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by zaat 7y ago
E-books do have some benefits. To list a few: they require much less weight and space, they are searchable, they offer dictionary and they can be delivered to you in seconds regardless of your location.
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by zaat 7y ago
While you are on it, see also the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areni-1_shoe
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Areni-1 Winery(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by zaat 7y ago|1 comments
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by zaat 7y ago
Can be a lot worse, the CEO in a company I used to work at asked a group of IT people why are you guys not successful like WhatsApp, you are the same number of people (it was just after their exit)? None of the people in the room were emplo
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by zaat 7y ago
Perhaps off-topic / nitpicking, but is Russia considered first world? By the original definition Russia is _the_ second world, and I'm not sure that it is a first world now.
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by zaat 7y ago
Universal Time Clock
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by zaat 7y ago
The difference is in fraction of seconds, from the parent link: > The term GMT is now more commonly used to refer to the time zone at the prime meridian (0° longitude), in which case it is being used as a local representation of Coordina
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by zaat 7y ago
I found it terrible, not only because of the surplus personality, but due to aesthetic and readability issues. Readability - the r looks to me closer to an i, not the i of this font but a generic i, I find it confusing and it slows me down.
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by zaat 7y ago
>At the core, every sentient being loves being alive, and every mind wishes to be immortal, and not be lonely. This is a strong universal claim about a fact, and I'm pretty sure that it is not true. While probably generally true for
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by zaat 7y ago
Probably because a lot of people on the internet are not native English speakers, and so struggle to see the difference between "cat" and "code".
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by zaat 7y ago
Surely by now very few feels any sensitivity regarding Rome's Aquila.
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by zaat 7y ago
With all due respect, the fact that you have doesn't remotly imply that any remote developer is doomed to fail.
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by zaat 7y ago
For the uninitiated, MCU is not Marvel Cinematic Universe as the search results might try to confuse you. It's Minimum Coded Units, and a nice explanation is over here: > https://www.impulseadventure.com/photo/ro
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by zaat 7y ago
In my view responding immediately with clear clarification of the degree of the code openness, right under the title of the website, places this into this as something which isn't remotely disingenuous. In my view seeing this as dising
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by zaat 7y ago
You can fall to whatever side you wish, but calling someone disingenuous for siding otherwise does not show much of, indeed, goodwill, nor is it just.
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by zaat 7y ago
> Conversely, Richard Stallman argues the obvious meaning of term "open source" is that the source code is public/accessible for inspection, without necessarily any other rights granted, although the proponents of the term
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by zaat 7y ago
Good old Wikipedia have some more info, filed under flippy disk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk_variants#Flippy_di...
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by zaat 7y ago
Newer floppy drives had heads on both sides, you didn't need to flip the floppy and single write protection hole were used for both sides.
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by zaat 7y ago
Just a small correction: >on Windows you need to download and update it manually you don't need to update it manually, it will show a popup that an update is available and will update itself once approved.
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by zaat 7y ago
I don't know why you got the impression that I'm somehow bashing Microsoft here. I don't think Microsoft have much better approach, having decide to move on from IE and their previous generation stacks. Anyway, running IE wit
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by zaat 7y ago
Someone did, yes: https://twitter.com/RichLeighPR/status/1037066048485371905
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by zaat 7y ago
Interesting. I wonder how compatible the mode will be and with which version. Going to research it, thanks for pointing this out! edit: oh well, nothing is solved: When these web sites are viewed in Microsoft Edge (Chromium), a full instan
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by zaat 7y ago
These old systems I see at gov and enterprise customers are rarely replaced when no one maintains them, they are held running by small miracles and large stitches. In many non-tech large organizations there are too many legacy systems for a
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by zaat 7y ago
Plugging a SSD to a new server and restoring a file should take few minutes, since the filesystem table is accessible instantly. With tapes you either have the catalog saved outside the media or you need to read it from the media. Depends o
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by zaat 7y ago
You are confusing KDE with X11, which is maintained by Red Hat and was announced as going into maintenance mode in favor of Wayland.
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by zaat 7y ago
That's essentially what most backup software is doing. Restoring the index database from the tape and matching the physical tapes in the set to their logical names in the index gets complex and time consuming when you have many tapes i
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by zaat 7y ago
That will solve his problem, but there are millions of employees out there relying on the same old stack and it isn't going to be replaced in the next few years, despite the failing support and the better alternatives. Replacing all th
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by zaat 7y ago
Few hours of latency are expected when backups stretch across multiple tapes and recatalog of the tapes is required (the original backup server is dead). Having to do it manually with a single reader because your tape library is dead will s
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DAU Project(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by zaat 7y ago|0 comments
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by zaat 7y ago
And who would you blame for the popularity of wooden toy swords? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-roman-cavalry...

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