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by pmontra 2y ago
Whatever, but that's the weirdest unit of measurement I ever read.
932.
by pmontra 2y ago
I've been using this for years until early 2009, when I formatted my laptop with Ubuntu 8.04 and started running Windows in a VM. IE was still important back then and I needed to check web sites with it. I was running Rails and other w
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by pmontra 2y ago
According to NASDAQ [1] the two main investors are Vanguard and Blackrock, but the two of them together are far away from 50%. There are a number of other large investors. I didn't do the sums but there must be probably 30 of them to g
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by pmontra 2y ago
It can be enforced in this way: police raids the local headquarters and jail a bunch of people because their company didn't comply with the law. The only way to prevent that is not having any local office, no employees, nothing. Sell p
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by pmontra 2y ago
The difference is that all of them work cross devices. That's why I only get video calls with WhatsApp and I never get one using one of the many video call apps of Google. I learned today, by reading this thread, that somebody could ha
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by pmontra 2y ago
As somebody told me recently, now AI means any program that does something that people think is AI, even if programs doing that thing have been with us for ten years or more with the same degree of accuracy.
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by pmontra 2y ago
There is also fusion with low neutron flux [1] (among the others: Helium 3) but it is even more difficult to achieve. I'm not confident that any of us will ever see a commercial fusion reactor. I'm afraid that all we can do to har
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by pmontra 2y ago
> Its distance from its star changes significantly, causing the planet to move from the outer edge of the habitable zone to the inner edge throughout its year Too bad that the year is relatively short. If it were hundreds of Earth years
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by pmontra 2y ago
The animation is cool but I'd like a way to disable it and just be able to see the path on the globe, then tap to another place and see that other path too. It would be OK to reload the page to clean all paths. No need to have a way to
940.
by pmontra 2y ago
If I may ask, how did you teach back then and how are you teaching now (maybe in the same way)?
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by pmontra 2y ago
All of that would be great except it's not clear what socialism and communism have to do with China today. It's in the name of the ruling party, but names are only names when they are stretched so far away from their original mean
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by pmontra 2y ago
I used X11 in the early 90s (HP-UX) and since 2009 (Ubuntu until 22.04 made me switch to Debian.) I never had to configure anything. Maybe some xmodmap in the 90s. I did everything with dialog windows in this century, like I would do it in
943.
by pmontra 2y ago
Sometimes that outcome is not the outcome that those users want. For example I'd stay on X11 forever because none of its problems are relevant to me. The only relevant problem with X11 to me is that all of its developers are stopping t
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by pmontra 2y ago
Nothing changed. Getting skilled workers in the trades you want is still a real problem. I'm learning to do more things myself because of that.
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by pmontra 2y ago
I usually visit the source code page (almost every time on GitHub) and check the timestamp of the commits, how many issues are open, how they are handled, etc. The usual indicator of a project being alive. The number of downloads is less im
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by pmontra 2y ago
Still not perfect but it improved a lot in the last year. When it says update, it really updates now, and when it says updated it's updated. Running the package installer works, etc. I believe that all the process is not very well inte
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by pmontra 2y ago
In Italy we would translate "two 2s, zero 3s, and one 5" as "due 2, zero 3 e un 5". No plurals for the numbers. By the way "un" is the "a" article and not the "uno" number. Using the number
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by pmontra 2y ago
I noticed because both of my current customers are using Bitbucket and a git push got slow and eventually returned an HTML page. When I asked my customers why they are using Bitbucket instead of GitHub both of them told me because of that p
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by pmontra 2y ago
It started as yellow with a handful of services with "Degraded performances" and it's all services red with "Major Outage" now.
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Bitbucket Cloud is hard down(bitbucket.status.atlassian.com)
24 points by pmontra 2y ago|14 comments
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15-Year-Old Hacker Diverts Ships in Mediterranean Sea for Fun(bitdefender.com)
3 points by pmontra 2y ago|0 comments
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by pmontra 2y ago
Yes. What's the correct English word for that?
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by pmontra 2y ago
> all computing to slowly become remote If it will happen it will be probably championed because of security and law enforcement: automatic virus prevention, parental care, OS upgrades, content scans, piracy prevention, etc. Phones are m
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by pmontra 2y ago
Ah Albanian mason who has been living in Italy since the 90s told me a story about bunkers. I cannot date it to a year nor assess its truth but here it is. A Minister (maybe Defense? Army? whatever) went to check the new bunkers. They looke
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by pmontra 2y ago
Don't give them ideas. 99 dollars per month to use your/their laptop. 49 extra to unlock the performance cores. 99 more for the discrete graphic card. 39 for the AI chip.
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by pmontra 2y ago
Shouldn't the default time zone for an appointment be the one of the place it is held at? For online events, the time zone of the person setting the event. Of course it must be possible to set the time zone explicitly. I don't hav
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by pmontra 2y ago
According to Formula 1 web site drivers start on average after 0.2 seconds since the red lights go out https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article/rapid-decisions-d... Anyway, 0.1 seconds would be far too shor
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by pmontra 2y ago
> Music piracy was killed-off by Spotify I've seen many places playing music from a YouTube playlist, with ads included. And anybody can download the audio stream from YouTube with a minimal software setup. There used to be browser
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by pmontra 2y ago
Well done. From a technical point of view the page scrolls a little slowly. I'm on Firefox for Android and it's usually faster than that. However for those scammy sites slowness is par for the course. It adds to the realism of the
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by pmontra 2y ago
My second hand Citroën C3 originally sold on 2016 doesn't collect data AFAIK and has button and wheel controls. There is a small touchscreen (7 inches?) for configuration, trip data, radio stations etc but all controls are also on the

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