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by zajio1am 5y ago
> But underscore separates fields, hyphens for space replacement But why not the other way, hyphen-minus for separating fields and underscore for space replacement? That seems to me more consistent with how underscores and dashes are use
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by zajio1am 5y ago
There is also issue that SSD write is much slower than even HDD write once internal buffers are saturated, and has unpleasant consequences. When my system got thrashing (droping hot pages) due to memory pressure in a limited cgroup, i see c
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> Early in the morning and late in the evening That is solvable problem. Much worse issue is that in mid lattitudes (e.g. central Europe) it is not available (or just marginal) most of winter.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
IMO strict memory accounting misses the point. It can ensure that all allocated pages fits to VM (or return error during allocation), but more pragmatic memory constraint is whether working set of pages (including code/mmap-based pages
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> but in practice with UNIX socket, you have issues like "which instance owns the socket", "how are the requests distributed", "how does an instance know the current handler died" While bus-based publish-sub
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Hmm, so it would not work on systems without DBus? If that is unix app, why not just use unix socket?
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Homebrew hacking of ultralight airplanes (including homebuilt planes) is common here in Czechia, legislation is much less restrictive than for homebrew hacking of cars.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Many EE countries are already in EU, their citizens do not need to go through ruthless rules and bureaucracy to live in Germany, they just need to find any work there.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Is this really different than say vegetarian being demanded to take work in slaughterhouse?
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by zajio1am 5y ago
It is interesting that female-named languages from your examples generally use first-name, while male-named languages generally use surname.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
I would expect that when returned clothing is not restocked, then it is at least sold to second-hand shops. They often offer newly-looking goods.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
No. OSPF and IS-IS really works by communicating the network topology and then each node independently computing shortest path route selection. But BGP (and also RIP and Babel) works by a distributed algorithm, where each node selects best
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> Why are we vendor locked into GNU? Why are we still pretending that’s good or not as evil as the vendor lock-in measures taken by Google, MS, or Apple? Landmining your userland and C Standard Library with extensions is exactly what MS
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> unwrapped markdown in a line-wrapping text editor But editing text in soft-wrapping editor is distracting (to me), as it continually re-wrap whole paragraph during editation. In hard-wrap text editor i can just edit paragraph and then
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> Until VAAPI support is implemented, videos in Firefox will be unaccelerated. I think it is the same deal for Chrome. That is an issue of Firefox, other software (mplayer, mpv) support VAAPI for many years. And with youtube-dl integrati
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> The usefulness of hardware acceleration for video decoding is highly debatable. Disagree. On low-end hardware the advantages are clear. On my older Intel NUC i can play 1080p H.264 (using mpv) hw-accelerated with 15% cpu load, or softw
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> Here in UK if a company wants to charge you regularly for anything they have to start something called a "direct debit" on your bank account - then they can withdraw money from your account whenever they see fit Here in Czech
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> The story i've heard is that the olden days, operating a computer was seen as clerical work, just like being a secretary, so ideally suited to women. The fact is that in the old days, there really was plenty of clerical work aroun
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by zajio1am 5y ago
That is a minor issue. Most public healthcare systems are not british-style NHS, and healthcare providers (doctors, hospitals) are independent of healthcare payers (public health insurance orgs) and are often private. The main advantage of
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> personally given the option between spending 14 days in a fully catered quarantine hotel room, versus spending 14 days in the comfort of my own house with a big backyard, my home office, my workshop and music instruments etc, with only
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> If the rate is set to change at some point, you can't really call it a fixed rate, can you? Hence, fixed versus variable. Fixed rate mortage has fixed percentage for an agreed period of time (fixation duration). Variable rate mor
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> More social housing fixes the underlying supply issue. How could social housing fix the issue? The underlying issue is too many obstructions to building new houses, which restrict supply. If commercially motivated developers cannot bui
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> Loads of dictatorships and single-party oligarchies have undemocratic constitutions. In many cases the issue is opposite. Many populist autocrats abuse democracies with constitution that can be changed too easily, so after one big win
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Not really blog post, but a newspaper article (in 1990s) about GNU project (and project Gutenberg), that radically changed my attitude to software.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> Resources are finite, we are already straining our eco-systems to (and beyond) the breaking point. That has simple solution - you could have either life extension or children, but not both.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Simple solution, just disable use of custom fonts in browser preferences, to force use of configured system fonts.
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New EU Law Removes Digital Privacy(patrick-breyer.de)
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> Actually intuitive I would say that 'discoverable' is much more important and also better defined than 'intuitive'.
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Depends on house type. For american-style wooden houses that might be true, but where buildings are built primarily using concrete with outer insulation, their thermal mass and inertia is much bigger.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Does anyone really think of Germany as "bastion of free speech"? It is one of few european countries that still have (actively used) anti-blasphemy laws[1] and laws against insulting foreign leaders[2]. [1] https://frie

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