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Re:SpeedCrunch 1.1 on Sunday October 25, 2026 @07:07AM (#50230373)
I like the UI changers. But how do I select a different font?
Re:Blindsight (Watts Novel) on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:55PM (#49983995)
It was an interesting read because it's from a very different culture but at the same time "western" enough to be read comfortably. But it's "science" is just bullshit, both the physics and the sociology.
Re:Germany: Ex-spy chief arrested for espionage on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:49PM (#49983900)
Of course it is both, are you stupid?
Re:Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time on Thursday July 23, 2026 @06:17PM (#49028803)
There was a Shareware tool called Executive that would manipulate task priorities to, amongst other things, prioritize the active application.
Re:In Emacs, Everything Looks Like a Service on Friday July 10, 2026 @03:32PM (#48864184)
Yes, running software that is not authorized can get you fired.
Re:In Emacs, Everything Looks Like a Service on Friday July 10, 2026 @03:29PM (#48864153)
Over the past 15 years, I worked for 4 different companies in 4 different industries and I never had any trouble getting Emacs approved.

They were all rather smallish, always around 200 employees, though.

Re:In Emacs, Everything Looks Like a Service on Friday July 10, 2026 @03:25PM (#48864093)
Emacs is a LISP refugee in Unixland. It doesn't follow the Unix philosophy, it follows the LISP philosophy. But it integrates.

Forgot where I found this.

Re:Technical Interviews Reject the Wrong Engineers on Friday June 05, 2026 @05:03PM (#48418243)
Someone else here already pointed out the problem with that approach: After the second or third candidate, the interviewer is very familiar with the problem and may become unfairly judgemental with later candidates if they don't immediately see "the obvious". Which wasn't obvious at all to him as well, two weeks ago.
Bullshit, and you know it.
Finally, the killer app for blockchain: Paying ransom to a terror state.
Re:Where Is GPT in the Chomsky Hierarchy? on Friday December 19, 2025 @02:47PM (#46330053)
And an unlimited life span.
Re:MinIO is now in maintenance-mode on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @04:01PM (#46140086)
How would you run a project like this? People come and go. People do a one-time contribution and then you never hear from them again. People work on a project for years and then just go silent. Honestly, credit where credit is due, but how is a project like this supposed to manage this?
Re:Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z on Sunday November 30, 2025 @07:18PM (#46101929)
AmigaOS supported both. Each drive and in addition each medium had it's own name. If GAMEDISK was in floppy 0, you could reference it either as DF0: or as GAMEDISK:

You could even reference media that was not loaded at the time (e.g. GAMEDISK2:) and the OS would ask you to insert it into any drive. And there were "virtual" devices (assigns) that could point to a specific directory on a specific device, like LIBRARIES:

Re:Serflings is a remake of The Settlers 1 on Monday November 24, 2025 @12:58PM (#46036967)
It has been completely playable for the past 10 years, what exactly are you missing?
Re:Incus-OS: Immutable Linux OS to run Incus as a hypervisor on Saturday November 15, 2025 @01:53PM (#45939658)
Elegant, schmellegant. If you want your software to be usable in an enterprise environment, you have to support OIDC out of the box.
Re:Incus-OS: Immutable Linux OS to run Incus as a hypervisor on Friday November 14, 2025 @07:24PM (#45933835)
I love the ability to directly run docker containers.

I think their approach to authentication / authorization is insane (not in a good way).

Re:Incus-OS: Immutable Linux OS to run Incus as a hypervisor on Friday November 14, 2025 @07:21PM (#45933808)
Besides VMs and LXC/Proxmox-style containers, it can also run docker containers out of the box.
Re:Incus-OS: Immutable Linux OS to run Incus as a hypervisor on Friday November 14, 2025 @07:18PM (#45933786)
It can do VMs, "system containers" like LXC and Docker/OCI-compatible application containers.

There was a project to implement a dockcer-compose compatible "incus-compose" but unfortunately, it looks dead, right now.

You can even set up a kubernetes cluster entirely composed of containers: https://github.com/lxc/cluster-api-provider-incus

Re:FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is on Thursday November 06, 2025 @03:17PM (#45839875)
When you don't know who runs archive.is, you can also never know if he sold it to someone else (except if either party publically announces it).
Re:What Does Palantir Actually Do? on Friday August 15, 2025 @07:02AM (#44910837)
That woman is crazy.
Re:What Does Palantir Actually Do? on Friday August 15, 2025 @07:01AM (#44910832)
You have no idea what you're talking about.
Re:What Does Palantir Actually Do? on Friday August 15, 2025 @06:59AM (#44910827)
Thinking that there is any institution in Gaza that is not spreading pure Hamas propaganda is insane. Even if we assume that the people working there are not members of Hamas themselves (doubtful), Hamas still knows where they live.
Re:What Does Palantir Actually Do? on Friday August 15, 2025 @05:08AM (#44910146)
Gaza Health Ministry === Hamas.

Stop spreading terrorist's propaganda.

Re:What Does Palantir Actually Do? on Friday August 15, 2025 @05:07AM (#44910142)
It is Hamas who does not allow free press in Gaza. Instead, their terrorists regularily dress up as "journalists".
Re:What Does Palantir Actually Do? on Friday August 15, 2025 @05:02AM (#44910121)
Stop the nonsense. The only one who wants to commit genocide (but can't) is Hamas.
Re: on Thursday August 14, 2025 @04:11AM (#44897994)
"Gaza officials" === Hamas
Re: on Thursday August 14, 2025 @03:43AM (#44897806)
That's because terrorist supporter's propaganda lies are anything but "Hacker News".
You mean: It has never happened once, no matter how often tried. How many communist experiments, how many ruined lives will it take until you and your kind finally get it? But I know the answer already ...
Capitalism can be inhumane, especially if it is not controlled by democracy.

Communism is always inhumane. It cannot be established democratically, it cannot be run democratically. It will always end in misery, poverty and death.

No, it is not. Communism is inherently evil. Wherever it rules, death and misery thrive. And if you love russia so much, go and live there, a*hole.

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