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by natermer 7y ago
If GNU decided tomorrow that all utilities need to have a --json output argument then that would make me a very happy person.
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by natermer 7y ago
When perl came along it killed the 'Unix one tool philosophy' dead as a doornail. And since then and people have just kinda ignored the smell coming off the rotting corpse. I don't write complex scripts in shell anymore becau
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by natermer 7y ago
There is no need for laws for this stupidity. Unless you want to consider the laws of economics. Namely: Create a shitty business model that depends on treating your customers like shit and you can expect to out of business as soon as you
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by natermer 7y ago
Check out endless-sphere.com. There are people there doin home-built motors and designing controllers. 99% of the content is just people messing around with their bicycles or arguing over silly things, but there are a few very highly tech
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by natermer 7y ago
I'm a lay person somewhat familiar with the terminology. I am going to be wrong on several details. What they were talking about is phase weakening. Think of voltage as 'electrical pressure'. Like PSI or Bar. Think of amperag
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by natermer 7y ago
The penicillin moment happened because penicillin actually came into existence and became widely available pretty rapidly. Research and speculation is awesome stuff, but the hard part isn't discovering new concepts. It is actually mak
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by natermer 7y ago
No. Not a F-22 or F-35 are unlikely to actually be invisible. A B-2 bomber has a better chance. The talking heads from the military may talk about 'invisibility', but they are full of shit. Just propaganda for the tax payer. The
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by natermer 7y ago
I really don't think that this is a accurate statement at all. There are a few dangers to vaping. The biggest one is having a vaporizer that is malfunctioning and is burning things instead of heating them up. The complex chemical react
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by natermer 7y ago
Sure. If you are willing to torpedo the economy you could accomplish a lot. At least until people start showing up with pitchforks and torches. And by 'torpedo the economy' I mean raise energy costs up to the point were all this e
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by natermer 7y ago
Scale and time matters. How many of those cities have lost over 60% of their population since their peak? The general decay in France is going to be at a much slower rate then some place like Detroit. This means that the increasing tax burd
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by natermer 7y ago
This is just a microcosm of problems governments are going to face with shrinking populations. Another, related problem, is the issue of maintaining state pensions and other entitlement programs. Social Security in the USA, for example, has
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by natermer 7y ago
You would just shift the costs away from maintaining pipes to treating massive amounts of water that would never get used by anybody. And you will still have to maintain the pipes. Your solution would reduce costs per mile, but you still ha
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by natermer 7y ago
> Most of the problem I have it is with the imperialistic culture that came with it and with the serious security bugs that they keep sweeping under the rug. The 'Imperialistic Culture' you speak of is one of those made-up thin
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by natermer 7y ago
Propane makes a good substitute for R12 with very little modifications. I wouldn't use it inside a home or anything like that, but I have used it to make older vehicles blow cold. It's extremely good refrigerant. The biggest prob
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by natermer 7y ago
You may be wrong or may be right, but all I can say that after looking at the demo the text became significantly more difficult to read after the CSS coloring was applied to it. Unlike you I do have a lot of experience in graphical stuff, s
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by natermer 7y ago
What everybody needs to learn is the concept of 'derivative works'. When you combine MIT code with GPL code you are creating a derivative work of involving at least 3 sets of copyrights. Your copyright (since I am assuming you did
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by natermer 7y ago
I doubt anybody really writes 'POSIX' anymore, if that helps. What they do, more typically, is 'Write Linux software'. If they care about POSIX they will try to ignore features they don't think was mentioned in some
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by natermer 8y ago
Just remember this crap next time anybody spouts bullshit about democracy. It's hard to convince people that the Federal government in the USA is not really democratic in nature because media companies make billions of dollars in reven
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by natermer 8y ago
In terms of geologic history the CO2 levels now are lower then they have been. It's not surprising that plants respond very positively to higher rates of CO2. And it's been proven to be true many times. I guess what the study is
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by natermer 8y ago
The question really isn't whether or not it's broken. It's more of a question of 'for whom it is broken'. Or, more accurately; what is the true purpose to the state and how well does it fulfill that purpose? If yo
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by natermer 9y ago
Contracts are power stuff that overrides most things. If you agree to something then people, and courts, will hold you to it. I expect it is in the agreement they require you to use before you join Etsy.
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by natermer 9y ago
Uhh... The ENTIRE POINT of Title II is common carrier. Common carrier means they get to regulate peering costs. They don't regulate the costs ISP charge you personally. They regulate how peering agreements between businesses work. Tha
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by natermer 9y ago
Red herring. Title II is how the FCC protected the AT&T monopoly. Due to various regulatory goals (such as controlling telecommunications for cold war purposes) FCC found it much easier to deal with and regulate one corporate entity the
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by natermer 9y ago
It's a lot easier when you are allowed to make your own money.
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by natermer 9y ago
Only people that could have anything approaching a opinion about ipv6 worth listening to.
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by natermer 9y ago
ok, 'search that does not suck' isn't a feature of IMAP. > Filtering doesn't belong at the IMAP protocol layer anymore than it belongs at the SMTP layer. Right, so users are forced to set up this stuff for each and ev
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by natermer 9y ago
Because it's the email client that supports Exchange the best and related calendar/email features have been split off into daemons that provide things like email messaging and calendar notifications that integrate into the desktop
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by natermer 9y ago
Large scale usability tests are pretty rare for open source software. Gnome is one of the few exceptions having some testing paid for by Sun Microsystems for Gnome 1 and then again by Novell for Gnome 2 around 2005. From this they develope
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by natermer 9y ago
I think you missed the point of the article completely. Which is: Containers are not actually a _thing_. BSD Jail is a _thing_, Zones are a _thing_... Linux containers are just a particular configuration of _multiple things_. PIDs in con
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by natermer 9y ago
> RN on the other hand crushed their competitors by its huge popularity, number of articles, documentation and tutorials available. That's means it's a better product. You can have the best code in the world, but nobody is goi

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