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by thingie 16y ago
Well, checking when your directories and files change should be a job for some inotify based tool, not periodically launched ls, sadly, inotify based version of common unix utilities are still very optional and hackish, not found in the bas
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by thingie 16y ago
My faculty even allow people to attend its courses as a regular student for some money (not much, ~35 Big Macs). But of course, you need to be close to a university with decent linear algebra lectures, have enough time and so on. That's har
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by thingie 16y ago
Just some yaoi, occasionally (I hope this thread was already meant to be weird enough).
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by thingie 16y ago
Some of them are quite funny at their own. Like this one. 3. The default state of processes is “sleep” which is where they are found 95% of the time. It's obviously meant as a joke, but if you think about it, your real processes in your rea
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by thingie 16y ago
You'll get totally different picture if you remove C (even if you just replace it with C++) and Java. So, hm?
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by thingie 16y ago
I usually consider emails with some kind of read-receipt requests or (even worse) tracking images (which fortunately gets blocked in any decent email client) at least very rude.
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by thingie 16y ago
I'd say that Prague is actually cheaper than Brno, as you can very easily earn more there, and you can get food for pretty much the same price in the same chain store, public transit fares are almost the same, rents outside the city center
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by thingie 16y ago
Possibly. I'm not sure if I have more trust in Verisign (which was willing to put wildcard records into .com TLD (a long time ago, yes, but…)) or the local cz.NIC, as an association of czech ISPs and registrars with open policies and member
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by thingie 16y ago
I know, but 1GB of RAM isn't that lot if I want at least reasonably fast file sharing (especially if the primary storage would be the harddisks via USB), run some network services and even some desktops apps via networked X11, which is roug
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by thingie 16y ago
Well, I wonder if it would be suitable as some kind of low-power all-in-one home server (file sharing, irc in screen, not much more), network router and jukebox and movie player. In theory, specs are ok for that purpose, but from the remark
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by thingie 16y ago
That's just a name. It is of course not a natural science, but a formal one, as mathematics (it could even be a branch of maths). There are even other kind of sciences, social ones, like psychology (which many people wouldn't call a science
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by thingie 16y ago
Well, honestly, if it's the same "works" as AIR for Linux in its current state, then it might be nice demo, nice screen to watch, but that's all. You can try, for example, StatusNet Desktop application (from identi.ca), and it feels like a
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by thingie 16y ago
As I understand it, this is no real IRC-twitter gateway (as is BitlBee, for example), just an IRC-like web interface?
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by thingie 16y ago
I don't watch general news on reddit (and I don't subscribe to /r/atheism, which is almost unbelievably bad, though I'm an atheist), but subreddits that I'm interested in seems to present much more diverse opinion. /r/energy isn't that smal
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by thingie 16y ago
No. The Schengen treaty affects (maybe not that strictly) visa policies for the member states in the way that all the members are expected to have the same visa requirements (that's quite logical). There are only some old EU15 members liste
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by thingie 16y ago
I'd call phone calls limited to just 14 seconds a new technology, and I'd love it. Imagine that you could just answer any call because you know that it's not going to degenerate into 5-minute long series of you just nodding to the endless s
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by thingie 16y ago
It makes all those monumental neoclassical buildings and art look quite funny. Like your idea of beauty was based on a skeleton of some beauty queen of old and you didn't even realize that it's not how she was expected to appear. (Hyperbole
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by thingie 16y ago
If a false accusation can turn into a PR disaster, what about the killing? That'd be a PR apocalypse. And also, your target shouldn't be Assange as an individual, he should be quite expendable if there were other people motivated to replace
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by thingie 16y ago
Well, 24/7. That's simply too much. I had (well, still have) real-life problems that I not even closely think about 24 hours a day, all the week, for the last half year, and I don't get better in solving it. No. I'm slowly getting mad.
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by thingie 16y ago
Well, I've turned back to the paper. I can write whenever I like and don't need to have the computer with me. (And I've been keeping a journal since 2006, writing almost every day.)
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by thingie 16y ago
Well, I wonder if there is some specific latitude where there's more land than sea, of course, except Antarctica.
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by thingie 16y ago
You can't scroll across the Pacific, you can't even see the lines across the Pacific as whole with both ends. But Bing maps can do that, what's wrong here? It's quite a problem with this type of map.
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by thingie 16y ago
Well, there's going to be much less space further from the equator, as parallels on both directions from equator are getting shoter and shorter. The equator is 40,000 km long, but the parallel I live on (50th north) is just 25,000 kilometer
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by thingie 16y ago
So, you mean that the locals can ignore traffic signs because they know the place? Like in "oh, yes, there's a speed limit, but it's useless, see, the street is safe enough, screw that". That could be actual quote, I've heard it so many tim
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by thingie 16y ago
Well, it had already happened to me, that someone asked me to look after his stuff and that he will be right back. And then… time went on. And I had my own business and couldn't wait (On a train, you have to get off, for example, that gives
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by thingie 16y ago
That's exclusive, not inclusive 'us', I believe. This thing isn't serving me well. In fact, it is serving me very badly (gay marriage isn't going to improve that very much, though any remedy is welcome).
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by thingie 16y ago
I've seen many things described as a marriage. Like special diplomatic relations between countries, business mergers, even product announcements. And I think that people can understand this. Once again, try to describe civil partnerships to
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by thingie 16y ago
> This does not excuse laziness and a crappy work ethic. If it won't make any difference, then… why?
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by thingie 16y ago
So instead of just using the word marriage for something that IS a marriage, we have to invent another term that doesn't mean anything else than marriage, but of two people who are of the same sex. Just because we have to. And that isn't pe
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by thingie 16y ago
Are there? Would you really want to discuss this on some general news site?

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