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by wott 7y ago
> Yes, it's quite a pity that Microsoft didn't put some weight behind it. It causes a never ending amount of pain to the average users too. Yes, I never understood why this was never improved across the years (and systems). The
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by wott 7y ago
Well, like I, they simply launch "Search for new updates" and "Install new updates", and each of those operations can take dozens of minutes. I mean, in the lucky cases the first one completes. The downloading step is th
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by wott 7y ago
Perhaps it is not the taste but the shape/size and consistency of the boiled grain. For those who don't know, it looks like Kellogg's Smacks, but more chewy, and it can feel a bit strange to chew or to swallow. I like it as w
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by wott 7y ago
Oh yes, I have heard that too. Following a bit the same kind of logic, I often hear people complaining "Phew, enough with this bad weather!", when, after a series of 8 dry hot sunny days, it has been raining only for a half-day (a
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by wott 7y ago
Isn't the most of the Midwest already in normal times quite hot in the summer? I mean, in my European eyes looking at weather stations reports and temperatures maps, 95% of the US land is too hot in the summer, and the Midwest climate
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by wott 7y ago
> And the later are, as close as possible, focused on repairing the problem, not punishing. From the list, it seems that many belong to the "an eye for an eye" category rather than to the "repairing a problem" categor
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by wott 7y ago
> You must have your plans approved Oh, plans. Right, and then half of the shops put a (real steel) chain and padlock (or a large piece of furniture) on the emergency exit, or they use the exit stairway as storage. But indeed on the pl
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by wott 7y ago
we definitely aren't hurting for dogs or more humans. Especially not the one dog which bit me in the calf a couple of hours ago, or the idiot owner who was 10 yards away and did not even try to call it back, not before, not during, n
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by wott 7y ago
> so how on earth did "The system becomes irrecoverably unresponsive if a single application uses too much RAM" get missed? I don't know, there are/were several similar issues (very basic situations, frequently enco
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by wott 7y ago
> in banks in the last 5 years, where they have replaced dense powerful beautiful text based interfaces with giant versions of their mobile apps. huge buttons, minimal screen density. You forgot to mention that they load progressively
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by wott 7y ago
Also the main issue I see with 'modern' Linux ecosystem actors, is that they usually do not put on the 'market' a new product that they developed (from scratch or after forking a traditional one); instead they first take
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by wott 7y ago
> I've mostly made this for use with my actual (paid) project work, so the idea was I 'might as well share'. Have you made sure you got authorisation to release the code, or that you were in a case where you didn't ne
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by wott 7y ago
> if its needed we can add taxes ... in the bill You should check the related laws to produce compliant bills. I don't know about the US and its various state laws, but in my country, such pieces of informations are mandatory on bil
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by wott 7y ago
> displayport [...] royalty-free. If I remember correctly (and that's a big if ), DisplayPort started royalty-free but then they introduced royalties. From my blurry memory: I checked once many years ago and it was free, but then I
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by wott 7y ago
> "Maker Faire" (with the weird olde english "e" at the end) 'Faire' is simply French for 'to do' or... 'to make'.
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by wott 7y ago
This is another unfortunate consequence of the disastrous American typographical perversion of Putting Capitals on Almost Every Word in a Title (Often in an inconsistent Way To Add Insult To Injury).
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by wott 8y ago
> But now with books, panels, displays, packaging, signs, internet, GPS, etc., we have access to a huge quantity of information without having to talk to each others. Very true. And not only information but 'stuff' as well: we
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by wott 8y ago
Well, in those days IRL, everyone's name, address and phone number were publicly available in the phone book, you would answer all phone calls without knowing who was calling, and it wasn't a problem is it was someone you didn&#x2
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by wott 8y ago
> They said the participants slept only five hours a night for weekdays. 8 hours is the generally recommended amount for a good nights sleep, so to truly bring balance to that schedule, they'd have a 15 hour sleep-debt to make up o
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by wott 8y ago
> Anecdotally, I feel as though i have a stronger recall of negative experiences than equivalently good ones. It is the same for me, but I noticed I was the odd one, almost all around me follow the 'rule': they forget about m
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by wott 8y ago
Especially since you're drunk/high or will be very soon and won't be able to remember any more complex code.
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by wott 8y ago
> a bracelet is less likely to get lost or stolen. You meant 'more', right?
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by wott 8y ago
> So, making good content that happens to span multiple episodes? That's the kind of engagement I really don't have an issue with. No, it doesn't mean "good content" at all (it can accidentally be good content,
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by wott 8y ago
The dark pattern is series themselves. 1. They are massively produced and have replaced many other programs. There is always new content available, you can spend your life watching 3 new episodes an evening. 2. They are in fact not series a
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by wott 8y ago
I wonder what the results would be if they included grand-parents (and similar close relatives) in the count of time spent. Because parents are not the only close adults being able to provide a 'parental' role of supervision and c
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by wott 8y ago
Not exactly. The sharpest drop happened "thanks to" the financial crisis, and after that, it has been bouncing up and down depending on the year. The overall trend is downwards though. But not enough, by far.
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by wott 8y ago
I don't know... I had only heard praises like yours on that subject, but I have a T410 and I am really not happy about the access: * plenty of screws, * same-looking screws with different length (I won't disassemble it one more ti
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by wott 8y ago
Why? People have been raising or fattening a pig in their yard for ages. One or two pigs a year, add a couple of chickens on top of that, and here we go.
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by wott 8y ago
> *Our way of life just doesn't support hyper local governments [...] No one has the stomach or the constitution to go back to being local farmers. Er... guys, your American states are as large as European countries (the largest one
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by wott 8y ago
Please leave my local cousine alone, even if she is in the cuisine ;-)

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