tellak

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by tellak 8y ago
Not a 747 pilot (not sure why that matters here)... but a pilot. The flight positions are equal. The plane is designed to be flown the same from either flight position and this is routinely done. The guy saying otherwise is talking out thei
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by tellak 8y ago
State and property taxes. Not everyone paying exorbitant property taxes is that high in income. Also, income distribution what it is today, 90%tile income is still middle class!
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by tellak 8y ago
Ignorance or not, the success of GNU (such as supplying the C compiler used in your BSD darlings) was put into place by people in their 20s-40s mostly. Long before any high schooler could afford a CD burner let alone wait to download an ISO
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by tellak 8y ago
I mean I get there is an argument to be had about GNU tools breaking some pure UNIX code (which is mostly a vaporware)..... what’s beyond deranged is to hold System V up as some kind of uberalles... like where to begin? IPC? Mandatory locki
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by tellak 8y ago
Technically it’s not slang (I took issue with that webmd calling it slang.. because it isn’t informal just nonstandardizd), it’s jargon. Because although different institutions do it differently, all this stuff is formalized pretty clearly.
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by tellak 8y ago
Heh maybe you’re too young? LAMP stack is probably at this point so old nobody cares. But having worked with decisionmakers in corporations with large IT needs most were quite aware of LAMP-I mean it was in many ways the killer app of Linux
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by tellak 8y ago
The Late, Slow Limited (Lake Shore Limited). Cool route through the rust belt. The shitty thing about the two East coast-Chicago routes is they dropped dining car service. Until recently sleeping car passengers got an actual on board full s
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by tellak 8y ago
You do realize that Amtrak long distance routes offer such accommodations? I mean yeah, the trains themselves are slow as shit and might not go where you want, but superliners and viewliners have some interesting accommodations.
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by tellak 8y ago
I use chromium and Widevine works fine (Netflix works fine)
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by tellak 8y ago
> so I think it actually already encodes our bias and general lack of skill at distinguishing violet from purple. > Similarly many people don't really make a distinction for cyan and just call it blue or green when they see it. I