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by thriftwy 3y ago
Let's face it, nobody remembers the Linux Desktop wars. This story is long forgotten and the rich and influental people don't have to do anything. Both GNOME and KDE had their highs and lows but in general they ended up OK. Apolog
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I remember GNOME fan base carrying this "freedom is slavery" narrative way into 2010s.
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Smaller Linux distros could claim plausible deniability. They could just move the MATE into some 3rd party repository and claim their primary DE is MWM or the like, but they also don't mind users trying 3rd party GNOME at their own ris
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by thriftwy 3y ago
It's so not relevant. All the Linux desktop wars happened when Qt was already GPL, including Gnome, Gnome 3, KDE 4 and Unity. It was already GPL for almost a decade when the described events happened.
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> Qt which was non free It was GPL licenced. If you call that "non-free" that's downright Orwellian.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Sounds like a load of bull to me. They could have gone with any sensible approach and they choose an absolutely braindead one. Luckily I was always a KDE user so I believe anybody who refuses KDE switch also has no footing to complain. >
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Why is commercial real estate so big? I would expect that residential real estate (both construction and rent) would absolutely dwarf it. Especially post COVID. Also, since it is raw revenue, car sales is bigger than car manufacturing. They
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by thriftwy 3y ago
They also cost an order of magnitude less to buy an unit and actually live in it, compared to proper skyscrapers. Many things are not an eye candy for pragmatic reasons.
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25-storey Russian apartment blocks (or Chinese for that matter?) do not look phallic at all, since they are often longer than they are high[1], and have thin profile. Think a square with a courtyard. It's only when skyscraper meets den
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I'm no longer inrerested, but it was relevant 20 years ago.
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I don't. 2024 has very few reasons for making GUI desktop apps anymore.
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A lot of industrial automation around the world, but especially in Russia, likely run on Delphi. Of course we're talking about stuff like rail yard management, not ticket booking. That used to be mainframe based, but is likely Enterpri
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I always wondered how awesome would it be if they thrown away Pascal from it somehow and replaced with Python. The same topic with VB6 and putting Perl instead.
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As a small negative case, Gagarin st. in central St. Petersburg is not called in honor of Yuri, but due to the Loon bird (Gagara), who also gave Yuri the surname, and way earlier. So waiting for the list of things not named after people.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Iran might certify it. Russia might certify it unless having a viable domestic alternative. Moreover, it could reuse parts for its own planes. These three taken together are already a significant chunk of the global market, each having a
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Even if it's possible to retrofit existing fleet with PD-8, I can't imagine this happening at the rate at which the old (partly French-made) engines will be going out of order. So even that fleet will dwindle in numbers in the nex
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Russia has a fleet of ~200 Superjet planes which are handling a significant fraction of domestic traffic, but it's indeed not clear whether any more may be built after the 2022 sanctions. They also currently do not have engine replacem
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I've never seen issues with obtaining any required quantity of physical US dollars cash, and that includes 2022 Russia.
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What % of exports, though, and what % of exports to the countries outside of the region (i.e. the globally competitive industries)? Even by world standards, 70-80% of urbanization in the 60s and 92% now is quite a lot. Especially a lot for
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Perhaps we've spotted a case for sloggy Argentinean growth, since the country doesn't strike me as being an industrial giant or a R&D hub - what would they all do living in urban areas?
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People didn't really need smartphones, laptops and even personal cars in 1960s in Argentine. I believe they generated that GDP while being mostly rural, where it translates to a lot of amenities. Now they would usually be cramped in a
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by thriftwy 3y ago
The current blue rate is 1100 but it was 13 when we visited Argentine 10 years ago. Back then, 100 peso bank note was actually quite convenient. Peso lost value hundredfold in a decade. Go figure. The whole country has left a disorganized
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Titan is likely habitable for life as we know it. It's hard to imagine why Titan won't have life around hydrothermal vents and the like.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
That's the late USSR degeneration syndrome. Decrease in male life expectancy, opioid epidemic and now also metal theft.
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> he whole OS interface is defined in C What do you think about io_uring? I believe it moves away from OS interface as (C) function calls.
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I've heard an idea that, often times, a snapping fragile bone causes a person to fall, as opposed to the fall causing the bone to break. That bone just broke down under baseline static loads.
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I'm the original one and I agree with the previous comment wholeheartedly. Revolution is when you are told you have much meaner boss from now on, and one who requires active loyalty signalling. So you comply. Or remove yourself from th
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I've read on it, and it's basically a game of Hearts (from Windows XP) with more ornate rules. Should be fun.
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Any modern card games that can be played with five suits?
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