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4y ago
https://dns.he.net
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4y ago
> All the cleverness and precedence rules in the article seem to ignore the fundamental problem: the test and [ binaries are regular programs, and they cannot distinguish between an argument that looks like “(“ and (. In both cases, they
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4y ago
It depends. We have a lot of small water coops around here and water lines ran nearly everywhere a road goes, even if the nearest city is 50 miles away.
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4y ago
I've laced cables in the past. It takes a little longer but can look nicer if the cables are exposed. Also there's the advantage that it's easier to cut the lacing without damaging the cable insulation than it is a zip tie.
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4y ago
In the US, it's usually a cheap plastic hose connected to the sink supply, so same pressure as the rest of the house. I delivered and installed appliances for a couple years, still do on occasion.
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4y ago
Chevy's small truck grew some years ago from the S-10 to the Colorado.
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4y ago
> Afaik, America has currently low movement between social classes - rich people are the ones who had rich parents and poor people had poor parents. The issue with landed gentry was not that they inherited stuff, it was disproportional p
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4y ago
Don't touch my two clipboards. I use them both often and love it. (There is actually more than two)
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4y ago
Ballmer did crusade against Linux for a number of years.
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4y ago
Caldera even had a Linux distro for a time, before the lawsuit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldera_OpenLinux
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4y ago
> The browser was a community project. Yes, the Tor Project as I mentioned. Or, it's theirs now, anyway. I'm not sure if the original creator was affiliated with the Tor Project at the time. But it wasn't the Navy. > T
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4y ago
> Ten years ago the US Navy invented Tor, an anonymous web browser. First release of Tor was in 2002 but it was started in the mid '90s according to Wikipedia. The Tor Browser was initially released by the Tor project, not the US Na
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4y ago
There have been related events since. In November, the CEO who had provided the criticism to the Don't Say Gay bill was fired. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/21/disney-board-reached-out-to-... Last month,
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4y ago
I keep getting Uber Eats emails with offers for $20 food free. So I go to the website, order about $15 of food, Uber still wants to collect $25 from me for all the various fees and charges, but oh, they don't deliver to my area and the
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4y ago
> it got added post-COVID I remember being confused about paying both a service charge and a tip around 2002 or so in Maryland.
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4y ago
After some thinking, I do recall GNU Tar in I think the late '90s changed the bzip2 options a few times. Not sure the reasoning. Might be something in mailing lists but I don't really care to go digging.
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4y ago
It's briefly answered: > The explanation came from Geovanny Campos of Correos de Costa Rica, the company that manages the country's postal service. As he told Luis Fernando, San José’s growth was characterized by disorder. As t
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4y ago
Not by default. Unless I overlooked something.
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4y ago
Some people call that Alpine.
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4y ago
> GNU also has gotten in the habit over the years of randomly shifting flags around for no real reason other than to make sure that they stay as the coreutils. Do you have examples of this?
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4y ago
> Example, their version of ssh does not allow a script to hand it a password, hence my script was changed to print out "hey, type this password 'blah'" and required user interaction in the middle of an otherwise tota
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4y ago
When everyone works on the same timezone it's the same as not having timezones.
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4y ago
> * If I live too far from the UTC, the day will change in the middle of my working day. My friend said they'd see me on Tuesday. Do they mean the day that had Tuesday at the beginning of it, or the end? What does "Tuesday morn
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4y ago
Yes, I would. If I need to call someone in their morning, I need to determine the same offset. I have plenty experience with both ends using UTC regardless of where in the world they are. It's much easier. Either 0425 works for both or
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4y ago
I do. And the math needs to be done either way, if you're trying to determine a relation to when the sun is at its peak for your area vs their area.
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4y ago
I have also found OSv to be interesting. https://osv.io/
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4y ago
I would be happy if we got rid of timezones, got rid of daylight savings time, and got rid of 12 hour clocks.
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4y ago
Is there a library/framework/toolkit/whatever to make native GUI Android apps in rust? That's what I'm missing. I'm not interested in creating a web app as an Android app. Tauri looks interesting but it's
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4y ago
I saw the title "The Weapons That Win World Wars" and was expecting a list or some information about weapons that won world wars. This does not appear to be that.
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4y ago
> Eight months seems pretty quick to me Even less nowadays. I think I saw that infantry training in the US Army was extended in the past few years from 14 weeks to 22 weeks (including basic combat training). On top of that, both times I
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