown, which could have been used as a bargaining chip. (Or towards the Russians and Chinese, on the level of &
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by majewsky 5y ago
It's quite fitting that this sort of thing is dubbed "autopilot", because in all likelihood it will have the same problem as gradually more self-driving cars. There will be a level of automation where the computer still makes
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by majewsky 5y ago
This is one of those lints where there's probably an entire backstory to it.
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by majewsky 5y ago
Here's hoping that Valve's next round of investments in the stack puts some focus on the needs of streamers, on the basis that getting streamers into the SteamOS/Linux tech stack may introduce the topic to a wider audience. A
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by majewsky 5y ago
> If it can wait, wait. Ignore it. Go back to what you were doing. You make it sound like this part is zero-cost, when it absolutely is not. This comic expresses it more clearly than I could in words: https://heeris.id.au&#x
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by majewsky 5y ago
Depriving people of sleep through loud noises is quite literally a torture method.
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by majewsky 5y ago
I initially tried this when my language learning course had to go remote and the teacher insisted on using Zoom. But I ran into a dealbreaker issue with the web view: It does not have the grid view of all participants' cameras, and (to
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by majewsky 5y ago
If you refuse to upload your entire phonebook to Meta, the app will HATE you for it. You will not be able to initiate any chats, the other party needs to start chatting you first. Also, instead of names, only phone numbers will be shown. (I
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by majewsky 5y ago
Another German here. I'm legitimately surprised by this article saying that the entirety of Sunday is considered Ruhezeit. It's true that most stores are closed on Sunday, but I've done plenty of vacuuming and laundry on Sund
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by majewsky 5y ago
There are plenty of games like that if you're willing to avoid AAA games. Hollow Knight was $20 and they released multiple significant DLCs for free. Minecraft is $20 and keeps getting new content pretty regularly.
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by majewsky 5y ago
Which is exactly what Rockstar will have when they unveil the next GTA.
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by majewsky 5y ago
On the other end of the spectrum, I'm a PC gamer and I haven't bought any VR equipment because there are way too many games to play as it is. I don't feel the need to increase the backlog of games I want to play if I won&#x27
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by majewsky 5y ago
Full Self-Driving 3.1 Release 2 SuperSpeed Beta 16 With Extra Cheese
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by majewsky 5y ago
I know this is kind of a weird tangent, but even the pony quips are factually wrong in this article: > The least popular pony is Applejack. She is also the only one who has a real job. This is, of course, a coincidence. If you actually w

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