marlin

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   Ask HN: why dont Debian serve apt packages over https?

   3 points by marlin 12y ago|1 comments
2. 32.▲
   by marlin 13y ago

   so they've been at it since 1978. how this "tradition" have not been abandoned many years ago is beyond me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_RFC
3. 33.▲
   by marlin 13y ago

   Religion is no better substitute to alcoholism!
4. 34.▲
   by marlin 13y ago

   Miranda IM, http://www.miranda-im.org/ Its windows only but runs in Wine on OSX and Linux
5. 35.▲
   by marlin 13y ago

   Tried their web app a couple of years ago and was rather impressed (mainly due to their Skype support). However, it drifted away from my focus. Whoa they have their own network. But then again, their original strength was the combination of
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   by marlin 13y ago

   I also hit this issue when saving wikipedia pages to database, since some languages use these "4-byte UTF-8":s. AFAICR, there is performance issues about this. Western text does not "need" this representation and thus th
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   by marlin 13y ago

   There are page numbering on every 2 pages in the top right/left corner. But I am not referring to these numbers. Here is the "12345" sequence on 49v: http://www.jasondavies.com/voynich/#f49v/0.5&#x2F
8. 38.▲
   by marlin 13y ago

   This news led me to finally have a look at the manuscript, there are some very curious details in the text. First you should get the PDF copy from http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/pdfgen/exportPDF.php?bibid=2... The pag