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by nulbyte 4y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by total reduction. The reduction hasnt happened yet, so the total is unknown. But we do know what is needed, and the part you quoted seems to clearly measure the proposal in terms of what is needed, not what
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by nulbyte 4y ago
Begging the question isn't usually used like this these days, even if it did originate thus. The English language is used the way English speakers use it; yes, even that is quite circular, because there is no formal academy setting dow
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by nulbyte 4y ago
A manufacturer can choose what types of products it won't manufacture. Why can't a publisher choose the types of work it won't publish?
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by nulbyte 4y ago
I think the real target market is plugin developers, who love the fact that you can get people to pay annual subscriptions for plugins providing some of the most mundane features I have ever seen.
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by nulbyte 4y ago
"Sign in with..." is almost SSO. Federated authentication employs centralized authentication and can even support third-party identity providers. However, single sign-on is exactly like it sounds: You sign on once and have access
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by nulbyte 4y ago
Sadly, I find most products hide SSO functionality behind "Enterprise" plans, as if only large organizations have a need for it. Any organization can benefit from SSO, and I don't think it warrants the huge price increase dev
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by nulbyte 4y ago
And yet, email addresses for external users are usually discovered outside of the sender's email system. I'm not sure I understand how this poses a problem for Mastodon. Heck, even when I was on Twitter, I rarely discovered people
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by nulbyte 4y ago
> The coffee receipts I can understand - if a shop uses Square or a similar tablet-based POS system Oh, no; this was direct from Peet's website. Doctor's office had a recurring shipment.
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by nulbyte 4y ago
I have the same with Gmail. I get lots of email for firstlast@ because someone can't be bothered to remember the numbers after their username. Then I have also gotten coffee receipts for a cardiologist (he likes Major Dickason's b
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by nulbyte 4y ago
> This will continue to limit its opportunity for wide adoption. I don't see this having any practical effect. Unlike other services, you aren't locked into one app. There are others, and perhaps more importantly, they were her
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by nulbyte 4y ago
Protonmail user here, and I haven't declared any such thing. The complaints I see tend to center around the assumption that using the service is exactly the same as any other service, despite the lengths they go to tell you how it&#x27
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by nulbyte 4y ago
I agree wholeheartedly with this. I have lost count of the number of times I have found a solution to some problem after explaining some technical detail to a layman who then suggested something I wouldn't have thought of.
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by nulbyte 4y ago
Not sure where you are located, but I've lived in many places in the Midwest and Florida, and almost every doctor I have interacted with is fully capable of explaining things and does it well. This is not a once-in-a-lifetime thing, bu
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by nulbyte 5y ago
The tweet definitely leaves a lot out. My initial impression was, "that sounds reasonable." I got insurance retroactive to my hire date when I switched jobs last, but it took time for paperwork to be processed, so of course I woul
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by nulbyte 5y ago
> Microsoft Excel may be fleeting, but human genes will be around for as long as we are. It’s best to give them names that work. This is the crux of the issue. Yes, Excel could do better with support for CSV. (OpenOffice and LibreOffice
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by nulbyte 5y ago
> It sounds like Githubs DMCA process works exactly as legally mandated... I would hesitate to say 'mandated' here. It is available, but not mandated. You canegally ignore DMCA takedown notices. You lose your safe harbor in the
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by nulbyte 5y ago
It sounds more like in short, Mormons pay for something anyone else can also pay for or get for free at the library.
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by nulbyte 5y ago
If you remove option A, it would necessarily be a different outcome for someone who would have voted for A over B.
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by nulbyte 5y ago
> On Linux, an OS with 3% market share, there are more competing standards to count: Deb, RPM, snap, FlatPak, AUR, AppImage and probably a dozen other semi-popular ones. AUR is explicitly a community-driven effort. The others are packing
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by nulbyte 5y ago
> The court only confirmed what we already know – that "open source" is a term of art for software that has been licensed under a specific type of license, and whether a license is an OSI-approved license is a critically import
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by nulbyte 5y ago
Isn't this effectively what the legislation does? I read it as striking DST and shifting time zones. Permanent DST is just marketing.
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by nulbyte 5y ago
I suspect it is in the amendment[1], which does not yet appear to be on Congress' website, as it was just passed earlier today. [1] https://youtu.be/_WS64Q3-emk?t=37
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by nulbyte 5y ago
Other countries have made these changes on shorter time frames in recent memory. I don't recall hearing about any catastrophes. In 2011, Samoa changed time zones to land on the other side of the international date line. I don't be
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by nulbyte 5y ago
But can you run it without docker? I have some FreeBSD hosts, for example, making a dependency on docker a no-go.
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by nulbyte 5y ago
I use mbsync (formerly isync) to synchronize multiple external mailboxes to a local Maildir store. I use it with mu4e, but it'd work fine with mutt or any other client that supports Maildir. https://isync.sourceforge.io&#x2F
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by nulbyte 5y ago
> I'm amazed at how the openbsd community seems to like calling people idiots. "The complete idiot's guide" is a well-known series of books that cover a variety of topics for beginners; the title is a play on that. It
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by nulbyte 5y ago
> So I think instead of "scolding" the reader with a False here, maybe a Depends would be both more friendly and more well suited. I like this. False suggests it is objectively false, but you're right, it really depends on
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by nulbyte 5y ago
> This comes off as very "well akchtually"; more snarky than helpful. I don't think so, but even if it does, I know some folks that could read this. Plenty of folks I work with build reports that modify times in ways that
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by nulbyte 5y ago
Not GP, and not expressing agreement or disagreement with GP, but those of us of Hungarian descent make up less than 1% of the population nationally according to 2018 census estimates, and 1% or less of the population throughout much of the
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by nulbyte 5y ago
Thedacare sued, successfully, in that they successfully initiated legal proceedings and are presently litigating their case. The verb sue means to initiate legal proceedings; it does not mean to prevail at such proceedings.

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