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dcminter
9,807karma·1,954submissions·February 2, 2008
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Stockholm based human - https://paperstack.com
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Last time I tried to pull down the JDK source it required me to install mercurial (fair enough) but then to install a "forests" extension which no longer appeared to be available (or at leas…
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The vans exist. The implied technology within them not so much. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/bbc-tv-licence-v... …
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"the products excluded from the definition of fishery products" i.e. excluding any snails other than sea snails.
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TLDR; I agree, but I understand how this happened. The logic seems to have been: * Ubuntu 18.04 is a LTS release. * LTS releases should only incorporate software that is supported on a similar lifecyc…
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Ha, this reminds me of Pratchett's other discworld... "Kin had seen things like it in a museum. It was a valve, a sort of neolithic integrated circuit. Only this was a valve such as might …
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Speaking of perks of negative value, I once worked somewhere with ping pong tables, fuzzball, and so on, where a man started playing the bagpipes directly behind me when I was trying to get some damne…
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The glasses mentioned in passing here really do seem to be effective for some people so they're well worth investigating if the price is manageable. To quote an acquaintance who started using the…
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That seems odd to me - why could one not install (or build) package N-1 in order to build package N ? i.e. why does it all need to be the same package name?
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I for one would very much like to see this bug in 18.04 fixed as a priority: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-lts/+bug/1... The Java 11 package in…
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I think this is interesting in it's own right - but this in particular interests me: "the titles will now be available [...] by subscription to libraries and higher education institutions, o…
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Also DEC database (Datatrieve) engineers: https://www.ibphoenix.com/resources/documents/history/doc_29... "Epergne: Who knows? ...clearly someplace wombats sleep.&…
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Having just recently played a bit more seriously with Cardboard VR and been surprised by how compelling it was, this short video came at an opportune moment for me. From a non-technological point of v…
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Semi-off topic, I suspect someone's a Pratchett fan: 'Correct. The Bank is now in orbit forty million miles out beyond - what's the name of your outermost world?' 'Far Out,…
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If you like depth of character in your 30s detective fiction I warmly endorse this recommendation. If you're only going to try one then "The Nine Tailors" is arguably her finest work.
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I don't have this issue on my Android phone (G5+) but I did have a very similar issue on my laptop (XPS 9350) where there was lots of line noise whenever the power management turned off the audio…