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by scbrg 25d ago
On the About page ( https://www.rfcafe.com/business/about-rf-cafe-disclaimer.htm ) there's a map showing some high level visitor distribution, and there's a couple of dots in Thailand. There's also the fol
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by scbrg 29d ago
Kallax :-)
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by scbrg 2mo ago
I don't know... I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you're from a country where football isn't very popular. I don't think you realize just how many fans there are. How utterly ingrained it is in the c
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by scbrg 2mo ago
I'm most certainly not a football fan, but I definitely know that a match consists of two 45 minute (and then some) halves. It's pretty much equivalent to a non motor enthusiast knowing that there are usually four wheels on a car.
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by scbrg 2mo ago
Is it completely unthinkable that we just don't want to be spied upon?
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by scbrg 2mo ago
I've seen people argue, with a straight face, that they prefer to get ads that are "relevant to them". Including here on Hacker News.
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by scbrg 2mo ago
Of course it is. I have no idea why you'd suggest such a thing.
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by scbrg 2mo ago
> And maybe there are even fewer people to worry about this, because when the moved to the city, those people stopped having children. > Who is this good for? Is it good for you? Well, as a global population reduction is sorely need
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by scbrg 2mo ago
Foreigner from the socialist Nordics here, so perhaps I'm brain washed or something, but I don't get it. After some brief Googling it appears that you mean they have proposed a tax on a service that for some reason used to be tax-
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by scbrg 3mo ago
An alternative take is that we've endured thousands of years of propaganda aimed at keeping women as child bearing, house keeping slaves, and we're finally starting to see the end of that in at least some cultures. But of course
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by scbrg 4mo ago
Both priests are assumed to understand Latin. The situation they want to avoid is starting up a conversation with someone in a language they don't know. So the options are: 1) Use Polish, with the risk of being rude if you happen to sp
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by scbrg 4mo ago
> But unfortunately these addresses are hard to remember and "nobody" recognizes them when reading examples. How does that matter? The point isn't that the reader should know that "oh, this is a reserved address"
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by scbrg 4mo ago
Perhaps. But these ones have been around a while. Here's the new HN story, seven years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21263264 Not sure how long you're a startup...
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by scbrg 4mo ago
Well, TRAMP was preceded by ange-ftp, which let you edit files remotely over ftp. I was using that in 1995, and I didn't get the impression then that it was brand new, so it had probably been around for a while already. Of course, if y
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by scbrg 4mo ago
Alright. I didn't know that. "Just call them" did not sound like it included any kind of authentication procedure. But giving birthdate (available to anyone via a single query in a public database) and ( sometimes?! - what?!
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by scbrg 4mo ago
Not sure how that's relevant. There are computers now . Regulations change with the times. Green lasers weren't controlled in the 1700:s either. Are you comfortable with anybody being able to ring up the hospital and say "yo
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by scbrg 4mo ago
Fairly sure that would be considered a breach of patient confidentiality where I live, at least.
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by scbrg 5mo ago
Odd point to raise in a thread about a family killed while waiting at a bus stop in broad daylight. Do you think reflective clothing would have changed the outcome of the event significantly?
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by scbrg 5mo ago
I guess there's a difference between talking about how many requests a system is capable of handling, and how many they actually get. At least when i encountered the discussion initially (some thirty years ago) I'd say we usuall
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by scbrg 6mo ago
I've got 6.19.8 in stable-backports. I don't know. I don't feel massively outdated.
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by scbrg 6mo ago
> Gaming stuff needs a bit more bleeding edge packages. Not sure I agree. I've been gaming on Debian since 2005, and while it certainly was some work in the beginning, it's been pretty painless for the last five years or so. I&
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by scbrg 6mo ago
Fair enough. Point taken :)
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by scbrg 6mo ago
Well, yes, that sentence definitely simplified matters a bit. The fact is though, that those who expressed concerns about Microsoft - in that particular thread, and in others - were generally ridiculed in roughly the tone I imitated in my o
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by scbrg 6mo ago
"You're just a bunch of fanatic, Linux obsessed Microsoft haters living in the past. Microsoft are the good guys now." -- ca. everyone here, during the GitHub acquisition
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by scbrg 6mo ago
I once saw this pattern referred to as a bashtag, which I think was an excellent name (no matter if you actually run bash as your shell or not).
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by scbrg 6mo ago
> The ~foo as backup convention is not part of any standard. Emacs does foo~ by default, not ~foo. In either case, you're not really supposed to edit files in sites-enabled. That directory is expected to contain symlinks to files
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by scbrg 6mo ago
No. PyPy development was ongoing long before the first release. The first intact commit in the PyPy repo is from February 2003: https://github.com/pypy/pypy/commit/6434e25b53aa307288e5cd8c... . And that commit
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by scbrg 8mo ago
> Even just among devs, even just among devs who truly love programming, most would be doing very different work, and working for different organizations (or none at all) if money weren't the driver. Somehow I can imagine that a wor
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by scbrg 8mo ago
ChatGPT has too many users for it to be possible to enforce any kind of rules consistently. I have no opinion on whether OP's story is true or not, but the fact that two ChatGPT users claim to have observed conflicting moderation decis
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by scbrg 9mo ago
> Or just a long black expressed in a complicated way? Presumably this. Coffee terminology is (apparently) not global. I've never seen the term "long black", and I visit cafés quite a lot. Wikipedia lists it as a thing pri

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