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by zepearl 5y ago
Expanding: > The most significant change is the elimination of local or “offline” accounts within Windows 10 Home—a fact that we were told in July and appears still to be the case. At present, Windows 11 Home PCs must be set up and adm
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by zepearl 5y ago
Sorry, I didn't read your 20-pages presentation. I deal from time to time with people from Poland: some do really want to be helpful + are extremely competent + take over ownership/responsibility, others are the opposite => up
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by zepearl 5y ago
> Eastern Europe companies flood the rest of the EU with slave like, very cheap truck drivers that have no choice or see their families starve... Sorry, downvoted you even if I'm aware of such companies being extremely cheap (open
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by zepearl 5y ago
Thanks a lot for the link - the article is very long, but it was interesting. I agree with it. My father (retired) used to work for a logistics company, he was one of those who organized the deliveries (get new clients, write down proposals
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by zepearl 5y ago
I think that Matt Levine ( https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe... ) some time ago mentioned a similar case? A CEO being as well a shareholder of the company wears 2 hats => as CEO
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by zepearl 5y ago
Correct + wanted to mention that "lightweight/point-deletes" might come as a new feature. Initial discussion: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/19627 Being implemented: https:&#x
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by zepearl 5y ago
Same here - I absolutely don't understand how major manufacturers can completely ignore this market niche. With all existing Android users, even if just 0.1% would like to have a keyboard you would still have a business ( https:/
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by zepearl 5y ago
> I've spent about 1 month to test how scrapy could be a fit for our purposes. And, quite surprisingly, it was hard to design a distributed web crawler. Scrapy is great for those in-the-middle tasks where you need to crawl a bit +
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by zepearl 5y ago
Question not related to the article: does anybody have hints or a link to some page explaining how to set up Linux so that it uses swap reaaally only if there is almost no free RAM available? I have a few private servers & VMs, all havi
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by zepearl 5y ago
As well funny, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-144#Early_flights : > ...an alarm siren went off immediately after takeoff, with sound and volume similar to that of a civil defence warning. The crew co
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by zepearl 5y ago
Ok, I just doublechecked and I must state that the cursor does appear again if I shake violently the remote (never noticed this since I bought the TV hehe) - if I just move it, put it into my pocket and run with it etc... it does not appear
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by zepearl 5y ago
Agree - a rolling-release-distribution (e.g. Gentoo, which is the one I'm using) can update anytime any software/program to any major higher version (which might have "breaking" changes) anytime => I never do any upda
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by zepearl 5y ago
I did use the AUR a few years ago when I was installing some Kodi component on an Arch distro, but I wasn't thrilled about it. I personally prefer Gentoo's way: user-owned "overlib"s for special stuff (and you would chec
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by zepearl 5y ago
You're not wrong (you're probably right in the context of the article which focuses on "desktop from MacOS"), but in my opinion here we're once more generalizing too much => I think that being happy with Linux an
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by zepearl 5y ago
It's switched on after powering up the TV, but then I just press twice the down-arrow on the remote and then the cursor disappears and appears only if I use the scroll wheel (which I never do)... .
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by zepearl 5y ago
> Is there not room for a middle ground here? Probably difficult. If I would do <something> it would trigger some sort of chain reaction => probably difficult to keep it contained => I would have to try to at least act slow
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by zepearl 5y ago
Well, I can change the way I think/do stuff (I can write "1234" or "4321", no problem) but what I meant was basically "for me to make sense, byte-endianness should be aligned to bit-endianness"... . To me
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by zepearl 5y ago
Happy to read about your efforts trying to investigate the issue :) Personally, I think that there are 2 separate issues: displaying/generating such a panel (including a pic) + the correctness of the informations displayed/generat
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by zepearl 5y ago
Tesla making superchargers available as well to cars made by other manufacturers could become an interesting development, at least during the early days. Having read during the past months/years that Tesla's chargers are very reli
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by zepearl 5y ago
This might be the most stupid question of 2021, anyway, here it is: but in little-endian systems the order of the individual bits in a byte is still (kind of) big-endian, with the most meaningful bit on the left, right? Personally I always
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by zepearl 5y ago
> I the thing that I was surprised the most to hear was that those skyscrapers sewage is carried by trucks outside Dubai and dumped who knows where. Mmmhh, does not seem to be 100% correct? At least not in relation to the Burj Khalifa
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by zepearl 5y ago
Same opinion, I would say "it depends". Personally I like Gentoo on the desktop especially in relation to when I code (e.g. very handy to be able to easily switch SW-versions of some packages while always using the same repository
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by zepearl 5y ago
I think that I agree, hoping that if I understood your comment correctly the crucial factor is "time"?
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by zepearl 5y ago
> During our 60 day experiment, inside that window of time we had a split of customers that received a video, and those that didn't. >* - Of those that didn't receive a personalized video from me, only 3.75% purchased fr
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by zepearl 5y ago
I absolutely agree - same thing like when I get from some co-workers a reply to an email and after the body's reply I see each time the same thing (e.g. "Thank you. John"), identical to all other replies that I got previously
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by zepearl 5y ago
I agree - it's probably not nice/elegant/whatever to use hints, but my opinion is that a query planner cannot probably cover 100% of all possible combinations of layouts/queries/data => not having the possibility
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by zepearl 5y ago
No prod environment. Anyway just fyi: currently having 2 root servers in germany and 1 in Finland. If I remember correctly I had within 8-10 years at least once a full unexpected shutdown of a server (don't honestly remember how long i
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by zepearl 5y ago
> I understand it is possible to get fired as a customer if your support burden is too high and your ROI goes negative, so be on your best behavior to keep access to those prices. That's not a nice statement. It sounds like Hetzn
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by zepearl 5y ago
> Everyone still needs an IPv4 to the outside world for compatibility... Is this really true/correct? Assuming that an ISP would implement a pure IPv6-network for its customers, wouldn't their customers by typing on their PCs
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by zepearl 5y ago
> but only one ISP natively supports IPv6 Personally I'm using as a provider "solnet.ch" (I'm their customer since a very long time and so far I'm very happy with them - it's a small provider headquartered

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