emondi

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by emondi 4y ago
We had foreign banks who advertised that as a strength and sent their profits to their countries. But when there was a crisis they said we are just a local bank with the same brand as a US bank and won't give the customers their saving
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by emondi 4y ago
Maradona was anti-establishment. Compare Pelé with Sócrates for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B3crates
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by emondi 5y ago
On debian you can install it with the package dict-gcide https://packages.debian.org/en/sid/dict-gcide
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by emondi 5y ago
What do you mean with "push it hard"? Maybe try a manual next time. Half of the fun of driving for me is switching gears.
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by emondi 5y ago
Wouldn't modifying some GNU emacs shortcuts to his liking be easier than mantaining that editor?
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by emondi 5y ago
I don't know about orbiter but FlightGear uses JSBsim for flight dynamics modeling which can be very accurate and was even used at NASA. You are correct that as space is not the primary use case for FG the shuttle developers had to sta
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by emondi 5y ago
This FlightGear's shuttle is the most accurate version. I think the choice of shuttle mission was because of the unusual transpolar trajectory.
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Simulation of Space Shuttle – STS 62 A Polar Express high altitude journey(forum.flightgear.org)
89 points by emondi 5y ago|21 comments
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by emondi 6y ago
Where it says FileName.Extension[,Version] MONITR.EXE,4 What was the version used for? Did it track the changes?
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by emondi 8y ago
Sure, also it works for me because it is on a system that is frequently turned off. If it would have to stay on for a long time it would fill /tmp with garbage.
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by emondi 8y ago
I move to /tmp and it gets deleted on next reboot.
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FlightGear Flight Simulator – Visiting the ISS(flightsim.com)
2 points by emondi 8y ago|0 comments
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by emondi 8y ago
I do the same but sometimes I get email from google telling that I should disable access to those unsafe apps.
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by emondi 8y ago
But then NYC would not be LGA but JFK.
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by emondi 8y ago
Interesting that they group the machines by IATA airport codes. I guess that's the nearest airport for that datacenter.
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Weather in FlightGear(flightsim.com)
2 points by emondi 8y ago|0 comments
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by emondi 9y ago
People just don't update windows. That made me remember having to update the BIOS firmware and doing it at 3AM and on a night without wind when there was almost no chance of power going out.
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by emondi 9y ago
You don't need batteries, you just learn to save your files often. I live in the third world too and can say that even with crappy power supplies computers resist quite well blackouts and brownouts.
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by emondi 9y ago
Maybe an incorrectly maintained car is less safe.
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by emondi 9y ago
According to the movie they didn't need to because it was easier to just drop bombs from the air.
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by emondi 9y ago
So I guess this is the kind of thing that RMS wanted to prevent when he talked against unofficial packages and repos in Emacs.
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by emondi 9y ago
For a copyleft license to do its job you have to enforce it, otherwise it would be the same as a permissive license.
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by emondi 9y ago
Ok, but as I know France for good wine and Belgium for beer. I thought the weather was part of what made those special.
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by emondi 9y ago
Are the metereological conditions in Belgium somewhat similar as for the calendar to make sense?
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by emondi 9y ago
Or embed your own bounty so the leaker knows if he is being betrayed.
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by emondi 9y ago
You are probably right, but I think that is because those activists might feel that with such asymmetry of power that is their only resort.
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How the Biotech Industry Cultivates Positive Media – And Discourages Criticism(progressive.org)
3 points by emondi 9y ago|2 comments
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by emondi 9y ago
This is an interesting analysis of software freedom without copyright http://culturalliberty.org/blog/index.php?id=278 Basically GPL would not be needed to restore a freedom which would no longer be restricted.
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by emondi 9y ago
Yes, they use mostly young pines which are easily chipped. I think in about 6 years you can cut them for paper.
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by emondi 9y ago
Here in south America paper mills work with massive pine plantations, in deforested land or in former wetlands.

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