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by mrighele 3y ago
> To me, the answer to all of the questions was crystal-clear. For other people too, but for them maybe the right answer is different. Intent is clear until it is not. Cars obviously aren't allowed. Bicycles are not, either. But can
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by mrighele 3y ago
I would say at least since udev was merged into systemd and gnome adding an hard dependecy on systemd-logind [2], both in 2012 so I would say more than 10 years. To me that this was an act to force a Redhat-led project through other Redhat
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I'm sorry, but I cannot fulfill this request as it promotes and glorifies consumption of living creatures and their derivatives, which goes against Open AI's ethical guidelines. As an AI language model, I'm designed to assist
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Funnily enough, that location is not empty (there is a buoy to mark it) and is aptly named "Null Island" [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island
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When first ADSL came out in my country, the speed was about 256Kbps; 758Kpbs arrived only a few years later
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I was not advocating eating bugs in place of meat (I don't like the idea either). I was saying that if for some reason we had to forfait meat, I think it would be easier for the average person to have a proper diet if it included bugs
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by mrighele 3y ago
> "eat mostly legumes, whole grains, leafy green vegetables and other vegetables". It probably even tells you to cut down on beef and pork. Yes, as I wrote we tend to eat too much meat in the west. But cutting down on meat con
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by mrighele 3y ago
Those vegetarians doing just fine have usually to be much more careful about what they eat than meat-eaters, so this tells me that meat is not just an unnecessary luxury. While in the west we eat much more meat that necessary, I don't
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by mrighele 3y ago
> It'd be very difficult for Montana to enforce the other piece of the TikTok ban I don't know if it is technically and legally feasible in Montana, but you "just" need to block the endpoints that the app uses to fet
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by mrighele 3y ago
Turkey is having today what is one of the most important elections of its history, and you cannot just say “duh fight the decision in courts” because by that time the damage would already been done. It is important that today Turks have a m
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by mrighele 3y ago
The IO at the time was terrible, also because,if memory serves me right, plenty of disks/controllers didn't support DMA transfers. But if you had a few megabytes to spare for caching (not everybody did, for sure) the machines woul
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by mrighele 3y ago
It's not an apt comparison at all because renting a house and buy an appliance are two completely different things. In particular when you buy a printer you don't sign any contract so HP cannot say "you accepted our terms whe
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by mrighele 3y ago
I would prefer a more generic "license.txt" i.e. a standard sanctioned way of telling the User Agent that the resource under a certain location is provided with a specific license. Maybe a picture is public domain, maybe is copyri
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AFAIK It’s your operator that decides the roaming charges, based on your contract (they may be different based on the country though). So you may want to check with them
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> What's the excitement about getting it almost running on a phone about? You get to decide what is appropriate or not. It works offline. It can be used to by applications without the having to use an external service. This can be i
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by mrighele 3y ago
Not the parent, but I still regularly (let's say once a month) Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (2003) [1] with a number of friends, although it has now a community that keeps developing/maintaining the open source code [2], so I&#x27
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by mrighele 4y ago
Buying something and buying a right to use it are two different things. If somebody told me that they are selling me a house and then I discover that I only got the right to live in it, I would be pissed off. Now, with software this is usua
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by mrighele 4y ago
> As much as you and I don’t like it, what Apple is doing is perfectly legal. Well, not in EU now
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by mrighele 4y ago
"If you didn't buy something, but rented it - for example a game on Steam or Epic Games store" I don't know about the other one, but in the Steam store I see "Buy" buttons, not "Rent". "Buy <
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by mrighele 4y ago
but once you blow away the layers you are left with a virtual machine with a number of low level APIs. Most people won't want to use them. Yes, I can see the advantage of rewriting those layers in terms of the lower level APIs, for exa
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by mrighele 4y ago
I think what they mean is that for now most of the usage of things Chatgpt, mid journey etc has a human in the loop that helps getting the right result. For example plenty of people post AI generated images on Twitter. This works because th
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by mrighele 4y ago
If you think that a technology/language/etc is cool and better than the rest but it is not as common as <mainstream thing>, of course you’d be excited to learn that a company is using it. If you’re a company that chose a ve
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by mrighele 4y ago
> But managers don't care (and many co-workers also). For the majority, the cost is not that well known and in general they are not the ones paying for it, you are. In particular for your colleagues it may be beneficial to disturb y
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by mrighele 4y ago
> having people ridicule Xi on MJ would make it unwelcoming to people in China. Having people depicting women with uncovered hair could make it unwelcoming to people in some Muslim countries, or at least their governments. Should we ban
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by mrighele 4y ago
TV has plenty of material that is absolutely unsuitable "compared to the their degree of development and self-awareness." The only protection they have is that they those materials are usually (but not always) available in certain
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by mrighele 4y ago
What is interesting is that you don't need absolutely any technology to have a toilet that cleans your ass with water. It's really just a pipe that comes out from below the seat and a knob to manually open/close the water, it
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by mrighele 4y ago
Or notice how those that are pissed off when they are called Putinists call the Russian invasion of Ukraine a “proxy war” and blame the death of all those Ukrainian people on anybody except the culprit, I.e. Putin
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An Hello World in java is a single class file of a few hundred bytes so I am not sure that is the right example. Source code is more verbose, and although I do prefer Typescript I don't find it a tragic issue. In both cases for anythin
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by mrighele 4y ago
When you rent a car any fine is notified to the rental company which then forwards it to you.They can do this because there is paper that you signed that says that at that time you were driving. In the case of a scooter there is just a row
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I don't know about China, but Russia took a page from their own playbook since war with Ukraine is not much different with what happened with Georgia (South Ossetia, Abkhazia), Moldova (Transnistria), Chechnya, many years before the st

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