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by vetinari 4y ago
See above: > a cyclist ran over a child (ER took the child to hospital) on a busy promenade on the bank of the river. Promenades happen to be dedicated to pedestrians. So pedestrian was hit in a place, where he was supposed to be safe.
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by vetinari 4y ago
How many of these pedestrian were hit on sidewalk? How many on pedestrian crossing? And how many on roads, outside of crossing? I would guess that the stats would be radically different, if we took only pedestrians on sidewalks, as was the
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by vetinari 4y ago
Plasma panels age. The last models were rated for 60,000 hours lifespan (to lose half of their brightness). So if they measured some 10-15 years old panel that spent most of its life being turned on, there's your answer.
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by vetinari 4y ago
> you have to go through resellers, where prices are higher and vary from one shop to another, At least for Apple and their Premium resellers (in Slovakia: mzone, iStores, iSTYLE), they are exactly the same. They have to be. (This can be
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by vetinari 4y ago
It wasn't that bad (I had one). But the article also compares them to todays LCDs with 1000 nits. LCDs at the time weren't so bright either, they were about so bright as plasmas, but unlike plasmas, they also were gray goo.
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by vetinari 4y ago
OLEDs at the TV sizes came years after plasma. You could make it natural upgrade. If you had one with 100 nits, you got defective unit.
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by vetinari 4y ago
I had a Panasonic plasma TV at the time and it was great. Way better picture than any competing LCD at the time. But you had to be careful, it didn't like static pictures, they could burn in, similarly to OLEDs later. If you watched mo
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by vetinari 4y ago
There is cooperation between state and corporations for "greater good". There is "othering", see also "deplorables".
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by vetinari 4y ago
Afaik mandatory government-provided mailbox is in Czech republic ("datovka") and Slovakia, at least for some parts of population (like enterpreneurs, lawyers, other professions that communicate with state institutions), with gener
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by vetinari 4y ago
For example, see https://www.slovensko.sk/sk/na-stiahnutie It is the portal for Slovak republic. You are supposed to have your national ID card, which is a smart card. To use it, you need a smartcard reader and an appl
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by vetinari 4y ago
Device authorization for PCIe tunnels is TB3+ feature, older versions are out of luck. The situation with firmware is not that bad, though. There are exactly two of them, Intel and Apple. Apple devices have the Apple implementation and the
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by vetinari 4y ago
Webdev is about the only scenario, in which it would be ok; funny how you mentioned exactly this one. However, for webdev, native linux would be fine as well.
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by vetinari 4y ago
> they can't clean out all your money if you don't tie all of it to the debit card, just put a months worth there at a time and you are better off with debit unless you get your debit card stolen every year or so. You can set u
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by vetinari 4y ago
> WSL is passable for running Docker containers, and that is if you add a ton of complicated socket forwarding machinery and Window-side service management automation to it, which is what Docker Desktop does. That's exactly the reas
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by vetinari 4y ago
> I meant that the glibcs are potentially ABI-incompatible both ways, not just that they’ll fight if you try to load both of them at once. Specifically, if the bundled (thus loaded) glibc is old, 2.U, and you try to load a host library w
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by vetinari 4y ago
What would exactly be that "something"? Statically linking glibc was always strongly discouraged. Even if you did it, nss and iconv are always dynamically loaded, and they need symbols from glibc itself, so your statically-glibc
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by vetinari 4y ago
WSL2 is very limited; from not having a "proper init" to having NAT-ed network, it is fine for running simple docker containers, but proper linux it is not. Comparing it to the real linux is like comparing powershell prompt to ful
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by vetinari 4y ago
> Something like /etc/resolv.conf is part of the user-visible API on Linux; if you change that, you're going to break applications. Apps were not supposed to open /etc/resolv.conf by themselves. If they did, they
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by vetinari 4y ago
> On one hand, only one version of ld.so can exist in a single address space (duh). Glibc requires carnal knowledge of ld.so, thus only one version of glibc can exist in a single address space. Yes > In a Flatpak you have (?) to assum
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by vetinari 4y ago
> I don't know what is holding back container/VM access to graphics hardware, but it can't be insurmountable if the cloud providers are doing it. Cloud providers have graphics hardware with SR-IOV support. It is exactly th
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by vetinari 4y ago
I was talking PowerPivot, not pivot tables. LO Calc pivot tables are at Excel 2003 level. Well, there's a reason why it was redone in 2007. If by extension that provides similar support for PowerQuery you mean QueryConnector, then no.
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by vetinari 4y ago
Nah, I'm fine with few windows in Winbox. Fortunately, Winbox remembers what was opened last time, so that's my dashboard.
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by vetinari 4y ago
I've switched to Mikrotik, for routing and switching. With wifi, Mikrotik still doesn't have good AX offer, so I kept nanoHDs for the time being. It is more complex, you have to get used to Winbox, but after that, there's no
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by vetinari 4y ago
I switched to Mikrotik from Unifi. With Unifi, I was always fighting it, with "most users do not need that, why you do?" (like site-to-site ipsec tunnel with the other side having valid dns hostname, but not fixed ip). With Mikrot
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by vetinari 4y ago
Depends what do you expect from a router. Mikrotiks traditionally have a relatively weak hardware, but they are pretty optimized for what they do (for IPv4; IPv6 not so much). Hex S can route gigabit; barely, but still. See https:/&#x
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by vetinari 4y ago
All container systems are self-contained; they can have glibc (or musl, or any other libc) they want. In flatpak, the glibc is part of the runtimes; i.e. org.(freedesktop|gnome|kde).Platform. This allows you to run apps on old CentOS/R
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by vetinari 4y ago
Flatpak does not require repositories; you can install flatpak app from an archive, exactly like deb/apt or rpm/dnf. Repositories are a convenience.
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by vetinari 4y ago
It is not just VBA. LO Calc is still missing Excel Tables functionality, which is a biggie. It was added to Excel 15 years ago! It also doesn't have equivalent of PowerQuery/PowerPivot/PowerMap equivalent, which appeared in E
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by vetinari 4y ago
The GP meant features. Office Mac is missing a great deal of them, like all the Power*/DAX functionality. And even if it has them, they might be half-baked; just to connect to pgsql, you need a paid odbc driver that costs about the hal
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by vetinari 4y ago
But only on Windows 11, unfortunately.

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