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by wott 6y ago
> The irony of the GPL hate, is that without GNU we would just be using the usual UNIX flavours, with everyone taking whatever they felt like from BSD, as it was happening before Linux came into play. More like: a small part of the pro
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by wott 6y ago
Well, in this kind of case (which happens twice a week on the whole Web), most commenters side automatically with the first person who talks, as if it was gospel, especially these days when the person poses as a victim (it is normal, the bu
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by wott 6y ago
> Now are they just going to fly the route half empty? Flying full but with half the frequency achieves the same result.
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by wott 6y ago
> It sounds like this person got sick of “Sea Lioning” It's more like some other people got sick of that guy coming up with baseless assumptions, and (more importantly) baseless assertions, in order to support his goals; and a few o
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by wott 6y ago
> As a live theatre industry professional, movie theaters will go the way of theatre, They've already gone that way, in part, particularly during the 60s, 70s and 80s when a large share of cinemas closed. Then it sort of stabilised,
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by wott 6y ago
Yes, I wish it was still like that, with those de facto standards (NE2000, SB / SB Pro2, and we could add VGA/Vesa) that HW manufacturers cared to clone or later emulate. That's what I call the golden age of the DOS days (lat
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by wott 6y ago
He has put in his article a link to the Wikipedia definition of 'Forcing' (and once there, there is a link to a book describing techniques). edit: sorry, I hadn't refreshed and seen the other 2 replies before I replied myself
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by wott 6y ago
> Like for example the usage of @, which AFAIK was only used for e-mail because there was no other free char on the developers keyboard available. '@' meant 'at' looong before e-mail was invented.
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by wott 6y ago
> I sometimes feel like Mozilla knows exactly what features I love and then they go one by one and remove them [...] because "nobody use this anyways" It sounds like the bus network reorganisations in the city where I used to
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by wott 6y ago
> The bigger issue is most of us said/did dumb shit 20+ years ago, but luckily there was no widespread put everything on the internet movement Well, I found some of my conversations on BBSs or Fidonet from over 25 years ago are now
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by wott 6y ago
If that demographics shares the mentality of seeing work as a place to "hang out with friends", it might not be surprising that when control, hierarchical and peer pressure incentives get loose, the same people consider being at h
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by wott 6y ago
I think I remember this name from my Usenet days. That could be the guy who was known for asking to be banned from Usenet :-)
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by wott 6y ago
> It was at a university and the union is called in France CGT. As a mostly labourer union, CGT is a minority in universities, especially among teachers and researchers (less so in administrative and maintenance departments).
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by wott 6y ago
> Its a suggestion to fix the awkwardness, one that will never get approved You were courageous to even try :-) From their refusal to see any use in explicit variables declarations, their (somewhat related) huge scope debacle, to its str
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by wott 6y ago
Note that he didn't say over paying, just paying. It is true that in all organisations (including those associations), as time passes, professionalisation progresses, headcount raises, administrative and secondary tasks develop; and s
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by wott 6y ago
> The $ and @ that folks complain about are pretty handy tools to convey what the variable holds. It doesn't convey much. $scalar or @array, that's all. An array is always an array of scalars. Scalar can be almost anything: any
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by wott 6y ago
I guess they are busy removing colours, removing reliefs, removing textures.
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by wott 6y ago
> I switched from Github to Gitlab after this change Ah ah. You didn't believe you could run away, did you? https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/03/10/new-git-default-bra...
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by wott 6y ago
I recently tried to revive a Netbook. It has very limited vertical space. I had to get rid of almost all programs that used modern GTK. One major problem was dialogues windows, typically options setting dialogues. They were too big and the
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by wott 6y ago
I really don't like this kind of in-between. * You're still stuck having to live near your work place (unless you are one of the few people who enjoy extra-long commutes). * You need to have your stuff in two places, or move it se
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by wott 6y ago
> Also 25 minute commute means 50 minutes out of the day, every workday. Yes, that sums up to over 4 hours per week, i.e. half a working day.
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by wott 6y ago
For those who wonder, the extract comes from https://github.com/mortdeus/legacy-cc/blob/ccbe90a2803e2cc7e... IMO, it is close to Assembly: * you reserve space and possibly set an original value with "hsh
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by wott 6y ago
Yes and no. Nowadays, a lot of the anti-doping control relies on monitoring variations in levels of this and that and punishing abnormal variations (biological passport). Only rare idiots could get caught by showing huge absolute levels
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by wott 6y ago
On Reddit: 1. Many posts & comments are still longer than 3 half-lines, which is the upper limit of what a journalist can read (journalists like the 'journalists' who spend their time looking for something juicy on Twitter&#x2
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by wott 6y ago
> Sending people who don't know why they've been put forward for a job under false pretences [...] Isn't this called 'consulting'?
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by wott 6y ago
> They used to have all those O'Reilly and EFF stickers, and working at a help desk at the time, it felt very authentic. Then everything got super nice in season 2 -- leather couches, people were dressing nicely, etc. It kind of los
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by wott 6y ago
Like the others, I guess: streams of wata.
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by wott 6y ago
Globals like a and b are fields of the singleton, not instance of singleton(s). The global space is the singleton (or a juxtaposition of singletons, if we let aside the lack of visibility protection), and global variables and functions are
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by wott 6y ago
> I've seen that fun video (in French [1]) where a person asks various advertisers their opinion on the role of advertising in the society, then asks them about an "electric knife" ad that was then running. The cognitive d
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by wott 6y ago
> But we have made some progress in part because when someone said something "offensive" to their coworker or acuiantance the offended party told that person to stop. It has been a while since last time it was the actual offen

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