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by yason 2y ago
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by yason 2y ago
And Streisand effect is in... effect. Next this Tom Evans get rossmanned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJYIhLQJtTs
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by yason 2y ago
This is the license equivalent of a specific automotive spare part for an old car where the dealer asks $1300 for it just to say they don't want to stock and sell those. "Yeah, it's available, sure, but...you don't want
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by yason 2y ago
Which modern cars, for example? As far as I know the era of positive ground vehicles ended roughly during the fifties, and very much by the sixties at the latest.
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by yason 2y ago
Because this is Microsoft we shall apply Gates' razor and must thus conclude that "never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice".
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by yason 2y ago
I cringe whenever I think how blazing fast things could be today if only we hadn't bloated the web by 1000x. In the dial-up era things used to be unworldly fast merely by getting access to something like 10M ethernet. Now mobile connec
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by yason 2y ago
RAII is just automation and semantic sugar for something like this (or the equivalent set of goto labels that do the freeing at the end of the function): { void *buffer = malloc(SIZE_MAX); if (buffer) { if (!do_stu
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by yason 3y ago
Last time I tried Gnome I was struggling with the inability to remap shortcuts to clear a way for using my Emacs bindings without the desktop interfering. The ctrl-shift-f for a global search sounds like a generally bad idea that will confl
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by yason 3y ago
Instead, you are extremely likely to be declined a cup of tea...
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by yason 3y ago
The only destined purpose of a nuclear reactor simulator is to gradually let a massive meltdown happen, with gauges slowly increasing in tandem with thrill in anticipation of the upcoming drama and fireworks until you discover a bit too lat
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by yason 3y ago
In Finland I've been using a similar tool for years now when picking up family members from railways stations and when getting out from the station and out to the platform to board a train: https://www.vr.fi/en/liv
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by yason 3y ago
If I listen to artist 2 only I'd like all my money to go to artist 2, regardless of how popular artist 1 is. That's how it worked with CDs: I buy the band I like and they get whatever pennies the mafia leaves them. But the pennies
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by yason 3y ago
Come on! Of all C/Posix thread-safety issues in circulation this can plausibly be considered the most moot one. Environment variables are not meant to be an inter-thread communication channel and the documentation that points out seten
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by yason 3y ago
I consider it a feature, not a bug. Also read in the dark with a flashlight when I was a kid. I'm writing this near midnight with my wife and our dog soundly asleep. I'll be around for an hour or two until I switch off to sleep my
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by yason 3y ago
Unicode has code points for emojis. You can just use those and they will show up as images, given proper encoding such as utf-8.
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by yason 3y ago
The municipal heating network consists of both cooling and warming networks. Excess heat from, for example, data centers will be used to heat the water. Newer apartments are cooled using cold water from the network in the summer and heated
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by yason 3y ago
All places ever deemed 'good' have had sufficient technological or financial, and above all intellectual barriers of entry that filter out regular joes. BBS's in the 80's. Usenet till the early 90's. WWW till the la
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by yason 3y ago
Try getting off train/tram tracks in snow and ice with traction control off. In many situations you absolutely need to let the wheels slip (but not too much) in order to get around instead of cutting off most of the traction.
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by yason 3y ago
Timing chains used to be a non-service item. Robust metal chain that runs well-oiled inside clean conditions inside the engine: there's not much wear that happens there in the first place. Then they started reducing the amount of mater
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by yason 3y ago
Paper ads in magazines of interests were highly interesting, often useful and in sometimes better than the actual content in the magazine itself. I remember early, search keywords-based textual Google ads still being somewhat interesting, a
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by yason 3y ago
It's well debatable whether it's an improvement per se but merely a choice of competing on an arbitrary metric. It's fine if that's what you want but it's also very much fine to question that. There's nothing i
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by yason 3y ago
Using a better layout engine doesn't mean we couldn't have something similar. In the 90's there were adaptive layout engines that scaled UI elements according to set criteria as the window was resized or font sizes changed. M
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by yason 3y ago
> Some authentic parts break, some inauthentic parts don't. When authentic parts break they can be traced back to the origin, investigated why did they break and what changes are needed in manufacturing to prevent future parts from
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by yason 3y ago
These are two different things. Youtube ads can potentially found in all videos and you don't really have a choice because there's no practical alternative to Youtube. So you either pay or use an adblocker (while it works). There&
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by yason 3y ago
I don't know about your country but here the only people who physically go to the bank are 80+ grannies and granddads who think they're too old to learn this bloody computer stuff, and who are also willing to pay exorbitant 10-30
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by yason 3y ago
If anyone has any idea of where to find that series online, please share. I've been dying to watch it again since I was 10 years old or so but it's such a niche series that I don't think it has had any later distribution in t
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by yason 3y ago
If something is not legally available then copyright law ought to make it eligible for free distribution. The authors nor the rights owners certainly don't see the content making money anymore (or they'd be selling it) and thus th
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by yason 3y ago
You don't march halfway to Moscow, occupy a couple of large cities without much bloodshed, and then turn back just after a quick negotiation. In a single day. Either this is part of the plan of how Prigozhin is managed by Kreml -- and
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by yason 3y ago
In Finland there's a delightful volunteer-driven computing culture and programming magazine called Skrolli and it's the only magazine I've subscribed to since the 1990's when paper computer magazines still held a meaning
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by yason 3y ago
I might be wrong but I think the EU regulation that forced these cookie acceptance forms―I can't remember if it was GDPR or some earlier directive―specifically required that the consent submission may not be automated so that the brows

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