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by scbrg 3y ago
> If anyone downloaded already and could setup a torrent that would be nice. That's exactly the kind of thing you can't really do without a clear license, as GP post insinuates.
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by scbrg 3y ago
OK. Then we interpreted that comment differently. To me the point was that with ls , you don't need to worry about what happens when it's abandoned. You know it's going to be there in ten years. And probably fifty too.
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by scbrg 3y ago
And yet, exa is deprecated :-)
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by scbrg 3y ago
> It's cool to see how the Thai government has used food / restaurants as a form of diplomacy. This video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W09QCLmnCUU ) elaborates more but the ratio of Thai Americans to Thai re
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by scbrg 3y ago
As long as the invited people don't change nationality... https://www.972mag.com/the-worlds-only-ethnic-time-zone/ If there's one thing I've learned about time keeping, it's that whenever you think
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by scbrg 3y ago
No there isn't. At least not in the European country I live in.
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by scbrg 3y ago
BSD
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by scbrg 3y ago
Sure. You're on a device that had its first incarnation launched seven years after this web page was made. The site was made in the era of 800x600 CRT monitors. There was no way in hell people could miss that border. The web designer
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by scbrg 3y ago
This is why I never got into books. There's a few hundred words, and then they just stop! Sometimes in the middle of a sentence! I've never figured out where they hide the scroll wheel so I can get to the rest of the text. All med
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by scbrg 3y ago
I see a Tower and I want to paint it black... I've never thought of it black, and I'm a bit at loss as how someone could do so. Look, for instance, at the picture from the associated Wikipedia article. Does that strike you as b
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by scbrg 3y ago
Well, in order to preserve inaccurate silliness we did start calling it Stilla Havet instead ;) (transl: The Calm Ocean)
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by scbrg 3y ago
Fair enough, and thanks for teaching me the term "pars pro toto". Today I was one of the lucky 10k :)
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by scbrg 3y ago
I've never really understood the point of comments like this. So, there are conditions where cycling isn't feasible. Sure. Does that mean people in general couldn't use bicycles more? No, of course not. Did GP suggest that e
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by scbrg 3y ago
Right, so your 90 seconds is actually closer to 10 minutes for most people. That's a lot of time to communicate "AI tends to render one banana as two bananas", which was OP's point. Yes, there were pictures that communic
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by scbrg 3y ago
> As for "almost the whole article" -- it is short! It took about 90sec to read the whole page, top to bottom. Cool. The article has 2348 words, so that's around 26 words per second, or ~1560 words per minute. According to
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by scbrg 3y ago
It absolutely happens. My guess is that your machines just don't actually lose power very often. Any normal desk- or laptop won't. When you hit the power button, it doesn't just cut the power; the system is told to shut dow
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by scbrg 3y ago
> Over 2bn people speak English, Spanish or French. That's somewhat significant. You're going to tell those 2bn people they can't have nice things because there are other people that wouldn't get them? If the cost of
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by scbrg 3y ago
> That's interesting but he does dive head first into a stupidly common fallacy - "if we can't do it perfectly we shouldn't do it at all". I rather think you need to solve at least a somewhat significant subset o
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by scbrg 3y ago
Every time I see someone argue for case insensitivity I remember this excellent Hacker News comment on the issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29755865 It's definitely more complex than you'd naively thi
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by scbrg 3y ago
TFA: A ransomware attack hit SMP Health in 2021. The attack halted the hospital’s ability to submit claims to insurers, Medicare or Medicaid for months, sending it into a financial spiral, Burt said. So, they struggled to handle this for
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by scbrg 3y ago
Basic transactions for regular purchases :-)
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by scbrg 3y ago
This is a weird take. The command is obviously useful in the context it's useful in. To point out that it's less useful outside that context is not very meaningful. It's like saying ls is the wrong command, because "
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by scbrg 3y ago
My terminal emulator has supported scrollback since I started using it in '95. I didn't get the impression at the time that it was a particularly new feature :)
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by scbrg 3y ago
Honest question, how else would you pronounce it?
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by scbrg 3y ago
> Further - users (and I mean normal paying users, not HN commentators) rarely ever give a shit about URLs. It's just not important to most people what the string of characters is. This is not correct. Normal users have learned th
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by scbrg 3y ago
As a Swedish speaker, I cannot help but chuckle at the v1.1 update: v1.1: Change title from PUBLIC KEY KRÜPTO to PUBLIK KEY KRYPTO to make it sound even more Swedish Apart from Swedish speakers, the author may be the only person in the wo
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by scbrg 4y ago
Without having looked closer at how to build either of snap and flatpack; if you can static link or bundle libraries with your snaps/flatpack packages, what stops you from doing the same in a .deb? It's just a convention not to, n
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by scbrg 4y ago
No, most of them work fine in vanilla sh too :-)
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by scbrg 4y ago
> If would be different if scbrg had written “tilde is sometimes used for approximation”; Oh, dear lord. I apologize for leaving out this very important word. I thought it was fairly clear that I didn't mean it was the only symbol u
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by scbrg 4y ago
Tilde is already used for approximation though. The sentence as you wrote it could be misinterpreted as "the conflict spanning the years 1939 to ca. 1945...". Had you used a dash/hyphen/minus/whatever nobody wo

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