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by thingie 16y ago
…a right to discriminate a minority just because they want to. Shocking.
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by thingie 16y ago
Of course. That's very common approach and there are many such power plants ("storage"). But as you can imagine, this cannot be built anywhere, cheaply enough and in large enough quantities. ( http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3
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by thingie 16y ago
Well, it means, that the viewer can read the sign, which is quite practical. For example, in Czech dubbed TV series (like The Simpsons), a narrator has to read every sign that has any meaning to the plot, which would be quite weird, if you
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by thingie 16y ago
Of course. Mostly for private communication with friends and with BitlBee gateway. But it seems that many OSS project have freenode channels, that are very active, and not only that. There's very active #haskell channel on freenode, #xmonad
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by thingie 16y ago
Of course it's not true, it's not even a hyperbole, it's simply completely false. Nokia was, for most of the 20th century, large industrial group, making many various things, consumer electronics and telecommunications equipment included. I
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by thingie 16y ago
It'd be nice to have some export feature. After few months, if I will use this, you are going to have quite a lot of entries from me, and all of them are important to me, I don't want to lose them, so I'd like to be able to easily make back
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by thingie 16y ago
I'm not involved with the fs, I just used it for a few weeks, after that, It started to hit some bugs in the code (kernel BUG macro, looked quite serious). And fsck was segfaulting. It was just my laptop, nothing fancy, I was using just com
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by thingie 16y ago
"Published on June 29, 2009" using "Linux 2.6.30 kernel"…
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by thingie 16y ago
So maybe the computers will be humans. Was there any thinking involved in writing your comment? I think that anyone would say yes. But if you were a computer (and why you couldn't be just a computer, nothing less than autopsy can convince m
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by thingie 16y ago
Google Translate can give you at least basic idea. (Though it fails at quite interesting places.) I don't know, FB page is a bad format for this -- it's flat and limited discussion, with artists making just few remarks about the overall des
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by thingie 16y ago
Well, a friend of mine died (he was about 20) last week and within few days, somebody set up a memorial facebook group and it seems to work quite well, I don't think that anybody feels any need for anything else. On the other hand, nobody g
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by thingie 16y ago
http://www.levenez.com/unix/ This is much better, I think. (It had just 17 pages when I printed it for the last time, sigh.)
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by thingie 16y ago
Well, it seems that Singapore, as a model city state in that article, has much stronger military forces than many much larger and more populated countries.
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by thingie 16y ago
It's kind of silly California, 'we', Bay Area, are the best and greatest of all, you need us, bow before us. This sounds too one-sided and most likely, it's not that simple. Anyway, except this reasoning, I'm very keen on the idea of city s
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by thingie 16y ago
Significant… it is. It's an important transport link for the Russian economy, and not only it, it even carries some exports from the Far East to Europe. Also, it's a major engineering work, even though mostly unrelated to usual hacker news
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by thingie 16y ago
I watched it entirely. It had a great advantage of being taken from the cab, which is quite different experience from anything you can see from a window of a passenger car (of course, you can get something similar at the other side, but in
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by thingie 16y ago
The only similar effect that I've ever experienced was that after few hours of continuous playing of Frozen Bubble, I saw everything insanely blocky. Even quite round shapes were looking like blocks. But that was over within few minutes.
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by thingie 16y ago
Filling covers of the books with ads is very common (I can find them in many books printed in the last 100 years, mostly textbooks, technical manuals and paperbacks, of course), but I haven't seen ads anywhere else, yet.
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by thingie 16y ago
Well, this kind of question is usually asked when someone is trying to force me some specific moral rules or kind of behavior, based on an idea, that if I believe in God, I'm somehow obliged to accept some specific set of moral rules (not t
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by thingie 16y ago
From my experience, this seems to be mostly an issue of configuration, which is impossible to get right, because it's incredibly painful and hostile. He mentions this issue. (Of course, most likely, there are issues with the actual renderin
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by thingie 16y ago
I wish there was a rule that every chart used as any kind of argument must have both its axes described. If not, it's worthless. This one is. (Not to mention that you should also mention the source.)
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by thingie 16y ago
It does. How dangerous they actually are? If it was that common for them to cause serious disruptions in the operations of our desktops and laptops, where are these faults? I mean, in the last 10 years, I simply can't remember any experienc
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by thingie 16y ago
I don't say that cosmic rays cannot happen (well, they absolutely certainly do, I mean whether they can cause memory corruption that actually make some difference in the running system), but this is quite strange. No such faults were happen
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by thingie 16y ago
I don't know, personally, I'm frustrated by Posterous too. They're adding one useless features after another, but that email posting still cannot get even such a basic thing as paragraphs right. Just piles of br's after each line. And they
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by thingie 16y ago
Because someone would, very likely, sue them?
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by thingie 16y ago
You can take any content published on the web and use it as your own… Sure, it's a very good idea to have some kind of verification (like "post this code on the site"? some kind of email verification? or at least send a mail to some contact
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by thingie 16y ago
Reminds me of this. (Though it is much older, and data, as I remember, come only from the timetable, it's not live.) http://www.swisstrains.ch/
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by thingie 16y ago
NM 0.8 allows you to make a connection system-wide, so it is not dependent on the nm-applet running (it writes keys in /etc, otherwise, wireless passwords are stored in user's keyring) and it connects to that network whenever it's available
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by thingie 16y ago
That's completely wrong (and never was right). NetworkManager is a system-wide deamon and it's user interface is pretty much just a single applet, which you can run absolutely anywhere. There is also a CLI now (nmcli). (I've been using xmon
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by thingie 16y ago
In Germany, there is also a problem that many of these new lines are expected to have mixed traffic on them, meaning both fast passenger trains and freight trains. This makes them much more expensive than they would have to be, as both type

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