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by msla 3y ago
> What desktop does it use? If the answer isn't "any one I choose" the distro is broken.
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by msla 3y ago
> I don't see how the key is "impractically large" if it's only the size of your original email. So you're only sending one email and not getting a reply?
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by msla 3y ago
One-time pads are completely unbreakable if you use them correctly. Using them correctly is impractically difficult for most people. Your key has to be as long as the sum total length of all of the messages you send along that communication
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by msla 3y ago
> I expect that by 1975, say, the number of high-end hardware installations was a lot more than 80. Yes, part of the problem was that, for all of its goals of portability, Multics only ever ran on two kinds of computer, and depended on t
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by msla 3y ago
> Wikipedia says that Multics had "about 80 installations". It was a mainframe operating system that only ran on high-end hardware. What do you expect? > Wikipedia also notes that Unix ran on less expensive hardware than Mul
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by msla 3y ago
None of that's relevant. It kinda sounds relevant if you ignore the fact the kid was killed by police officers who weren't acting in self defense, but outright saying "The police should be able to perform summary executions&q
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by msla 3y ago
OK, let's take this in some more context: > To the Labs computing community as a whole, the problem was the increasing obviousness of the failure of Multics to deliver promptly any sort of usable system, let alone the panacea envisi
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by msla 3y ago
Medical emergencies. Family emergencies.
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by msla 3y ago
"Mysteriously unattended"? You've been out of school too long.
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by msla 3y ago
I never brought up the US.
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by msla 3y ago
I never mentioned school shootings. Everyone else did.
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by msla 3y ago
> Mozilla has earned some trust here, I think. How? Was it the opt-out telemetry, putting ads in the browser, or the "experiments" that were also ads?
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by msla 3y ago
> Since this law was adopted, there's been an increase in full building graffiti And good art makes people come inside. Not advertisement indeed.
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by msla 3y ago
No outdoor advertising which is acknowledged as such, perhaps. Advertisers always find ways to ply their trade.
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by msla 3y ago
Can you do this without bringing a completely unrelated country into it? The United States of America isn't the main character of history.
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by msla 3y ago
Yes, because Dutch people don't have medical emergencies.
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by msla 3y ago
This is very, very dangerous, especially if an emergency happens and the teacher is out of the room or slow to respond. Yes, emergencies happened before cell phones. People died of them more often back then.
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by msla 3y ago
That's why we have the Copyleft licenses like the GPL, which are also Open Source.
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by msla 3y ago
A lot of C's flaws are fixed in C++. C++ adds a number of its own flaws, but that's beside the point when discussing C's flaws from a perspective of knowing C++.
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by msla 3y ago
No, because what he described actually works. Clothing used to be hugely expensive: https://www.bookandsword.com/2017/12/09/how-much-did-a-shirt... > So the shirts of humble servants at Henry VIII’s court
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by msla 3y ago
Ebikes and Escooters don't solve the grocery problem: You live somewhere which isn't a small efficiency apartment downtown. Your city experiences what people outside of Southern California call "weather" which makes it d
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by msla 3y ago
Yes, it's human nature. The fact Reddit didn't allow bad moderators to be removed played into it, too, which resulted in some oddities of the website: /r/Marijuana was run by assholes, so /r/Trees became the ma
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by msla 3y ago
"Nothing happens without the CIA" is just as comforting as "Nothing happens without God" I suppose; both presuppose the existence of an all-powerful entity controlling everything, as a ward against having to acknowledge
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by msla 3y ago
> I’m always amused by people who think that if the USA ceased its war mongering efforts no nation would try to fill that void and everyone would just get along nicely. Orwell said it pretty well: > It is also worth emphasising once a
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by msla 3y ago
Even Way Back When you could get in some amount of trouble moving electronics by plane if you worked at it: https://www.chessprogramming.org/Belle > In 1982, Belle was confiscated by the US State Department at Kennedy Ai
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by msla 3y ago
Eh, just a bit more work than Leiningen as a build automation tool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiningen_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Ant https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by msla 3y ago
I wonder how you'd encode something like that into the digital crossword file formats used now.
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by msla 3y ago
To attack discrimination.
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by msla 3y ago
They missed a trick when they didn't call it Rich Friend Common Lisp (Originally based on Carnegie Mellon University Common Lisp. Carnegie got rich in steel, Mellon in banks, but both were rich, and Mellon is Elvish for Friend. Rich Fr
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by msla 3y ago
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4287 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5023

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