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by neuromanser 3y ago
In my experience, print -l /etc/**/*foo* or grep -Ir foo /etc leads to results faster than stabbing in the dark of regedit search. Manpages usually list configuration files.
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by neuromanser 3y ago
It's not easy to keep Hendrix's dead former bandmates motivated enough to make new music…
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by neuromanser 3y ago
libpq is taken by PostgreSQL though ;)
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by neuromanser 3y ago
I'm sure glad it's still under copyright: how else would we motivate Stanley Kubrick to make more movies?
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by neuromanser 3y ago
*hare-brained. Nice eggcorn! :) https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eggcorn
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by neuromanser 3y ago
If only Apple had the resources to create and enforce a UI that would make disabled Bluetooth obvious. /s
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by neuromanser 3y ago
> FastCGI doesn't have as simple a deployment model as CGIs generally offer That may be true in general but I don't think it's a universal truth - it's been well over a decade, but ISTR running PHP in Apache as FastCG
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by neuromanser 3y ago
Rentgen is a noun in Czech meaning 1. the machine, 2. the picture, the root of an adjective (rentgenový), Amd the root of a verb (rentgenovat).
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by neuromanser 3y ago
Btw X-rays are called "rentgenové záření" ("Roentgen radiation") in Czech.
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by neuromanser 3y ago
More like: This plant has no insect parasites, it must be special somehow, let's try and use it in different, increasingly "close approach" ways. I mean, humans must have figured quite early that on average, inhaling smoke of
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by neuromanser 3y ago
Of course, in light of Betteridge's law, that version would be called Androids Don't Dream of Electric Sheep.
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by neuromanser 3y ago
Sorry for an intellectually vacuous comment, but: Wow! Somehow this hit way harder than I was ready for!
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by neuromanser 3y ago
Yes, robota has a different meaning in Czech (mandatory work performed by serfs for the benefit of their landlord) than in eg. Slovak or Russian where it means simply "work". Cf. Slovak phrase "Idem do roboty". Btw Rossu
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by neuromanser 3y ago
> The real innovation in Google is the stuff that people on this forum don't see. Because it's mostly secret or invisible. All the ore reason to mourn as the Bell labs output benefited humanity while the Google innovations are
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by neuromanser 3y ago
I could use a clarification here.
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by neuromanser 3y ago
So if I'm a Young Earth Creationist, chatgpt will reassure of that the Earth is 6k yo? Many issues indeed.
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by neuromanser 3y ago
A Root domain, or a name server authoritative for such. I don't think OP meant either.
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by neuromanser 3y ago
What did you have trouble with? Genuinely curious.
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by neuromanser 3y ago
No, it makes the assumption that given inevitable loss of information between any two nodes, the fewer edges the better.
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by neuromanser 3y ago
It's a game of telephone, the fewer intermediaries the better.
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by neuromanser 3y ago
What's the difference between 1. and 2. besides interactivity / REPL? "Using the shell" means inputting the shell language into the interpreter; "using the shell as a scripting language" includes POSIX commands
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by neuromanser 3y ago
> take hacker for example... I think that it started as something good. … he wrote on a site called Hacker News that is not focussed on unauthorized computer access :)
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by neuromanser 3y ago
> My wife's last name is only 2 letters long. Some websites don't accept that as it's too short (take that, Xi Jinping!) Could be apolitical protection against chess grandmasters: https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by neuromanser 3y ago
Stevens' writing was engaging and pedagogically top shelf. Kevin Fall attempted integrating his coverage of newer protocols into the preexisting text, and unfortunately, completely butchered it.
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by neuromanser 3y ago
The first volume of TCP/IP Illustrated by Richard Stevens is wonderful. Ethernet frames, ARP, IP, ICMP, BOOTP, DHCP, UDP, TCP. Just make sure to get the original version.
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by neuromanser 3y ago
> 2000 couldn’t run many games because (being a descendant of the NT line) it didn’t support all the 9x graphics APIs. I don't dispute that Microsoft used DirectX support to push XP sales, but I played at least Quake and Half-Life o
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by neuromanser 3y ago
> we used to call the Windows XP UI the "Fisher Price" UI. I've always called it Windows Duplo. :) > It was the first dumbed down Windows UI. Only if you ignore Windows ME. UI/UX-wise, Windows 2000 was the best ver
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by neuromanser 3y ago
Probably https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/vertigo
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by neuromanser 3y ago
It's correct that the GPL does not require RH to distribute the source code to anyone but their customers. That's not the issue though! The issue is that if I, as a RH customer, execute the rights given to me by RH via the GPL and
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by neuromanser 3y ago
> I think it’s a bad idea to have multiple front ends and Rust should learn from the mistakes of C++ which even with a standards body has to deal with a mess of switches I do not disagree, yet at the same time, having the same set of swi

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