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by wott 7y ago
> Yeah, a 16K Spartan 6, 64MBytes of DDR3 RAM, and an FX2LP USB High-Speed controller The last one alone, CY7C68013(A) has always been an expensive chip (like $10 a piece if you just want a few). What is funny is that I wasn't aware
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by wott 7y ago
> All I can tell you is that it would probably be judged hate speech in France and fined if said publicly. Extremely unlikely. Members of the P.I.R. (black/arab racialist party) and other organisations who swim in the same waters ha
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by wott 7y ago
It is very difficult to explain something which was obvious to you. Often you would not know how to decompose it, and above all, you would not know the pain points the others encounter, and why those points are painful. Teaching is a trade,
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by wott 7y ago
They obviously make up the remaining 1%.
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by wott 7y ago
I can't see the hamburger menu. But here is the upper part of what I can see: https://imgur.com/eRFnDo6 Isn't is beautiful? How the image layer is put over half of the text line? Oh, and the right part (white back
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by wott 7y ago
> What today is Germany used to be about 100 separate nations until 1871, and a still somewhat loose federation until 1918. I think the mentality from that time is still pervasive today in many areas, particularly in bureaucracy. Hmm...
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by wott 7y ago
> For example this one: Those are not just rumours. The CEO said they have to add heat pipes in next iteration. He also said he had to charge the phone twice a day (and all or almost all of Lunduke's pictures are taken with a phone
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by wott 7y ago
> I'm a bit "ehhh" on someone publishing an interview to trash one of the very small handful of companies trying to upend the Android nightmare. If it can wash the naivety away from many people's (and customers')
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by wott 7y ago
> The CGI example is straight copy/pasted from the official Perl guide I don't know any official Perl guide? This is a blog post. The illustration image (I gather this is what confused you) is from a 1998 book...
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by wott 7y ago
And your first friendly act is to 'friendly' take control of the organisation someone else built to host you. That opens a whole perspective of refreshing friendlyism.
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by wott 7y ago
> the leaders of the various GNU projects The leaders of selected GNU projects who were likely to share the same opinion and sign. Others were not even informed of this initiative that kind of poses as speaking in their name.
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by wott 7y ago
> At least the FSF acknowledges the existence (!) of RMS and asserts its will to continue working together Actually, no, because a coup was simultaneously launched inside GNU to take control of RMS' own project: https:/&#x2F
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by wott 7y ago
>> The world is not functional > What does this even mean? If the world is not functional, then what is it? The world is full of special cases, of corner cases, of exceptions, of holes, of particular conditions, of differences
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by wott 7y ago
I have been doing that for the last 40 years, give me $4M! But if fixing other people's phone counts, I'm out of luck.
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by wott 7y ago
Oh no, my consumption figures are from the bill and they have been pretty stable for many years. They have just massively raised the fixed (subscription) and variable (cubic meter) prices. Why I said I had no idea why, I meant "why the
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by wott 7y ago
> I think my water costs me about £16 per month for 3 of us (me, partner and step-son), if that doubled I wouldn't even notice it set against our other outgoings, For the same kind of household, our yearly bill went from €115 to €41
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by wott 7y ago
Do not forget that you need about 5 employees to fill a single 24/24 365/365 work position. About 3 for a 2x8 position.
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by wott 7y ago
Well... one may read this without irony, given that a large part of the problems users encounter actually comes from the package manager (and the applications packaging) of their distro, and a large part of the bloat is coming from their de
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by wott 7y ago
The 'configuration' is like 3 lines, just telling to use dmix.. pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm "plug:dmix" }
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by wott 7y ago
> Even if it goes wrong, as long as you can roll back to yesterday's build, you are OK. Except that when the versions are coming out too quickly, you don't know to which version you should roll back, because it took longer to e
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by wott 7y ago
And this supposed marketing advantage only lasted for the first handful of releases, when numbers where under or around 10. Now numbers are so big that they have become totally insignificant. 57? 63? 98? who cares any more? Furthermore, as
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by wott 7y ago
> If you take EU 17 is age of consent in all countries There is no age of consent in France. (However there are aggravating thresholds if there was a crime: under 18 if committed by someone with authority over the victim, under 15 for
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by wott 7y ago
> He doesn't have any issue with corps taking over the FOSS world as long as it compiles on trisquel and comes with a free license. The attitude you describe is much more represented by Linus Torvalds, and by the BSD folks, than by
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by wott 7y ago
I mean, they had been almost openly doing it for over 30 years...
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by wott 7y ago
> What happened to European drivers? I don't know. That's crazy. In the last 5 years, the vehicle fleet has changed faster than it ever did before. In my rural area, it's now SUV everywhere (not yet American-size SUV, but
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by wott 7y ago
I found this updated version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C... Their expenses have doubled in less than 5 years... Even if their ratio Expenses / Assets has now decreased compar
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by wott 7y ago
We live in very regressive times in that respect. As kids, we used to read and watch books and series and movies which mostly were originally intended for adults (I don't pretend that we didn't read any children literature or watc
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by wott 7y ago
> I have no idea what the CPAN of today is like, but back in the mid-late 90's it was horribly unreliable. There were dozens, if not hundreds of modules that did the same thing, and a lot of them had major bugs. Well, the main cha
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by wott 7y ago
Yes for Perl 5->7, but it would be good to have a solid-ish feature change or addition to justify the jump and promote it. When I see that we still don't have a simple "is item 'in' set" operator, 12 (?) years af
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by wott 7y ago
Well, Thunderbird has been taken over by people who aim at 2 goals: * replace internals with more Web tech (I say more, because Thunderbird unfortunately already used some); * 'modernize' the interface. So you can abandon all hope

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