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KillerDiller

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    Comment #23801834

    “open source” was not a term, much less an industry term, before the OSI founders came up with it. Source: I was in the industry and Free Software movement at the time. More backgr…

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    Comment #23567263

    This could be a crucial argument in that it distinguishes between the essential freedom of device owners to decide what software to run, and the freedom of device manufacturers to …

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    Comment #22940932

    So close and yet so far. You need to read section 69b of the German copyright code (§69b UrhG) asap.

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    Comment #22924828

    It's actually way simpler than that: the owners of a company facing crisis have the choice between providing it with additional liquidity or putting its future (and thus their stak…

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    Comment #21891884

    Problem with implants is that they cause compressive stress to the bone, which causes bone to deteriorate. Teeth are held by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpey%27s_fibres . This…

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    Comment #19917456

    The lack of budget is easily fixed when mature financial planning (which is completely normal for non-IT resources) and internalization of externalities is applied by requiring a w…

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    Comment #19917367

    Providers are not always transparent about whether CPU is dedicated or shared (and what exactly shared means). Most importantly, this distinction generally gets lost when people co…

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    Comment #19913760

    Worse, if you run the numbers, at DO you get 1 dedicated core (2 threads) with 8G RAM for $60, but 4 "normal" cores with same RAM for $40. Only possible conclusion is that "normal"…

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    Comment #19913501

    VMs from these providers are always shared cores (in the affordable price tier at least). So if you think you need seven 4-core VMs, either you'll end up needing much more, because…

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    Comment #19871595

    You are fully correct, and it is only a complaint in regard to the submission originally titling UBE as an "Alpine alternative".

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    Comment #19870669

    Sure, but then why stop there and not just go > FROM centos:8

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    Comment #19870471

    What a sham. Very few packages are available in the yum repos from the UBI unless one is a RH customer. This will be a nonstarter unless anyone can install any package from the RHE…

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    Comment #16847359

    "Ketamine lifts depression via a byproduct of its metabolism" " rel="nofollow">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160504141131.h...

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    Comment #15776611

    The point here I think is that "nobody" seriously believes in container isolation purely through namespacing. It's sufficient for some scenarios, but we can expect the hypercontain…

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    Comment #15113608

    As a hardcore qmail (and qmail-ldap) user back in the days, I can confirm that this is all accurate and correct.

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    Comment #12817450

    You absolutely can access files from the Windows filesystems easily. The C: drive is mounted at /mnt/c by default. The ability to launch native Windows programs from within WSL is …

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    Comment #12456951

    "Bright Future" by Somnium.

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    Comment #6889405

    Or just press Enter right away / use the (x) in the upper right of the dialog and keep closing the tab. It will go away eventually. Chrome isn’t perfect here, but lightyears ahead …

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