Foreigner from the socialist Nordics here, so perhaps I'm brain washed or something, but I don't get it. After some brief Googling it appears that you mean they have proposed a tax on charging for a service that for…
An alternative take is that we've endured thousands of years of propaganda aimed at keeping women as child bearing, house keeping slaves, and we're finally starting to see the end of that in at least some cultures. But…
Both priests are assumed to understand Latin. The situation they want to avoid is starting up a conversation with someone in a language they don't know. So the options are: 1) Use Polish, with the risk of being rude if…
> But unfortunately these addresses are hard to remember and "nobody" recognizes them when reading examples. How does that matter? The point isn't that the reader should know that "oh, this is a reserved address". The…
Perhaps. But these ones have been around a while. Here's the new HN story, seven years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21263264 Not sure how long you're a startup...
Well, TRAMP was preceded by ange-ftp, which let you edit files remotely over ftp. I was using that in 1995, and I didn't get the impression then that it was brand new, so it had probably been around for a while already.…
Alright. I didn't know that. "Just call them" did not sound like it included any kind of authentication procedure. But giving birthdate (available to anyone via a single query in a public database) and (sometimes?! -…
Not sure how that's relevant. There are computers now. Regulations change with the times. Green lasers weren't controlled in the 1700:s either. Are you comfortable with anybody being able to ring up the hospital and say…
Fairly sure that would be considered a breach of patient confidentiality where I live, at least.
Odd point to raise in a thread about a family killed while waiting at a bus stop in broad daylight. Do you think reflective clothing would have changed the outcome of the event significantly?
I guess there's a difference between talking about how many requests a system is capable of handling, and how many they actually get. At least when i encountered the discussion initially (some thirty years ago) I'd say…
I've got 6.19.8 in stable-backports. I don't know. I don't feel massively outdated.
> Gaming stuff needs a bit more bleeding edge packages. Not sure I agree. I've been gaming on Debian since 2005, and while it certainly was some work in the beginning, it's been pretty painless for the last five years…
Fair enough. Point taken :)
Well, yes, that sentence definitely simplified matters a bit. The fact is though, that those who expressed concerns about Microsoft - in that particular thread, and in others - were generally ridiculed in roughly the…
"You're just a bunch of fanatic, Linux obsessed Microsoft haters living in the past. Microsoft are the good guys now." -- ca. everyone here, during the GitHub acquisition
I once saw this pattern referred to as a bashtag, which I think was an excellent name (no matter if you actually run bash as your shell or not).
> The ~foo as backup convention is not part of any standard. Emacs does foo~ by default, not ~foo. In either case, you're not really supposed to edit files in sites-enabled. That directory is expected to contain…
No. PyPy development was ongoing long before the first release. The first intact commit in the PyPy repo is from February 2003: https://github.com/pypy/pypy/commit/6434e25b53aa307288e5cd8c.... And that commit indicates…
> Even just among devs, even just among devs who truly love programming, most would be doing very different work, and working for different organizations (or none at all) if money weren't the driver. Somehow I can…
ChatGPT has too many users for it to be possible to enforce any kind of rules consistently. I have no opinion on whether OP's story is true or not, but the fact that two ChatGPT users claim to have observed conflicting…
> Or just a long black expressed in a complicated way? Presumably this. Coffee terminology is (apparently) not global. I've never seen the term "long black", and I visit cafés quite a lot. Wikipedia lists it as a thing…
For a while it was seen as an excellent excuse not to. Not joking. These days, the needy on the streets accept our local app based payment system called Swish. Still not joking.
> ignore all alphanumeric characters There's not much left to sort by then, is there?
One of my favorite pieces of game music ever, perhaps only rivaled by Morrowind's. Thanks to your link I also learned that Alex has done some voice acting work, including the voice of Ancano in Skyrim! Thanks for…
Foreigner from the socialist Nordics here, so perhaps I'm brain washed or something, but I don't get it. After some brief Googling it appears that you mean they have proposed a tax on charging for a service that for…
An alternative take is that we've endured thousands of years of propaganda aimed at keeping women as child bearing, house keeping slaves, and we're finally starting to see the end of that in at least some cultures. But…
Both priests are assumed to understand Latin. The situation they want to avoid is starting up a conversation with someone in a language they don't know. So the options are: 1) Use Polish, with the risk of being rude if…
> But unfortunately these addresses are hard to remember and "nobody" recognizes them when reading examples. How does that matter? The point isn't that the reader should know that "oh, this is a reserved address". The…
Perhaps. But these ones have been around a while. Here's the new HN story, seven years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21263264 Not sure how long you're a startup...
Well, TRAMP was preceded by ange-ftp, which let you edit files remotely over ftp. I was using that in 1995, and I didn't get the impression then that it was brand new, so it had probably been around for a while already.…
Alright. I didn't know that. "Just call them" did not sound like it included any kind of authentication procedure. But giving birthdate (available to anyone via a single query in a public database) and (sometimes?! -…
Not sure how that's relevant. There are computers now. Regulations change with the times. Green lasers weren't controlled in the 1700:s either. Are you comfortable with anybody being able to ring up the hospital and say…
Fairly sure that would be considered a breach of patient confidentiality where I live, at least.
Odd point to raise in a thread about a family killed while waiting at a bus stop in broad daylight. Do you think reflective clothing would have changed the outcome of the event significantly?
I guess there's a difference between talking about how many requests a system is capable of handling, and how many they actually get. At least when i encountered the discussion initially (some thirty years ago) I'd say…
I've got 6.19.8 in stable-backports. I don't know. I don't feel massively outdated.
> Gaming stuff needs a bit more bleeding edge packages. Not sure I agree. I've been gaming on Debian since 2005, and while it certainly was some work in the beginning, it's been pretty painless for the last five years…
Fair enough. Point taken :)
Well, yes, that sentence definitely simplified matters a bit. The fact is though, that those who expressed concerns about Microsoft - in that particular thread, and in others - were generally ridiculed in roughly the…
"You're just a bunch of fanatic, Linux obsessed Microsoft haters living in the past. Microsoft are the good guys now." -- ca. everyone here, during the GitHub acquisition
I once saw this pattern referred to as a bashtag, which I think was an excellent name (no matter if you actually run bash as your shell or not).
> The ~foo as backup convention is not part of any standard. Emacs does foo~ by default, not ~foo. In either case, you're not really supposed to edit files in sites-enabled. That directory is expected to contain…
No. PyPy development was ongoing long before the first release. The first intact commit in the PyPy repo is from February 2003: https://github.com/pypy/pypy/commit/6434e25b53aa307288e5cd8c.... And that commit indicates…
> Even just among devs, even just among devs who truly love programming, most would be doing very different work, and working for different organizations (or none at all) if money weren't the driver. Somehow I can…
ChatGPT has too many users for it to be possible to enforce any kind of rules consistently. I have no opinion on whether OP's story is true or not, but the fact that two ChatGPT users claim to have observed conflicting…
> Or just a long black expressed in a complicated way? Presumably this. Coffee terminology is (apparently) not global. I've never seen the term "long black", and I visit cafés quite a lot. Wikipedia lists it as a thing…
For a while it was seen as an excellent excuse not to. Not joking. These days, the needy on the streets accept our local app based payment system called Swish. Still not joking.
> ignore all alphanumeric characters There's not much left to sort by then, is there?
One of my favorite pieces of game music ever, perhaps only rivaled by Morrowind's. Thanks to your link I also learned that Alex has done some voice acting work, including the voice of Ancano in Skyrim! Thanks for…