dual_dingo

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by dual_dingo 26d ago
A server needs a lot more things to have a GUI compared to what's necessary to just run an SSH daemon that offers CLI/TUI access, where SSH is just providing secure network access for the most basic interface the server has anyway
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by dual_dingo 4mo ago
I would argue that a local only session with terminal.app is still a real terminal session because the app is just a terminal for the connection to the MacOS version of getty. In principle, this is not different from having a serial cable
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by dual_dingo 2y ago
Well, no. This argument might be correct if this policy wouldn't very strongly incentive people to use (possibly paid!) iCloud instead and if Apple would just allow any app onto the app store (or effortless sideloading like on Android)
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by dual_dingo 2y ago
Even if you pay, most likely you have a contract that effectively gives you close to no power because it's full of conditions favoring the service provider and trying to use the little power you have will be expensive because laywers a
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by dual_dingo 3y ago
Without HTTP/1.1 either the modern web would not have happened, or we would have 100% IPv6 adapation by now. The Host header was such a small but extremely impactful change. I believe that without HTTP/3, nothing much would change
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by dual_dingo 3y ago
Apparently, the two decision making bodies in the PSF for this matter have once-a-month meetings. This means any problem or missing information or whatever will delay the process for at least a month. So, maybe not a year, but 6-9 months wo
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by dual_dingo 3y ago
Maybe it's my experience from working in grant driven academia, but applying for a grant 4 months before you need the money and then complaining because it took three short months to get a decision is ridiculous. Applying later than a
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by dual_dingo 3y ago
That throws me back. Being a teenager without any real understanding of compilers, interpreters etc., being able to create my own EXE file in TP4 felt like having superpowers - like being a real(TM) programmer :) A few years later at 16, I
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by dual_dingo 3y ago
This is the second generation of Macbook Pro this year. The M2Pro/Max where introduced only in January.
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by dual_dingo 3y ago
Raspberry Pi is many things today. The foundation is indeed focused on education, but the company behind it has a much broader focus and sells many (most?) of their devices to commercial customers, where 2x4k outputs might be beneficial, e.
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by dual_dingo 3y ago
Not a US cititzen, but "The government" is a wide term and any law enforcement agency would fit this, including the ones that are responsible to deal with things like copyright enforcement - that's exactly the type of fish t
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by dual_dingo 3y ago
Yeah, but then the base module will cost 2000$ (or 20$/month), the cup holder attachment is another 200$ and the manufacturer will sent assassin squads against anyone daring to create compatible attachments or even the printable design
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by dual_dingo 3y ago
> High-level e-Sports should be considered child abuse at that age. There is money to be made. That clearly is more important, don't you think? /s Also, this is not new - in music, real sports, chess and other fields, young chi
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by dual_dingo 3y ago
For small personal deployments, using SQLite as a database is usually sufficient. This means you don't need a fullblown SQL server, instead the whole database consists of a single file.
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by dual_dingo 4y ago
At around 1990 as a high school student I was working in a wholesale supermarket and in the office they had a microcomputer (IIRC a MicroVAX) which had audible database transactions. Every time one of the cashiers scanned an item, you could
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by dual_dingo 4y ago
It was 10+ years ago, but I once saw the amount of money Springer paid my old boss (chair of a department) for being managing editor of a run of the mill low impact journal. He spend maybe 10h per month on it but was paid 1.5x yearly of wha
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by dual_dingo 4y ago
Many/most people here (Germany) know Area 51, because it appears in so much media. My impression: Except a small minority, most people here consider this a big joke (same for UFOs in general) and for us, the current UFO craze in the U
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by dual_dingo 4y ago
Thank you!
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by dual_dingo 4y ago
I am not evangelizing, I am just stating why this is not for me and my way to write software.
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by dual_dingo 4y ago
Artifical means "not human" in this context for me, but I understand "Intelligence" as the abiltiy to actual reason about something based on things you learned and/or experienced, and these "AI" tools don&
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by dual_dingo 4y ago
I haven't. Now you know for a fact :) What I have seen about it ranged from things that can be nearly just as well handled by your $EDITOR's snippet functionality to things where my argument kicked in - I have to verify this gener
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by dual_dingo 4y ago
The "I" in AI is just complete bullshit and I can't understand why so many people are in a awe of a bit of software that chains words to another based on some statistical model. The sad truth is that ChatGPT is about as good
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by dual_dingo 4y ago
I guess the crux will be the meaning of the word "authorized". If Hasbro claims the OGL 1.0 is no longer authorized and can convince a court that this totally normal and OK, 3rd party vendors will have a problem.
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by dual_dingo 4y ago
You will miss a big pile of content anyway because even if you are in full consumption mode with full access to everything, no one has the time to see/read/listen/play even a fraction of what is published every given day. Gi
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by dual_dingo 4y ago
Stop and go is an all too common thing on the Autobahn, often during rush hour in areas near large cities.
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by dual_dingo 4y ago
Luckily, the law disagrees in most countries and you need to get a type approval before you can sell a new car type or new assistive technologies. I would not want to live in world where this is not the case.
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by dual_dingo 4y ago
It's still used quite a lot.
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by dual_dingo 4y ago
Yeah, same in germany. Being an "Ingenieur" requires an academic degree (and studying computer science doesn't grant you the title of "Ingenieur" anyway...)
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by dual_dingo 4y ago
I haven't closely monitored the situation for years now, but it used to be the case that OS/software support for anything than a Raspi was often spotty at best. With a Raspi, you not only have Raspian/RPiOS that fully support
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by dual_dingo 4y ago
Adobe has a long, well documented history of screwing their users, e.g. with their switch to this stupid Creative Cloud bullshit. It's just natural and common sense to look for alternatives if you rely on Figma and don't trust the

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