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   by throw_a_grenade 3y ago

   > How much of the heat a CPU expells is inevitable? There's a lower theoretical limit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle > Could (non-reversible) calculations be done without creating any
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   by throw_a_grenade 3y ago

   Certainly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancel_culture Cancelling is distinct from censorship, because it's post-factum "consequences" (i.e. ch
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   by throw_a_grenade 3y ago

   You can try QubesOS, which does exactly this using virtual machines. Clipboard is not shared by default, you need to move the contents of the clipboard using yet another keystroke pair (so it's 4-salutes scheme: Ctrl-C, Ctrl-Shift-C, C
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   by throw_a_grenade 3y ago

   > Attribution is necessary for advertising to work at all. Yes, and since "attribution" as defined here is incompatible with user's privacy (which is a human right), therefore advertising should fail. Can it please fail ea
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   by throw_a_grenade 3y ago

   So it doesn't count when AlmaLinux does contribute upstream, but somehow counts when RH contributes and has this "100% upstream policy"? Is this RH's argument?
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   by throw_a_grenade 3y ago

   https://archive.is/PPb1b
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   by throw_a_grenade 3y ago

   > We have also enriched the upstream community. AlmaLinux community members have submitted PRs to projects such as RPM, AWX, and VirtualBox. Our community has sent over 50 PRs to GlusterFS and also extended openQA. A Red Hat employee eve
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   by throw_a_grenade 3y ago

   No, it's the other way around: GPL requires that all pieces required to compile the binary (the exact binary that triggers requirement for distributing source) needs to come along. IIUC if they distribute source as SRPMs, the .spec nee
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   by throw_a_grenade 3y ago

   Plz add [Lektor]( https://getlektor.com ). Happy user here.
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    by throw_a_grenade 3y ago

    And not to Poland.
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    by throw_a_grenade 3y ago

    OK, whatever. Re: sibling comment: I'm European, not native English speaker.
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    by throw_a_grenade 3y ago

    Right now it's just "Operation failed with unexpected error." and emails with invitations seem to be broken (either not sent or miss some important parts).
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    MS Teams is down(teams.microsoft.com)

    34 points by throw_a_grenade 3y ago|45 comments
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    by throw_a_grenade 3y ago

    This is misunderstanding. There are many situations in SI where two units boil down to the same expression in terms on fundamental units, yet addition does not make physical sense. More clear example: both Gy and Sv are J/kg (m^2 s^-2)
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    by throw_a_grenade 3y ago

    Yeah, that's what TFA is about. People thought about it, but it turns out it doesn't matter, because regulatory requirements were a moving target and were applied retroactively to any project not yet finished. This quote sums it u
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    by throw_a_grenade 3y ago

    Now let us remember how Zuckerberg descibed his first batch of users...
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    by throw_a_grenade 3y ago

    Now please count how many rockets, bombs and other munitions Israel fired at civilian targets in Palestine. Because it's also > 0, then by this logic we must ban all Israeli from accessing financial services.
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    by throw_a_grenade 3y ago

    So just yesterday PyPI announced they're retiring cryptographic signatures: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36044543 . It's hard to keep those things separated. I would very much like the code submitted to PyP
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    by throw_a_grenade 3y ago

    https://archive.is/3rqpB
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    by throw_a_grenade 3y ago

    https://archive.is/dSg66
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    by throw_a_grenade 3y ago

    Is there a way to decode downlink directly, like the old NOAA satellites?
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    by throw_a_grenade 3y ago

    I mean, I'm not exactly a fan of brexit, but my God, playing on EU vs UK sentiments is worse than bad taste. It's exactly what is wrong with society: fuels hate for commercial reasons.
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    by throw_a_grenade 3y ago

    git config --global rebase.autoSquash true git commit --squash|--fixup <commit> git rebase -i origin/master # or whatever your remote/branch is https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit#Documentati
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    by throw_a_grenade 3y ago

    git commit -n|--no-verify I have it in shell history, so it's somethig like "^R ver".
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    by throw_a_grenade 3y ago

    bc, cc, dd, df, du, ip, jq, nc, ps, ss, su, tr, wc, xz are some I use regularly. There are others. But it's not coincidence that the basic file operations you've mentioned are very short: they're the most common used commands
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    by throw_a_grenade 3y ago

    It's not two aliases, it's also that Verb-Noun two word rule instead more sane two letter rule, which is better suited for interactive use. That this decision was made for the purpose of noise abatement (every character was loudly
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    by throw_a_grenade 3y ago

    > Are we still in the world where the interactive text-based environment (not programming environment) with the best available ergonomics is based on a general framework set in 1979? Yes, because it's not broken (certainly not for i
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    by throw_a_grenade 3y ago

    Dataclasses, like typing.NamedTuple, do not care about type hints: >>> @dataclasses.dataclass ... class D: ... x: int ... >>> D('a') D(x='a')
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    by throw_a_grenade 3y ago

    Did not launch today for the risk of lightning.
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    by throw_a_grenade 4y ago

    I wonder if "alternative remedies" mentioned in TFA will include following the example of Gutenberg Project in Germany.