hussong

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by hussong 16d ago
I really like qobuz for music, great apps for iOS, Android, and web.
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by hussong 7y ago
This. I was hanging on to Ubuntu 16.04 until a month ago just to keep Unity. After finally upgrading to 18.04, I spent a week on Gnome 3 and it was quite a frustrating experience. Found Ubuntu Mate and am loving it! MATE Tweak gives you so
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by hussong 8y ago
France and Germany have had very different energy strategies for ages. Germany still has significant domestic coal reserves. France pretty much ran out of coal decades ago and therefore invested heavily in nuclear technology and access to u
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by hussong 9y ago
(Next moon landing I hope the mission lays down an enormous silver blanket that can be seen by amateur astronomers and ordinary people are encouraged to come out and look through a 'scope for themselves!) OT, the old moon landing jok
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by hussong 10y ago
I had a lecturer in a class on infrastructure policy at (German) university who was an ICT exec and always said that the first rule of the business was "Wer gräbt, verliert." (you dig, you lose).
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by hussong 10y ago
Seeing the same here (German IP), maybe GeoIP blocking?
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by hussong 10y ago
I was surprised how light the T-Series models have become, hadn't looked at them in years and only remembered the heavy clunky units that made me go for the X-Series. The current model T460s is also interesting, quite a bit more perfor
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by hussong 10y ago
Thinkpads are generally a safe bet. I've been using different models from the X-Series with Ubuntu since 08.04 and am currently looking at the T450s (14", but still an Ultrabook and light enough for me). The X1 Carbon looks damn s
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by hussong 10y ago
There's also the argument that 432 Hz is more in tune with our planet, see "Cosmic Octave" by Hans Cousto.
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by hussong 10y ago
Why swipe around when you could just press a button?
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by hussong 10y ago
I think this is an idea worth exploring and I wish I'd thought of that :-)
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by hussong 10y ago
Not all keyboards are the same. Think Laptops, international keyboard layouts etc.
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by hussong 10y ago
Not everyone is using a desktop keyboard, or a US keyboard layout. FWIW, on my laptop, ALT+Left would be a full spread of the hand and I have to move my torso to get the hand in position.
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by hussong 10y ago
> If you're accidently clicking on things, maybe learn to use a mouse better. Not everyone uses a mouse all the time.
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by hussong 10y ago
Call me supremely lazy, but I use the spacebar all the time (Thinkpad), since my thumb already rests on it and it's so big that I can't miss it. I even prefer it over scrolling. Page-Down means I have to almost move my hand away f
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by hussong 10y ago
It was used a couple times in recent times: Chomeini, the Pope, and others.
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by hussong 10y ago
Most people seem to focus on the political side of this whole affair, but at the same time it is clearly a legal case as well (and a rather interesting one) with hundreds of pending legal complaints
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by hussong 10y ago
For those interested in some of the finer legal aspects of the situation, here's an interesting article in German (excellent discussion there as well): http://verfassungsblog.de/erlaubte-schmaehkritik-die-verfass... Bö
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by hussong 10y ago
Side note: as someone who pays that fee, I would never think of myself as a 'customer' of public broadcasting, since it's a public service -- just like I wouldn't think of myself as a 'customer' of hospitals, s
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by hussong 10y ago
I'd argue that engineering improvements would be key for user acquisition. Where is that massive growth supposed to come from if the app is too complicated for users older than 30 years and too bloated for devices older than 2 years?
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by hussong 11y ago
I think you might be reading too much "right now" into "-ende". Counterexamples: Tragende Wand, führende Persönlichkeiten, rollende Landstraße etc.
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by hussong 11y ago
Well of course we can! We can also buffer arbitrarily long sentences with only one verb at the very end without any signs of impatience ;-)
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by hussong 11y ago
Unwieldy is in the eye of the beholder, I guess. As a native speaker, I definitely prefer "Parkraumbewirtschaftungszone" over "Zone bewirtschafteten Parkraumes", "Zone, in welcher Raum zum Parken bewirtschaftet wird
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by hussong 11y ago
"Im Sitzen Pinkelnder" would definitely be less catchy.
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by hussong 11y ago
Native german speaker here, thinking the other way around: if it is one thing, why would you want to use more than one word to name it?
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by hussong 11y ago
It's called a "Gleitlaut" and it's supposed to make it easier to pronounce the word, for instance "Nutzungsrecht" vs "Nutzungrecht".
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by hussong 11y ago
There's also "Heimscheißer" -- someone who strongly prefers taking a dump in the comfort of his own home, and may even be incapable of doing so elsewhere, except for emergency situations.
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by hussong 11y ago
Listen closely to anything new team members have to say. From the inside, it all makes sense, but from the outside, it's often obvious insanity ;-)
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by hussong 11y ago
Not an iTunes user, but I guess some people just want to do a selective sync to certain devices to keep storage use in check and maintain library navigability on the device. That can be quite a bit of work which you wouldn't want to lo
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by hussong 11y ago
Maybe the grass is greener on the other side. I was using an iMac for a couple months on a job a while back after using only Ubuntu for 5+ years and I found the whole Mac UI extremely sluggish and confusing.

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