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There is also this massive military campaign in China, just for the sake of capturing horses from a Greek colony in Afghanistan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Heavenly_Ho…

This is strange - I wasn't expecting such a difference on CPU-only benchmarks. In my experience as a software engineer I find Linux much faster than windows mainly due to the file …

In my case it found some metal music bar with that name :/

How is it different to Nostr? And how is it more private when Nostr doesn't require even an e-mail - only a public key?

You should try that when things are going well, not after purchasing power has collapsed 10s of percents over <5 years and 80% of <35yo s cannot afford to buy a flat.

"This is a quote by Ludwig von Mises, but really it could have been said by any mainstream economist" Lol at this. Current European Academia and Establishment literally consider L.…

"SQL Error (1064): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax near '' at line 21." when line 21 is 17…

Wow. So much effort in reinventing the wheel. The transaction approach is obviously not suited for integration testing as commits/rollbacks are part of the package too. There is te…

https://book.mixu.net/distsys/ (Distributed systems: for fun and profit) you should definitely start nowhere but here. it is meant to be a getting started doc and does a great job …

small browsers == wrapped chromium/webkit whitelabels. what a win. brave is cool though

This is a very shallow opinion. I, personally, avoid electron-js apps like the plague. Having 500 MB of RAM wasted by something as trivial as MS Teams or Insomnia is horrendous. El…

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"organized intelligence is not – as commonly thought – an invention of the modern industrial state" Venice was a prototype of the modern state - another example is the Arsenale whe…

Who is Michelle Hicks? And what does he have to do with engineering?

You tell me. My biggest pain with XFCE is multi-monitor support. Like having the menu bar also on the second display and not have two of them when you switch back to single-monitor…

XFCE is frankly the last full featured Desktop Environment, truly focusing on responsiveness and zero-lag SGI-style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EEY87HAHzk&pp=ygUbc2lsaWNvb...…

Reminds me of AutoCAD 2.6 LOL

Not really, I had mine replaced at revolt.bg for about 60 EUR, both labour and spares. Miraculously, they had both of them on stock, so it was a Thurday to Wednesday job. Massive r…

They used to be. I am writing this from the above-mentioned T480. It is 3 years old, has both usb-c ports replaced, small crack on the backside of the screen and the keyboard zif i…

I am using xfce with a minimal set of services and all the system apps and most others open instantly. Alt+tab is also always instant. It is an MS, Apple, Gnome/KDE problem, not mo…

You do realise that this project has had broken build since 2021?

nope, bitcoin, doge and many others are pseudonymous and as long as you are not retarded enough to buy it someplace which requires KYC, it is stupidly difficult to trace it to your…

I thought it would be about the data breaches and them being a security weak-spot instead of a stronghold. I had no idea that they also rob you in the process, employing the good o…

Well, the car analogy is very good I think. A 35-year old Mercedes-Benz W124 that has been taken care of during its entire lifetime is actually usable and could be reliably maintai…

Upwork is a hellish abomination of a company. I did some contracting for them cca 7 years ago. It all started with a final meeting with the CEO - the bald Greek guy with the same f…