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by riffraff 7mo ago
In things like the battle of Cajamarca the Incan lost a battle against the Spanish with 8000 warriors against 150. All the 150 survived. Disease was important but there was a large technological and cultural gap too (e.g. the Incan didn&#x2
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by riffraff 7mo ago
IIRC the original authors of rubygems are also the original founders of RubyCentral (chad fowler, david a. black, rich kilmer, jim weirich?), so probably the line was blurrier back then.
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by riffraff 7mo ago
indeed, especially since TFA says they're 50 years old :)
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by riffraff 7mo ago
this is a good write up, I hope this really helps put the whole mess to rest.
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by riffraff 7mo ago
but what would be the blast radius for ZFS? Most enterprises don't seem to be running ZFS with Linux, and the only large target using FreeBSD I can think of is Netflix, but AFAIR they don't use ZFS either. Oracle sues when there&#
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by riffraff 7mo ago
I have a broken left key and went with karabiner too. I still plan to take the laptop to assistance at some point and try to get it a deep clean up and maybe that will help. Otherwise fuck apple I'm not paying 700+ to fix a key.
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by riffraff 7mo ago
Well, they don't, I've seen them at least in Hungary and Italy. Still, it is possible France came up with them first.
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by riffraff 7mo ago
I do not remember signage to be particularly interesting in Norway but they do have some of the most spectacular routes in Europe!
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by riffraff 7mo ago
I think the brown signs for "sights" which are the same shape as road directions are kinda standardized? I've been seeing them in Europe for decades too. These ones with more detailed drawings are less common, but I've a
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by riffraff 7mo ago
The scheme folks managed to shed complexity between R6RS and R7RS, I believe. So perhaps I think the issue is not committees per se, but how the committees are put together and what are the driving values.
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by riffraff 7mo ago
I use it sometimes to message ex colleagues e.g. I'm traveling to City X and I want to arrange a coffee with them but I don't have their email or phone number anymore. I see some people sharing info I care to reshare (we're h
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by riffraff 7mo ago
You can auth with Google auth after you configure an app, what are you thinking of that would be simpler?
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by riffraff 7mo ago
That's the western half, but ehen the Ottomans annexed bisantium in 1400 they still considered themselves Romans, even tho they spoke Greek. The date of the fall of Rome is pretty arbitrary. The sultan took the title of kaiser-i-rum (C
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by riffraff 7mo ago
I think it's pretty sure some of it was. Just consider that the X in math is not a latin X but a Greek Χ (chi) :)
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by riffraff 7mo ago
The trilogue is the interaction between eu commission, eu parliament and eu council. The commission proposes, parliament and country governments argue and ask for changes. The parliament has the last vote anyway. Maybe you're thinking
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by riffraff 7mo ago
Well, Brian Eno said of Velvet Underground's first album that it didn't sell many copies but everyone who bought it started a band.
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by riffraff 7mo ago
Russia has been bombing Ukraine for years, and they're not closer to winning the war now than they were when it starts.
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by riffraff 7mo ago
In 2015 he said weeks. I think we can agree a few weeks passed before that and bombing Iran ten years later. https://youtube.com/shorts/jlqXOwYfpdQ?is=woFU_DlsW3Eb5NYd
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Microsoft Product Name Changes(m365maps.com)
3 points by riffraff 7mo ago|0 comments
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by riffraff 7mo ago
It's not clear to me what that billion dollar meant. To me it seems it was "Disney gets shares and we get to use their characters in Sora". Even if Sora breaks even, why would you gift Disney stock? It's not like they ac
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by riffraff 7mo ago
It runs haiku apps through a compatibility layer
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by riffraff 7mo ago
I'm Italian, and we all used to spell the letters as if it was italian: EE-CHEE-COO. Took me a long time to get the wordplay.
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We can remove strncpy() from the Linux kernel finally(hachyderm.io)
1 points by riffraff 7mo ago|1 comments
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by riffraff 7mo ago
"seek you"? That's how ICQ was pronounced. I feel very old now.
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by riffraff 7mo ago
This is not news, there was an episode of Last Week Tonight on the Air Traffic Control crisis last summer[0]. From memory: on the human side airports are understaffed, there are no young controllers in the pipeline, attrition is high, and t
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by riffraff 7mo ago
the article repeatedly says that there are decades of neglect, and ICE is not mentioned until the last 2 paragraphs, and only to criticize its use as a temporary kludge, so you did not understand the article.
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by riffraff 7mo ago
> IIRC ZJIT is still lagging YJIT It would be nice to have ZJIT on speed.ruby-lang.org!
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by riffraff 7mo ago
I think Hazard didn't sound stereotype at all, like, nobody had a clue why the car was called General Lee, or what the confederate flag meant. It was just a fun show. Magnum PI, Different Strokes, McGiver.. were just as popular.
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by riffraff 7mo ago
IIRC Seinfeld aired on Tele Montecarlo/La 7, while WTR aired on Italia 1, the difference in audience was massive.
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by riffraff 7mo ago
Same in Italy, it was prime time TV for a few years. Not overly popular, but many people already knew him from the Bruce Lee era, so it had a following by default.

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