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This is totally off topic, but holy crap, first message in 11 years. I would have lost my password about a dozen times by now.

Maybe they already have? `youtube-dl` has been breaking a lot for me lately. I've been using the Fedora repo build for many years and don't remember it ever breaking, not once. Now…

Greatly depends on the drivers around you. Here it'll definitely shorten your life expectancy if you're lucky, and will leave you with a nice whole-body paralysis, if you're not. Y…

Thanks for the detailed response. I don't deny that it might be difficult for someone to work without ventilation. I simply find the air outside extremely irritating to my throat, …

We have these old Windows admins now learning to work with Linux. What drives me insane is their habit of randomly rebooting machines if something isn't working right. There is a p…

I am not sure about pensions, but we pay quite a lot for heating. We do it every month and all year long, actually, because money management is a problem for many, and if you shift…

Sure. They don't seem to have any problems in the middle of winter, when windows stay fully closed for at least 3 months each year. About a half also smokes, and then they "don't h…

Well, here's what people over here tend to live in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khrushchyovka These buildings were developed in massive numbers back in post-WW2 years, across the…

Yeah, you "only" need to avoid undefined behavior. What do we need ASAN/UBSAN for then? https://github.com/google/sanitizers/ Sure, Google is primarily a C++ shop, you could say th…

> How are system failures handled? By prayer. It happened a couple times, although not yet on the city scale. I don't personally know anyone who was affected. What they did, accord…

Sorry, I've spent enough time on the internet to know never to share any specific personal details. It's cheap low-quality coal with high sulfur content. The level of air pollution…

Yeah, they've been talking about implementing something like that for as long as I can remember. The current system wastes so much heat that it's always 10-15°C warmer in the city …

We have city-wide central heating system. If you don't pump (literally) boiling water into the system, it gets pretty cold in apartments furthest from the heating station. I live s…

The level of comfort also heavily depends on the level of humidity, doesn't it? Seems pointless to compare temperatures only. Would love to get all the complainers here to spend on…

>The windows are small, and covered in metal bars or thick metal meshing Shouldn't that be banned by fire hazard regulations?

So? The same script reports 11 lines on my 4 year old Haswell. It should read as "mitigated or not vulnerable" instead of simply "not vulnerable". Edit: oh wait, it's actually 12 l…

I see you're using the default prefix (C-b), with C-a being the 'recommended' alternative. I don't understand why it's so popular, as it breaks emacs-style navigation in readline a…

>PHP Oh no, don't even put them in the same sentence. I am no fan of Go, but its error handling approach is beautiful compared to PHP. Every time I call an internal function I have…

Hi from the former Soviet Union, where everything the state media says is true, and if it doesn't turn out to be true, it is because of misinformation spread by our foreign enemies…

That's why we need more state-sponsored news media like Pravda. A government employee subsisting on state money wouldn't have the same motivation to write clickbait articles and li…

apt was never superior. The biggest thing in dnf for me is transaction support. Basically, every time you do a package operation, dnf records the changes to its logs, and you can t…

Yeah. Here's a GCC developer experimenting with a 31-year old GCC version on a modern system (the first one with x86 support): >It is amazing how well things work – the modern asse…

Which is 5.8"? Here's the correct search filter: https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMin=2018&nThickne...

What's your user agent like? I would imagine there are not many Nightly users out there.

Wouldn't it be cool if it was solved on the provider level? They already have to set up DNS servers, might as well make it a Pi-hole instance.