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Re:Pharo MOOC on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @11:13AM (#16755482)
This is kind of an offtopic question, but regardless: Is there any application written in smalltalk in the debian repository? (or any other linux distro)
Re:Vulkan is coming to macOS and iOS, but no thanks to Apple on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @12:12PM (#16484580)
Gamers use steam, not the windows store.
Re:TDLib – Build Your Own Telegram Client on Friday February 02, 2018 @11:10AM (#16291628)
How do they compare to the telegram desktop client? Are they electron apps?
Re:Five myths about Bitcoin’s energy use on Thursday January 25, 2018 @06:16PM (#16235672)
Bitcoin's energy use will tend to raise to match the mining profits. As long as both BTC's price and transaction fees keep raising, the energy miners spend will continue to raise. BTC's price is going up due to speculation, and transaction fees due to blocks being full.
Re:In defence of swap: common misconceptions on Sunday January 14, 2018 @04:50PM (#16146689)
In my experience, a misbehaving linux system that's out of RAM and has swap to spare will be unusably slow. The process of switching to a tty, logging in, and killing whatever the offending process is can easily take a good 15 minutes. Xorg will just freeze. Oh, and hopefully you know what process it is, else good luck running `top`.

Until this is fixed, I'll just keep running my systems with very small amounts of swap (say, 512MB in a system with 16GB of RAM). I'd rather the OOM killer kick in than have to REISUB or hold down the power button.

Some benchmarks with regards to the performance claims would be nice.

Re:A letter about Google AMP on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @02:00PM (#16108736)
AMP, that thing you have never seen in the wild if you run firefox on your phone.
IANAL, but I think you can't infringe copyright if you are not distributing anything. OCR is not distribution.
Re:Telegram shuts down major Iranian anti government channel on Sunday December 31, 2017 @07:22AM (#16040334)
If signal users can be counted on one hand, people using gpg can be counted on a finger.
Re:Much Assembly Required: Assembly Programming Game on Saturday December 30, 2017 @11:03PM (#16039289)
SHENZHEN I/O is the actual name: http://store.steampowered.com/app/504210/
Re:Open-source clone of the Age of Empires II engine on Friday December 29, 2017 @04:16PM (#16032038)
Isn't sdl2 a lot smaller than qt5?
Re:/bin/false is not security (2005) on Thursday December 28, 2017 @10:52PM (#16027388)
Shouldn't apache have been running under the "apache" user instead of root?
There is the issue of the account. Whatsapp and Telegram are free (signal too?) and require 0 setup. With Conversations, you either have to pay for a conversations.im account, or open your browser and register on another server. I certainly can't imagine my grandmother doing that.
Re:Moving from Disqus to Schnack on Monday December 18, 2017 @07:44PM (#15956854)
The author can't read the comments if people only make them on other platforms.
Can ulimit help here?
Re:What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014) on Monday December 18, 2017 @07:40AM (#15951213)
And doctrine DBAL vs doctrine ORM
> Will coinbase honor the price when order is placed ie if it shows $19700 then will it let me buy 0.1 BTC at this price?

No, neither the price at which they actually allow you to buy or sell BTC matches the price they display. They set the price for you, which is different in both operations (and on top they charge a fee). GDAX on the other hand (same company as coinbase, different service) is an actual market where you can place orders at whatever price you want, and somebody will take them if your price matches theirs.

Re:A RAM Edition of Dirty Coding Tricks on Sunday December 17, 2017 @07:58PM (#15948641)
I bought a nintendo switch with zelda, and the cartridge wasn't detected the first time I put it in. Took it out, blew a bit on it, back in, working perfectly! Some things never change.
Re:The importance of Devuan on Sunday December 10, 2017 @09:46AM (#15891578)
You can run a traditional init in debian. Systemd is just the default.
Re:A Classic Extension Reborn: Tree Style Tab on Thursday December 07, 2017 @11:38AM (#15871508)
I wonder what was the reasoning behind adding those spaces for everybody.
Even without house rules, it depends on the way people play. In my family, monopoly is played in a very anti-social way, where the main goal seems to be preventing other's victory or advantage.

The strategy everybody follows is basically "buy everything you can, and decline all bad trades". Buy everything, of course, to prevent others from making full property groups. Since there is no such thing as an equal trade, no trades are made.

As you can imagine, since nobody has full property groups, the game takes forever, it's terribly boring, and pretty much boils down to luck.

Re:Mono's New .NET Interpreter on Monday November 13, 2017 @01:51PM (#15688962)
> Which everyone will tell you not to do.

Why?

Re:WTF? Chromium (2016) on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @08:45PM (#15649371)
I thought Palemoon was basically firefox?
If anyone wonders, "pas a pas" means "step by step" in Catalan.
Re:Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain on Friday October 27, 2017 @01:00PM (#15570182)
There is no death penalty in Spain.
Re:Things I Wish I'd Known Before Using Vagrant on Friday October 27, 2017 @10:24AM (#15568582)
Vagrant gives you a full VM with a traditional init system. Docker is usually used without an init (or a very dumb init), so you'll have different containers for each service. It's a very different way of working, and I'd argue vagrant's is simpler and easier to understand, but less scalable.
The boy really spends all day studying, so in the end he got good at writing.
Current PS3 versions can't be hacked, at least without hardware mods. I wonder if that's because they are actually flawless, or just there is nobody trying (or people who do try don't publish what they find). It nevertheless sounds funny to me that the PS4 can be hacked while the PS3 can't.
Re:Tracking friends and strangers using WhatsApp on Monday October 09, 2017 @05:50PM (#15437771)
SMS are expensive in some countries, even without roaming. I'd pay 0.10€ for every message, if I ever sent any.
Re:Facebook Quietly Enters StarCraft War for AI Bots on Monday October 09, 2017 @03:10PM (#15436549)
OpenAI was playing 1v1
I'm not an expert, but I think it goes like this: ipfs, similarly to torrent, is p2p. Given an address (that's a hash for the file), your client will look for other peers that have the file, and get it from them. Unless they find all the peers holding the file or start blocking ipfs traffic, there's little they can do to prevent access.

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