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Re:Open-Source Washing on Monday August 28, 2023 @02:34AM (#37290579)
The term "opensource software" was coined by the OSI founders explicitly to have the meaning they laid out in the Open Source Definition. The term didn't exist before that.
Re:Total data loss after botched GitOps and failed backups on Monday August 28, 2023 @02:20AM (#37290486)
By default, ArgoCD doesn't remove resources if the manifests are deleted, but you can switch this by turning on auto prune[1]. Likewise, you can specify whether a persistent volume should be retained or deleted if the k8s PersistentVolume resource is deleted[2]. Both of those settings would have prevented data loss in this case, but of course that's easy to say in hindsight.

[1] https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user-guide/auto_syn...

[2] https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/persistent-volum...

Re:Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F) on Monday July 24, 2023 @01:32PM (#36851477)
That's pretty typical for how typography develops. Majuscule and miniscule letters were just two different styles of writing the same letter. But eventually, people started using majuscule (i.e uppercase) letters to give emphasis to the beginning of sentences or certain words, like names.

Italic typefaces were created by Italian type designers to mimic the cursive handwriting of the time. They weren't meant to be mixed with roman style typefaces. However, typesetters who had access to both roman and italic fonts started to use italic for emphasis when typesetting texts in roman type.

And of course blackletter is also just a style that originally tried to mimic earlier handwriting.

Re:Just: A Command Runner on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @01:40AM (#34321317)
But any shell that tab completes make targets should also tab complete executables? Just write ./scripts (or whatever) and whack tab.
Re:ISO Warning Signs on Friday August 05, 2022 @08:43AM (#32355266)
You mean the phone app icon? The symbol that's in the middle of the Whatsapp logo? I think it'll be fine for a while. Probably for as long as physical emergency phones exist.
This is about making the same files accessible inside and outside a container. Docker does that by bind mounting files from outside of the container's file tree into it. Bind mounts are just a way to provide a different file path to access an existing directory. It has zero performance cost.

The reason Docker Desktop and similar solutions need to come up with these different complicated solutions is that they want to share files between containers running inside a Linux VM and the host system. So they need some kind of way of syncing the files.

I'm assuming you're Australian. In the rest of the world, a tablespoon is 15ml.
Re:Verlan: French slang that inverses words on Sunday February 02, 2020 @09:04AM (#22216944)
Sure, although to descend feels a lot more formal than descendre does in French.
I'm assuming the files were downloaded using Bittorrent or some other file sharing service, and the hashes of the downloaded files were logged on his Mac.
Norway uses a lot of electricity for energy intensive industries like aluminium production.
"Don't hate the player, hate the game" is a false dichotomy. It's perfectly possible to conclude that the system is rotten and still call out those who take advantage of it in ways which hurt others. The fact that there's money to be made and that it's legal doesn't make it any less sleazy and immoral.
Re:Google's XSS game on Thursday May 29, 2014 @05:34AM (#7815444)
For those interested in XSS challenges, there's also http://escape.alf.nu , which I think has a slightly better UI.
Re:Poll: What is your Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)? on Saturday March 08, 2014 @11:43AM (#7365605)
According to that test, I'm ENFJ, but usually these tests tend to tell me that I'm INTP or INTJ. I'm also an Aries, born in the year of the monkey and I'm pretty sure I would be labeled an SP by Scientology.
Re:Vancouver’s ban on the doorknob on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @05:08PM (#6764853)
Having a disability doesn't necessarily mean that the person is wheelchair bound.
Re:A History of Political Correctness on Sunday November 10, 2013 @05:29AM (#6705962)
This assumes that the reporting rate is the same for robberies committed by males and females. It is entirely possible that e.g. victims are less likely to report robberies commited by women. It's also possible that there is a bias in the reporting because victims tend to assume that robbers are male, even when the robber is masked and it's difficult to tell the gender of the robber.
In general "race" is a bogus term. Usually, when people (especially Americans) use the word race, they actually mean something closer to ethnicity.
Re:Mozilla's New Fira Typeface on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @08:01PM (#6441718)
It's designed so that the different weights take approximately the same width, so that does mean that the lighter weights have larger tracking (ie spacing between letters) than the heavier weights.
Re:Mozilla's New Fira Typeface on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @07:12PM (#6441457)
Spiekermann also designed FF Meta, which is the font used for the Mozilla and Firefox wordmarks ( http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/styleguide/communications/typef... ). So, the similarities between Fira and Meta aren't coincidental.
Re:Temperature chart for the last 11,000 years on Saturday September 21, 2013 @09:25AM (#6422861)
Right, lets just "cope" with climate change the same way we did 425,000 years ago. By dying, I guess?

What's wierd is that despite that fact that's you've done your best to make AGW look like a non-issue, the chart for the 100 last years looks extremely worrying.

Re:A Tmux Crash Course (2011) on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @07:59AM (#6172169)
I'm pretty sure that's Ubuntu Mono: http://font.ubuntu.com/#charset-mono-regular
Re:Sergey Brin invests in synthetic beef on Monday August 05, 2013 @12:37PM (#6161129)
> However, there is a trap in this. [...] Pigs and cows would exist in a wild state in a small fraction of their former "territory." If at all.

Why would that be a problem?

Re:Linux has better hardware support than OS X on Sunday June 16, 2013 @05:13PM (#5890022)
I bought an XPS 13 with Ubuntu 12.04 installed. I had absolutely no issues when I upgraded to 13.04.
Re:Show HN: Remove backgrounds from images online on Friday May 10, 2013 @01:39AM (#5684811)
GIMP already has a feature like this: http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tool-foreground-select.html
Re:Fancy Input - CSS3 text typing effects for input fields on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @12:33PM (#5293581)
Dead keys seem to confuse it, though. They get added to the value of the input element, but they aren't displayed.
Re:So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica? on Sunday January 20, 2013 @09:12AM (#5086936)
> the capital "O" in Helvetica is more oval than round in Arial, and more round than oval in Helvetica.

The Os in the Toyota logo have been modified and made more round, though. This is what "TOYOTA" looks like in plain Helvetica: http://myfonts.us/td-RQ1hNh

The Os in the Arial and Helvetica are practically identical.

Re:Python alternatives for PHP functions on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @05:35AM (#4965722)
Which is fine, as long as you make sure that your text doesn't contain any characters like "&", "<" or ">".
> But a dict is a list of paired elements?

Not really. A dict is an unordered set of keys where each key has a value associated with it. If you try to access a dict as a list, you might expect to get a list of key-value pairs or a list of values or possibly a list of keys. And in what order will the elements in the list be?

Re:Firefox Beta 15 supports the new Opus audio format on Friday July 20, 2012 @08:34PM (#4273507)
Yes, Opus is basically a merge of CELT and SILK.

SILK is a speech codec developed by Skype whereas CELT is a general purpose audio codec developed by Xiph.org. Opus can use either of them (to encode speech or e.g. music, respectively) or it can use both codecs simultaneously for high-quality speech.

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