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Re:Circle has $3.3B of USDC’s $40B reserves still at SVB on Saturday March 11, 2023 @12:26PM (#35110480)
We had foreign banks who advertised that as a strength and sent their profits to their countries. But when there was a crisis they said we are just a local bank with the same brand as a US bank and won't give the customers their savings back.
Re:Pelé, the Global Face of Soccer, Dies at 82 on Friday December 30, 2022 @04:38AM (#34183498)
Maradona was anti-establishment. Compare Pelé with Sócrates for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B3crates
Re:Webster’s 1913 Dictionary for macOS on Thursday December 30, 2021 @11:04AM (#29737818)
On debian you can install it with the package dict-gcide

https://packages.debian.org/en/sid/dict-gcide

Re:Driving with D on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @06:19PM (#27362188)
What do you mean with "push it hard"? Maybe try a manual next time. Half of the fun of driving for me is switching gears.
Re:Nano 5.7 on Thursday April 29, 2021 @02:50PM (#26984949)
Wouldn't modifying some GNU emacs shortcuts to his liking be easier than mantaining that editor?
I don't know about orbiter but FlightGear uses JSBsim for flight dynamics modeling which can be very accurate and was even used at NASA. You are correct that as space is not the primary use case for FG the shuttle developers had to start from scratch on many things.
This FlightGear's shuttle is the most accurate version. I think the choice of shuttle mission was because of the unusual transpolar trajectory.
Re:Why is the DOS path character "\"? (2005) on Friday February 26, 2021 @07:52AM (#26274253)
Where it says FileName.Extension[,Version] MONITR.EXE,4 What was the version used for? Did it track the changes?
Re:Stop Using `rm` in Bash. Use `del` on Sunday March 17, 2019 @11:44AM (#19414559)
Sure, also it works for me because it is on a system that is frequently turned off. If it would have to stay on for a long time it would fill /tmp with garbage.
Re:Stop Using `rm` in Bash. Use `del` on Sunday March 17, 2019 @09:22AM (#19413878)
I move to /tmp and it gets deleted on next reboot.
Re:Product Updates Based on Your Feedback on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @08:27AM (#18075190)
I do the same but sometimes I get email from google telling that I should disable access to those unsafe apps.
Re:What is 1e100.net? on Saturday June 02, 2018 @07:59AM (#17214159)
But then NYC would not be LGA but JFK.
Re:What is 1e100.net? on Friday June 01, 2018 @03:52PM (#17209436)
Interesting that they group the machines by IATA airport codes. I guess that's the nearest airport for that datacenter.
People just don't update windows.

That made me remember having to update the BIOS firmware and doing it at 3AM and on a night without wind when there was almost no chance of power going out.

You don't need batteries, you just learn to save your files often. I live in the third world too and can say that even with crappy power supplies computers resist quite well blackouts and brownouts.
Re:Tesla has created a customized insurance package on Sunday October 22, 2017 @10:52AM (#15527069)
Maybe an incorrectly maintained car is less safe.
Re:My grandfather at Dunkirk on Sunday August 13, 2017 @04:36PM (#15004807)
According to the movie they didn't need to because it was easier to just drop bombs from the air.
Re:Kite Responds to the Minimap and Autocomplete Issues on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @05:43PM (#14860639)
So I guess this is the kind of thing that RMS wanted to prevent when he talked against unofficial packages and repos in Emacs.
Re:Emacs and Magit on Friday July 21, 2017 @08:56AM (#14820065)
For a copyleft license to do its job you have to enforce it, otherwise it would be the same as a permissive license.
Re:You were born when? The French Revolutionary Calendar on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @05:43PM (#14800295)
Ok, but as I know France for good wine and Belgium for beer. I thought the weather was part of what made those special.
Re:You were born when? The French Revolutionary Calendar on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @05:02PM (#14800045)
Are the metereological conditions in Belgium somewhat similar as for the calendar to make sense?
Or embed your own bounty so the leaker knows if he is being betrayed.
You are probably right, but I think that is because those activists might feel that with such asymmetry of power that is their only resort.
Re:DRM Is Toxic to Culture on Sunday July 09, 2017 @01:17PM (#14730704)
This is an interesting analysis of software freedom without copyright http://culturalliberty.org/blog/index.php?id=278 Basically GPL would not be needed to restore a freedom which would no longer be restricted.
Re:A Startup Making Paper Out of Stone, Not Trees on Friday June 16, 2017 @06:22AM (#14567778)
Yes, they use mostly young pines which are easily chipped. I think in about 6 years you can cut them for paper.
Re:A Startup Making Paper Out of Stone, Not Trees on Thursday June 15, 2017 @09:59PM (#14566091)
Here in south America paper mills work with massive pine plantations, in deforested land or in former wetlands.

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