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Also GPT partitions have little use when using mdraid/dm-crypt/lvm2 (or zfs) stack. IIRC Windows have similar features with dynamic partitions, so I don't see any reason to use bio…

>buy used CD's If artists receive nothing from such trades, why not just pirate (assuming you do not care about physical disc)?

Biometrics also cannot be used to produce cryptographic keys, meaning that all depend on that last conditional jump not being circumvented.

Regulations & compatibility.

>why cyrrilic characters or umlauts cause issues in your scripts... Any text format can be broken by broken character encoding. I saw plenty of XML being used without any charset d…

Problem is not CSV, it's Excel. It's hard to blame format, when application is insane enough to use locale settings to determine file parsing

Chuckled at relevant favicon https://futhark-lang.org/performance.html

I am all for text-only, structured web; but gopher transfer protocol is broken mess (which is an achievement considering simplicity of it's purpose).

Because search warrant is removal of privacy rights, which is something only court should be allowed do.

>but can verify the transactions to the drug site themselves Once you start selectively give out user data, you are basically giving out warrants yourself and acting as a judge.

>As a result, you do not need to install any dedicated book reading/management apps on your phone

"fearless concurrency" is meaningless marketing, "zero-cost abstractions" is valid term

Main difference is not robustness. It's that CD are digital and can be copied perfectly.

>a half decent website And what is wrong with current site?

>ugly Matter of taste. I personally find it much more comfortable than gmail ui - less clutter and much faster >spam filter Works on server, used MUA does not affect it

>Why can't you just click a button and be done Dump 150 table database, both schema and data. Except two tables, for which you need only schema. Then compress, encrypt & email. Wit…

>CLIs are about memorizing CMD --help man CMD Tab competition Command line history search

>many users won't know the real internet Many users have no need for 'real internet'. >completely fuck it up No. 'Real internet' is still there, it's not getting absolutely smaller…

The most nauseating image in that episode was how memory recording turned into total destruction of privacy. Police reading your thoughts is bad; society expecting people to expose…

>cloud services If service is required for work - it should on corporate network.

Well, if you have to store arbitrary, opaque JS object in XML document, it is much better way than JSON in CDATA

Russia also doubled amount of DST related problems by first making DST shift permanent, then canceling it after couple of years.

>that a 24 hour clock is just an abstract definition Growing up at almost same latitude (Murmansk oblast), I can confirm that effect

Most coherent argument was vague similarity of iconic "Lenin speaks from armored car" image ( http://klin-demianovo.ru/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/prizyvvo... ) with mycelium (car) …