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by rmk2 15y ago
The point is that there was no discernable difference between the genders in approaching computers and learning how to use them. Yet, even though originally the gender divide did not exist, nowadays it has been reinstated, since coding is
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by rmk2 15y ago
>> I'm in medical school currently and the emphasis on locking down patient data is one of the most frustrating things to see. Is this meant hyperbolic? Confidentiality is probably one of the most important parts of a doctor-patient
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by rmk2 15y ago
What irks me the most about the "post pc era" is its genesis. It is portrayed as a revolution that will fundamentally change computing. However, by dubbing the tablet the "post-pc", its very definition still depends on the pc, being a defin
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by rmk2 15y ago
I know that the comment is not liked by everyone, but I still think it is somewhat true: "It doesn't matter whether the program is installed into /usr/bin/, /usr/share/bin/, /bin/ or anything else", at least not for the "average user". Linu
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by rmk2 15y ago
xfce might not be "bloatware", but it also lacks some things. The atrocious "support" for keyboard layout switching comes to mind. Short of writing your own scripts that directly call setxkbmap with parameters added by hand, you have no cha
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by rmk2 15y ago
Oh, I agree, it's not so much that either country is a bad choice per se. And pointing out that a country subject to various bilateral treaties might provide problems down the road is also fair. Just thought i'd point it out for those that
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by rmk2 15y ago
I think the article forgot its own criteria half way through... > Countries with military mutual defense agreements (NATO, etc). And then he continues to name both Sweden and Norway...Norway is a NATO-member (though not part of the EU,
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by rmk2 15y ago
> Ubuntu got in touch with us to say ‘how can we stop you saying that Ubuntu runs on Raspberry Pi?’ Which I thought was pretty brutal, actually. So, yeah: they don’t support our chip, they’re not interested in supporting our chip, they’
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by rmk2 15y ago
I know that there are ways. There is apparently also an intermediary i Austria. I'll have a look at that forwarding site. I just wanted to point that out, since it gets drowned a bit on Twitter and I didn't see much posted about it.
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by rmk2 15y ago
I am really disappointed about their choice of distributors. Neither Farnell's nor RS Components subsidiaries in Germany and Austria ship to private individuals, you have to be a corporate buyer in order to be able to order from them. And s
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by rmk2 15y ago
To be fair, I think some people might not have this problem, but from nought to fifty is quite a steep rise. If I find a free app that does what I need, that is very nice. However, at a pricepoint of 50$, I have to think twice. Whatever I
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by rmk2 15y ago
I also think KDE has come a long way. You can configure it all you want and if you ignore the plasma-stuff widgets, then it doesn't get in the way and is very space-efficient (just a panel really?). I keep hearing good things about Fedora's
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by rmk2 15y ago
You might also want to look into running emacs as a daemon, if you haven't already. Since it runs as a server in the background (with a grand total of maybe 30MB used in my case), clients pop up instantly and if there were buffers open on
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by rmk2 15y ago
Concerning the gender/ethnicity aspect: I would go even further than to say it only has an effect on a single individual, since I think this "choice" has no effect. You only play a non-male, non-white, homosexual character if you already
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by rmk2 15y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with you. I use LaTeX exclusively (with Emacs as editor) for non-technical documents (I study languages), and for me, the most relevant advantages are tightly integrated bibliography and citation management, index and
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by rmk2 15y ago
The problem with using the dots as a denotation for vowels is that that kills of any way to deal with diacritics, let alone any of the latin-1 supplement characters necessary for languages other than english. That all not considering the la