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by wott 6y ago
10-years warranty is a thing and is mandatory in some places/countries.
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by wott 6y ago
That method didn't work for me (if I am thinking of the same thing you are describing, not sure). I would soon routinely unblock Reddit, so the block would become useless in achieving its purpose and become just an annoying extra layer
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by wott 6y ago
Along the last few weeks, Bing's news feed, the one that appears directly on the main page of bing.com, turned into a tabloid cesspool (at least in its French version). Gradually but very quickly, it turned from something reasonable, r
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by wott 6y ago
POP3 doesn't automatically delete the emails it fetched (with RETR). It has to emit another specific command (DELE) for this purpose. So, keeping or not keeping mails on the server is a matter of configuration in your client. I think a
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by wott 6y ago
> That tends to put us back in email, though that has its own problems. What is the asynchronous version of zulip? Forums? Newsgroups (NNTP)? (I don't know Zulip and I don't know what problems you have with e-mail, so that&#x
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by wott 6y ago
> It’s amazing (and a little amusing) how many people literally can’t admit they don’t know something. It is a matter of culture too. I'll take the example of the desk clerks you have to face as a citizen or customer in administrati
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by wott 6y ago
I thought I had insisted enough on popular .
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by wott 6y ago
> If it were 35 years ago, this was probably some logistics or finance systems? 35 years ago was also the time when 8-bit personal computers were becoming popular (well, not as 'popular' as 10 years later, of course) in homes,
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by wott 6y ago
> E.g. Stackoverflow would be much less useful if I couldn't rely on "wisdom of the crowd" to rank the various answers on my behalf. Usually, the best answers are at the top and the worst buggy answers are at the bottom. I
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by wott 6y ago
> My first computer was a 286. My dad brought it home as used salvage in 1987 because the office was going to throw it away. Okay, but that's not representative. 80286 maximum sales period just started in 87 and lasted until 90. In
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by wott 6y ago
I am not sure they impress many people any more, in the sense that only a few specific use cases benefit from them and awaits them, while the needs of a vast majority of people on the consumer market have been satisfied with low end devices
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by wott 6y ago
> Low end in 1992 would have been a 386, Low end of the sales offers (even though I guess you could still buy a bit lower too), but not low of end of the installed base, which was probably predominantly 286.
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by wott 6y ago
> Take a sports team. They are not micromanaged. They are given a common task, a common strategy, guidance, but in the field they are alone. They are more and more micromanaged. * Training has become the land of measuring and controlling
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by wott 6y ago
At lot of people do not like to use the features already provided by their environment and like to take a single element of the original features set and reimplement the same features within that single element. Sometimes it improves perfor
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by wott 6y ago
> 17k per head sounds about right to me in large urban areas. I don't know about the US, but in France, in large urban areas like Lyon or Toulouse, you can easily find office space for 100 to 200 €/m²/year. Which means, tr
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by wott 6y ago
> In the US per capita C02 emissions were 15.8 metric tons in 2017. What about taking a normal person and not an American? Even compared to other developed, Western-type nations, the US emissions are terribly high (only matched by the ot
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by wott 6y ago
> I can agree with that when comparing with plain C code. But reference-counting in C++ and Objective-C leads to exactly the same problem as with managed code. What saves C is that reference-counting there leads to a lot of boilerplate a
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by wott 6y ago
> Why do we need jet another duplicated effort like libinput? That's the mentality of the Freedesktop-Redhat-Gnome-Poettering-Wayland-whichever-comes-next crowd. Take a piece of software that's been working for years and fulfil
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by wott 6y ago
A .Net terminal "hello world" takes a good 2 or 3 seconds on my computer. Yay... :-/
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by wott 6y ago
And the limitations too. If something (for example, unsigned numbers) is not provided by the JVM because it was declared useless for Java, most languages running over the JVM won't implement it either (and otherwise it would often mean
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by wott 6y ago
> you can see yourself improving over time I should ask a refund, this feature doesn't work for me! ;-)
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by wott 6y ago
> Walking or biking does not always imply high density! Right, and yet it will get parroted each time the subject surfaces here (i.e. twice a week). I never had a car. At the moment, I live in a municipality of less than 750 inhabitants.
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by wott 6y ago
MIPS is typically seen in computer architecture class because it is simple and regular (at least the original version seen in class). However, for Assembly programming, MIPS, like (almost?) all RISC instructions sets, is tedious. Give me an
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by wott 6y ago
> It even got me almost arrested once in France, taking me riding on the shoulder of a 110km/h highway with no exit in sight. It is very possible it was legal, so you wouldn't have been arrested. For example, I ended up on that
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by wott 6y ago
Hmm, I followed the link and just tried it for a 100-120 km trip from my home and it picks up the route with the steepest possible climbs, even if I take "Couch potato" as "fitness" choice. If I try to nudge it into anot
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by wott 7y ago
> Any reason you couldn’t port the parser back to Perl 5 and get a similar savings in line count? That's what https://metacpan.org/pod/Regexp::Grammars is for, indeed.
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by wott 7y ago
No, it's the same with urbanism for example. If I look at what was built in my country before, say, WW2, it all makes sense, even if we just consider private housing development: numerous streets around small blocks, which guarantee ma
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by wott 7y ago
> A small village/town; away from the urban craziness; Considering the fact that we both were downvoted, that's not the answer they want to hear on this forum. In a way, it was to be expected, since the majority usually praise
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by wott 7y ago
Single point of data: All the years I lived in cities and did what an average urban dweller does: packed in an office, packed in public transportation or even packed on the pavement, packed in shops, packed in bars, packed in elevators, pac
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by wott 7y ago
> In hot or cold weather, transit emissions savings may be more than offset by increased HVAC usage at home. Most people keep on heating/cooling their home while they are at their office; sometimes to a lesser power, sometimes the s

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