qalmakka

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by qalmakka 5y ago
macOS isn't perfect, but so what? All GUIs suck, that's a fact of life. Windows is messy and inconsistent, macOS has his own share of issues too, KDE is awesome but has way too many features, GNOME is beautiful but terribly limite
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Well, between a military drill and a parade full of music and parties, I surely pick the latter.
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by qalmakka 5y ago
The Iraq war was an act of wanton aggression, that's for sure. Bush has openly made a false flag pretext for the invasion, and he should have been held responsible and tried for that. The fact that the USA were so much more powerful th
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by qalmakka 5y ago
There's also that whole matter about those rumors of going number two in forests....
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Luckily, I prefer rice to bread /s Jokes aside, I honestly think that the modern Western diet would benefit a lot from some diversification on what cereals we eat. We eat way too much wheat nowadays. For instance, I like in Italy and w
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by qalmakka 5y ago
C is sadly filled to the brim of footguns, and C++ inherited them all and added some more of their own. A lot of C shenanigans are very likely to directly stem from B, such as the crazy integer promotion rules.
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by qalmakka 5y ago
I know as a fact that there's a lot of pirated content shared on MEGA online, but that's also true for Google Drive though.
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by qalmakka 5y ago
PoW makes cryptocurrencies doable (i.e. they somewhat work), but not viable . PoW only simulates the creation of value, it does not create it. Yes, sure, fiat currency has also its value made out of thin air, but that value often cor
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by qalmakka 5y ago
It is using the Romance (i.e the original Latin) vowels. English got its vowels all garbled and messed up by the great Vowel Shift, so now every Latin vowel in English does not sound how it is supposed to sound. Heck they don't even fo
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by qalmakka 5y ago
It sounds the same, that's the point. Languages like German and Italian for instance follow the same principle, everything is phonetic, nobody needs to spell anything (heck Italian doesn't even have a world for "spelling&quot
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Imagine you woke up one day set on the intention of digging a tunnel to China in your backyard by only using cutlery. Would throwing more people in the hole armed with spoons fix the inherent issues with your project? The reason why there a
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by qalmakka 5y ago
The problem with cryptocurrencies is not the _idea_ per se, it's that every current and proposed implementation is deeply flawed and utterly fails to deliver on what it promises, to the point that crypto mostly stands afloat only as a
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by qalmakka 5y ago
The world of academia is neither meritocratic nor fair. Everything from start to finish is based on mere politics, boot licking and any shenanigan known to man. There's are lots and lots of spoiled apples anywhere, no matter the countr
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by qalmakka 5y ago
I discovered this a few days ago, but being the huge geography nerd I am I've never done worse than one attempt...
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Well, obviously it has to be AArch64 Windows, running x86_64 OSes on ARM requires emulation which has always been possible. KVM simply allows the Linux kernel to act as an hypervisor.
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Well, I tend to disagree about this point. Qt is C++ as much as an ice cream truck is a truck - sure, it IS technically a truck, but that's where the similarities end. Qt basically reimplements every single C++ container and function w
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Following your logic than all PC makers should be paying a fee to IBM for creating the PC? It doesn't make sense, it was never done this way in the past and it only goes on because sadly most politicians are borderline computer illiter
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Thanks, it makes sense now. I had the feeling I was missing something, I haven't really ever read the HTTP spec TBH so I was not aware of this.
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Is it really OK to add a new method to HTTP 1.1? I think would be quite an unfortunate decision, because it would make the version numbers absolutely meaningless if all of a sudden new methods can pop up without them changing.
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by qalmakka 5y ago
There should be, by law, a "dumb mode" on all non-computing devices. Something that disables all smart features and reverts the device back to its basics. This "smart home" trend is a dangerous fad that trades security a
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Iliad Italy launches unlimited 5 Gbps FTTH for €16/mo(iliad.it)
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Without government intervention, a completely free market would quickly cause the world to revert to feudalism. There should be a balance between freedom of enterprise and common sense.
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by qalmakka 5y ago
If all ephemeral ports (1024-65535) are forwarded to the Nintendo Switch, it means that the NAT gateway can't allocate ports for the other devices that require to send or receive something on UDP. Also, even if "it did only affect
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by qalmakka 5y ago
I'm so glad this is chiefly an American problem, as I wrote previously in another post about iMessage. Outside the USA and maybe some CANZUK countries, SMS are dead, iMessage is irrelevant and chat apps such as WhatsApp, FB Messenger,
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Isn't this easily solved by supporting 128 bit keys and using UUIDs as intended, i.e. as integers and not in their string serialization? This is as nonsensical as storing IPv4 as strings instead of 32 bit integers.
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by qalmakka 5y ago
In lots of countries, SMS have basically gone the way of the dodo and are chiefly used for automated messages. I haven't received a single SMS from an actual human being in several years, since everyone just uses chat apps such as What
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Thankfully this is chiefly an American thing. In other countries Apple never got enough market share for iMessage to actually become a thing - I was an iPhone user between 2008 and 2013, and when iMessage launched I was the only person in m
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by qalmakka 5y ago
The only pain point I have about Darling is that it is way more bothersome to install compared to Wine due to the fact it uses a kernel module. Except that, it is great.
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by qalmakka 5y ago
A "modernized" - i.e. new icons, better colors and fonts - Windows 2000 UI would be awesome. One thing I really like of Mac OS is that after doing the big switch with Mac OS X, the UI has remained very similar and consistent, with
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by qalmakka 5y ago
The problem here is that the uncontested ruler of said system languages, C, has a completely opposite behaviour by default. The C standard clearly states that "When opened, a stream is fully buffered if and only if it can be determined

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