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by notalaser 11y ago
It is, but there are simple ways around it: - It helps if you can identify small, local "clusters" of stars. E.g. even in a very dark sky where you can see stars you never remember seeing, Orion's belt is very easy to recogni
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by notalaser 11y ago
This. My dad taught me to some of the constellations when I was a wee lad and I tried to practice as much as I could after that, mostly because reading Jules Verne's books does that to a kid. Turned out it was pretty hard. I only got a
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by notalaser 11y ago
> All of this needs to be properly supported on modern desktops and laptops and tablets. That's what systemd does. This has been done by Linux and udev for about 12 years now, if not more. Systemd is a recent player in this field.
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by notalaser 11y ago
You aren't timesharing your tiny mainframe, so it is quite different, yes. The cloud is precisely what your mom had on a mainframe 50 years ago, including virtualization, on-the-fly scaling of resources (maybe a little more difficult
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by notalaser 11y ago
This should not be a revelation though. Granted, back when the Internet wasn't so popular, the risk for people like you and me, or for small companies, was relatively low. Partly because the value of Internet-accessible information was
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by notalaser 11y ago
I was thinking the same thing. Honeymoon's over? What honeymoon? There never was a honeymoon!
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by notalaser 11y ago
At least in this version of GTK. Disabling client-side decorations seems to be frowned upon, so expect this to break in the next Gnome release.
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by notalaser 11y ago
> (why 'emacs-fireplace) "Why not?" >
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by notalaser 11y ago
> The lesson is clear: do not write Python code as you would do in C. Use numpy array operations rather than iterate on arrays. For me it meant a mental shift. That's true in C as well. If you're writing performance-critical co
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by notalaser 11y ago
Slackware don't do shit. In fact, Slackware don't do anything unless it's told, which is not as bad a thing as it may seem.