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by wott 7y ago
> imagine you could write what you want on a ground up dead tree, drop it in a special box And then, later, we could also order by phone and credit card, just giving our card number over the phone (since we didn't expect to be deali
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by wott 7y ago
If I set aside the 'unknown seller', which is not really unknown: Mid 80's, France: order something with your Minitel (terminal available free of charge) from any of the major mail-order companies, get it delivered in 48 hour
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by wott 7y ago
> The vast majority of work is NOT "knowledge work"--it is schlepping things around. Who are the biggest employers and what do they do? It doesn't mean that those employers do not have hordes of office employees. As a mani
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by wott 7y ago
> Tech proficiency is largely irrelevant once you go into management. The lack of tech proficiency is even an advantage: in the companies where I worked, it is people who sucked badly at the technical job they had, who were moved to mana
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by wott 7y ago
> I don't really use it often but I love that it still comes with Composer for WYSIWYG html. I tried it for the first time a few weeks ago (I never do web/HTML stuff). Seamonkey Composer crashed when I tried inserting a <vid
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by wott 7y ago
They are not a subject for pedestrians, they are just cars. As far as other drivers are concerned, the only problem is that over the years they started looking more and more like 'regular' cars, so 'regular' drivers comi
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by wott 7y ago
If you want to feel worse, take an interest in something in your neighbourhood that seems wrong. After a bit of research, you will find that it is indeed wrong, so you will get in touch with your local representatives to get this obvious st
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by wott 7y ago
> Well, it's understandable that many apps want to run as a regular process. Good old UNUX was and it's GNU/Linux descendants are quite OK with it. On the other hand, we invented inetd so that we didn't have to k
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by wott 7y ago
Hmmm... the introduction dates would match me leaving from there, so that would be a possible explanation. On the other hand, the existing system was already using IBAN and stuff, so as an ignorant customer, SEPA looks like an acknowledgeme
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by wott 7y ago
> Finland Weird. Transfers were instant when I moved over there almost 20 years ago, and you could already do them online if you wished (there was a system of codes on a paper or a card, on top of login+password). And that was in very tr
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by wott 7y ago
I wish it was. Mainstream media are often relaying it, as they relay almost all the new liberal leftism/feminism, just a bit less so far. And I am not even talking about the USA but somewhere in Europe where that American stuff was imp
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by wott 7y ago
Unfortunately the triplet DE--GUI-Toolkit--Applications is often intertwined or at least evolves in the same manner. For example, I don't want GTK-3, I only have GTK-2 installed. It could be all fine and dandy if, one after another, ye
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by wott 7y ago
About the business side, there is also another factor. Somehow, during the last 2 or 3 decades, people have been nudged to believe that snow and ski times are February and Christmas/new-year holidays. Only. Easter has disappeared from
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by wott 7y ago
In the centre of the Pyrenees, my local ski resort will not open for skiing holidays, for the first time ever (the resort is just a bit older than I am, and I am nearing 45 years old). Not opening for Christmas is not unusual, snow is often
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by wott 7y ago
> The taxation should be revenue neutral, that is every cent gained is redistributed to the people, It definitely should not , for almost every such cent is unavoidably re-used in buying something else (and thus keeps on feeding the cra
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by wott 7y ago
It brings a completely different way of using the transport, in fact. When the period between 2 trains/buses/whatever is below 5 minutes, you don't check the timetables, you don't plan anything, you don't calculate
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by wott 7y ago
It is always difficult to compare such figures. Not only because of different geographic/demographic situations, but simply because of the figures themselves. First, there is the problem of being careful understanding which figure is g
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by wott 7y ago
They'll use drones then. Well, they already do, in addition to fixed and mobile ground cameras.
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by wott 7y ago
> 1) Citizens can legally opt out by putting on face masks. You don't have (yet) some beautiful law like we have in France? https://beta.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/texte_lc/JORFTEXT000022... > Nul ne peut
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by wott 7y ago
> I originally switched because some years ago, Chrome was being a memory hog, and I remembered using Seamonkey years before that. Same for me a loooong time ago, when I found out that running Seamonkey Web browser and e-mail client tog
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by wott 7y ago
Because that's quite unrelated. Websites display will be fine or break independently of the OS, but depending how the browser has been updated to follow the last trend or not. Same goes for security: if he doesn't install crap on
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by wott 7y ago
> for someone continuing to use and maintain a Win XP Thinkpad T60, this is really cool news. Less cool news: "SeaMonkey 2.49.5 will be the last version supporting Windows XP/Server 2003 and Vista/Server 2008." ( h
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by wott 7y ago
I can't answer your question (I don't use that part of Seamonkey), but I have the feeling they are unfortunately following the same steps as the main Mozilla product, just with some (appreciable) delay: they dropped GTK2 support i
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by wott 7y ago
Firefox gigantic leaks happen to me on Windows too. Depending on the mood, it ends with a crash or with Windows warning me that it will kill some processes if that keeps going on.
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by wott 7y ago
'-std=C++14' already includes a few extensions, it is not pure C++14 but a superset. And then there is '-std=gnu++14' too.
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by wott 7y ago
The Linux platform is really really really not famous for the convenience, ease of use, stability and reliability of its audio stack. Or of its stack of audio stacks, actually...
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by wott 7y ago
> - Full boot in under 10 seconds (with an SSD) And then 45 minutes of updates: 15 in the foreground, and then 30 in the background, during which the laptop is still basically unusable (it can take up to 2 minutes for a CTRL-ALT-DEL to c
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by wott 7y ago
> Do you have a vested interest in purism? He works for them.
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by wott 7y ago
The track record of Software startupers/leaders/influencers/whatever going Hardware, boasting with overconfidence before even starting, is abysmal.
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by wott 7y ago
> This seems pretty formal/professional for an HN comment. That's pretty much n-gate summary format :-)

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