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Re:Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office on Saturday October 24, 2026 @04:51PM (#50225136)
> despite the alleged format compatibility

that never existed. While Microsoft has published a specification of their file formats, the never described how to render them. So a clone cannot make it look like Microsoft Office.

Blame it on Microsoft. Stop the vendor lockin and leave Microsoft today

What ist your plan if you die? Do you have a spouse that will be able to read your-and-your-spouses data?
Re:Java 27 Released on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @09:49AM (#49712499)
Jruby is nice - runs Ruby on a Java Virtual Machine with full concurrency and Ahead Of Time compilation
Re:Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned on Friday August 07, 2026 @02:36AM (#49206680)
It provides me relief that I am not the only one suffering from Clownfair bot protection running amok. Condolences to you.
Re:OpenPrinter on Monday July 06, 2026 @01:36AM (#48801007)
I want to second this: Unregular use is compelling use case for a laser printer.
Are you independent of your government yet?

I am dependend on government not giving subsidies to my competition. I am dependend on them not to raise taxes. I even depend on them for keeping the infrastrukture alive. If I cant trust the state I life in, it is time to move to a different state.

Windows does have three libc, likely as a compability layer. their names are:

  * <forgotten something Windows 3.1>
  * msvcrt.dll, 2014
  * ucrt.dll (universal c runtime, since Windows 10)
Re:I don't want your PRs anymore on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @06:04PM (#47855165)
bug reports should be reproducable. They may even be statistically reproduceable. A bug report that cannot be reproduced is worthless.
Re:The becquerel as an SI unit for request rate on Sunday April 19, 2026 @03:13AM (#47822388)
"count" is an incomplete type, the same as "array" is an incomplete type. "count of fruit" would be a complete type, compare to "Array of int64".

SI leaves this underspecified, which causes confusion with dimensionless units.

Re:Most people can't juggle one ball on Sunday April 12, 2026 @05:46PM (#47744895)
could you please link the beginner handkerchiefs?
Re:The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess on Thursday April 09, 2026 @06:27PM (#47711074)
> LLMs with harnesses are clearly capable of engaging with logical problems that only need text.

All of the LLMs are bad at music. They get intervals wrong. They list unsuited songs.

I would not trust them with any domain until proven otherwise.

Re:LittleSnitch for Linux on Thursday April 09, 2026 @02:35AM (#47700041)
> [ZoneAlarm] I always found it weird that Linux never really had anything like it.

There was simply no need for it. GNU provided most of the software, spyware was unknown.

Only since comercial vendors package for linux and bring their spyware along, the desire to inspect network rose.

Re:After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @07:43AM (#47688837)
Not quite 90s, but

    * sourceforge.org
    * adblockplus the plugin
I am currently getting off youtube for their agressive anti adblocking behavior and I stopped reading Spiegel Online for the same reason years ago.
What would need to happen that more players are available for online games?
No. Warcraft 3 ist real time strategy, Wesnoth is turn based strategy.
Re:Ripgrep is faster than {grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift} on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @04:12AM (#47514639)
May it be the RegEx flavor? ag uses PCRE, rg something undocumented not PCRE.

TIL: rg uses Rusts RegEx library (incompatible to PCRE, incompatible to RE2)

Re:Autism's Confusing Cousins on Sunday December 07, 2025 @02:04AM (#46179795)
you completely nailed it, i just want to add more thoughts:

> Because it's not as prevalent in other societies.

Is it because (a) we have not looked close enough, (b) because it is a culture dependent thing, or (c) because there is no norm and therefore no deviation.

Re:Autism's Confusing Cousins on Saturday December 06, 2025 @05:00PM (#46176954)
By downvoting we missed out a joke: Lets apply the article to the comment

>> I never understood why ... americans ... wear their pseudoscientific bullshit diagnoses like medals.

> Borderline Personality Borderline personality disorder involves intense emotional instability, ... and devaluation of others.

>Social Communication Disorder ... knowing how much detail to give, adjusting their speaking style for different situations, understanding implied meanings or hints,

> B5: Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD): People diagnosed with ASPD show a lack of respect toward others. They generally don’t follow socially accepted rules.

> B5: Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD): People diagnosed with NPD have a sense of being better than others... They lack empathy for others

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> I agree that there is a small fraction of people

What exactly makes you believe the fraction is small?