restalis

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by restalis 11y ago
A local firewall can be set up along with an external firewall. Having a firewall only somewhere on a separate machine doesn't address the use-case alok-g described - he (and many others including myself) may want to "easily contr
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by restalis 11y ago
I remember the Linux kernel going from 3.X.X to 4.X.X - a change in version that didn't had that many reasons behind it. What's the point of having a distinction between major and minor version? For all I care it would be enough t
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by restalis 11y ago
"You" for singular and plural seemed mind-narrowing to me at first too, until we... got accustomed to. Surely the trend can continue with other pronouns!
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by restalis 11y ago
"Are they standardized?" Well, they have to respect the bounding boxes of various infrastructure requirements which they plan to use. It seems that the most of the largest ships ever built were scrapped and the current ones are li
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by restalis 11y ago
Wouldn't you agree that the code inspection should be easy enough to be performed without fancy tools? It's good to empower yourself with tools to make oneself more efficient but I can't see any compelling reason for us to re
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by restalis 11y ago
Imagine a company doing $12 billion in yearly revenue. If "the right guy" manages the joint, it will do $11 billion. Are you willing to pay 10 million a year for this person?
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by restalis 11y ago
First time I read it I interpreted it as a pun! (What color may an alert in a red country be?!) On a more serious note, I'm sorry to know that there are people forced to live day by day in a high pollution environment though. I hope th
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by restalis 11y ago
Saudi Arabia is/was an U.S. ally, so a takeover (by U.S.) would have been unnecessary.
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by restalis 11y ago
The cultural cities usually were exempted from destruction. See the siege of Leningrad (with targets being hospitals or bazaars but not bridges or other cultural artifacts, when it would have been easy to rake the ground all over) or the av
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by restalis 11y ago
And it is a poor choice to consider that in C++, because in here there already is a default non-compatible interpretation for their expression.
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by restalis 11y ago
Yes, this was what I thought too. I understand where this "piping" of functions comes from and that it deemed to be a readability improvement (for *nix users at least), but it is unnecessary because like you've mentioned ther
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by restalis 11y ago
Wow, this is radical! Don't forget that politics is a miserable thing (although we'd love to dress it clean about the topics we care). There is enough politics in FOSS about the FOSS, we surely don't need to bring more about
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by restalis 11y ago
Well, "yes" and "no" are (or should be) only a part of a more (logically) complete answer that is usually implied and therefore not mentioned. Derived from your example: "(Are you) hungry?" - "Yes(, I am h
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by restalis 11y ago
"I would say learning self-described fp-languages have made me a better programmer who values static typing more than before." FP paradigm has indeed didactic value and the experience gained in a functional language may translate
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by restalis 11y ago
I remember Waterfox a few years ago. It made sense to me as I saw it to be an unofficial 64 bit version when Mozilla was offering 32 bit Firefox only. Things changed in the meantime and the current Waterfox offering is not that compelling a
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by restalis 11y ago
I am a little disappointed to find no comparison to the dolphin brain in the talk about the number of neurons! Why elephant? If it was about the size it could have been the animal with the largest brain out there (which happens to be a ceta
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by restalis 11y ago
I don't know his problems with C++14, but from what I encountered with C++ in general, there are some default settings that may affect performance, like the iostream syncronization with stdio, concurrency treatment in stl containers, e
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by restalis 11y ago
Wikipedia says about Shang dynasty that it ruled from around 1600 BC till 1046 BC - that is a little over five hundred yars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shang_dynasty Not that it isn't impressive or anything, bu
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by restalis 11y ago
But the traditional thinking so far was, AFAIK, that ants are working diligently till they die, not till retire and get idle.
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by restalis 11y ago
Does anyone still have doubts about the fact that we are in an Anthropocene era? When lakes like this (once having a surface of about 70000 km²) disappears and the soil all around enriches with layers of salts carried by wind it's just
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by restalis 11y ago
"India and China produced just about everything locally that the West could export" Before I begin, let me say that "the West" is a very political term of the actual times and we were talking about the ancient times. Let
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by restalis 11y ago
Something that was being produced and exported from Mediterranean was jewels. At least in China the jewels were mostly jade based, any other kind of complicated jewelry was usually imported, and some of the most complicated ones, like those
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by restalis 11y ago
I see here all over the place (only) comments about the grading and in general the current state of education as the root of the issue and what is to do about it, but as the title says the issue is the resilience. Although what I'm goi
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by restalis 11y ago
"The Germans signed an armistice because they were beaten. By mid 1918 they didn't have the capacity to keep fighting." Hitler in his "Mein Kampf" disagrees with you. Like in WW2, in WW1 Germans were forced to fight
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by restalis 11y ago
Some time from now: - Kids, who invented cripto-currencies? - Bank of America!
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by restalis 11y ago
The drill is, in such scenarios, to shift attention from the high price needed to be paid for one's survival to "let's help raise the money" instead. Give it a little bit, not far from now I expect this to get accepted l
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by restalis 11y ago
"Greed is a good motivator." Greed in here can also be a cause for the tragedy of the commons, which is more serious than any opportunity progress! Because of the said greed the drugs reached agriculture having all kinds of uninte
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by restalis 11y ago
That is a very real statement, which I personally experienced, BTW. I had a health issue and my default option was to address to a private clinic which had good image and publicity. Their attention to clients was irreproachable, ("clie
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by restalis 11y ago
"I have a great but perhaps hare brained new idea for a drug/treatment. I'm willing to throw my tens of millions (heh) at it." If your motivation is to make the world a better place, you just publish your idea and if it
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by restalis 11y ago
A missing piece inhere is the Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Discovery usually occurs only at the highest levels, not when the mind is busy obsessing with that pain in the stomach or fear of being eaten or whatnot! Life in Africa was (an

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