thingie

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by thingie 13y ago
It is not a buffer as such. Once the application holding the primary selection quits, you can't get the selected text, it doesn't exist anymore in any way. It doesn't get stored. In fact, you're just telling your applica
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by thingie 14y ago
I wonder how many people didn't bother to show up at the election rooms because their vote wouldn't mean anything. Being pro-Romney in a strong "blue" state or pro-Obama in the "red" one.
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by thingie 14y ago
No, what I admire most isn't the office itself, though it's quite nice, it's the location. I can imagine that you can, for example, get some nice restaurants and few other option to get a real food within a walking distance. From my window,
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by thingie 14y ago
Yes, they do. (Well, of course that something has to happen, but it doesn't have to be human-related interaction.) http://www.viennatimes.at/news/General_News/2012-08-26/28744...
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by thingie 14y ago
I have mac user walking around in the office and asking me what kind of a desktop environment is it, being genuinely (positively) surprised that it is actually GNOME desktop on Linux. Well. And I have other Linux desktop users (like Xfce or
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by thingie 14y ago
It doesn't really matter that much, if your city wasn't destroyed during the war, it was destroyed during the 70's or 80's (in a process continuing to this day) when the communists governments decided to ruin every larger town in a same man
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by thingie 14y ago
He means that his 24-70 zoom lens has the maximum aperture of f/2.8 at all focal lengths from 24 to 70. Cheaper lens would get to, say, f/3.5 at 24, but at 70, you wouldn't get more than f/5.6, for example. So you can't set it to 70mm and f
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by thingie 14y ago
On the other hand, I was confused and disappointed that the lighting slider in the simulation doesn't do anything (well, it shows an icon, for a while, couldn't it just dim/lighten the scene a bit?).
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by thingie 14y ago
The most common advice for them would be to get a prime lens. Especially in this simulation that offers both distance and focal length setting (which are, for this scene and 18-55mm focal length, mostly interchangeable), I'd like to have it
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by thingie 14y ago
On most DSLRs, I believe, you have to press a DOF-preview button (whatever it's called), instead, it remains wide open making it easier/possible to accurately focus using the viewfinder. Focus is what I miss most in this simulator, it leave
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by thingie 14y ago
It's not just a clock, but an ever changing installation that will always need the labor of those men constantly rebuilding it, to keep "running". I find it quite interesting, as an idea. Implementation could be better, I guess, but it prov
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by thingie 15y ago
Well, it has few bugs. Or, perhaps, it wasn't meant to be used outside of the US. Compare this: http://maps.stamen.com/toner/#17/49.19512/16.60929 http://osm.org/go/0Jv1v7aY4- (I guess I could just fork it and try to fix it, but I'm not
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by thingie 15y ago
This is actually quite sad. When you try to explain downsides of the open plan office in noncontroversial terms and as rationally as possible, you get ignored. You get positive response, universal agreement, but nothing actually changes. Wh
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by thingie 15y ago
Multithreading would be a great feature, working with an editor where the whole UI tends to block itself on some network (tramp or via sshfs/nfs) operations is unpleasant. It's also a sign of its age. I also miss, for example, UI localizati
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by thingie 15y ago
Is there some kind of how to that'd say 'buy this single device (that is actually widely available at retail for a reasonable price), install it in this way and you will have something to play with'?
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by thingie 15y ago
I use tramp as well, but can't say I like it. Blocking whole UI because of network problems, leaving garbage in the shell history on the machines I'm connecting to, getting confused (and hung-up) by different prompts. It's nice, but too vol
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by thingie 15y ago
UI is the easy part. The listings that are accurate, honest and up to date are hard. Do you want to become a real estate company as well, hire your own agents, pick up the phones, take customers for the visits and so on? Or you need to prov
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by thingie 15y ago
Well, a camera that can't take the picture you want is as useless as the one sitting at home. And iPhone may be, in some cases, a camera that simply can't do what you want. It's a cellphone. Of course, you won't carry a DSLR camera with you
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by thingie 15y ago
Well, there isn't much of a passenger traffic to the Russia and back, there are facilities to handle the freight, it's an EU border (implying long legal procedures regardless of a transport mode) and the roads there aren't very good (in com
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by thingie 15y ago
Well, on the recently upgraded lines, there is an up to date system (bi-directional automatic block with cab signalling, not ETCS, yet, only GSM-R on the main lines), but of course, modernization is very slow indeed. Traffic density is hard
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by thingie 15y ago
Czech republic, but you could, of course, see the same thing in Germany or Poland. And of course, there are more frequent accidents on the lines that are equipped with only basic signalling. This year, a DMU hit shunting freight and one eld
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by thingie 15y ago
I'm used to see 10 trains on an electrified railway line an hour in each direction, some of them very light EMUs, longer locomotive-hauled passenger trains and heavy freight (ok, heavy is ~2000 tons). With the last deadly accident with a pa
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by thingie 15y ago
Modern suburban and regional {D,E}MUs are generally becoming more like trams or light rail vehicles in their design and, sadly, even interior. Lighter seats and so on. It's a general trend in Europe as well.
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by thingie 15y ago
FRA as such isn't the problem. See, every European country has its own railway regulatory office, which is perfectly fine, but there is simply so little unification between the different countries, that international railway traffic between
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by thingie 15y ago
No, of course not. Window compositing is a huge usability feature. It made me switch from xmonad to Gnome 3, because it just feels so much faster and responsive. Also, live miniatures are almost necessary (at least for me) while dealing w
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by thingie 15y ago
So I use emacs with viper and it's great. I have no idea how to really edit text in emacs without vi mode and I can't open a file in vim without :q and running it again with a different argument. Yet I can edit text vi style and use superio
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by thingie 15y ago
Well, if our local transit company has a GPS module in every its vehicle on a route and can watch all of them nearly real-time ("nearly" is something like updates every 30 seconds), and we are in Eastern Europe, then any transit authority c
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by thingie 15y ago
What? When I bought a new laptop (few months ago) which came with W7 too, it took it about an hour (on the first run) to install some vendor (HP) crapware, randomly popping up old-fashioned term windows running a lot of text, before I could
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by thingie 15y ago
Is there some concept of money that doesn't (almost) directly link money to debt? (so money wouldn't be completely worthless without debt)
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by thingie 15y ago
Good. No problem. On the other hand, typing anything in the activities overlay is very painful. I do it only by a mistake, because it's sooo slow, not only for the first time, but always. So is switching from Windows to Applications.

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