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by mich41 14y ago
> it takes more time than a normal CAPTCHA Most of these captchas are very easy. If the targeted king was easier to spot (e.g. marked red) I'm sure I would solve them faster than the omnipresent reCaptchas (even knowing that I only need
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by mich41 14y ago
So what's meritocratic in abandoning (even temporarily) meritocracy to move from a meritocratic equilibrium to a meritocratic equilibrium?
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by mich41 14y ago
I've seen some women in CS, maths and software dev. Those who were doing their jobs well were hardly doing anything differently than men who were doing their jobs well. The only women or men "thinking differently" were clowns trying to show
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by mich41 14y ago
Dunno. But OTOH, I've sure seen unqualified women being hired "to counter gender inequality".
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by mich41 14y ago
What about requiring no DRM when using the term "buying"? I think they got it backwards.
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by mich41 14y ago
Tell this to somebody who doesn't know what kernel is for. Your computer contains lots of stuff you use daily without being aware of it.
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by mich41 14y ago
> I want a strong mainstream OS alternative to Windows - one that is popular enough and gets support from all major software vendors for apps. If Ubuntu got at least as popular as Mac OS, it would be amazing, and I don't really care wha
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by mich41 14y ago
Islam. Muslims are often serious about their religion (encouraging converts) and they actually procreate.
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by mich41 14y ago
> Cute, right? I have the same impression, but this may be because I didn't live then and I don't associate it with all the other things that happened then instinctively. Well, this was slightly sarcastic. I wouldn't hang this picture o
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by mich41 14y ago
Cute picture. But even after 50 years of this propaganda, I'm yet to see a woman driving tractors in Poland (yes, I've seen many men driving them). Sometimes I don't know if feminists are really serious or just trollin'...
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by mich41 14y ago
You can't do this and expect them to be competent IT workers. You couldn't do this 50 years ago and you can't today.
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by mich41 14y ago
I doubt that many people will bother replacing <img src="foo.png"/> with tons of javascript to handle browsers not supporting SVG. If something is well supported except for the 25% of cases where it isn't, it isn't well suppo
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by mich41 14y ago
> They just don't wait for the rest and do what they feel is appropriate for the popularity of Ubuntu (and therefore Linux) The word "Linux" doesn't even appear anywhere on their home page [1] or "About Ubuntu" page [2]. "GNU" probably
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by mich41 14y ago
Does Wayland support sending only buffers of the particular window I want to see on my desktop? As I understand it, it's going to only support forwarding of the whole desktop (like VNC). And this would be a huge functionality regression.
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by mich41 14y ago
Aren't they using the same "HD Audio" chips as everybody else?
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by mich41 14y ago
It becomes hard when the app uses reflection. When you want to remove some method foo , you not only have to make sure that it isn't referenced by some code, but also make sure that no code is passing the string "foo" to reflection API.
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by mich41 14y ago
Maybe your code isn't famous enough. I've seen lots of x::xs 's everywhere, but never a single h::t . Personally, I always use x::xs in one-liners and something meaningful (no, neither head nor h is meaningful) in longer matches.
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by mich41 14y ago
If you count to 100 or iterate over some array, i , j , k , l are more readable than index1 , index2 , index3 , index4 simply because they are shorter and still mean the same. And if you iterate over some collections of "meaningf
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by mich41 14y ago
Everybody who has ever seen any C code has #define i index programmed deeply in his brain's CPP. Using i for loop counter never causes confusion and using index makes the for statement 12 characters longer for no reason.
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by mich41 14y ago
> The only reason they're still around is because everybody uses it And since we are supposed to have democracy here, maybe it's a valid reason?
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by mich41 14y ago
Why should authors and not "consumers" (man, how I hate this word) choose distribution channels?
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by mich41 14y ago
9600: no idea, it sits in my parents' box, 300km away and no ssh. 3000: 760G chipset, many (most? all?) Linux/Mesa/Xorg version released in last two years. Completely random lockups, usually at few days of uptime. I no longer use one of thi
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by mich41 14y ago
> Also, I don't know any F#, but is he correct when he says that the order of declarations in a file matters, and that the order of files in a project matters? That sounds crazy to me. What is the benefit? Both Haskell and Ocaml get alo
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by mich41 14y ago
It always seemed obvious that Ubuntu's promise was aesthetics and simple consumer-oriented experience, but for some reason Canonical marketed it as "Linux for human beings" instead of "Linux for simple consumer beings". Some people fell vic
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by mich41 14y ago
What's the difference whether your kernel doesn't boot due to signature checks or due to lack of essential drivers?
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by mich41 14y ago
Dunno about new Radeons, but my experience with older series is very poor. HD3000 - very common IGP, yet whenever I enable it there are GPU lockups every few days. This goes on for years, on two motherboards. AGP Radeon 9600 - occasional cr
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by mich41 14y ago
Seconded. Autobanning always causes trouble if enough people use the server from one IP address.
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by mich41 14y ago
Encrypt the key (ssh-keygen offers you to do so) and backup it to bazillion clouds.
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by mich41 14y ago
MS always screws something up... Maybe your browser uses it. Or misconfigured/buggy something else. Anyway, this font appears to render correctly for most people.
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by mich41 14y ago
Works for me. Probably you are using some Linux distribution with misconfigured freetype.

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