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by vertis 3y ago
That was not lost on me
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by vertis 3y ago
Agreed. This attitude just made me angry.
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by vertis 3y ago
Probably you didn't see people buying tickets because they already had them, I buy tickets through the app. It seems absurd to me that you though it was acceptable to use a public transport system for 4 months and not pay for it. You&#
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by vertis 3y ago
Walked down the edge of canyon in Jasper National Park today and you had to wade through people taking pictures (admittedly, myself among them). What is the difference between someone taking a selfie with a phone and photos at 50 spots alon
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by vertis 3y ago
I mean even metric is somewhat defined by the world 0°C is the freezing point of fresh water 100° is the boiling point. That's somewhat arbitrary. You could as easily have used saltwater as °F does, the difference in this case is that
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by vertis 3y ago
I'm Antipodean and grew up on metric but can do all the imperial measurements. Both the US and UK like to not use metric (or some hybrid). Kilograms are pretty easy. 1 L of water is 1 kg. 1 pound is 0.4536 kg but it's usually easi
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by vertis 3y ago
How long until someone weaponises the 'installs' to bankrupt competitors? I can see this happening in the already somewhat scummy free-to-play market.
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by vertis 3y ago
I think about this a lot recently. I've been using computers since the 80s in one form or another, but so much of "the early stuff" is just lost -- Amiga floppy disks that got taken and not returned. Content I did backup is i
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by vertis 3y ago
You're incorrect, it benefits the community, it just doesn't benefit Red Hat. From the early days of CentOS, rebuilds of RHEL contributed stripping the trademarks. It's a significant effort in it's own right -- ensuring
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by vertis 3y ago
Of course, take the free bugfixes but no longer give back. I'm aware of the long public good history of Red Hat, so I say the above with a measure of respect. I don't see this working out long-term for Red Hat. The "free load
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by vertis 3y ago
Those were the days. For reference: http://www.swatchclock.com/ and https://www.swatch.com/en-us/internet-time.html (video is worth watching)
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by vertis 3y ago
I tried both. I'll certainly try it remotely as well. Was just pottering through HN before bed.
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by vertis 3y ago
Trying to run this locally and once I get past a few gotchas (local.env, needing to be renamed to .env) and needing to `pip3 install poetry`. I start getting back responses like "D<D,8H8,H<,,DH8DHH,,<<,DH<,<DHD<&lt
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by vertis 3y ago
I didn't, though you can also play them on Infinite Mac. Also if you haven't played Endless Sky, that's inspired by EV and open source.
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by vertis 3y ago
Yes I know. But their belief is that she was a virgin AFTER[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_virginity_of_Mary
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by vertis 3y ago
That and things like Counter Strike / Day of Defeat that started as mods had a large number of maps back in the day. 99% of them were shit and weird experiments. The ones that did rise to the top eventually got incorporated into newer
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by vertis 3y ago
And ends in Joseph[0], who isn't the father, if you believe in the immaculate conception[1] (this is a catholic thing, and is not accepted among all denominations). It's one of many many flaws that made me question my (protestant)
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by vertis 3y ago
Ah my German is a little more advanced than that, but every time I stumble through trying to communicate in German they immediately switch to English. It's not like I can blame them, I wouldn't have time for my fumbling halting Ge
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by vertis 3y ago
Yeah, managed to have stitches in the back of my head, but I'll not argue that I'd rather be hit by a bike than a car. If those are the only options. To be fair, the bike rider didn't exactly walk away without some bumps and
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by vertis 3y ago
Ah, I read that differently. Yeah, it depends on the dog I guess. I have an English Cocker Spaniel which the worst risk is probably knocking someone over. I'm generally not pro breaking rules like that, and in the case above I actually
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by vertis 3y ago
Ah yes, I think that's a realy common behaviour. In fact, I got hit by a cyclist on an e-bike in London running a red light.
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by vertis 3y ago
I beg to differ, counterpoints are always useful. I have an outsiders view of Germany. I've seen large chunks of it. Even stopped for a month or two (Munich, Berlin). But I don't speak German, or at least not enough to be useful (
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by vertis 3y ago
Your anecdote is stronger than my anecdote :)
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by vertis 3y ago
That's a possible interpretation as well. But having travelled extensively (and I'm not the rule breaker in most cases), there are very very different approaches to rules and laws even within Europe. There is a section of Europe w
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by vertis 3y ago
I don't think so. Often I see people in the UK breaking rules like that and it's almost never mentioned. But it wasn't just that he mentioned it. It was the way he mentioned it. That the only possible reason for us to not be
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by vertis 3y ago
In a park in Stuttgart a man approached us as we were walking the dog, and after realising we spoke English politely said "You must not be aware, dogs must be on lead here".
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by vertis 3y ago
No, police and ambulances are vehicles. They're not allowed in the park. It's a violation. Maybe they can get away with the violation but if you're following the rules it's a violation. This is why the real rules say &qu
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by vertis 3y ago
The human genome project cost 3 billion dollars to sequence the first genome(s) (with one draft costing about 300 million), you can now have your genome sequenced for less than $1000. Yes there are differences, but science and technology ha
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by vertis 3y ago
I think a better example is neighbour 1 drives past your house once a day and neighbour 2 drives past 10 times a day on the main road several blocks further from your house. If you needed a lift somewhere (or some other reason to interact),
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by vertis 3y ago
Let me see, legitimate election vs coup that the rest of the world condemned. You can doubt he'll behave correctly, but the Istanbul elections are a better example to cite.

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