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by qalmakka 6y ago
Why would you prevent someone from writing whatever code they want, as long as it is FOSS? That's hypocritical, considering that doing whatever you want with the code is one of GNU's main tenets ("free as in freedom")
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by qalmakka 6y ago
Doesn't matter, as GDPR showed having something that's troublesome to sell or distribute in certain (critical) markets is a huge, massive roadblock for most companies. Software patents are worth s*t in the EU, but still we had to
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by qalmakka 6y ago
This is one of the most important legal decisions in the history of software. The US Supreme Court has basically just saved the whole software industry (and FOSS projects) from being wrecked by patent trolls.
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by qalmakka 6y ago
That's Windows Mobile, not Windows Phone.
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by qalmakka 6y ago
The UK also got lucky the Oxford jab actually turned out being very effective. If both GSK and Oxford had failed delivering a viable vaccine, the UK would have had to scramble for Pfizer against the US, the EU and the rest of the world. Let
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by qalmakka 6y ago
The main issue is that when the industry lobbies the politicians, in the USA, it tends to mean that they are writing them big fat checks as "political donations". This is corruption plain and simple, and a huge stain on the integr
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by qalmakka 6y ago
I think that until the USA gets rid of legal lobbying from interest groups (aka, legalized corruption), this kinds of things will keep happening. Having to pull content down without any order from a judge is nonsense. These companies would
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by qalmakka 6y ago
> Are all medications used to prevent an highly transmissive disease We may argue this makes any rare side effect from the vaccine, which is meant to avoid a potentially serious illness, more acceptable than those from the pill.
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by qalmakka 6y ago
This makes no sense whatsoever. It just sounds smart, but it totally misses the point. Both are medications. Both are taken by healthy individuals. The comparison is sound and makes sense.
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by qalmakka 6y ago
What has always fascinated me of C++ is how incredibly complex, yet wild, it is. You can do basically everything, you can create horrible monsters and discover beautiful patterns backed by strong type safety. It might not be for everyone, b
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by qalmakka 6y ago
> I am pretty healthy (not overweight) and don't have any comorbidities (diabetes and such), so I don't see a reason why I need this vaccine Being healthy is not a certain indicator that the illness is going to be mild for you.
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by qalmakka 6y ago
> How many of those 17 million would have never even caught the bug? If they don't get a vaccine, unless you dig yourself a hole and you stay there until the virus has somehow disappeared, is almost certain you will get infected.
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by qalmakka 6y ago
Even if these deaths are in any way related to the AZ vaccine, it is still VASTLY less dangerous than risking getting the virus itself, which has a clear and well known risk of ending in the ICU, fighting for your life.
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by qalmakka 6y ago
This is really dangerous, and it really risks being the literal spanner in the works for the already compromised EU vaccine program. I find really likely that, no matter the result of the EMA's investigation, the already pretty skeptic
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by qalmakka 6y ago
Well, you always learn something new.
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by qalmakka 6y ago
> protecting the local wine industry through tarriffs Does the grapevine grow in Canada? That would be a surprising discovery.
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by qalmakka 6y ago
I live in Italy, and this area (like pretty much the entirety of Southern Europe) is a winemaking region. I can buy decent wines for less than 2 Euros a bottle - and I mean PDO or PGT stuff, the crappy no-brand wine is even much much less.
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by qalmakka 6y ago
Nobody uses Tar like that anymore. Tar is used as a more flexible replacement for ZIP nowadays, it could have easily been CPIO but `tar` had a much better command line interface.
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by qalmakka 6y ago
Zstandard is getting ubiquitous everywhere: inside of RPMs, as a way to compress data onto filesystems (both Btrfs and ZFS support it) and in several other applications. It decompresses much much faster than XZ while offering a comparable l
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by qalmakka 6y ago
That's exactly what I quoted in my comment. It's not necessary on Linux though, given that every environment ships a good archiving program (like Ark or File Roller) that supports zstandard.
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by qalmakka 6y ago
I hope 7-Zip will support Zstandard someday, .tar.zst is getting more and more common and having to point people on Windows to install either modern7z (7z plugin for several new compression algorithms) or use zstd from the CLI is complicate
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by qalmakka 6y ago
Yes, but the main reason I use VMs is to run different OSes. When I need to run other linux distros I normally use systemd-nspawn (or rarely LXC) and it's enough.
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by qalmakka 6y ago
No, KVM (and FreeBSD's bhyve) are kernel modules that for all intents and purposes transform the host kernel into a type 1 hypervisor itself. The hypervisor is not, like in the case of VrtualBox or VMware workstation, running on top of
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by qalmakka 6y ago
It's a type-2 hypervisor, so its performance is often quite worse than KVM. Also, its storage drivers are quite wonky, so I/O is often choppy and underwhelming. It has often a better desktop experience, though, except when you run
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by qalmakka 6y ago
libvirt wasted a lot of effort into abstracting everything behind a ton of pointless hypervisor-agnostic cruft, only to then deprecate basically every single backend except QEMU. I have used libvirt for almost a decade before going back to
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by qalmakka 6y ago
This is a very nice frontend. Someone should definitely port it or rewrite it for Linux. All the existing UIs are either ugly or use libvirt, which is a nasty pile of hacks that has no place on a desktop machine.
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by qalmakka 6y ago
With modern C++ you can use the {fmt} library, which is so awesome it became part of the C++20 standard as `std:: format`.
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by qalmakka 6y ago
Pork and pineapple is arguably good; the problem here is the pizza around it, which clashes horribly with pineapple. This is especially true for tomato, which unless very sweet and acidic like in sticky sauce, it doesn't go well at all
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by qalmakka 6y ago
Using monospaced when not necessary feels weird, because everything is unnaturally spaced too wide. Some do like the "typewriter" vibe, but in my experience most do not, and that's why fonts have variable spacing. That's
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by qalmakka 6y ago
Completely frivolous (and OT) rant: am I the only one who is super bothered by the fact that the "money counter" isn't in a monospaced font? I hate how it bobbles around every time a number changes.

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