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by qb45 11y ago
> Anything that's using glibc (directly) is written in C ... and together with stuff using glibc (indirectly) constitutes 99.99% of your software. How much software/languages implement their own DNS resolver instead of just ca
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by qb45 11y ago
Europe, actually, just like you :)
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by qb45 11y ago
But HNers aren't. I was quite surprised seeing someone say matter-of-factly that knives are banned until I recalled this weird UK law.
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by qb45 11y ago
This is what I found. https://www.gov.uk/buying-carrying-knives It seems that you still can use one at home, but good luck trying to take a knife to a forest. Also, no sales of switchblades and samurai swords :)
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by qb45 11y ago
> Well knives are banned Well, you must be from the UK.
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by qb45 11y ago
One advantage of Java is huge standard library with basic support for important OS-specific things like filesystem, threading, GUI, time, etc. You don't get all the bells and whistles of your OS, but you can write portable code which w
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by qb45 11y ago
> I never liked vim's key bindings. How... dare you? Did you really try? What's wrong with them? I'm finding vi mighty fine. I switched my shells to vi mode and hate going back. Maybe you need to try Dvorak, I have to ad
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by qb45 11y ago
That's fine if you don't mind the time that could have been spent on something you actually cared about. Sometimes it happened that school attempted to teach me something I was interested in and I ended up understanding it. At oth
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by qb45 11y ago
Be careful, this may equally well be a reason to advertise RAM sticks as having 8.589GB capacity :)
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by qb45 11y ago
> But in what sense are the flash drives base 2? In the sense that the memory chips inside are base 2 capacity and the sole reason you are seeing less is because the flash control chip just reserves some space . What's the point
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by qb45 11y ago
This doesn't look too bad, certainly not that kind of bad your parent complained about.
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by qb45 11y ago
> This is not true of games. Can you name any? Yes, multiplayer games require a server component, but they're not thin clients. And games that are not multiplayer generally don't require a server at all except possibly for DRM.
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by qb45 11y ago
> Phones are unique devices in generally requiring you to buy new hardware after 2 or 3 years if you want up-to-date software. That's totally software's fault. I find it kinda hilarious that my sister is looking for a new smart
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by qb45 11y ago
> Some people will never be happy. ... with overengineered, potentially buggy and vulnerable junk stuck into their devices which serves no purpose to them and can't be controlled or disabled.
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by qb45 11y ago
Are you arguing that <string.h> isn't shit? ;)
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by qb45 11y ago
> One such incident would significantly tarnish the brand. Ahem, as if there were no reported cases of genuine Apple/Dell/HP/Sony/... batteries catching fire. Seems all those significantly tarnished brands are doing
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by qb45 11y ago
Various battery powered devices, including laptops, have been in use for decades. How many times somebody publicly blamed 3rd party battery failure on device vendor? Links or it doesn't happen.
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by qb45 11y ago
They sometimes do, but then it's obvious that the laptop has been damaged by battery so the user would better show remnants of a genuine one before asking for warranty replacement.
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by qb45 11y ago
Heat damage or busted overvoltage protection diode. Is there something else a broken/wrong battery can do to a laptop?
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by qb45 11y ago
Vendors shouldn't be liable for actions of users. And if they are doing this out of well-meant concern for user safety, I suppose this warning screen during bootup would suffice. I would like to know if there are some actual regulation
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by qb45 11y ago
So... you need to reverse engineer some "security" thing to put 3rd party battery in a laptop? The same Lenovo people are recommending everywhere?
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by qb45 11y ago
I see GP's allusions to flamewars more as rhetorical figures than actual invitation to flaming. But whatever, you are the boss :)
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by qb45 11y ago
I see it like those grammar errors in scam emails - making people self-select themselves for qualities you want. Even at crazy low success rate, it's still only a matter of time.
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by qb45 11y ago
Sure, but you may want to keep an eye on situations when this attitude limits you. Stubborn power freaks tend to be excessively self conscious when they know how others are going to react once they "finally" make some big mistake.
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by qb45 11y ago
Tags? You aren't smart enough. I hated new clothes themselves .
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by qb45 11y ago
Not to mention that the behaviors parent described sometimes actually happen in the wild.
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by qb45 11y ago
White/gold, lit by a window behind observer's back, cloudy weather. Totally obvious :)
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by qb45 11y ago
That's interesting. The left ones look red to me when I look at the whole picture and orange when I look at one chip in isolation. However, the right ones are definitely purple no matter what. Do people really see them as red? Maybe I
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by qb45 11y ago
No, it's a trap. It works until you get to those with really big egos who take pride in dismantling such tricks and gaming others by pretending to fall for their games. These need higher levels of gaming. But in the end, if you truly t
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by qb45 11y ago
But was it due to ESR's ramblings or due to patches overflowing his inbox capacity? Personally, for years I had been completely ignoring everybody who framed something as "a better alternative to talent" (wtf?) or said the ma

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