tux1968

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by tux1968 6y ago
Always enjoyed his interviews and his style. I happened to just watched a very short clip of him talking about his fear of death with Norm Macdonald last night. Guess we all have to face that moment, and even though he had a long and succ
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by tux1968 6y ago
Sorry, I didn't do a great job explaining what I meant. Really just comes down to having each link on the multi-link page listed with a number beside its title. --- Typically[1] i'll put numbers inline[2] for each reference I mak
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by tux1968 6y ago
This is such a great idea. So much nicer to include a single link at the bottom of a comment for all mentioned references. For that usage it might be nice to be able to refer to each link as say [1], [2], [3] and have those numbers also sh
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by tux1968 6y ago
My argument is that people should have more reasonable expectations from a free project. That it is unreasonable for a free project that is shutting down to continue to operate until all EOL's are reached, especially til 2029. It&#x2
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Yes, I can understand being upset about it, but think such anger should be tempered by no fee being paid and no contractual obligation being breeched. It seems to me if you're in a situation where you truly depend on such a commitment
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> We are as entitled to it as we are to the Linux kernel on which it's based. Are you claiming they are in violation of the GPL license? I believe they still are 100% in compliance. > The CentOS project itself wasn't starte
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by tux1968 6y ago
But since we aren't entitled to any free product at all, it seems unkind to criticize someone for not giving as much for free as they once did. It's still generous, even if previously it was more so.
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Honestly these seem like pretty generous and useful offerings. I appreciate the commitment they make to not use them as a sales channel as well. Will be interesting to see what else is offered in the coming February announcement.
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by tux1968 6y ago
No offence to OP intended at all, but as these things often go, you're paying for the lifetime of the site, not your own.
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Neither did anyone watching an ad on television, it's not just about click-through rate.
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And is available to read online legally here: http://www.pbr-book.org/3ed-2018/contents.html
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by tux1968 6y ago
No, it's just a DIY accessible one.
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Habits: How to be successful every day [VIDEO](youtube.com)
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Choose between Btrfs and LVM-ext4(fedoramagazine.org)
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While that's true, the issue being addressed is if the current vaccines would help at all even if we could deploy them instantly. It honestly seems like an open question, although apparently people are hopeful it'll work out that
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That's not very reassuring, why is the new strain causing any problems at all if it behaves exactly like the existing strain? And if they haven't actually done any trials or testing, then they haven't really looked for any e
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by tux1968 6y ago
There's a difference between having seen examples of it, and of it being pervasive and a dominant force. All too often, we attack the weakest arguments of our opponents and ignore the more sane opposition. There's good reason to
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It's not the age of somebody that determines how the virus reacts. The statistics you're referencing categorize age as a proxy for some real-world vulnerabilities that vary in significance by age. That is, worse outcomes due to C
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by tux1968 6y ago
That's really not the point. Regardless, for some rich people those treatments _are_ available. And that may well lead them to the completely rational choice of avoiding the risks associated with a vaccine. Everyone is different, and c
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by tux1968 6y ago
It's not just age range, it's individual health, down to the specific person, not a group. Also you have to multiply the risk by the chance that you will actually contract Covid-19, which is very dependent on lifestyle etc. I&#x2
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by tux1968 6y ago
0.5-1.0% chance to die from COVID-19 assumes an even distribution across all people infected. Which just isn't true, it very much depends on your current state of health. And again, my main point is that we should be honest about the
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by tux1968 6y ago
Those are certainly arguments you can make. But you have to acknowledge that there are huge incentives for the drug manufacturers to have a successful test and a healthy scepticism until they have been truly independently verified isn'
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by tux1968 6y ago
Not enough to know with absolute certainty what will happen when millions of people get it. Especially unforeseen reactions that take several years to appear. As much as you trust each of the (5?) vaccines, you yourself can not know for ce
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by tux1968 6y ago
Please don't set up strawmen just to knock them down. It's too easy to cast everyone who has some rational scepticism as nutjob's, but that just alienates those who could otherwise be persuaded by civil discourse.
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by tux1968 6y ago
The vaccine is not field tested, so there is a risk in the unknown. The Canadian government at least is warning that some people may have an allergic reaction and are creating a tracking database to find out who is most at risk to such. A
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by tux1968 6y ago
I think you're missing the forest for all the trees. This isn't a tactical debate, it's a philosophical and foundational one. Until we all defend the right of people we despise to voice their opinion, everything else is pla
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by tux1968 6y ago
If enough people demanded it though, we could make it socially unacceptable for Youtube to use their property rights in the pursuit of censorship. The problem really isn't the law, it's public opinion. We've lost sight of h
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by tux1968 6y ago
I agree with you. But there is another aspect to this, it's not just about profits. Online multiplayer games can truly be ruined by cheaters. That hurts a lot of innocent people who paid good money for the game and just want to have
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by tux1968 6y ago
So rather than new hardware, this seems to be an application level API to abstract away hardware and provide portability between the supported targets.
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by tux1968 6y ago
Google could at least globally cache all the fonts when Chrome is installed; a one time download which is then available for use on all sites. If they licensed other browsers to do the same, the number of fonts available to designers would

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