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by the_why_of_y 7mo ago
If heat pumps don't work in the winter, how come Sweden has (as of 2022) 2.2 million heat pumps (209 per 1000 residents) and Finland 1.4 million (251 per 1000 residents)? https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository
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by the_why_of_y 7mo ago
Ukraine's entire navy was sunk in the first 3 days of the war, and 4 years later Russian Black Sea fleet knows to stay in port as more than half of their ships have been sunk by Ukrainian missiles and drones.
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by the_why_of_y 8mo ago
This is not what actually happened; see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46431000
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by the_why_of_y 8mo ago
> The original roll out of Healthcare.gov is a counterpoint. Well, that's not the worst that can happen - Oregon had the idea to let Silicon Valley company Oracle do the job... In the aftermath of what was likely the most spectacul
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by the_why_of_y 9mo ago
So if systemd refuses to support musl, it's "hindering the spread and innovation in the Linux space", and when they change their mind and work to add support for musl, it's "to embrace and extinguish it".
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by the_why_of_y 9mo ago
My understanding is that the founder of X11Libre was removed from the X.Org project for demonstrated incompetence. https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-Lots-Of-Reverts
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by the_why_of_y 9mo ago
> for some reason announced in 2008 plans to expand to Georgia and Ukraine This was a G. W. Bush idea, during his last year in office, and it was never going to actually happen. At the dinner on Wednesday, the German and French position
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by the_why_of_y 9mo ago
> what these people thought of us before Trump Last I checked, Trump was elected in 2016. In 2021 he tried an autogolpe and by the time this survey was done in 2024, he was not in prison for treason but instead again running for presiden
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by the_why_of_y 9mo ago
The real story behind Wayland and X, Linux.conf.au 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWQh_DmDLKQ https://people.freedesktop.org/~daniels/lca2013-wayland-x11....
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by the_why_of_y 9mo ago
Since this is a Wayland thread, obviously the problem is a lack of a common implementation, which deviates from UNIX tradition. For those who want to complain how lack of choice between multiple implementations is an obvious problem and dev
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by the_why_of_y 9mo ago
Examples of other operating systems allegedly not designed by professionals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_Window_Manager The Desktop Window Manager is a compositing window manager, meaning that each program h
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by the_why_of_y 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Walter_L%C3%BCbcke
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by the_why_of_y 10mo ago
This article doesn't report the facts correctly; the search warrant was issued for posting an anti-semitic Nazi meme. (Just for the record, I believe that a well-known politician should just have to live with being insulted.) > The
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by the_why_of_y 10mo ago
There is nothing at all strange about the terminology. Go run ps on macOS and marvel at the "WindowServer" process. The generic architectural term is "display server". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W
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by the_why_of_y 10mo ago
Thanks for adding a note, but I can't edit Wikipedia as I do not have an account. Let's hope it will be noticed.
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by the_why_of_y 10mo ago
> Lennart Poettering and Kay Sievers, the software engineers then working for Red Hat who initially developed systemd This is wrong, Kay Sievers was working for Novell/SuSE at that time, see https://0pointer.de/blog&
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by the_why_of_y 10mo ago
> Open source and free software mean almost exactly the same set of software > Nearly all open source software is free software; the two terms describe almost the same category of software. I see no disagreement, how is GP "compl
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by the_why_of_y 11mo ago
I don't understand your point, CentOS never had paying customers?
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by the_why_of_y 11mo ago
Oh, WeirdX, that's one I hadn't heard of. The commercial ones (Xsun, Xsgi, Hummingbird, DESQView/X etc.) were all based on MIT code.
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by the_why_of_y 11mo ago
Every single X server you list is a fork of XFree86, and every X server I'm aware of is a fork of the original X11R1 (or later) release from MIT. Please cite a single independent implementation of an X11 protocol server.
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by the_why_of_y 1y ago
The most popular language with a formal specification is Standard ML. I guess this is terminology confusion on behalf of Surac, who probably just wants a specification that is independent of the rustc implementation.
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by the_why_of_y 1y ago
Twitter moderated the New York Post story based on their "hacked materials doxxing" policy, then executives immediately realized that the particular circumstances of this story weren't foreseen when the policy was written and
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by the_why_of_y 1y ago
A major difference is that Canonical projects have copyright assignment policies, while Red Hat projects don't - this probably explains a lot of the difference in adoption dynamics.
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Where Did All Those Brave Free Speech Warriors Go?(techdirt.com)
9 points by the_why_of_y 1y ago|2 comments
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by the_why_of_y 1y ago
The thousands of peace-keeping troops in Armenia/Azerbaijan that looked the other way were not German, but Russian. By the way, both Russia and Armenia are members of the CSTO military alliance[1], while Azerbaijan is not. [1] https:&
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by the_why_of_y 1y ago
... and in typical fashion of Stalin, first he substantially created this policy, and then he completely reversed it in 1938, so that Russian became mandatory to teach in all schools and the local nationals in leadership positions were purg
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by the_why_of_y 1y ago
Perhaps you could try once more to actually read the article.
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by the_why_of_y 1y ago
https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/07/hello-youve-been-referre...
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by the_why_of_y 1y ago
None of the BSDs provide the requisite long term ABI compatibility; or rather, the only long-term ABI compatibility offered by FreeBSD is its (incomplete) implementation of the stable Linux ABI. https://wiki.freebsd.org/Linu
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by the_why_of_y 1y ago
To expand a bit, Matteo Salivni is the leader of Lega (formerly Lega Nord), the other far-right party in Italy's government. Salvini's ties to Russia of course go way beyond a couple Aeroflot tickets: https://www.buzzfe

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