feikname

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by feikname 2y ago
As I said, it's not the pedantry that gets the free software movement to be made fun of, its the overloading of terms and then having to overly explain them. Creative Commons is very clear in its license and it - rightfully - doesn&#x2
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by feikname 2y ago
Yet no one calls their homemade food a product and offer to others for free calling it that. The semantic prominence of a commercial product would prevail as the first thing that comes to mind for anyone because that's also one of th
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by feikname 2y ago
Email attachments are defined through MIME and don't depend at all on HTML being available as a Content-Type. We could well have had another format and attachments together.
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Robert Dennard, father of DRAM, is deceased(tomshardware.com)
33 points by feikname 2y ago|8 comments
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by feikname 2y ago
To me a great translation should have Translator Notes (TN) and not be afraid of using neologisms. It seems TNs used to be more common but are increasingly rare.
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by feikname 3y ago
Interestingly, in Brazil's transit code a person carrying their bycicle unmounted is considered a pedestrian. Otherwise, they're a non motorized light vehicle.
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by feikname 3y ago
I don't like that this graph starts at 20%
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by feikname 3y ago
> If you publish something, you should be prepared for others to reproduce it and take it without credit . > the net cost of copying data is effectively nothing. Since the cost of including the author and the link to original work is
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by feikname 4y ago
> GPT is million times better Agreed. > It wasnt windows's fault its just that its update utility had to overwrite a part of MBR It was a reasonable assumption that whatever drive Windows' was installed on already had a wor
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by feikname 4y ago
One that have the same binary name as yours for compability reasons, but then proceeds to be not so compatible with slight command line options. Thus, made a whole lot of confusion because people didn't expect that depending on what di
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by feikname 4y ago
I believge the name you're looking for is Jungle Gym (non-UK) or Climbing Frame (UK). In portuguese we call them trepa-trepa ("climb-climb") which I think is quite fitting.
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by feikname 4y ago
You might be interested in ReactOS[1]. Their objective is to make a 100% FOSS Windows Compatible OS, including drivers. Currently, they're at around ~WinXP level support [1]: https://reactos.org/
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by feikname 5y ago
> The 3% of Linux desktop users would disagree. We don't know how much of that 3% is there for the FOSS aspect. I suspect most are because of the free aspect and being better than Windows for their use case, the open source is just
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by feikname 5y ago
> Force people into draconian measures that won't stop infection and violate their rights. It won't stop infection. But it greatly reduces that rate and, above all, your risk of death and the strength of the disease in genera
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by feikname 5y ago
I think as a keyboard for French language, this is great. However, the affirmation “extra characters are added so that one can effortlessly type in French (as well German, Spanish, Italian, etc.)” doesn't really hold well IMO. For exam
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by feikname 5y ago
You may be interested in an anime called Psycho Pass that kinda has that as a plot point. Law enforcement can point a gun at you to evaluate your psychiatric level and kill you if deemed to high
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by feikname 5y ago
it's too "uncompact". Font size too big and could use a bit more horizontal space. I find it comfortable to use at 60% zoom level
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by feikname 5y ago
I wish I could have thought of that argument on a previous discussion about iPhone/ iPad jailbreak discussion thread
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by feikname 5y ago
I'd like to add being able to switch languages in a website is really heplful for learning another language. I commonly do it with Wikipedia
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by feikname 5y ago
> Did YOU even check what you cite? I did completely read what was available to me without having an account. > The AUTHORS of the original paper got a dataset from a company. They didn't assume the fraud from the start and publi
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by feikname 5y ago
It always suprises me how people don't do minimum effort for hiding this stuff. And no one notices. (or don't care about the obviously suspicious aspect) Do scientists actually read what they cite?
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by feikname 5y ago
One of my favorite offline "classic" programs of all time is.. Microsoft WordPad. It's by no means great, but it's so lightweight and gets off your way that it puts modern online Microsoft Word and Google Dpcs to shame
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by feikname 5y ago
Could also be reverse: why pay for software that won't run on your computer anyway?
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by feikname 5y ago
Link to SVG because scrolling doesn't work in website: https://eylenburg.github.io/pics/Eylenburg_Operating_System_...
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by feikname 5y ago
They also could very well improve the cross-origin alerts to say "This message is from ANOTHER website embedded in this tab, please act carefully. (source: xxx.com)" instead of outright removing it.
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by feikname 5y ago
how is less and more accurate (read: not done wrong) studies pruning opportunities for future research? from my view, it becomes easier to make research. less, more condensed literature is easier to cite and read, as it's "unifi
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by feikname 5y ago
Correct me I'm mistaken The difference between diamond native and diamond WASM demonstrates how, even with WASM, native implementations beat browsers hard , and native implementations performance-wise are still very worth, specially f
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by feikname 5y ago
that's easily verifiable doing the searches yourself; a search for "hvor ofte bør man dusje" in my english google, conencting from brazil shows havfruen4220.dk as 6th and 7th result, which is pretty high for a spam website &q
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by feikname 5y ago
It's ok for a radio to focus on its own country, but to make a claim for something "in all history" looking for information in at least a few other countries is the bare minimum. Here where I live I commonly see "tourist
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by feikname 5y ago
If you click activate windows it says its not a genuine copy, greys out and starts spitting out DLL errors haha, nice easter egg.

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