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   by sergeykish 6y ago

   Which UI? Title bar displayed by window manager, not in xmonad by default. URL bar and tabs are not displayed for popup window [1]. Document content is different for each page, youtube embedded videos can be opened in new tab/window&#x
2. 572.▲
   by sergeykish 6y ago

   That's radian, numeric value is different. Hertz measured in turns, not radians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_(angle) https://en.wikipedi
3. 573.▲
   by sergeykish 6y ago

   > almost no one advocates for metric time or angular units. Frequency — hertz (SI) is turns per second, engines RPM is revolutions per minute. Integral would produce turn with fractions. Turn, half turn, quarter turn, used in common lang
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   by sergeykish 6y ago

   IKEA press release [1] is clear > The two brands have joined forces to create a playful storage solution called BYGGLEK Finally useful box. I do not think it is possible to stack Lego Quatro on Lego Classic Box. Lego is a tool. I've
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   by sergeykish 6y ago

   I have such display. It is quite spacious once you remove all decorations [1], that is no window decorations (xmonad), hide URL bar and browser tabs [2], no page scrollbars [3]. I encourage everyone to try at least browser addons. [1] http
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   by sergeykish 6y ago

   We still do. Documents web works fine without javascript. There are a lot of browsers - NetSurf, Dillo, console browsers, discontinued open source DOS browsers [3], ed browser [4]. Monoculture stems from the convenience of having both docum
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   by sergeykish 6y ago

   Microsoft is good these days. Was it because they were not right ? Some people established a common ground ? Maybe regulations? No, its business was cannibalized by open source - OS by Linux, browser by Mozilla, native software by web app
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   by sergeykish 6y ago

   I believed same narrative as you, I was born near border (native Russian speaker) and we do have суржик, never liked it. Later I've traveled to Ukrainian Carpathians, they have beautiful language there, I liked it and learned it. When
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   by sergeykish 6y ago

   > belorussian language, which is just redneck russian Just like Poland, Slovak, Czech, Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, right? This is BS, I've been there and it does not fit "East Slavic languages are brothers, others are not&quo
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    by sergeykish 6y ago

    And private company would not consider such risk either. Like with nuclear weapon ability to shoot is enough. Funny how it works with s/country/private company/ s/space/nuclear/, s/orbit/land/
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    by sergeykish 6y ago

    Unfortunately Russians can't afford peace and prosperity because of Russia interests outside of its borders. It would be great if all of this was just a computer game. Person in power was not popular and quite stupid - redirecting so m
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    by sergeykish 6y ago

    While possible their source is kp.ru, article could on one page with UFO conspiracy.
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    by sergeykish 6y ago

    A few hits would provide enough junk for runaway process https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
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    by sergeykish 6y ago

    RSExecute: I've got Microsoft Scripting Libary 1.0a > Copyright 1999 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Versions above are from the article [1]. XML Data Islands network requests: <OBJECT width=0 height=0 cla
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    by sergeykish 6y ago

    There was RSExecute, claimed to work with IE3+ and NN3+. IE4 implemented XML Data Islands with Java Applets, anyone could do it. MSXML XMLHTTP was ActiveX component, as was one of the crossorigin tools - Flash, anyone could do it. I have to
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    by sergeykish 6y ago

    There were other interfaces too - RSExecute should have worked with IE3+ and NN3+ [1]. And XMLHTTP while shipped quickly was hardly accidental. MSXML was Microsofts big push for XML, it was always meant to fetch data without page reload (XM
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    by sergeykish 6y ago

    I always wondered why /usr was not abandoned in favor of root > Why don’t you move all /usr contents to / and forget about /usr? > Because this introduces a lot of new toplevel directories, which all have to be mou
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    by sergeykish 6y ago

    There is no One True Place, would you like drawers with my preferences and no way to override? The list of configuration files/directories is known. Why can't those who bother present them as they desire? Instead of forcing their
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    by sergeykish 6y ago

    That's syntax war, the least useful aspect of programming with strong opinion from every party. And next time there would be "why every language has different config folder?".
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    by sergeykish 6y ago

    I agree with statement though not because of the arguments. Dual-boot is scary — it can ruin the only computer user has — but live USB is super simple. Shared folders? Put shared data on FAT USB. Start with browser, that's 99% usage. W
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    by sergeykish 6y ago

    VW (not US company) in US court [1]. Apple (US company) in EU court [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU_illegal_State_aid_case_a
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    by sergeykish 6y ago

    He counts Linux as 17 MLoc, half of it is drivers, tinyconfig is just 300 kLoc [1]. Is there any reason to watch? Chrome is huge though. [1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/223746/why-is-the-l...
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    by sergeykish 6y ago

    And they could covert channel in TCP headers [1] (provided they can intercept the traffic). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_channel
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    by sergeykish 6y ago

    Out of curiosity I've installed Steam and checked featured game. Linux version has not started (not Ubuntu here) but Proton version worked. Now if Steam had productivity applications [1] and they had Proton version (not yet). [1] http
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    by sergeykish 6y ago

    Please, that's disingenuous. I've switched to Linux 12 years ago, it requires sacrifices. I had to switch profession from Symbian Developer to Web Developer, desktop experience was not great, Wine has not helped. I've ended w
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    by sergeykish 6y ago

    Thank you, I've mailed author, he updated the post > UPDATE 2020-08-03: I no longer stand by the content in this post. I think the overall sentiment is marginally accurate; however, the details in the post are incorrect (as many hav
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    by sergeykish 6y ago

    The code is not equivalent to Common Lisp (neither is Haskell version), it should remove `count` of elements from the `start` matching a predicate (remove-if-not #'evenp '(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15) :count 5 :start
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    by sergeykish 6y ago

    Guys, it produces different results, check yourself Prelude> take 5 . filter even . drop 3 $ [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] [4,6,8] (remove-if-not #'evenp '(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) :count 5 :start 3) (1 2 3 4 6 8)
29. 599.▲
    by sergeykish 6y ago

    Nokia was fine - just switch flagship from Symbian to Android, continue feature phones and Maemo. After so many years and under different manufacturer brand is still alive.
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    by sergeykish 6y ago

    If only a point of balance. Intel integrated GPU is safe choice on Linux. If it was not there would be space for competitors - entry level GPUs, AMD iGPU.