derpadelt

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by derpadelt 9y ago
Direct links for english have been provided (as stated in a sibling comment). Yet the catalog server (to download localized versions) seems to be under heavy load or otherwise hard to reach...
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by derpadelt 9y ago
If you dive head-first into Python's string behaviour, you'll eventually learn the hard UnicodeDecodeError-way what the difference is between a stream of bytes/octets and a text made of unicode code points. Much the same as l
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by derpadelt 9y ago
The superior OS that was eventually killed by the inferior Windows 95. OS/2 did a lot right. The integrated Windows-Environment was initially better than native Windows: better process isolation (remember Windows 3.1's cooperative
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by derpadelt 9y ago
The whole installation was more like 20 floppies back then, though. Source: copied and installed dozens of internal use only betas of 2.0 up to Warp.
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by derpadelt 9y ago
It is.
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by derpadelt 9y ago
For two decades I've been waiting for popular support for a complete or at least Clipper-chip-style encryption ban in the "free world". It always was on the other far end of the spectrum, directly oppsite questions like IV&#x
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by derpadelt 10y ago
They do not know how to perfectly control it. Given the obviously huge scale at which they operate, it seems to work reasonably well. Yet the huge scale is exactly what scares the socks off of knowledgable people - even more than a fire h
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by derpadelt 11y ago
So ordinary people may finally read my papers with reasonable effort? Sounds like an improvement. I am not in the academic content distribution industry though.
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by derpadelt 11y ago
> Protip That's the problem: We should not need to be "pro" to get software - even in an open world without walled gardens.
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by derpadelt 11y ago
For most stuff that is very true. There is one bread that keeps me easily saturated on 6 slices for the whole work day (=manageable caloric intake) but I need to make that myself. Takes 10+5min prep/cleanup, no rise time or preheating.
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by derpadelt 11y ago
I'll give you an actual scenario, maybe you can relate: One of your kids is sick and yells for attention. You shuffle in the next load of bedcovers into the washing machine while trying to remember to call the doctor for an appointment
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by derpadelt 12y ago
Unison via SSH to a Raspberry-Pi-attached USB HDD. Upload to Flickr via cron-triggered python script from RasPi. Arq to S3. Hoping that "only to camlistore" will be the answer in 3-5 years.
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by derpadelt 13y ago
You get annotated as well as original PPT-slides along with clear text transcripts of what he says in the videos. Can be a bit awkward as it is not a textbook text but it gets the job done. I honestly think it is hard to do a better course