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by moistbar 6y ago
Kubota and New Holland seem to be popular in my area, to the extent that I used to drive past a Kubota dealership on my way to some high school extracurricular or other.
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by moistbar 6y ago
>culminating in the horror of the ribbon bar) I'm sure this is still an unpopular opinion, but I've come around to the idea of the ribbon bar. Toolbars as they were pre-Office-2007 usually only contained duplicates of entries t
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by moistbar 6y ago
It would also make an interesting companion product if the rumors of a switch to the Linux kernel turn out to be true, though more likely they'd just "Linux 10" alongside Windows for a while.
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by moistbar 6y ago
I heartily recommend Talking Points. Most of the work is done by actual players, rather than relying on the game to provide trivia or whatever, so there's no way for someone to play in advance and figure out all the answers ahead of ti
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by moistbar 6y ago
Jackbox games like Patently Stupid or Fibbage are great since only one person has to buy the game in order for everyone to play. Just do a screen share of the main screen and have everyone connect using their phones. My friends and I do it
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by moistbar 6y ago
His argument includes that article, which essentially boils down to "if you're correcting someone's grammar, you're wrong" without taking into account contextual difficulties that may have been caused by said poor g
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by moistbar 6y ago
>The installer used by Ubuntu made this completely manual, roll up your sleeves, set all your volumes up in the terminal. It took ages and was precarious as hell. The Ubuntu installer has been capable of doing disk encryption for several
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by moistbar 6y ago
The author's decision to link to a Fecal-Age Gawker article with zero substance in the introduction made it very difficult for me to take the rest of the article seriously. That he bases his arguments on something with so little actual
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by moistbar 6y ago
It also gives them the ability to override any package on your system with one they make. All they'd have to do is increase their version number beyond the one in the "real" repositories and Apt would automatically update to
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by moistbar 6y ago
Considering the damage that can be done by botnets like Mirai, Raspberry Pis might be exactly what we should be worrting about.
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by moistbar 6y ago
Geany comes to mind, as does Vim. KDE's Kate is also quite fast and well-rounded.
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by moistbar 6y ago
So that means they should get full blown root from the beginning?
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by moistbar 6y ago
> Perl.com is a site owned by The Perl Foundation and has been used since 1997 to post news and articles about the Perl programming language.
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by moistbar 6y ago
sudo doesn't have to grant full root access to everyone in the group. It can be set up such that certain users only have the ability to run specified commands as root, which is handy for orgs where you might have a group of tier 1 tech
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by moistbar 6y ago
It's only about a 6k difference if you compare base models.
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by moistbar 6y ago
Carnegie Mellon costs 77k/year for a bachelor's degree. If that adds up to 1.2 million for you, you should probably check your math.
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by moistbar 6y ago
I think having a known system running a custom UI is the way to go, personally. You get the benefits of years of engineering research while still getting to have a differentiating factor that users can see.
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by moistbar 6y ago
Unique, yes, and I'd even go as far as to say it's somewhat out of place on a Unix-like OS, but I have an easier time remembering "infile, outfile, block/batch size" than, say, arguments for tar due to its simplicit
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by moistbar 6y ago
Whoops.
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by moistbar 6y ago
What's weird about a syntax as straightforward as 'command name' 'input file' 'output file'? How exactly would you do it differently?
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by moistbar 6y ago
I was thinking it sounded beyond arrogant. Wording like that is a surefire way to get me not to use your product.
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by moistbar 6y ago
Because it's an old project and a lot of people, myself included, are surprised to find out the devs are still working on it.
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by moistbar 6y ago
If Windows doesn't impose those restrictions, it makes more sense to port it there than to MacOS.
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by moistbar 6y ago
Point taken, though there's no reason the package manager couldn't change the environment variables based on the directory it's told to use for the install. The pieces are there, but nobody's really taken the time to put
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by moistbar 6y ago
You very much can run the software from those directories, what are you talking about? Those paths are handled by the OS itself as well through LD_PRELOAD and PATH. If what you're saying were true, unmodified software wouldn't wor
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by moistbar 6y ago
I'm not sure, I never thought I'd get this far. Wanna say a Fire Tablet, for irony?
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by moistbar 6y ago
Both apt and yum support installing to whatever directory you like as long as you have write permissions there.
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by moistbar 6y ago
I give it a year before desktop and laptop computers are deemed instruments of white supremacy due to their ability to get to sites like Parler.
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by moistbar 6y ago
>Unless it happened to early Tesla, because they were held to the lower standard applied to computers and OSs. That doesn't seem to be as true anymore, thankfully. I've definitely had my Model 3 not unlock when it should, but I
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by moistbar 6y ago
Breaking stuff is the first step towards learning to fix stuff.

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