mrighele

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by mrighele 2y ago
Plenty of countries have neither checks and balances nor rule of law.
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by mrighele 2y ago
> Using the `lp`/`lpr` executable like in other comments requires the printer to be registered with CUPS first. In modern Linux distros, lp/lpd are usually shims provided for backward compatibility, but it doesn't have to
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by mrighele 2y ago
I have no idea :-). Frankly I was under the impression that this requirement had been weakened/removed over the years, but this is what they write on the official website and I cannot find any reference about that so that's why I
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by mrighele 2y ago
I think the parent refers to this [1]: "All works under copyright protection that are published in the United States are subject to the mandatory deposit provision of the copyright law (17 USC section 407). This law requires that two c
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by mrighele 2y ago
> As soon as I've set up a file system with the drives I already have the only solution is to buy the same amount of drives with more space once I run out. Recent versions of zfs support raidz expansion [1], which let you add extra
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by mrighele 2y ago
That's why these days even TVs have cookie banners. Most of them by default push you to accept and I guess that they are illegal under GDPR (the same happens on the web) but until we start seeing fine going down heavily the situation w
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by mrighele 2y ago
This looks to me like a consumer product, so it you should compare it to Google's similar products, not enterprise ones. Does Google stop tracking you when you pay for Youtube Premium ? When you buy a Pixel phone ? Like you, I do think
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by mrighele 2y ago
I know it is a single example and we should extrapolate much out of it, but in the case of html those who accepted more liberal input (html4/5) won over over those that were more conservative (xhtml).
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by mrighele 2y ago
The Wikipedia page [1] links to an annual report from 2022 [2] where it is stated (page 6) that the expenses for 2022 for "Software development" were about 220 Million Dollars [X], though I guess that the entry includes software
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by mrighele 2y ago
> You would think FAANG would have a half decent UI and UX with the amount of money they have. There is no point in sanding something that someone else is using hammer and chisel on. FAANGS are the companies of continuously delivered web
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by mrighele 2y ago
Oh boy. While the art is similar, the animation is quite different (in a very bad way). They are also completely unfunny. (* goes back to watch old hand-animated episodes of Tom&Jerry and Wile E. Coyote *)
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by mrighele 2y ago
The article says "migrants", not "refugees".
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by mrighele 2y ago
Thanks, I might give it a try
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> Also, I've personally seen more interest in AI in devs that have little interest in technology, but a big interest in delivering. PMs love them though. For them programming is a means to an end, and I think it is fine, in a way. B
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by mrighele 2y ago
It's not much of the world, it about "the former British empire", and the world is more or less split in half (check the wikipedia link that one of the sibling comments posted) I think that the best approach is to avoid to us
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by mrighele 2y ago
> that is dependent on insanely belligerent action from the West like giving nukes to Taiwan The USA administration has stated several times that they would defend Taiwan if China invaded (see for example [1]). Would you consider that a
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by mrighele 2y ago
Interesting, it seems that the javascript runtime is smart enough detect this pattern and actually create a named function (I tried Chrome and Node.js) const foo = () => {} console.log( foo.name ); actually outputs 'foo
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by mrighele 2y ago
> Having null hostility at the compiler level would be a awesome next feature in java (fingers crossed). This is being worked on, it seems [1]. I remember it being discussed here not too long ago, but can't find the link right now.
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by mrighele 2y ago
If you don't use your account you will get what most people look for in your location, in your case probably sex, violence, politics, memes, ragebait... The feed should adapt to your tastes depending on what you like, retweet or who yo
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by mrighele 2y ago
> At least Italy is still interesting when it comes to software development. Do you have an example ? Doesn't look to me like there is that much great software written in Italy. If you ask me the only thing that comes to my mind rig
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by mrighele 2y ago
I would expect ACME to use https://testing.acme.internal , and not just https://testing.internal , that would remove most of the incidental clashes (not malicious ones, of course).
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by mrighele 2y ago
> Now the story I heard at the time was that once upon a time SQL Server didn't support auto-incrementing ids. This was the accepted, correct answer. At a company that I used to work, they heard the same rumor, so instead of using i
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by mrighele 2y ago
What do you mean "power" ? It's not like parent is asking for them to have special powers, only to vet their advertisers, like a newspaper would do. If they can't do that at scale, it's their problem and should down
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by mrighele 2y ago
Surprisingly the link doesn't contain any screenshot of the software. I remember using a software named "Print Master" around those years and I was wondering if the two were related. It seems that the latter was essentially a
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by mrighele 2y ago
Yes, the linked article talks also about Donald Davies, which influenced more directly Arpanet. But the point about Paul Baran is that for him packed switching was a way to make communications more resilient in face of nuclear bombing (and
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by mrighele 2y ago
I don't think that the Internet was created to survive a nuclear strike, but I think we can say that it was _designed_ to survive a nuclear strike, that was one of the reason that packet switching was invented (compared to the traditio
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by mrighele 2y ago
We could make our railway more resilient to such attacks, but in general why bother ? It is probably cheaper to pay the cost whenever the disruption happens. At least in times of peace. There are two issues here though. The first is that th
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by mrighele 2y ago
> you allow middlemen to strip this right to users of your software. That's not true. Somebody can take the source code and build something closed on top of it, but the original code will be already free, and you will always have th
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Because it is what Google first and other later got us used to
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There are cheaper or free alternatives to Artifactory. Yes they may not have all of the features but we are talking about a company that is fine with using a random CDN instead. Or, in the case of javascript, you could just vendor your depe

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