mrighele

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by mrighele 8mo ago
It seems that both OpenBSD [1] and NetBSD [2] still support i386, for example here [3] you can find the image for a USB stick. I expect at least the base system (including X) to work without big issues (if your hardware is supported), for e
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by mrighele 8mo ago
I don't think being 1-indexed is what made the reason. While it was already in widespread use, Python really took off in the scientific/research community, thanks first to numpy and then to all the other libraries built on top of
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by mrighele 8mo ago
> Myspace and early Facebook were already a downgrade to classic chatrooms. They were not a downgrade, they just worked the other way. With classic chatrooms (or a random vBulletin forums, if you wish) you would meet somebody online, the
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by mrighele 9mo ago
"throwing in the towel" would be a "I would do my job but I am forced to cheat the numbers otherwise I lose my job". I was thinking more to a "I am grateful to my father's cousin for giving me a comfy job where
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by mrighele 9mo ago
Should Ford get a 30% cut every time you fill your gas tank ?
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by mrighele 9mo ago
If you worked in the government of such a country is probably because of nepotism and to get a salary that is both guaranteed and above average. You are part of the system, so if the guy that gave you the job (and may fire you as easily) as
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by mrighele 9mo ago
So you need to buy a phone, a monitor, a keyboard and a mouse. And you need a desk where to put the stuff, which is not a given if you are part of a poor family with several kids. A cheap android phone and a cheap chinese laptop with 16GB o
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by mrighele 9mo ago
> Section 230 protects the ISPs and websites from liability, not the posters. I know. That's not what I am complaining about. I am not an anarchist. I am fine with enforcement asking an ISP, a website, a forum, whatever to remove co
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by mrighele 9mo ago
Yes they did. I am talking about the Internet. It used to be that anybody could post anything on the Internet. If it was something illegal sooner or later the state FBI/a Judge/Whatever would come for you, but it was a matter betw
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by mrighele 9mo ago
You can also reverse it. (Western) Internet was mostly censorship free, unlike places like Iran, China and the like. Things were removed only if outright illegan, and then just because of a court order. Then about ten years ago things chang
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by mrighele 9mo ago
> Is that really a thing though? You need to be able to afford it as it it is more expensive, but yes it is. I have the luck to live in a well served area: I have a Carrefour supermarket at about 200m from home yet I have 3 small markets
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by mrighele 9mo ago
> Further, when you don’t have to drive 20-30 mins to go to a grocery store but the stores you need are within a 5 min walk, Once you get used to have everything at a walking distance, you wonder how you could put up with having to drive
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by mrighele 9mo ago
> There's a tricky ethical question here: if someone changed their name and ask for not being called their former name ever again, you can either ignore their will, which is rude, or chose to follow it but then you are doing a disse
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by mrighele 9mo ago
I remember having trouble with mine, often mixing up the various hours (clock time, start time, end time, recording duration). Yes it was not rocket science, but it was used not enough to remember how to do it, and the manual was never ad
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by mrighele 9mo ago
Italian here, and I never heard of the term either. Everybody always used the term floppy also for the 3.5 disks I guess that since it was a foreign word the physical connotation of the term was simply lost, and "a floppy" was jus
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by mrighele 9mo ago
Has anybody ever been able to program a VCR ?
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by mrighele 9mo ago
In case of attack by the US, their troops would be effectively stranded in enemy territory, in particular their nukes. I doubt that the US would invade Greenland without first pulling out of Europe (unless they do an all-out attack with als
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by mrighele 9mo ago
> People who are thinking of a Wayland replacement at this stage, mostly because they don't like it, will waste their time reinventing the mature parts instead of thinking about how to solve the remaining problems. Now, if only peop
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by mrighele 9mo ago
Lower GDP doesn't mean to lower standard of living, if it is due to lower population. Similarly, more foreigners doesn't mean better standard of living. There is no point in increasing the GDP if this doesn't translate. Check
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by mrighele 11mo ago
> Complaining about DEI is a marker for a specific ideology. Which ideology ? I find that DEI is a very ideological position specific to the America left (and to the America political situation). Not everybody wants to have to deal with
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by mrighele 11mo ago
Every regulation has a cost, even the good ones. The biggest cost is that they slow down the ability of people and companies to do business, which come out as a lower economic growth. Compared to its peers, EU's GDP has been growing ve
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by mrighele 11mo ago
Or manual install.
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by mrighele 11mo ago
Same here. If this pass, I may start voting for Anti-EU parties, regardless for my disgust for them. This is too much of an important issue.
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by mrighele 11mo ago
Following the same reasoning, one could decide not to open any website, their TV, their phone and even their fridge. None of these will kill you While should companies tracking us to make more money affect our habits?
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by mrighele 11mo ago
Not op, but if I was paying for ads on a platform, I want to make the best use of my money, and target users that may more likely react positively. If this means that ads looking for mechanics are more likely to be seen by men, so be it, wh
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by mrighele 11mo ago
> Many (most?) older retail businesses still use TUIs. They're reliable, consistent, and orders of magnitude faster than GUI systems. What is sad is that is doesn't have to be that way. But you describe is not an intrisic chara
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by mrighele 11mo ago
Not 100% related, but there are a few of business around that still use home computers from the 80's. some examples: A bakery in Indiana is still using the 40-year-old Commodore 64 as a cash register | A 1 MHz CPU and 64KB of RAM are e
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by mrighele 11mo ago
My guess is that the pasta mentioned above is spaghetti "aglio olio e peperoncino" (garlic, olive oil, red pepper), so not just olive oil. Could be the recipe with the highest ratio taste/effort you can find, something that e
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by mrighele 11mo ago
> - firewall? Lots of pain and hard to find friendly, best practice starter templates. Wherever I looked, people said "it's complicated." After a lot of tinkering and learning I finally got a setup that was pretty safe. (I
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by mrighele 1y ago
Reminds of Microsoft Surface, the original coffee table [1]. It was quite cool at the time, but too expensive for what could have been useful application. Hopefully for them, this will have more luck. On a side not, the website is completel

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