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by zepearl 7y ago
If this https://orbmedia.org/stories/plus-plastic/ is the website that posted the results (weird site - what's with all those huge/fancy animations?): I keep seeing small plastic bottles (in the animatio
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by zepearl 7y ago
Just fyi in Switzerland I see the two main supermarkets (Migros & Coop) selling it only in plastic bottles.
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by zepearl 7y ago
> This also makes sense to me since San Pellegrino has the lowest profile, and often comes in glass. No mention of which variant(s) (glass, plastic, both?) were tested, right? (or I haven't been able to find the statement)
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by zepearl 7y ago
Damn, now I'm ashamed of myself - it's since forever that I'm using rsync... :) I think that when I tested this with rsync a long time back I did a similar mistake like this one https://stackoverflow.com/quest
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by zepearl 7y ago
Thx for the definitions - useful/interesting (but I did not doublecheck them, hehe) :) > which requires minimal integration with the vehicle My guess: maybe VW is scared of a potential "which CURRENTLY requires minimal integra
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by zepearl 7y ago
> I don’t know why this comment is getting downvoted. I guess that it's because it doesn't relate to the context/spirit of the parent comment.
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by zepearl 7y ago
Cool => I'll then probably reformat on my root server the partition hosting the images of my VMs from EXT4 to XFS => then to make 100% backups from time to time I would just have to shut them down for a minute, do a "cp --re
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by zepearl 7y ago
Could be related to what mentioned here (Volkswagen explaining why it's developing its own SW): https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/09/volkswagen-audi-porsche... But really be careful how much Android you
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by zepearl 7y ago
Questions about "cp --reflink" (I have never used that option so far, but it sounds useful). Quoting "man": "When --reflink[=always] is specified, perform a lightweight copy, where the data blocks are copied only
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by zepearl 7y ago
:) Regenerative braking when the arm of the HDD starts getting near the target track.
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by zepearl 7y ago
In general I like more the classic/old way of versioning the releases, like for example "1.2.2" which has some embedded meaning of what is changing (e.g. <major_change>.<minor_change>.<bugfix>) which hints a
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by zepearl 7y ago
> actual internet address of a company, like a street address of a store. google.com is equal to streetname.number Ok, thanks a lot for that, that part might work (I read all the rest but this might be the best foundation) => I might
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by zepearl 7y ago
Thx for the interesting link but A) as highlighted by kkarakk it's a bit old and B) as far as I understand it's a post from a single customer/client without comparisons => are there any kind of statistics?
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by zepearl 7y ago
Thx
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by zepearl 7y ago
Really?! ".io" is used quite a lot (subjectively) => I thought that in general all top-level domains were reliable... . Any kind of additional info like what kind of reliability issues, how often, etc....?
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by zepearl 7y ago
> They type the domain name into the Google search home page, not the URL bar for the browser. I can confirm it - my father keeps doing that (I keep postponing this therefore very soon I'll have to try to explain him the difference,
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by zepearl 7y ago
I agree. I used to have a dash ("-") in my domain name and all my friends and colleagues (italians, french, germans) hated it (I ended up hating it as well when having to type it on the phone) => don't ever use these kind
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by zepearl 7y ago
Yeah, and in my experience especially for anything that is extremely time-critical + has the potential to generate huge in/direct losses. For example at the end of each day a bank has to generate the final balances of the accounts that
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by zepearl 7y ago
I agree => small question: in this context wouldn't "diversification" be more appropriate than "competition"?
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by zepearl 7y ago
Just fyi I used d3.js back in 2016 and it was already at that time very nice, but I always had problems to keep control of it (a lot of code and the end-results sometimes didn't work 100% as intended as my code did not cover all possib
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by zepearl 7y ago
I used to run postfix/ssmtp/etc on Gentoo. From time to time, when updating the single components, something stopped working and then I had to quickly debug and find a fix. In the end it was too much time-consuming for me to maint
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by zepearl 7y ago
Great, this makes me happy:) Thanks a lot for mentioning the interesting details!
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by zepearl 7y ago
Just asking: the new plans of "Owncloud" won't have any repercussion on "Nextcloud", right? Question based on 1) the fact that Nextcloud is a fork of Owncloud and 2) this post... https://owncloud.com&#x2F
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by zepearl 7y ago
I guess that one of the real problem are the recurring yearly fixed & variable costs of the facility after it has been built (which is often "forgotten" by the politician/s that try to push a project to get votes), which
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by zepearl 7y ago
Just yesterday I downloaded a couple of kind-of-documentary-videos from Youtube about submarines, for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwTS3FYGhOc (the doc itself is not great but the resolution/detail of the vi
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by zepearl 7y ago
I used to use Enlightenment e16. Then some months ago e16 was superseded by e17 (with the various versions 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22) => e17 is very nice but I never ever managed to run a bug-free version of it (they could rename the softwa
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by zepearl 7y ago
Thx for the Patreon link :)
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by zepearl 7y ago
I have just noticed that the Volvo V60 twin-engine (hybrid) is not listed on their US nor UK sub-websites - I wonder why...? (it is listed e.g. on their Swiss and German sub-sites) https://www.volvocars.com
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by zepearl 7y ago
What about "Suse"? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUSE ) I understood that it's often used in corporations as an alternative for RedHat => maybe Suse will have to merge as well with some other compan
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by zepearl 7y ago
I agree & I add: - some components of their EPM-software-suite have miserable error/warning/info messages (cryptic, misleading, etc) or even no message at all (making you erroneously think that doing something went well even i

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