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by partialrecall 7y ago
> 1. If Mozilla email is used to support Firefox in part, then it will be overpriced. That's true only if a typical commercial email provider has no profit margin, which I don't believe to be the case.
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by partialrecall 7y ago
Unfortunately even if 100% of firefox users became tor users, I think websites would still decide to block access from known tor endpoints and simply give the finger to any firefox user. It's evident that many have stopped testing th
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by partialrecall 7y ago
>> whether it’s through phishing emails or data breaches >A VPN won't protect you from those, at all. There has been a ton of misinformation about VPNs, spread in particular by commercial VPN marketing teams. They've b
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by partialrecall 7y ago
> But it does indicate that they want Python 2 dead. Being less uncharitable, it indicates they want to avoid brand dilution (which is wholly reasonable.)
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by partialrecall 7y ago
Perhaps an arsenic bronze arrow head broken off inside of somebody could poison them slowly over time.
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by partialrecall 7y ago
I can't say California surprises me, but I wonder what the deal with Alabama is.
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by partialrecall 7y ago
Property crime is the most visible and common sort of crime, and it's the sort of crime that has personally impacted me and my friends more than any other sort (I've been the victim of violent crime once, but the victim of propert
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by partialrecall 7y ago
Making them use a name other than python is hardly any great hardship. Mozilla maintains their trademark too and nobody whines to hard about that. Just call it "boa" or something. Firefox->Icecat.
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by partialrecall 7y ago
More to the people producing it than using it. But metallurgy and mining must have been awfully dangerous industries to be in back then regardless of the arsenic.
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by partialrecall 7y ago
It's not murder that now seems more common in my neighborhood. It's property crime. Vandalism, litering, etc. The media doesn't report on this stuff so much. The perception of a trend comes primarily from my own obser
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by partialrecall 7y ago
> On the other hand, Apple products are (or were) frequently marketed towards the tech illiterate This becomes a vicious self-justifying cycle that is profitable for Apple but harmful to those consumers, who are kept tech illiterate whe
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by partialrecall 7y ago
> It's also arrogant to grab Python 2 out of the hands of people still using it and flush it down the toilet. That's a strange way to characterize "decide to no longer volunteer their own time." And by strange, I m
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by partialrecall 7y ago
It's not restricted to tech. Cops do it too: "This particular individual" -> "this person"
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by partialrecall 7y ago
The only good part of calibre is the `ebook-convert` commandline tool that has a stupid-simple interface (polar opposite of the gui) and handles all kinds of formats that pandoc doesn't. The gui, Calibre proper, is a total nightmare.
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by partialrecall 7y ago
I think it's instructive to consider bronze. To make bronze you need copper, which is very common, and tin, which isn't. Tin was only mined in a small handful of locations around the world: https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by partialrecall 7y ago
Tell your stick-in-the-mud customers to just symlink it. I sincerely doubt you will be sued for telling your customers to symlink `dead-snake` to `python` if they're really stubborn about not changing their code one whit.
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by partialrecall 7y ago
I for one am glad that my favorite FOSS projects do not talk like sterile Oracle PR drones, nor act like them.
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by partialrecall 7y ago
Loads of open source and commercial projects have already made the switch to python 3 years ago. If all of them could do it, so could your org. No excuses, you've made your bed, etc.
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by partialrecall 7y ago
I'm familiar with fossil albeit not the technical details. Mine is not a version control system and it doesn't actually store files. Rather, it maintains an association between filenames (absolute paths) and sets of tags. There
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by partialrecall 7y ago
Maybe org-mode in Emacs? I know that can function as a spreadsheet of sorts, and I expect it probably gives you access to the full power of elisp. (I have minimal experience with using org-mode in this manner though.) This gets a bit
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by partialrecall 7y ago
> "Panspermia itself is a hypothesis. Panspermia from Mars specifically is a huge stretch. There is absolutely no basis for claiming that this is likely." Perhaps not 'likely', but there is reason to believe it&#x27
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by partialrecall 7y ago
I personally doubt it. While abiogenesis is in progress but before it has produced life, the intermediate products are probably eaten by existing life. New forms of life are probably 'out-competed' before they even become form
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by partialrecall 7y ago
This sort of thing is why I consider Excel a programming environment for non-programmers, likely the best ever created. Of course most users will never use it to it's full potential (which might well be boundless..) but it neverthele